owl sees all Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 (edited) 11 minutes ago, stats said: The topic here is about a voluntary CDC testing program for international arrivals at select U.S. airports. Yes! Let's return to testing at airports. I put a big question mark as to the worth of it all. We seem to have a world 'data base' now of illnesses caused by 'pathogens' and 'viruses'. Edited November 9, 2023 by stats unsourced and unsubstantiated claims removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 (edited) Voluntary testing of passengers and testing the plane septic tanks for bugs seems pretty reasonable to me, for the purpose of identifying the trajectory of a pathogen. Which one, how fast it's spreading, where it's coming from, how it's mutating, etc. If it's a US airport, I'd suggest they sweeten the deal by offering the volunteers a voucher for a free bottle of drinking water on the departure side of security of their next flight. It'll cost them $0.15 and save the passenger around 5 bucks. I'd generally let them violate my nose to save $5 on my next departure. I'm cheap like that. I'm a lot leerier of recent moves to test neighborhood sewage for drugs, on the basis that they'll eventually develop the technology to install testing at each home and see what we've been eating, drinking, smoking, etc. That's scary. Test for bugs, no problem. Test for drugs, big issue (though I don't use any illegals ones) But that's not the topic here... Edited November 9, 2023 by impulse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 3 hours ago, owl sees all said: Yes! Let's return to testing at airports. I put a big question mark as to the worth of it all. We seem to have a world 'data base' now of illnesses caused by 'pathogens' and 'viruses'. We seem to have a world 'data base' now of illnesses caused by 'pathogens' and 'viruses'. You didn't know about it? https://gisaid.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl sees all Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said: We seem to have a world 'data base' now of illnesses caused by 'pathogens' and 'viruses'. You didn't know about it? https://gisaid.org/ The point is Brian; these pathogenic entities only exist in a computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 1 minute ago, owl sees all said: The point is Brian; these pathogenic entities only exist in a computer. Nah. The database is on the computer. Specimens are physical. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stats Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 More off-topic, unsourced and unsubstantiated posts have been removed for contravening the forum's Community Standards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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