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Test Everyone?
Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow. He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
Test Everyone?
On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
Test Everyone?
Mr. Luddite wrote:
Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow. He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. A hundred million bucks? About 30 cents a person for all those tests. Oh how many weeks is this supposed to run? This guy is an economic professor? No wonder the World Bank has had massive problems over the years. |
Test Everyone?
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 19:47:52 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. At this point they would be far better off doing antibody tests. Even then, I think a sample in different geographies would suffice in the short term. In a captive population, they are finding that around 80% of the prisoners in a given prison where this got loose tested positive and 95% of them had no symptoms. You have to understand that these are predominantly young men and smoking is prohibited (for whatever that is worth). It still might be an indication of what the young to middle age will present if they go back to work. The problem still seems to be us old farts. As for me, I am just going to try to follow the sanitization rules and take my chances. |
Test Everyone?
Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. I commented on the $100 million. So how many tests can a person get for $300? |
Test Everyone?
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:06:11 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow. He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. A hundred million bucks? About 30 cents a person for all those tests. Oh how many weeks is this supposed to run? This guy is an economic professor? No wonder the World Bank has had massive problems over the years. If they could do this for $20 a test, by the time they roll up the results and analyze the data, I would be shocked. That is more like $14 Billion. They can't even count our noses for $20 each, how will they test them all? The Census is at least $16 Billion. ($107 per household budgeted) |
Test Everyone?
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:46:13 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. I commented on the $100 million. So how many tests can a person get for $300? Yeah $100Billion sounds right but if you are just looking for active cases you are wasting your money. In real life sample antibody testing is all you need anyway. You can make projections from there. They are still watching the people with antibodies to be sure they really are immune, If not, it may shoot the hell out of the plans for a vaccine. Most vaccines are far from perfect anyway. Your average flu vaccine is 50-75% effective. |
Test Everyone?
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:46:13 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. I commented on the $100 million. So how many tests can a person get for $300? Yeah $100Billion sounds right but if you are just looking for active cases you are wasting your money. In real life sample antibody testing is all you need anyway. You can make projections from there. They are still watching the people with antibodies to be sure they really are immune, If not, it may shoot the hell out of the plans for a vaccine. Most vaccines are far from perfect anyway. Your average flu vaccine is 50-75% effective. The flu vaccine is not against all flu, is formulated for the suspected flus of that year. Some suspects don’t cooperate. |
Test Everyone?
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 04:09:13 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:46:13 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. I commented on the $100 million. So how many tests can a person get for $300? Yeah $100Billion sounds right but if you are just looking for active cases you are wasting your money. In real life sample antibody testing is all you need anyway. You can make projections from there. They are still watching the people with antibodies to be sure they really are immune, If not, it may shoot the hell out of the plans for a vaccine. Most vaccines are far from perfect anyway. Your average flu vaccine is 50-75% effective. The flu vaccine is not against all flu, is formulated for the suspected flus of that year. Some suspects don’t cooperate. Why would we think this corona virus is any different? |
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