Operation Moonshot

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Boris Johnson wants to commit £100bn (the equivalent of the entire education budget) on expanding testing to 10 million a day.

Thoughts? Seems wildly fanciful at this point...another world-beating aspiration.

www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3520?cf_chl_jschl_tk=a217dc8d2f45308fb3276b08b4dcea2f2de79525-1599687188-0-AXarygTkxwZqUjPE9LNZjNizqVJHw337etEhU-FFiu1d7hln69_jyzyCF0trnAbuElpVoLnGaleZ1BGllEziQ5oRzK5Cq-Ub3q49Ds2zAbLilhekZG2D4bz-oDT86myBZnSA-n7mEihTGcjQA28bbQ2nrkJFa2zru9KFMMdeEz37Sn0f6Fs1YDjTiTTDXCkCwZYK11HsXrNokc5uaHV7g7BE5MjOG5mFRxgkv-LveSGiNx-eqVTLKgyiQtRfIRJ9dIcoZwXeSr8yzVa6lJLYn9ZYXJRNI_oAGgSseApBpm8i

Under the plan the government will roll out testing in workplaces, entertainment venues, and football stadiums and at GP surgeries, pharmacies, schools, and other local sites to improve access. It will also roll out digital immunity passports to allow people who test negative to return to workplaces, travel, and participate in other activities.

The memo says that implementing mass testing is a “top priority” for Boris Johnson: “This is described by the prime minister as our only hope for avoiding a second national lockdown before a vaccine, something the country cannot afford,” it says.

Sounds like a brilliant idea if it's actually possible in practice. Test and trace falls at the first hurdle because people don't want to take two weeks off work when they don't feel ill.

Well if Boris Johnson says it it must be true then.

I wouldn't even think about it being a possibility at this stage. They can't get the track and trace that they've been on about since March right so the chances of this ever coming to fruition is nil. It's just another of his blue sky thinking flights of fancy, like the bridge between Ireland and Scotland and the laptop for every pupil who needed one. He's a shyster and wouldn't have been out of place in Oz.