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Test Everyone
« on: September 11, 2020, 01:39:30 PM »
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https://www.the-sun.com/news/1447939/moonshot-covid-test-one-week/

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MASS TEST BID ‘Operation Moonshot’: £100BILLION plan could see entire UK population tested for coronavirus in just a week
Kate Ferguson
Sep 9 2020, 17:10 ETUpdated: Sep 10 2020, 10:27 ET

TEN million daily Covid tests will be dished out to get Brits back to the footie, theatre and their mate’s house under new Government plans costing £100billion.

The entire population of the UK could be tested in a week under Downing Street’s ambitious Operation Moonshot programme.

Boris Johnson vowed to roll out new tests which can deliver results in just 15 minutes.

He said a negative result would give Brits a “freedom pass” — allowing people to mingle like they did before Covid.

But this morning Transport Secretary Grant Shapps admitted that the new tech wasn't ready yet.

He told Sky News this morning: "This is technology that, to be perfectly blunt, requires further development - there isn't a certified test in the world that does this but there are people that are working on prototypes."

He added: "We know this isn't simple to achieve, but we hope it will be possible through technology and new tests to have a test which works by not having to return the sample to a lab."

Britain will bring its testing capacity up from 300,000 a day to 500,000 by the end of October.

And after that ministers want to roll out mass testing to everyone as soon as it's possible.

It was also revealed yesterday:

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Re: Test Everyone
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2020, 05:45:28 PM »
What a load of crap. Are the people in the UK that dumb? If you test negative, it just means you don't have it TODAY. What about next week? Oh, you tested negative so now you can go anywhere and do anything because you tested negative so.... yoou..... caaaaan't ....... uuuuuuuuuh......... caaaaatch.........it.......... or............Oh Shit!!! Uhhhh..... Nevermind.

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Re: Test Everyone
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2020, 07:54:07 PM »
Still waiting for clarification on what the testing regime is going to be in this proposal.

If the testing includes Antibody tests. Then this would be a very good way to keep thins open.

As it is a proposal at the moment. There is no guarantee it will be enacted.

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