RE: I think it's more important11 Jul 2020 13:47
The reason they want to test on arrival is that it’s a key part of test, track and trace. We have to ignore the shambles so far as the key thing that was missing was test. Posting out swabs or expecting people to travel for miles to test centres was never going to work. Swab samples were taken incorrectly or just not returned, never mind the pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic.
Track wasn’t done either and a lot of the tracers are sat twiddling their thumbs. First things first, mass testing. Expect the govt to be first in the queue with an order for enough to test the whole population (more than once over and plenty stock piled). Once that’s done they’ll finally have a decent clue what’s really going on. ONS have been sampling but it’s been limited to date.
Mass screening enables track and trace and part of that has to be testing arrivals. One test as you arrive, with a couple of follow ups.
Add in businesses, they want to keep factories open and running, customer facing roles want to have confidence. It’s not a stretch to imagine weekly testing and finally a return to genuine normality.
Questioning people’s willingness is a fair challenge, but if the govt pay for them to kick things off, if your business pays for them, if other businesses have signs up saying ‘No spit, no entry’ then attitudes will change as it’s not a huge inconvenience compared with the current situation - the latest being wearing an uncomfortable mask.
Then multiply the world over. Blimey, that’s a lot of tests. At the moment there is nothing that comes close to what this test could be capable of. A simple to use (hopefully very) effective mass screening test. It’s the game changer.
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