10-01-2020, 06:08 PM
I do not see that our state, let alone our county, is ready for the visitor testing that will be needed in 2 weeks!!!!
The only way we could make test results available in a timely manner, is if state officials & state workers were required to personally collect the data at the airport, from thousands of incoming passengers every day. Then they’d discover a new-found motivation for faster, more efficient methods of analyzing, compiling, and releasing COVID test results in hours, instead of days.
But they prefer “essential workers” handle the in-person data collection in a timely, efficient manner, then hand it off to isolated air conditioned state office buildings for leisurely review and assessment of a life and death, or at least seriously incapacitating, contagion.
I lived in American Samoa for a winter back in the eighties. All the TV programs at that time were recorded on tape in Honolulu, then flown down on passenger flights. Thursday’s lineup was the previous Thursday’s programming, including the nightly news. For what it was worth we watched news that was 7 days old. The state of Hawaii uses the same concept for their COVID testing system.
The only way we could make test results available in a timely manner, is if state officials & state workers were required to personally collect the data at the airport, from thousands of incoming passengers every day. Then they’d discover a new-found motivation for faster, more efficient methods of analyzing, compiling, and releasing COVID test results in hours, instead of days.
But they prefer “essential workers” handle the in-person data collection in a timely, efficient manner, then hand it off to isolated air conditioned state office buildings for leisurely review and assessment of a life and death, or at least seriously incapacitating, contagion.
I lived in American Samoa for a winter back in the eighties. All the TV programs at that time were recorded on tape in Honolulu, then flown down on passenger flights. Thursday’s lineup was the previous Thursday’s programming, including the nightly news. For what it was worth we watched news that was 7 days old. The state of Hawaii uses the same concept for their COVID testing system.