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We wasted the last two months. That’s what historians will focus on. Why did we shut things down and not aggressively test? What good did it do us other than bring record unemployment and no clue how widespread the virus is and who has it?
What’s happening now is the country is piecemeal re-opening and we will experience new hot spots, because we don’t know who has it and who doesn’t, and then the second closing will be crushing and will take at least a decade, if not a generation, to recover from.
While we have numbingly accepted our president lies more than he speaks the truth, the biggest daily lie he’s telling (and believes) is that our testing the best in the world. It’s not. The term “per capita” just doesn’t resonate with him.
It’s not easy to get data on testing, which is weird, since it’s the single most important number we should be focused on right now in addition to deaths. The CDC site makes little sense. The data at the top comes from this web site: www.covidtracking.com
Our population is 328.2 million. We haven’t even tested 10 million; and the disease tends to be very asymptomatic. Which means we’ve tested barely 3% of our population. Even South Korea, which aggressively tested a much larger percentage is having to backtrack on its re-opening. We’re…
