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Igel

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17. Notice two announcements.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:53 AM
Mar 2020

The first was that a fast test was developed overseas and announced 2-3 days ago. The second is that a US-produced fast test kit was approved on Friday.

We've had fast test kits for flu for quite a while. That makes it easy to quickly tweak a kit and continue production with the new kit. That's the flu.

Remember, this isn't the flu.

Then there was that pesky government, insisting on approving test kits because of some idea that it had to keep charlatans from making fake kits and that there was quality control (which, of course, the government's contractor botched). If only we didn't have those regulations, we'd probably have had decent kits by early January, instead of the first non-government kit being approved on 2/26. Even the kit approved on Friday spent a couple of weeks tied up in red tape.

Here: emmaverybo Mar 2020 #1
Killing 3% of a population isn't really a reset button. PoliticAverse Mar 2020 #2
What assurances do we have that it will be 3% The_jackalope Mar 2020 #7
None. Igel Mar 2020 #16
1% is still a horrendous death rate. Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #20
Maybe it will be enough that Nature can take a deep breath. We've been smothering Her. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #8
That's actually the upper range, if S. Korea's numbers are accurate Warpy Mar 2020 #10
Got to thinking customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #3
If it isn't I'd hate to see what surpasses it. lunatica Mar 2020 #4
Wonderful, tygr, cilla4progress Mar 2020 #5
So many lessons to learn from all this flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 #6
A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN ornotna Mar 2020 #9
Virus isn't a being that's making any demands. LisaL Mar 2020 #14
Many thanks - well said. GoneOffShore Mar 2020 #11
Diseases have been around since the dawn of life, adapt or die, that is the way of our world Baclava Mar 2020 #12
That's exactly right. LisaL Mar 2020 #13
Obama admin had 1 million people tested within weeks of declaring Swine Flu a national health issue uponit7771 Mar 2020 #15
Notice two announcements. Igel Mar 2020 #17
How did Obama admin get past the regulations? Something is wrong with Trump's story uponit7771 Mar 2020 #19
Some things will change after this, but increased environmentalism won't be one of them Amishman Mar 2020 #18
Call me naive, but I think most people are good. zanana1 Mar 2020 #21
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