I just watched Noem claiming SD gov and people had done such a wonderful job. Maybe she is excluding the aliens working at Smithfield, but more likely is just blowing smoke. Had she and her administration been doing a great job, there would have been no more than 3 cases at any single location and there would not now be a few dozen locations. Continuing to focus on the flattening of the curve and not stopping the spread and dropping it to zero no cases is a recipe for both failure in control and failing to improve the economy in the fastest way possible. Universal testing and strict quarantines are all that is going to really work to actually succeed and do a great job. Being more concerned about sales tax revenue that stopping the Covid-19 in its tracks will result in more cases and more deaths and more economic failures.
Below is a message I got from a friend in Washington state who sent it to a number of federal officials as well. Today on Sabbath gasbag shows I was finally hearing much the same from both Republicans and Democrats who are neither amused or impressed with the contradictory narcissism, excuses, folklore, factless blaming and flaming coming from President Trump who refuses to believe scientists or science.
Dear Secretary Azar:
The nation needs to test everyone (99% of 330 million people) for: (a) infection (b) antibodies (c) isolate infection (d) stop infection and spreading very quickly in a month.
The economy is being damaged very severely and we should not wait for vaccines and treatments for possibly as long as one year.
I realize this effort may cost $30-60 billion and lots of manpower, but it is small potatoes to what is at stake. We are rapidly acquiring more than 1,000 machines and can test 10,000 samples per machine per day - times 30 days equals 300 million tested people (Corrected to show 300 million instead of 30 million).
Further, my manpower estimate is about 10 technicians per machine x 1,000 machines = 10,000 personnel per day to pull the samples and get the laboratory results recorded and provided back to the people being tested.
In conclusion, the current piecemeal sampling of the population will drag out this infection. Testing everyone will provide the information that will stop it.
This is a war! Lets run it like a war to win!
Chuck Noble
*** Stay tuned, better days will be ahead if we act smart and scientifically now--- Doug Wiken
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