“Testing” is not a pandemic panacea. It’s a political red herring. You see, it is not possible, likely … or even probable … that we can afford to test and process CoVid-19 diagnostic testing on 325,000,000 Americans many who will have to be tested more than once. Further, we don’t know whether it’s like other coronaviruses in that contracting and surviving it doesn’t create life-long or even season to season immunity. If it doesn’t, then what is the point? But, more glaringly obvious is that the test only tells us that you don’t have the virus at the time you took the test. You could encounter someone with the virus at or on the way out of the test center … or at any point thereafter … and contract it.
It seems to me that the better play is to put the emphasis on the development of therapeutics and technology that will help us adapt to our lives living with this virulent pathogen. I’m not hearing anything about the deployment and utilization of sanitizing UV-C lights for packages, rooms, cars, airplanes, and trains. This technology is already deployed to a certain extent in clinical and laboratory settings and takes only seconds to work. Why are we not talking about commercial and individual consumer / residential applications?
Or has the virus made us allergic to common sense?
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