Quinn Norton:
The unspoken problem with engaging with a testing regime is why do it when you can’t get treatment, or afford it if you could get it? Why go to the doctor when that risks destroying your family’s future?
The way we get out is not immunity passports or herd immunity, it’s not test test test, it’s a whole system of health that cares for the whole population. ...Not just testing, tracing, isolating, but the most important part of public health: treatment. https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/17/its-the-inequality-stupid-why-test-trace-isolate-wont-stop-covid-19-in-america/
I'm not sure what Quinn's logistic proposals are, but we can't actually put a pandemic "on hold" while we create an entirely new and different health-care system that will address it better.
This is like deciding you really SHOULD get your brakes checked a fifth of a second before you smack into the back of a semi at sixty miles an hour.
@mcfate Yeah she's not offering a proposal. Just pointing out the weakness(es) of testing in our context. I have said similar things about contact tracing in the USA. I don't have a proposal either other than continued caution and vigilance until there's a vaccine. And probably after.
But that's a silly criticism. If you don't test, you don't even know who's contagious, and then EVERYBODY winds up sick.
Quinn is smarter than this. Used to be, anyway.
@b4cks4w
She should work on her communications skills, she's saying testing is pointless since people can't afford treatment and knowing whether they're infected "risks destroying" their "family's future", by any reasonable interpretation.