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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by m0zg on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:17PM (#23953392)
If they "aren't important", we should shut down testing. The "new cases" will drop like a rock then. /s
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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by joshuamorton on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:27PM (#23953436)
That was Trump's original plan, yes.

The point is that as a nation we don't get brownie points for handling the outbreak so badly that we need to do things that other nations do not.

No one but the US (or Brazil or India, perhaps) has any business having the most tests per day, and few other nations have the need for a significant number of tests per capita, because cases per capita are so low that it's not worth it.

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Re:What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days fo... by m0zg on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:04PM (#23953617)
> That was Trump's original plan, yes.

That's why I have to qualify my sarcasm with /s on this site, including my post above: the population density is too high. /s Trump sarcastically suggested it, but there never was such a "plan". Nor could there be one: the president of the United States does not have the authority to shut down (mostly private) testing.

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