Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
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#2I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for everyone else in the building came back negative the government let them all resume the normal social distancing rules and going to the grocery store again.
Contrast this with nyc where the virus is outta control, few tests are being done outside the hospital system, and there is no sense of a comprehensive presence of government effort other than the police harassing people who quarantine together when they take walks in public.
America is finished if this is the best we got.
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#3I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for…
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building.
That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#4I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for…
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building. That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
Why? Who else would enforce the quarantine?
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#5I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for…
Quarantine and testing is the way to fight the virus and be able to return to the normal as soon as possible. Western countries fear it’s not possible to do this and regulate the people much more than they usually do. But the problem is, without quarantine the virus is going to spread and shutting down the economy like they did now will have much bigger consequences over the long run. Too many people live from paycheck to paycheck.
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#6I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for…
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building. That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
As of this moment America has a little less than 17,000 dead from this.
We could’ve used more competence and seriousness about this threat for the sake of everyone, not petty indulgences of performative outrage about a concept of freedom that feels hollow as we all are forced to hide.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building. That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
As of this moment America has a little less than 17,000 dead from this. We could’ve used more competence and seriousness about this threat for the sake of everyone, not petty indulgences of performative outrage about a concept of freedom that feels hollow as we all are forced to hide.
And in that time span about the same people died from the "regular" flu.
Speak for yourself, the "concept of freedom" that you talk about is one of the many reasons the U.S is what it is. The freedoms we have do have costs at times like these but the benefits vastly outweigh the costs.
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#8I live in nyc and have a brother who lives in Vietnam. When a person in my brother’s building tested positive for the coronavirus the government quarantined the building, tested every single person who lives and works there, stationed police outside to enforce the lockdown, and delivered food for two weeks. If someone had tested positive they would be relocated to a hospital facility for treatment. When the tests for…
Quarantine and testing is the way to fight the virus and be able to return to the normal as soon as possible. Western countries fear it’s not possible to do this and regulate the people much more than they usually do. But the problem is, without quarantine the virus is going to spread and shutting down the economy like they did now will have much bigger consequences over the long run. Too many people live from payche…
We’ll learn one way or another
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building. That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
As of this moment America has a little less than 17,000 dead from this. We could’ve used more competence and seriousness about this threat for the sake of everyone, not petty indulgences of performative outrage about a concept of freedom that feels hollow as we all are forced to hide.
You know, if the condition for giving up your rights is "the government says they have a good reason," then you never really had any rights at all. We're all smart, maybe there's a way to solve this without eliminating civil liberties - a way that we'll never discover if at the first sign of danger we yell "take our rights, oh wise rulers!" to the politicians who, of course, are willing to take them.
Re: Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused in US labs
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with the testing regime; I don’t agree with having police in every building. That's at least three people per day watching over the comings and goings of a building. You can only do that when you have a near police-state.
Why? Who else would enforce the quarantine?
Police outside the buildings.