The real problem is that there's no (proven) effective way to detect asymptomatic cases w/o PCR tests and mass PCR testing is only possible in v limited circumstances. So you have to fall back on the most effective strategies available, which seems to be what TCD is aiming for
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Mass PCR testing is achievable, and I think that the government has the capability to do it or at least be giving money to universities to do it. My home province has managed to roll it out, and they are going through a recession like everyone else.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NiallOSuill
On top of that the health care system there seems to be imploding, and they have managed to do it. They started with offering tests to those who wanted it, and then they gave pharmacies the ability to test asymptomatic people.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Surely the issue w/ mass PCR testing is lab capacity and turnaround? I think, ATM, Ireland has a lab capacity of 15-20k/day with 1-2 turnaround: even a weekly test just in the HE sector would take up the entirety of that capacity
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Yeah, that is a problem. I don’t have a solution for that other than the government needs to sort out the HSE. But I think this was something they should have been working towards.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I mean, in fairness it's been hugely expanded from a very low base, but at some point you hit barriers to expansion that can't be quickly overcome (e.g. lack of properly trained lab techs).
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Again, something that needs to have been done from the start. I don’t know exactly what the solutions are here only that none inspire confidence. Watching universities reopen in the States and now the UK...seems bad.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I mean, yeah, that's the real crux. The strategy should have been as little f2f as possible, instead of as much f2f as possible, from day 1. Once that decision was made, all the rest of these discussions are just mitigation...
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
That’s the thing. Pushing for F2F stuff and the focus on hygiene theatre like making it academic staff responsibility to sanitize surfaces when we should have just been preparing for online, which will inevitably be the situation anyway, is ridiculous.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NiallOSuill
And the SU president is out here saying he’s pushing for as much F2F teaching as possible to avoid what happened at the other institutions and I’m like, stop putting this on us.
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It’s college’s fault for committing to that and making people move. But the solution isn’t to make F2F happen no matter what.
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