@no1marauder saidThanks for clearing that up for me.
Eldy trying to be sarcastic.
He's not good at it.
It's interesting that health officials now don't want you to get tested in most cases because our health care system doesn't have enough masks and gowns(!):
Health officials in New York, California and other hard-hit parts of the country are restricting coronavirus testing to health care workers and the severely ill, saying the battle to contain the virus is lost and the country is moving into a new phase of the pandemic response.
As cases spike sharply in those places, they are bracing for an onslaught and directing scarce resources where they are needed most to save people’s lives. Instead of encouraging broad testing of the public, they’re focused on conserving masks, ventilators and intensive care beds — and on getting still-limited tests to health-care workers and the most vulnerable. The shift is further evidence that rising levels of infection and illness have begun to overwhelm the health care system.
A similar message was hammered Saturday by members of the White House coronavirus task force, who said it was urgent to conserve scarce supplies and offered guidelines about who should get tested. Top priority, they said, should go to those who are hospitalized, along with health-care workers, symptomatic residents of long-term care facilities and people over 65 — especially those with heart and lung disease, which place them at higher risk.
“Not every single person in the U.S. needs to get tested,” said Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “When you go in and get tested, you are consuming personal protective equipment, masks and gowns — those are high priority for the health care workers who are taking care of people who have coronavirus disease.”
Health officials are now struggling with a complicated and shifting message. More people can get tested as drive-through sites open and more tests are finally available. Nevertheless, those with mild symptoms should stay home and isolate. And everyone should practice social distancing to preserve the health care system’s finite resources.
To convey those points clearly, many officials are speaking in increasingly blunt terms, saying that wide testing could jeopardize the lives of health care workers and the U.S. response by burning through precious supplies as a tidal wave of sick people descend on the system.
“In a universe where masks and gowns are starting to become scarce, every time we test someone who doesn’t need one, we’re taking that mask and gown away from someone in the intensive care unit,” said Demetre Daskalakis, deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene."
"“I’m just scared there’s going to be mass confusion when people find out there is a testing site, are worried about their covid status, and they’re going to mob the testing site,” said Michael Fraser, executive director of the association that represents state health directors. “It’s confusing to people to hear that testing is being made available in a much more convenient way, and they think, ‘Hey, this is great, let’s get tested.’ ”
New York City’s Daskalakis said people with a manageable fever and cough who aren’t at high risk for severe illness should assume they have covid-19. Seeking a test exposes health care workers administering them and wastes resources, since nothing would change for those individuals based on their results, he said. There is no approved treatment for the disease."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-hard-hit-areas-testing-restricted-to-health-care-workers-hospital-patients/ar-BB11vpAa?li=BBnb7Kz
This is really starting to look like a giant cluster[expletive deleted].
@eladar saidBingo.
The only asymptomatic people tested are politicians and their family. What we are seeing is what it means to be in the New Class.
I remember back in the 60's when the feds were building survival caves deep under ground in case of nuclear war (likely still exist). That was for the fooking politicians and a few technically skilled people. So I knew then what they thought of themselves and what they thought of us.
@who-keres saidYeah but only his idiot base are stupid enough to swallow that jizz, how is he going to convince the floating voters he’s not actually as retarded as he looks at them briefings?
@wolfgang59
It will probably work for re-election.
China bad! Media over-reacted!
If this dies out this summer he will win.
@shallow-blue saidDon't undestimate Joe. You can never know what that guy will say or do.
Which would be easy... if he weren't Trump.
