Corona Virus #6

[5030]

I understand the practical limitations with trying to test a lot of people, but there is a large amount of useful data that comes from doing so. If you aren't testing, then how do you track the progression of the disease, where it is moving, and if/when the peak has passed? Without this information, how do you know when it is safe to lift/implement bans?

Quite frankly, I'm surprised they haven't instituted random testing in the population just to try to get a handle on the number of people that are asymptomatic. Purely for the sake of argument, if the number of people that are asymptomatic is 98%, the policy response will likely be much different than if it is 2%.

Good data informs good policy. Poor data informs poor policy.

Step right up then. I'm sure you'll enjoy the swab procedure.

 

[5030]

What were you being tested for?

I'd rather not say... B e apprised, it's not a pleasant procedure.

 

[5030]

Or maybe not.

Most likely not...

 

[Molalla1]

I still wonder if China scaled down reporting.

Well, of course they have Duck . . . they talk out the side of their necks . . .

 

[/pine]

Geeze...!
Testing for the sake of testing is ludicrous...if there are no symptoms and no known exposure to anyone else that was knowingly exposed. or has been in close proximity of anyone traveling from a known hotspot is abuse of the resources...

 

[rekees4300]

Or maybe not.

That's a possibility. There were reports of mass cremations.

Wuhan coronavirus: China is secretly cremating bodies and lying in the official figures, say shocking reports | MEAWW

 

[randy41]

I read about the swab procedure and it sounds like the same procedure used to test for strep which is uncomfortable but certainly nothing all that terrible.
In China they do a blood test and analyze for antibodies. They’re coming out with a rapid test that gives the result in an hour.

 

[the old grind]

They were going to test me for arrogance until I told them I was an engineer. They told me doctors and engineers test positive and were not wasting any test kits on us. The only cure was marriage but it had a 50% mortality rate.

A bachelor wouldn't make the same mistake once.

Very likely, someday the whole truth will be known.

So we have as many cases a a country with < 1/4 our population, like Italy where average age of death was ~79.5 years recently.

I thought maybe Swine Flu, Hanta, Anthrax, or Ebola might get me, but I never contracted any of 'em. Maybe we can talk this virus to death. :thumbsup:

Pains me to see such a big difference from Covid 19 which seems to be predicted here as destined to affect everyone in the World of tomorrow.

Geeze...!
Testing for the sake of testing is ludicrous...if there are no symptoms and no known exposure to anyone else that was knowingly exposed. or has been in close proximity of anyone traveling from a known hotspot is abuse of the resources...

OK fine, there will be few survivors.

 

[Molalla1]

A bachelor wouldn't make the same mistake once.



So we have as many cases a a country with < 1/4 our population, like Italy where average age of death was ~79.5 years.

I think we can talk this virus to death. I thought maybe Swine Flu, Hanta, Anthrax, or Ebola might get me, but I never contracted any of 'em.

Pains me to see such a big difference from Covid 19 which seems to be predicted here to affect everyone in the World of tomorrow.

Not to mention our stock market . . .

 

[the old grind]

Not to mention our stock market . . .

I've bought 10 stocks in the last two weeks.