I know that the only thing that everyone is talking about is the coronavirus but that’s because it’s only that seems to matter at the moment. I think that I am in the same boat as everyone else in that this is crazy.
One of the biggest things that has been concerning in America is the lack of testing available to the citizens. China, South Korea, and Italy have all performed hundreds of thousands of tests yet the United States has less than 50,000 performed so far.
Its also very interesting that over half of the NBA players have been tested. Lots of them needed testing because of the recent exposure of many of their players such as Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, Kevin Durant, etc.
Also many of the other people that have been revealed to positive have been celebrities. This makes sense because many people are going to get it, celebrities included, but its kinda weird that there are so few people are getting tested yet all these move stars and NBA players are getting tests yet most of the general public don’t have access to it.
Like 50% of NBA players have been tested but almost none of their staff has been reported to be tested even though they’ve been in direct contact with the players who have it.
I guess it makes sense that these rich companies and rich people are getting the tests because they can pay for it but its just kind of messed up that there are lots of people who have symptoms and haven’t been able to receive tests. And there are lots of workers in the healthcare industry who need tests as well.
Another thing that is interesting is that the United States has performed some of the least amount of test per capita and per million people. We need to step it up if we are going to get ahead of this outbreak and prevent the deaths of millions of our citizens.
This is so true, like as a whole Nation we need to get a move on with beating this disease, because right now, not enough is happening and that is not good, but hopefully as time goes on things begin to settle. As for Italy they took a huge hit. Being stuck in NY though is ass. When looking at the numbers most of the tested people who infected are in NY and its like shit I live here.
I know it’s difficult to ensure widespread testing, but when as a nation you’re able to drop god knows how much on the military I think we can spend some more money ensuring everyone has access to get tested and be healthy and safe, yaknow? Just a thought. If other places are able to ensure testing, we can too, because if we don’t get a move on it there’s gonna be issues eventually.