DOT Sec Buttigieg: Domestic Testing Being Seriously Considered

Richman said:
Wait, I thought if we wore the mask we were good?

If everyone now is required by law to wear the mask, then there shouldn’t be any problem right?

The problem isn’t the testing, it’s the consequences. See, travel has two legs, from home and to home. If you are out on a trip and pop positive, you’re stuck for up to 14 days. At its mildest form, that’s a huge inconvenience and expense, and at its worst, completely undoable.

So why just air travel? Set up checkpoints on the state borders? County? Are you going to require it on bus service? On the train? Are your papers in order?
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Yikers. Ok then. Enjoy the next 3 years or so.

But for the love of God, if you get COVID, don't be a jackass and willfully around positive.
 
fholbert said:
What we’ve done so far to prevent the spread of Corona19 is working well, let’s stay the course.
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Maybe you could assuage our concerns by at least telling us there are good Union Amtrak jobs, jobs that would lower emissions ready and waiting for us.

When your answer is "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!" and that something involves taking a wrecking ball to an industry, I'd like to see clear benefits that outweigh the damage it would cause.
 
Baronman said:
When your answer is "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!" and that something involves taking a wrecking ball to an industry, I'd like to see clear benefits that outweigh the damage it would cause.
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Setting the unprecedented (groan) life-support extended to U.S. air carriers aside, I just don't see the usefulness of this as a public health intervention now.

Like, I think that this might've been a useful intervention...about a year ago. Sort of like the inbound international testing requirement, frankly. Never too late to do the right thing except that it is, and we're the grody plague-rat source country. *rubs temples*

(It's a pretty bad day when I agree with Ed Bastian, likely.)
 
Ayork62493 said:
If it were feasible to get an accurate test, easily at home I wouldn’t be so against this. But it takes away resources which are already strained. The tests are also notoriously inaccurate. I had Covid last month, got a rapid test while I show showing symptoms. Negative.
Lost my sense of taste and smell the next day, got a PCR test and it was positive. If people just wouldn’t fly sick we’d limit exposure more than trying to test.
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Depending on the antigen test you got, you’d be in the 10-20% that got a false negative while showing symptoms.

If people didn’t fly when they had a cough, congestion, diarrhea, fever, upset stomach...planes would be half full at best.

Antigen tests are far from perfect but they could be better than hoping people are honest enough to not fly if they have symptoms—which probably are usually likely related to allergies, a cold, or beer the night before.
 
BobDDuck said:
This really shouldn't be some kind of epiphany.
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It’s not, but it’s always appreciated when they just come out and admit that “I’m terrified because of forces beyond my understanding. I really should just be bunkered in my house, cowering in fear, not bothering anyone but I really want to act like nothing is happening and blame others for my fear while expressing faux concern for their well-being”
 
It’s just doing a disservice to Americans when no scientist or medical expert will admit that it’s high time Americans look at themselves in the mirror, a majority now (by definition) are fat. Many don't exercise enough and our diet is absolute garbage. All these factors when added together make Covid more deadly for us.
 
Richman said:
It’s not, but it’s always appreciated when they just come out and admit that “I’m terrified because of forces beyond my understanding. I really should just be bunkered in my house, cowering in fear, not bothering anyone but I really want to act like nothing is happening and blame others for my fear while expressing faux concern for their well-being”
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:rolleyes:
 
Richman said:
It’s not, but it’s always appreciated when they just come out and admit that “I’m terrified because of forces beyond my understanding. I really should just be bunkered in my house, cowering in fear, not bothering anyone but I really want to act like nothing is happening and blame others for my fear while expressing faux concern for their well-being”
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I kind of feel like you are living in this fantasy world where you think these people exist in any sort of mass numbers. Sure, they are out there, but I'd guess for every one of them, there is somebody else who knows they are covid positive and still is going to Home Depot (without a mask) to pick up a spare hose for their keg party later in the day.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
It’s just doing a disservice to Americans when no scientist or medical expert will admit that it’s high time Americans look at themselves in the mirror, a majority now (by definition) are fat. Many don't exercise enough and our diet is absolute garbage. All these factors when added together make Covid more deadly for us.
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I'm back to memes with you because Jesús Cristo (the guy picking your veggies, not the Savior), it's just not worth the time.

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zmiller4 said:
Depending on the antigen test you got, you’d be in the 10-20% that got a false negative while showing symptoms.

If people didn’t fly when they had a cough, congestion, diarrhea, fever, upset stomach...planes would be half full at best.

Antigen tests are far from perfect but they could be better than hoping people are honest enough to not fly if they have symptoms—which probably are usually likely related to allergies, a cold, or beer the night before.
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2020 2021: “is this fatigue, a hangover or is it covid?”
 
zmiller4 said:
Por què no los tres?

I went into a doctors office on Monday and they had me fill out a questionnaire asking if I had any symptoms of covid including “gastrointestinal distress”.

The morning after the Super Bowl.
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I went into the doctor and they asked if I had traveled anywhere in the last 14 days. I asked them “how do you define travel?”.

“Well, you know, away from home”.

“Um, I’m away from home right now”.

<blank stare>
 
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