[tammer]

I work for a big institution that includes a massively funded hospital network. I don’t actually work for the medical part of the institution. I am technically deemed an essential worker because we have servers on-site.

Recently I had some minor symptoms and wanted to get a test. By going through my employer’s employee testing process I

  A) got a test scheduled for the same day I called
  B) got my negative result under 12 hours later

This was a transformative moment for me in recognizing that there is an intentional, and centralized project to stress testing capacity in the United States. There is no shortage of materials or staff, just funding for lab capacity. This is an incredibly solvable problem that our leaders are choosing not to solve.

I truly believe the future historical narrative of this moment will cast our elected leaders as the orchestrators of mass genocide. It’s hard to consider living, breathing, contemporary people who hold esteemed positions to be on the level of evil as historical Nazis. But as time passes and we consider the impact their choices are having, it will both become easier to cast them in such a light, and to question the passivity of a population that accepts their decisions. It has never been more clear to me how such atrocities can happen and at the same time become normalized.

[asdf333]

so you are saying that test results are intentionally being delayed?

i am not a fan of this administration and feel there is plenty of blame to go around but i would love for more insight on why you think there is some intentional malice happening...

[xenospn]

Virus stats make the people at the top look bad. More testing - more accurate stats. More accurate stats - more outraged people. So they delay.

[mensetmanusman]

Competence fluctuates around the country