P.S.: Also, it is not more health workers what we need right now. It is fucking ventilators and PPE.
I am not going to deny that there is a decent amount of importance regarding ventilators and PPE...
If by "a decent amount of importance" you mean that people is ALREADY dying because there are not enough ventilators and doctors need to triage and decide who gets one and have a (good) chance to live and who doesn't and just dies from asfixia. Then yes... there is a decent amount of importance regarding ventilators.
but I am inclined to believe that testing is amongst the most important in order to stop the fucking mass panic and the shutting down of everything. Fuck that shit.
So, 100x up on various testing methods and production of tests and getting everyone the fuck tested. Thereafter some folks are going to get a green light... or at least understand what their status is and whether or not they can interact.. and of course, testing is not going to be a one and done thing, but it is likely the path forward towards opening businesses back up and lifting travel/movement restrictions.
Not yet. First get things under control. Do you know what is another reason almost all activity has been shut down? Because as soon as the hospital are kept at maximum capacity you can't "afford" to have any kind of accident that requires medical attention, ie: a car crash, a construction work accident, etc.... So you better avoid that.
We don't know how many people is infected (probably one or two orders of magnitude more than current figures)... but just knowing there are way more than we can cope with should probably enough information. The figure we can rely on is occupation of ICU beds and, more difficult to inmediately "create" new ones, ventilators... and we have already run out of them. That's the problem that needs to be solved.
Until then, this thing is way bigger than being infected or not... most people will eventually be and that is not such a big deal but, right now, even inmune people (if there is such a thing) can't have access to health care if they need it. You better don't get ill now or you might be fucked.
Depending on where you live YMMV. But things are quickly changing EVERYWHERE day after day.
You are seeming to be really in a kind of panic mode, and to me it seems that better information is going to be important in this regard, so putting a lot of efforts into various kinds of testing does seem to remain a very important way forward to helping to alleviate some of the various ongoing panic concerns.
World-wide blanket shut downs and social isolation is just not sustainable nor practical, so hopefully we do not just enter into a world in which everything around the whole world is blindly (and out of fear) shut down for 3-12 months out of a narrow focus that bad things are going to happen (bad things are always happening, but bad things happen when things are shut down too..).. there is no absolute solution to avoiding bad things, and there are usually multi-faceted approaches, perspectives, contradictions and even injustices that occur no matter what courses of action are pursued.