I know people have made this point. But I don't it's totally sunk in how much there's a fairly direct 1:1 trade-off between better testing/tracking on the one hand, and the need for radical, society-wide social distancing (with all its consequences) on the other hand.
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You mean as an early warning system? The problem is that you have lots and lots of asymptomatic transmission, so every case you detect is already a small sample of infected population with time lag. Thermometers at every checkpoint are a much cheaper option to do dragnet search.
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This might be super naive but just testing within the communities a known infected person has been in contact with. Move from medical testing to epidemiologic testing moving outward from the symptomatic folk.
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