Choosing among outrages

 I think a lot of people are feeling a sort of mental and emotional paralysis lately as the Trumparian cult commits one atrocity after another. But I have to pick one so I ' m going to the Residentordering the CDC to change the guidelines on Covid-19 testing, so that testing of people who are known to have been exposed is no longer recommended. This was done of course because the Great Pumpkin has the idea stuck in his pea-sized brain that if fewer people are tested, the number of reported cases will be lower. I should not have to explain why this is idiotic. People who do not have symptoms can transmit the virus to others. Oh, by the way, we weren ' t sure about this before but now it ' s pretty well accepted that about 60% of infected adults will develop symptoms, just to debunk another stupid lie. Anyway, the point is, obviously, that if people are exposed you want to test them so that they can self-isolate if they are infected. That ' s the whole idea of containment, that ' s what the countries have done and are doing that have successfully suppressed the pandemic. If you don ' t do that, you may miss some asymptomatic cases but as a result there will ultimately be more symptomatic cases and more deaths. In the United States, the responsibility for testing and contact tracing belongs to local public health authorities.And they are pissed off. The National Association of County and City Health Officials has sent a letter to Robert Redfield, the butt kissing ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs