[FRIAM] testing

[Joe Spinden]

The BBC is reporting India has developed and inexpensive, faster test kit:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52064427

JS


On 3/28/20 1:19 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> There is hope. I am confident EU and US can develop a vaccine and a 
> faster test. We need massive tests to make the invisible asymptomatic 
> carriers visible. Those who have the virus must be immediately 
> isolated even if they have only mild symptoms. Recently a 5-min test 
> was approved! This sounds good.
> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/abbott-receives-approval-for-test-that-can-detect-coronavirus-in-as-little-as-5-minutes.html
>
> -J.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> Date: 3/28/20 06:06 (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
> <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Mild vs. Severe Symptoms
>
> that and sweden and norway last I read 2 days ago are just going about 
> their business. and fact is that taking care of yourself in the US (in 
> general) is a huge problem. we have no NHS . Which means taking care 
> of your health is fucking expensive!
> What all that means is well before all hell broke lose america wasn't 
> doing well for health at the start.
> Add in a plague that we know very little about. 500 or so assholes. 
> and potus that's willing to let people die because he's a patholgocial 
> nutjob.
> The mix of all that is what's fucking up the US's chances for a vastly 
> quicker recovery.
>
> I learned yesterday that a friend in NY is freaking out because (for 
> now) she has just a dry caugh. the motherfucker? her doctors office is 
> so swamped she can't get into double check if it's a cold, flue, 
> alergies or...yeah that covid. She has a good chance it's a awful 
> cold...anyone sane would like to know for sure though.
>
> As to terror?
> Media isn't helping. Neither is that somebitch and his two boyfriends. 
> CNN is keeping people way more on edge than they might be. 45 won't  
> unass the funds neaded to rerbish, build and distrubute at least 6-7k 
> ventilators, marshall what ever resorces they need, including enough 
> medical staff to relieve workers who just about dead on there feat. 
> That's a whole other level of terror because it means the GOP and 45 
> don't give a rats ass about human life. Ausvitz and the Blitz much?
>
>
> A very small silver lining from this though. I hope this reads as the 
> postive note its meant to be: this whole damn thing is showing humans 
> can put bulshit aside against a world ending disaster.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 4:56 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net 
> <mailto:jofr at cas-group.net>> wrote:
>
>     Jeremy Egner, a NY Times editor, has been infected and
>     hospitalized in NYC. He gives those who are seriously ill from the
>     SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus a voice
>     https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/sunday-review/coronavirus-hospitalized.html
>
>     Here in Europe he would be the exception, many politicians and
>     celebrities who have the virus here have only very mild
>     symptoms. For me, it sounds like the real number of asymptomatic
>     carriers is much higher than we know. These asymptomatic carriers
>     must be the driving force behind the exponential dissemination,
>     while the severe cases spread terror. A fatal combination for a
>     pandemic.
>     https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/24/science.abb3221
>
>     Maybe good time to take a Coursera course...
>     https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/
>
>     -J.
>
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Joe

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