Quote from: lightfoot on March 22, 2020, 05:49:03 PM

Quote from: bitserve on March 22, 2020, 05:43:27 PM

Anyway, my GF house is also my "home" in some way, so it's fine. It's just not ideal but what can I do... the world is so fucked up right now.

This is when it gets complicated. I went over to see the GF last night, my thought is if the cops chase me I have a fairly fast car and it's really probably not worth it to arrest. Last thing they want to do is take people to jail that they will need for real problems.

My thought on the antibody test is if I know I've had it (say one of the 99% milds) then I would be perfect to volunteer in a hospital as a "blast shield" and handle the incoming losers with minimal protection. Then as they get well you put them in the line of fire for a few weeks.

A temporary tattoo can identify the certifiably fine, and they can spend unemployment doing things that will help. Pay them from the Govt and you have a serious solution to this mess.

It is bit more complex than that. Here is my theory:

- The health staff (doctors, nurses, general staff, etc) have been dealing with this shit with almost no protection since the beginning. There is a generalised lack of PPE (masks, etc). So I would bet they have *ALL* been exposed to the virus already. Many have probably already passed it, others are currently still infected but asymptomatic...

If we would start testing them, MANY would show positive. And then.. what do we do? Send them to their homes? Also send the rest of the staff of the same hospital and close it like we initially did with one hospital?

Of course not. We need them where they are, doing what they are doing. So that's why we are just testing people with CLEAR symptoms of the disease. We need to delay as much the mass testing until most of them have already passed the infection and are already inmune. So yeah, the antibodies test will be more useful for that.

- If we were to do the antibodies test to the general population, many people that would be already inmune would just try to avoid the restrictions [insert "me not affected" meme here] and not only that would obstruct the job of police enforcing the restrictions but it would create some sort of jelously in the rest of the population. It would be chaos.

- If there are not enough PPE for the health staff, much less for the general population. We need to solve that problem first. We need to have enough so that EVERYONE can go to the street fully protected. Probably even enforce that people do NOT go out "in the wild" unless wearing masks and gloves.

But you can't say that now... or people will riot because some people are so "lucky" to have the PPE and can roam freely and they can't. Because that's predictible normal people behaviour. So no... for now, restrictions are for EVERYONE.

The best course of action right now is to wait a little more. Then, when enough people has already been exposed and things are under control (hospitals not overwhelmed) yes.. we should start doing the tagging inmune people thing. It's just not the right moment to do it YET.

Just my two cents.

P.S.: Also, it is not more health workers what we need right now. It is fucking ventilators and PPE.