The Ohio gov has asked businesses to check everyone’s temperatures. Otherwise he’s going to shut even more businesses.
meet should have been doing things like this from start.
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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The Ohio gov has asked businesses to check everyone’s temperatures. Otherwise he’s going to shut even more businesses.
meet should have been doing things like this from start.
Yeah but how long do we do that for? Not arguing, just a question.
I was directed to self quarantine without a test so I'm doing that, but I don't feel safe grocery shopping etc. afterwards.
I've said many times that testing is key. If we can get an appropriate number of tests in the US, we can "reopen for business" much quicker, because you simply quarantine the infected as opposed to shutting everything down.
Get a pile of tests in every hospital in the country, and it would do wonders.
And do some drive through testing. I joked about offering toilet paper but we are stupid do that might work.
Exactly. Spend a trillion dollars to get tests to everyone within 2 weeks (not sure about the logistics, but with a trillion dollars you'd think someone could make it happen). That would be better than economic bailouts.
Was told by a coworker today that the hospital his wife works at only had 6 tests available to use yesterday despite many people coming in wanting to be tested.
Exactly. All these economic measures wont amount to ****. The only way this gets better is by getting the pandemic under control.
i've had a headache and dry cough for a week. no fever. but i always get sick in early march with these exact symptoms.
I'm of the belief you can't do it for that long. You have to put your resources into providing more tests and ventilators as opposed to trying to control a shut down.
If you do get tests, you can quarantine the infected and let everyone else go about their business.
Basically, I'm in favor of being restrictive until mass testing is available, and then start returning to "normal" (it won't be normal because a lot of folks will still be sick) at least from a regulatory stand point.
Right. We don't have adequate testing. That's the biggest issue in my mind.
Get adequate testing in place (I can't believe this isn't possible over a several week period), and we can start moving towards some actual progress.
See that (No Politics) tag at the top in the thread title? That stops me from adequately answering this question.
In short, it was virtually ignored.
CDC claimed they had their own tests, and plenty of them. Their tests had problems and weren't reliable so they basically had to start creating new tests from scratch. I have no idea how fast the production is being ramped up. So ya, basically politics.
There were grades that were posted for each state and how they're handling testing. Iowa got a D, along with 3 or 4 other states. So we've been one of the worst states so far regarding that. I read somewhere that many states are not far behind New York as far as "the curve" goes, and the inadequate testing Iowa has done so far is just going to continue us down that path.
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