Is Blake the official name for male Karen? I thought it was Kevin.
Was Ben Garrison always like this?
Sounds like the takeaway is that maybe some of the samples are stored right, but most aren’t, although it doesn’t matter since there’s no way for us to know. Meaning the actual numbers day to day could easily be 1 or 2 orders of magnitude off.
He used to be a big Ron Paul booster.
U nailed it
This article was from June 30, and let’s just say it was deflating for me:
The deflating takeaway was this:
“We hit the wall three weeks ago,” Jon Cohen, the executive chairman of BioReference Laboratories, a lab-services company that is testing patients for the virus in New York, New Jersey, and Florida, told us. “At that point, most laboratories were already running at capacity, as far as I can tell.”
New York and New Jersey’s new case level seemed to be impossibly low to me in the period of time around that article’s publishing. That sort of explained why.
My sister told me tests weren’t viable after 9 days (wookie’s explanations make a lot of sense as to why), that hers returned 11 days after taking it negative in the early stages of the pandemic in Colorado. I think she said her test was processed in New Jersey, which shows how a place like Colorado wasn’t even remotely prepared at the time they started testing. She says Colorado is now using its own proprietary test and it returns very quickly.
What is the tipping point for this behavior? She wasn’t born this way. Definitely wasn’t educated anti mask cause masks are a new thing. Like, if the not actors, do they wake up one morning and decide they are all in against masks?
Raging war against a cloth, inanimate object … I just don’t get the emotional expenditure.
Its their entire days are spent on youtube/twitter interacting with Qanon type people. Its a cult of stupidity.
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How many deaths did he say there would be? 36,000?
“You lost the right* to broadcast your abject stupidity when US deaths reached 36,001. STFU”
*Not the best word because it will only send him off an an ill-informed 1A rant. Maybe “standing”?
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I had a conversation the other day with a guy who has been forced to wear a mask around our apartment complex, but is super mad about it. He kept saying, “Sure, if you want me to wear a mask, I’ll wear one, but we need to open things up,” and similar stuff. Just pissed off. I’m glad I was wearing a mask because it was all I could do not to laugh. He’s like a mid 40s, immigrant, small business owner, who subscribes to libertarianism, and I think the issue is he realizes that libertarian ideals absolutely cannot deal with a pandemic, therefore he’s decided that it’s impossible to deal with a pandemic. Just the whole thing is super childish.
Seems like there might be a decent market for the mask in Wirelessgrinder’s post.
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I sure hope Ben Garrison doesn’t die from COVID.
That’d be a shame.
Lost me at chiropractors being good for you.
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Has anyone ever read an article of why this texting crunch can’t be solved? What is the really hard bottleneck part to building new test capacity? Please tell me it’s not lack of profitability.
lol -80. There could be hours at room temp from sample collection time until it gets fully processed by a lab.
I think it had something to do with re-agents (sp?) at one time. Testing has definitely ramped up significantly since that article was written. Daily average for last 10 days has been above 700k.
How do you just not smash unfollow?
So basically profit motive. They’re addicted to just in time procurement and they don’t want to get caught holding the bag with a bunch of useless reagent if tests die down. And of course the federal government isn’t going to help.
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I think Trump fixed all that by declaring the DPA to get massive testing.
I read an article the other day that said the FDA has authorized the use of pool testing. I think it was Birx who said if we did that we could get up to 5 million tests per day. Based on the description, if one test in the small pool showed up as positive they would have to analyze all of the sample pool. Seems like this would happen pretty often, so it might not produce the huge spike in test results they’re hoping for. My gut says if they go heavily toward pool testing quickly that all analysis of data is going to need to get thrown in the trash overnight. I think we’ll see it happening in real time, so we should know when it’s playing a big factor.
I think we have basically 2 major companies LabCorp and Quest and they do JIT test processing and can’t easily ramp up to where we need to be.
So lots of people are being tested at local places, but the labs don’t have the equipment/people/whatever to process them as fast as they come in, so we have a delay in results.
That’s my understanding, but it could be incorrect.