Originally Posted by
LETTERBOY
I don't think they're necessarily connected. The focus has been on hospitalizations and deaths (rather than cases) for quite a while now.
What I'd love to see is for someone in Congress (probably the Senate, given how easy it is for one Senator to muck things up) to say, "You want the money, then drop this stupid testing rule." Probably won't happen, but I can dream, right?
I agree they're not logically connected - and the focus should be off of simple case count now. But I'm thinking, if the Administration is putting out "gloom and doom" type of messaging to lobby for funding to "fight COVID" so to speak, from an optics perspective they might be hesitant to drop the testing requirement for fear of looking inconsistent. Maybe I'm just pessimistic! lol
I hope that dream comes true though!!