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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Katelew who wrote (156923)3/22/2020 6:19:03 AM
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After multiple articles claiming widespread testing was an easy way to conquer the virus and giving hope to millions that drive-thru testing was some kind of panacea, the Washington Post grapples with explaining what happened.

That's your take on that article???

A long, long time ago there was an exam called the Federal Service Entrance Exam. I took it coming out of college and I remember clearly my impression of it. The questions in one section were reading comprehension. There was a blurb followed by multiple choice answers describing what the blurb supposedly said. I recall thinking how easy the test was because so many of the answers from which one could pick were so far off. I recall wondering how the exam developers could have expected test takers to choose them or how anyone could have chosen them. I could not imagine anyone getting a single answer wrong.

I have since had occasion to reflect on that experience off and on. You just gave me another.

In this case, the message of the article is right in the headline. One could hardly miss it.

In hard-hit areas, testing restricted to health care workers, hospital patients

Officials direct scarce resources where they are needed most to save people’s lives.
The notion of testing was overtaken by events due to scarce resources. It's not that testing was wrongheaded. It's that the expected resources to test never became available. Having reached a different point in the process, one must adjust. Being forced to switch to plan B does not mean that anything was wrong with the notion of plan A. It means, in this case, that some players in plan A failed to do their part, let us all down, and now we have to make do the best we can.
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