While ever we rely on the PCR swab test, lock downs will become the norm.
PCR is just too bloody slow and NOT 100% accurate.
In Singapore they are now using a 'breath test' with a confirmatory PCR test when
the breath test gives a positive result.
PCR around $200.00 and 8+ hours for results.
Specially trained staff required to ensure correct sample taken.
Breath test around $20.00 1-2 MINUTES for a result.
No specialised staff required.
Comparative accuracy PCR 95-98% and breath test 94-95% accurate.
There is no toss up.
It's about time the pathology labs got off the gravy train.
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Cosmologically speaking we are all little more than a bacterial film on a soft rock hurtling through an unimaginable void.
Don't take it all too seriously.
