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Message: [QUOTE="brasssbonanzaa, post: 3532488, member: 794"] Most of us being behind the curve was when there was little attention paid to testing by the private community. Now that private businesses see the need for it, and the government largely dropping the ball on it, they're developing and launching it on their own. I wouldn't be surprised to see universities leveraging their scientific departments to develop and implement testing operations for their own schools. If decisions are made to keep public schools closed past September, it would not shock me to see teachers and parents if schoolchildren as the protesters outside the state capitols. And they're going to have a hell of a lot stronger argument than the nitwits currently out there. At some point (we're not there yet), society will have to put its foot back in the pool. We must do so with evidence-backed plans, testing, and reasonable distancing/hygiene protocols. But the current state is not sustainable through when a large-scale treatment or vaccine enters mass production. Restaurants, bars, gyms, etc. permanently closing due to these orders is a horrible development for those who work there - the economic consequences have been and will be enormous. That pales in comparison to the toll extending the current restrictions into the fall would have on our food supply, the educational system, the healthcare system (non-emergency hospitals and places of care closing), advancement of non-Covid medical research, etc. Example: my wife works in cancer research trial administration. Virtually no new patients are signing up for research trials. This means cancer research will eventually be paused when the already-admitted patients complete their trials. That's not a price worth paying. [/QUOTE]

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