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Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by exikyut on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:22AM (#22635164)
I'm not sure what sort of answer is possible/in good faith/responsible, but this information immediately prompts some probably-predictable questions:

- What bits of equipment would I need? (Generally speaking, not specific to what's in this auction lot)

- What reagents are needed? Where can I get them (both as a general rule, and also specifically given likely huge shortages)?

- How do I actually test for this?

- What do I watch out for to try and mitigate false positives and negatives?

I ask as someone

- completely naive - in the sense of "oh this sounds interesting and easy to do!" :)

- objectively absolutely underqualified to even think about doing this

- incapable of affording any of the equipment

so by all means feed me answers describing how impossibly hard and stupid this is to do, and pretend I'm not serious.

Also, as an aside, it'll be fun to watch the bid price on this. I wonder how statistically above average it'll be. Heh.

Re:Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab by cmauniada on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:38AM (#22635244)
I can't answer any of your questions except the last observation, there will be an uptick in the sale prices for sure.