05-18-2020, 06:15 AM
(05-17-2020, 07:59 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: … It doesn't require obsessively watching the legacy media or even more modern media to determine that a test can only tell you if you have X, and does nothing to say cure or treat X. My point stands testing in and of itself is not very useful. After all we aren't talking about using tests to quarantine infected persons, instead the Blue solution is to quarantine everyone and wish the disease away. Strangely in Governor Carona's New York 2 out of 3 new cases are arising from people "sheltering in place"...
This merely shows your lack of knowledge of epidemiology (not that I'm and expert either). The shelter-in-place policy was intended to slow the spread, not eliminate it. Places that moved fast, like South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, managed to use isolation to actually bring the virus as close to zero as possible, assuming no foreign traveler brings it back. In the US, the primary focus was our healthcare system that was being overrun by new cases -- just like Italy.
And let's admit it: living in NYC or any other highly dense city, makes addressing a pandemic that infects so readily a nearly impossible goal to achieve.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.