On: Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case

[jedberg]

Because n95 masks don’t really help unless you use them perfectly and most people wouldn’t even wear it anyway.

What the government should be doing is drastically increase testing. Test anyone whose been to any country with a current case. And anyone they’ve been in contact with. And anyone whose been in an international airport in the last two weeks.

And then pay for all those tests.

[Johnny555 → jedberg]

There's already community spread, it's too late to test only people who visited infected countries.

Testing everyone, including asymptomatic people is not feasible, there aren't nearly enough testing supplies (right now, California has 200 test kits for the entire state). And even if they had the supplies, finding the staff to do the tests is nearly impossible.

[jedberg → Johnny555]

Testing all those folks is a good place to start.

And a competent government would already have the staff in place or on reserve.

[joering2 → jedberg]

How can testing help when people don't have symptoms for 5 days during this time they can pass it on to many other people. Unless you want somehow to test all 300 mil people overnight?

Masks will really help because this virus mostly is spread thru touch of soiled surface. And people tend to touch everything and then touch their face, nose, lips etc. Mask will limit that.

[jedberg → joering2]

Like I said you test all the people most likely to have come in contact.

And that’s exactly why masks don’t work. People touch the outside of the mask to remove it and then their eyes or nose or they eat.

People don’t understand you have to wash your hands after removing the mask.

[joering2 → jedberg]

I hear you. Too bad a mask cannot possible come with a manual. /s

[jedberg → joering2]

How many people read manuals? Especially for something simple like a mask? They assume they know how to use it properly.