The left’s new hysterical narrative? Testing!
Testing? Testing?
American Thinker,
by
Patricia McCarthy
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/20/2020 8:53:50 AM
Having essentially lost the narrative on their “blame Trump” for every death, the Democrats and their media droids have this week settled upon the lack of sufficient testing with which to castigate the President. They would never call out the bureaucrats of the CDC, which dropped the ball throughout the Obama years, or the NIH, or the NIAID for Fauci’s failures to be prepared for a pandemic. No, they have all leapt on the bandwagon to blame Trump for every death, every perceived failure of the federal government to stop a virus unleashed on the world by the actual biggest threat to the world, China.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 4/20/2020 9:01:51 AM (No. 385243)
And how long do they intend to continue it? Until the "second wave"? Wait, do I hear a "third"?? Bueller, Bueller....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MMC 4/20/2020 9:10:04 AM (No. 385251)
No.. I do not want a national data base of testing.. what could possibly go wrong with this info?
Was again if controlling a free people..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/20/2020 9:12:48 AM (No. 385255)
This focus on testing is STUPID! You get a test that's negative, and then the next day you get the flu, which makes the test worthless.
NO! And not just NO, but HELL NO!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
poliposter 4/20/2020 9:20:41 AM (No. 385271)
This isn't new. It was one of the first failures mentioned by a liberal family member (who thinks she is conservative). I asked her what would be the point of testing? How would the treatment be any different for someone who is sick from Covid19 vs. the flu? You would be told to stay home to convalesce in quarantine whether your illness was Covid19 or any other sickness.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
starboard 4/20/2020 9:31:41 AM (No. 385285)
Unless a person has symptoms, testing is unnecessary and a waste of time. Those resources could be put to better use. Have testing available when and as needed.
"Testing" is the Democrat word of the day and mantra. President Trump please ignore it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/20/2020 9:36:20 AM (No. 385294)
The only people benefited by current testing are those who are sick and the lucky well who surprisingly find they already had covid-19 and never knew it. The majority of the rest of us remain at risk. We can live our lives understanding that risk is just a part of life or cower in our caves.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Plex 4/20/2020 9:41:50 AM (No. 385305)
One problem is that if you increase testing, you will likely increase case discovery which may disqualify a state from phased economic re-opening. Many, many people are asymptomatic and testing would serve no useful purpose except to raise the numbers.. that is unless you want to quarantine anybody who tests positive. This is just the flu with some bad aspects and a morality rate consistent with seasonal flu. Pretend it is H1N1 and get on with life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TLCary 4/20/2020 9:45:47 AM (No. 385312)
NYC reclassified almost 4,000 deaths as Corona Virus deaths after the fact. When asked how they justified this without testing the mayor said "testings? We don't need no stinking testings".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Delilah 4/20/2020 9:46:42 AM (No. 385315)
#3 is so right. Testing today tells us nothing about the future. We could all be negative today then get it and die next week.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/20/2020 10:04:34 AM (No. 385344)
Testing is not worthless from a data standpoint. The more people walking around with this glorified flu with NO symptoms, the more people who have light to moderate symptoms that require no special hospital care, the more the data will show this virus is not the horrific killer the media and the egghead set have made it out to be.
Tennessee just this weekend opened up dozens of free testing sites where folks can go even if they have no symptoms, thus mass testing. Thousands have shown up. We will have a clearer picture of the REAL infection rate of this virus. If millions have been walking around with this stuff and living their lives, then the death percentage will plummet and folks will start questioning "why can't I go back to work?!"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
franq 4/20/2020 10:08:03 AM (No. 385350)
Who is going to manufacture the tests? Who will pay for them? How will they be administered? Can you imagine the lines if they mandate tests? Good grief.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/20/2020 10:24:25 AM (No. 385373)
If you don't like having to carry a driver's license to drive, wait till you have to carry a Covid license to do just about everything else. Oh- and it must be renewed every six months.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/20/2020 10:30:34 AM (No. 385381)
My daughter in law works in a high risk women's hospital and tested positive for the virus. The hospital sent her home but it's a guess when she contracted the virus. She was quarantined and treated by her doctor with Hydocholorzine cocktail. She recovered in two and a half weeks but still doesn't know when the virus was contracted. My son, her husband, suffers allergies this time of year and had symptoms of the virus so he and my two grandsons all tested 'negative'. My thought was how contagious is the virus when they all live in the same house? It makes me think it's not as bad and some deaths and illnesses are not the Covid 19 Chinese Flu. In their zeal the left who hate Trump and the roaring economy are crunching numbers and falsifying deaths to keep us stifled while Pelosi eats gourmet ice cream getting brain freezes.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 10:57:43 AM (No. 385429)
Testing to see if you have had the disease is useful, under the normal assumption that once you have had it, you have antibodies and won't get it again.
But testing to see if you currently have it are pretty worthless. Test fine today, get it tomorrow.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/20/2020 10:59:28 AM (No. 385437)
The left's iterations of testing would never end. The data, a word I formerly was neutral about, would never be enough. The left would have oversight over everyone forever. Unfortunately, many from the left also are CEO's of large corporations, staffed with leftist managers, so there are going to be a lot of encounters over who controls you, and whether you live in a socialist environment, or a free one.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franq 4/20/2020 11:21:45 AM (No. 385479)
I am sure my company would jump on the bandwagon.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/20/2020 1:13:11 PM (No. 385661)
Testing 330 million people living in the USA, as the leftist and liberal Democrats are demanding, every day or every week before they can leave their residences and return to work, or perform any other activity in a public setting, is impractical, unnecessary, and impossible.
Clearly such testing, beyond prudent random testing would not be effective, if it were even possible, as testing is not a panacea, because any given person can test negative on one day and then positive the next. Clearly there is not now and there won’t be the skilled capacity across the USA to administer 330 million tests every day, or every week, as there are not enough trained healthcare workers and laboratory technicians to test everyone like that.
Clearly the Democrats are using all sorts of excuses to keep the US economy shutdown for as long as possible believing that it will hurt Trump’s chances of being re-elected.
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