[aledalgrande]

Sure, but if a non professional takes a bad swab on average it wouldn't be safe to talk about deploying these to workplaces and send people back to work like Trump wants to do. Even less if you think about these people testing positive after an hour of commute on public transport.

[chadmeister]

So we allocate 0.0001% of that 2 trillion stimulus package that just passed to educate and train people on it. Worst WORST case is nothing comparable to the worst case we could face otherwise. This is an insignificant problem.

[aledalgrande]

It it still a worse case than people staying home and going to get tested properly at the doctor with this machine.

[chadmeister]

Look, you couldn't make a more wrong assertion. You would destroy countless more lives by keeping this quarantine going on indefinitely. Our economy would implode and we'd wind up in a situation far worse than what we saw during the great depression. We'd go into full stagflation and I guarantee the suicides alone would dwarf the possible death count from mass testing ppl with this device.

[aledalgrande]

I am the first who wants everything to go back to normal. But have to be realistic with what is going to happen: saying that machines installed at workplaces is enough to end the pandemic is just an illusion.

As the comment made by the other user here says, it will create more waves. Now, that the damage to the economy is greater than the cost of healthcare and lives of a pandemic, that's an opinion you're not backing with data.

Also, I might be biased because I have people in my circle who are at risk, but I think a real solution is more structured than this. Machines + mandatory gloves and masks would be certainly better.

[briandear]

So close public transport. Touch of the US doesn’t use public transportation.

[aledalgrande]

That is just a single example. You go out with your car, you get a coffee in a crowded Starbucks, go to work and test positive. Now what? There's a new cluster.

[minitoar]

Even if people are out being infectious for a full day before they test positive it’s a massive improvement.