I can tell you why it's only 25 per day.... they just broke ground two weeks ago on a new facility and wanna bet some money magically appeared for some real nice art and leather furniture in the director's office.
The arena center capacity was originally 250 tests a day, they rarely went over 200. When I went there i counted roughly 125 cars in front of me, took three hours and a lot of the cars were filled with what appeared to be whole families, we only had 2 in our car. They had a total of 7 staff and were running it like champs. 2 girls walked the lines registering people, 4 girls were delivering the tests in the building, and one lucky guy was sitting at a table listening to music with 6 college hottie. I dont know if he had a role or just was there for the eye candy and free covid. I was impressed and the way they organized the chaos of processing that many people On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 9:45 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > Most of the state run drive-thru testing sites can do 600 tests per day. > Unfortunately that means many of them open at 7am and start turning away > cars at 7:30. You may be right that you then wait hours in line. Not sure > why they would set up a site by you that can only do 25 per day. Maybe > they tried larger sites and just didn’t get enough people. > > > > I don’t quite understand the importance given to the positivity rate, > since most of the people getting tested already have symptoms or have been > exposed. Yes it’s the rate of positives among people getting tested, but > how do you extrapolate that to the rate in the whole population? Well, > except that the number getting tested keeps increasing. > > > > Illinois has been testing as many as 120,000 people per day lately, and > the population is 12 million, so that’s 1% of the population per day. But > how many of those are people who have to get tested every week or > something? In other words, same people over and over. And of course even > the PCR tests (not the garbage instant tests) are only a point in time > test, they don’t tell you if you had it a month ago or will get it a month > from now. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:10 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ot: covid tracing > > > > With the three vaccines ready to roll out 90 million inoculations in the > US this year it may be moot because kit production probably wont be able to > meet demand before we have herd vaccination in 2.5 months. But these new > home test kits, assuming there is any reliability to them, would have been > the ideal pairing with tracing. > > > > Testing is still being handled poorly on the local level. Our health > department took a ton of money from the feds for testing, but the drive > through they set up only has like a 25 test a day capacity, what a joke > that is, will be interesting to see who all goes to jail here. CVS has drop > off testing, but you have to do it through the website, and its aweful, my > mom couldn't get hers because she has the wrong color Medicare card, > whatever the hell that means. The wait at the big test center is 4 to 6 > hours. Not complaining about that one, they do massive volume because of > all the jackleggery everywhere else. > > Our hospital and many of the clinics have rapid tests but opt not to use > them, instead ship them off. > > Lots and lots of prison sentences in the near future. > > > > The good thing about this, is unlike the swine flu utter disaster, we > built out a very robust pandemic response system in a short period of time. > This will be the model future pandemics are managed by after the post > mortem. As long as the grifters spend decades in prison, the next time the > systems will actually be utilized properly, it will be election proof > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 8:34 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > They should stop talking about contact tracing as if it's working, it only > works if you have orders of magnitude less cases than we have now. > > There is the containment phase, mitigation phase, then who let the dogs > out. Guess which phase we're in. At this point, contact tracing is pretty > useless, even testing is of questionable use. About all you can do if you > test positive is self-isolate and tell your friends, family and coworkers. > Even testing is questionable, mostly the people getting tested already > suspect they have it. > > Steve is right that the states didn't ramp up contact tracing fast enough > or successfully, but given the poor cooperation they got from people, I'm > not sure how much it would have helped. Now about all they can do is tell > people to isolate and tell their contacts. Thank you Capt. Obvious. And > like Steve says, the lag time makes even that pretty useless. > > If we were New Zealand, contact tracing would be great. Or alternatively, > a compliant surveillance society like China. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 2:44 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ot: covid tracing > > Don’t be too relaxed with it. I have a friend who just collapsed in church > on Sunday from Covid. > > Just singing along and his heart stopped. Perfectly healthy, outside > active guy. > > They gave him CPR and last I knew he’s still alive in the hospital. > > He was a staunch anti masker. > > This is a very serious disease and needs to be treated as such. > > > On Nov 24, 2020, at 12:54 AM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > What a let down this was. Turns out tracing is a joke. First off, they > dont even make contact with the positive test for 3 to 5 days even though > the money was for within 24 hours. So it essentially pointless as far as > stopping the spread. > > They dont ask for much detail, so thes "x infections traced back to Y > event" are pretty much fictitious. I thought it was maybe local to us, nope > pretty much the same way across the board. > > We had 8 sick, three positive tests, and only one was actually traced. 6 > the seven of us were contacts, the two other positives werent marked > different. > > We are almost a week past the quarantine/isolation and still getting the > texts. > > > > The point is, yet again in this, the feds provided a massive amount of > money and guidance, actually bipartisan, and the states fucked it up. I'm > in illinois, so I'm guessing out of every tracing dollar 25 cents when in > our fat emperor, erm governors pocket, and another 25 cents went in speaker > Madigan criminal defense fund. 50 cents went to the tracers, but they > probably have to kick 30 percent back in taxes. > > > > My kids are remote so it's not relevant, but they havent recieved the > dept public health release yet, so I figure the boy wont be able to do his > drive time friday for drivers ed. > > > > What a joke. > > > > Luckily this isnt the death plague they told us it was. Takes a lot to > die of it now and our state numbers are going back down now that the > election celebration infections are subsiding. > > > > Had the states done what they were supposed to, infected people would > have known 3 to 4 days earlier, and the percent that would quarantine would > have. > > This is our 3rd verified exposure, first actual contact tracing, the > other two I know for a fact listed us as contacts. > > > > When this is over and the FOIAs start, I'm hoping a lot of state and > dept of health officials spend a ton of time in prison. I'm betting there > are a ton of phones that were "lost" or smashed with hammers when the > investigations start after. Theres a ruthless watchdog group I had to deal > with once, actually forced a multi county health department to split, only > got one person for embezzlement though. But they know the FOIA game well > enough that the health department had to have constant deliveries of > pallets of paper. 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