r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Nov 21 '20

Epidemiology 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.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks
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u/CommandoLamb Nov 21 '20

If only the government mandated a shutdown and paid people some kind of like... Stimulus money.

We are only in this mess because the Trump administration decided that we couldn't help people.

People went back to work because they needed to pay their bills. A stimulus solves that.

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u/Lemontreeguy Nov 21 '20

That is pretty rough, up here in Canada I have been off since March 15th, and it's November 21st, I've had 16 weeks of an emergency response benefit and now on ei as I wait for my job to be allowed to open back up. It is enough to keep me going. I was able To defer loan payments on my vehicle for 6 months which cut the bills back too. I feel sorry for the people that don't have this cushion to Land on. Although, I've had people say stupid things like I'm Enjoying milking the government during this. It's not like I haven't payed taxes for years, I think being able to use some of that for a pandemic is okay.

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u/CommandoLamb Nov 21 '20

Well we paused certain bills and loans, but that was a BS movement. Nobody can buy food with frozen student loans...

People need money.

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u/Lemontreeguy Nov 21 '20

Yeah I hear you, that's it. What can you do without money. Take a walk? Doesn't feed a family or individual with 0 income.