| 100,000 tests a day 19:22 - Apr 22 with 2468 views | tonybied |
Anyone else as cynical as me and think one of the reasons we have the capability of doing 40,000 tests a day but only using 20,000 is to build some stock of the test kits. Then the government can claim we have the ability to do 100,000 tests in a day.
I admit, I don't really know much about how testing works. Does it work this way or is the reason we can't currently hit that level of testing that we can't process that many tests in a day yet?
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| 100,000 tests a day on 09:44 - Apr 23 with 519 views | Pinewoodblue |
The target should have been to be capable of testing all those who need to be tested. Having the ability to carry out 100,000 tests on any one day ought to be sufficient to achieve that, but it should only have been a secondary target.
Who needs to be tested. Suppose it is anyone who provides an essential service who is unable to work as they, or a member of their household, are showing symptoms and as a result are isolating.
Plus anyone who lives, or works, in a care home where COVID-19 has been identified.
I suspect we are a long way from doing that. |  |
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| 100,000 tests a day on 09:50 - Apr 23 with 515 views | eireblue |
| 100,000 tests a day on 07:50 - Apr 23 by Churchman |
It was a stupid, pointless thing to propose. Yes, on 30 April he should resign or be sacked, but not just for the UKs pathetic, confused approach on testing. It’s about time Johnson was properly replaced too. I know he can’t help being unwell, but the country needs a government with some leadership. |
The advantage of setting a target for someone else, if it is the someone else that fails, poor Matt’cock can only be charged with wanting to be too ambitious on behalf of the Country. Surely wanting the best and pushing industry is a good thing. |  | | |
| 100,000 tests a day on 12:11 - Apr 23 with 490 views | Churchman |
| 100,000 tests a day on 09:50 - Apr 23 by eireblue |
The advantage of setting a target for someone else, if it is the someone else that fails, poor Matt’cock can only be charged with wanting to be too ambitious on behalf of the Country. Surely wanting the best and pushing industry is a good thing. |
Oh, most of my career was target orientated so I know you are right. You never know with a week to go, it might be achieved. However, I still think he was inviting trouble by setting a number like that which would be a struggle to achieve and of which he had limited control over. If he’d have used language like aim to double by x, triple by y etc the journalists would have found it harder to beat him with a number. He could always have set the target to those doing the work behind the scenes - as happens in government all the time. |  | | |
| 100,000 tests a day on 13:11 - Apr 23 with 483 views | ElephantintheRoom |
It's a meaningless figure plucked from the air. It matters not one jot when the liars smugly say we have the capaicity to do 100,000 tests - or have even done them, based on dodgyand deliberately misleading measurement parameters.
Most patients are tested three times... if an individual is tested once they could have the virus by the time they get the results... it is only of value if diagnosing the disease... which we seem to be on top of in hospitals whilst deliberately killing thousands in the community - and as part of a serious attempt to control the virus - which we never bothered with in this country.
100,000 tests now when it is three months too late is utterly pointless - but OK for a bunch of incompetents obsessed with targets. |  |
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| 100,000 tests a day on 13:34 - Apr 23 with 469 views | Pinewoodblue |
| 100,000 tests a day on 13:11 - Apr 23 by ElephantintheRoom |
It's a meaningless figure plucked from the air. It matters not one jot when the liars smugly say we have the capaicity to do 100,000 tests - or have even done them, based on dodgyand deliberately misleading measurement parameters.
Most patients are tested three times... if an individual is tested once they could have the virus by the time they get the results... it is only of value if diagnosing the disease... which we seem to be on top of in hospitals whilst deliberately killing thousands in the community - and as part of a serious attempt to control the virus - which we never bothered with in this country.
100,000 tests now when it is three months too late is utterly pointless - but OK for a bunch of incompetents obsessed with targets. |
Give it a rest. | |
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| 100,000 tests a day on 17:04 - Apr 23 with 443 views | Churchman |
| 100,000 tests a day on 13:11 - Apr 23 by ElephantintheRoom |
It's a meaningless figure plucked from the air. It matters not one jot when the liars smugly say we have the capaicity to do 100,000 tests - or have even done them, based on dodgyand deliberately misleading measurement parameters.
Most patients are tested three times... if an individual is tested once they could have the virus by the time they get the results... it is only of value if diagnosing the disease... which we seem to be on top of in hospitals whilst deliberately killing thousands in the community - and as part of a serious attempt to control the virus - which we never bothered with in this country.
100,000 tests now when it is three months too late is utterly pointless - but OK for a bunch of incompetents obsessed with targets. |
‘Deliberately killing thousands in the community’: you keep saying saying this. I’d be interested in the evidence you have for saying this. | | | |
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