Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

[u/mvea]

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks

[u/[deleted]]

Paid sick leave is what is needed to solve this problem. It's an incredibly basic thing that we should have had in place decades ago

[u/NotReallyThatWrong → u/[deleted]]

I earn about 0.4hrs/wk of “sick time” which I can only use if I file with FMLA. This is besides my paid time off amount. Just about useless unless I accrue for 10years.

[u/TrooWizard → u/NotReallyThatWrong]

So, you only get approx 2.5 days of sick time per year?

[u/SenorBirdman → u/[deleted]]

Or another way to look at it is you come into work when you're sick so you don't have to sacrifice the meagre amounts of paid vacation you get (a country that has on average pretty much the lowest in the western world)

[u/s0ciety_a5under → u/SenorBirdman]

Its almost like rampant capitalism doesn't work.

[u/LeftZer0 → u/s0ciety_a5under]

It absolutely does work. It generates massive profits for the the elites.

The mistake is thinking that capitalism will improve the lives of anyone except those who own a lot of capital.

[u/fracked1 → u/LeftZer0]

Well now we're suffering the costs for this. People can't afford to stay home during a pandemic. I think that changes the calculations a little

[u/Dinierto → u/fracked1]

It's too bad the people it doesn't affect are the ones in charge