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"Health officials in NY, California and other hard-hit areas are restricting testing to health workers and people who are hospitalized, saying the battle to contain the virus is lost and the country is moving into a new phase of the pandemic response."
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"As cases spike sharply, they're hunkering down for an onslaught, directing scarce resources where they are needed most to save people’s lives. Instead of encouraging broad testing of the public, they’re focused on conserving masks, ventilators, ICU beds."
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"People with a manageable fever and cough who aren’t at high risk should assume they have it and not seek testing.
Doing so exposes health workers administering tests and uses up protective gear."
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"The assumption is anyone with fever, cough, respiratory symptom, flu-like illness, the assumption is they have this,” he said, based on the prevalence of community transmission in NY. “It’s very likely you have it. There’s no benefit for you to test.”
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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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Hi, Mr. President -- thanks for tweeting that interview. Gen. Semonite and the Army Corps are indeed doing great work, but at nowhere near the scale that is needed.

We're hundreds of thousands of hospital beds behind, months behind schedule, and...
...we're about to see the number of sick patients surge and hospitals overflow in multiple US sites at once.

This is not an NYC problem or even just a city problem. The apex patient surges will not happen tidily, one after the other, they'll flare up all over, overlapping.
(By the way, did anyone show you the rest of the show from last night?)

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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Ahem.

"According to two people with knowledge of the matter, Parscale Strategy has also been used to make payments out of public view to Lara Trump, the wife of the president’s son Eric, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr."

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Tell me again about how concerned the GOP is about politicians' kids monetizing their parent's name:

"Ms. Guilfoyle confronted Parscale: Why were her checks always late? Contrite, Parscale promised the problem would be sorted out promptly, by his wife."

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"“I’m making so much money!” Parscale declared, inserting an expletive.

Parscale called the account “untrue and ridiculous,” but since becoming campaign manager, he has bought a $2.4m canalside home in Florida; two condos worth $2m; and a Ferrari."

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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“Cuccinelli said there is inadequate capacity at health care facilities to bring large numbers of passengers ashore for quarantine, leading lawmakers to question if authorities would again seek to quarantine COVID-19 cases on board a ship held offshore.” washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/03…
“Cuccinelli insisted authorities’ actions in this case will be far more effective than the response given to the ‘viral disaster’ which was the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan.”

(Reminder: This is Ken Cuccinelli we’re talking about here).
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Eric Feigl-Ding
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“BATTLE TO CONTAIN VIRUS IS LOST” - “Health officials in NY, CA and other hard-hit states are restricting #COVID19 testing to health care workers and people who are hospitalized, saying the battle to contain the virus is lost...” (cont’d) #nopaywall washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03…
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“Trump has boasted that millions of test kits are being delivered to labs across the country, but the kits ARE RENDERED USELESS without the reagents that are needed to prepare samples for testing...states like Ohio have already run out of reagents”
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Detritivore Biome
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@alanpage It's very telling that manual testing is seen as cheap.

IME this perception exists because (as I have repeatedly seen at clients) the absolute most junior people are hired as testers in order to keep costs down. Because they’re so junior they don’t contribute very much. 1/2
@alanpage 2/3 They stay junior because they have no mentorship (because mentorship is expensive).

The “5x to 15x” cost of automation proposed by the OP fits with this model: median developer pay is around $150k US. A team of five devs then costs ~$750k annually (considering TC only here)
@alanpage 3/4 Glassdoor lists “QA Analyst” roles as starting at $18k US. I’m in NYC so this is lower than I’ve ever seen. Let’s assume QA roles start around $25k, which is just enough to rent a room and live paycheck to paycheck in NYC.

The cheapest QA analyst costs 17% of a dev salary.
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Interaction Resiliency (iXR) is the practice of Software QA (aka #testing) as applied to "devops" or more properly Safety-II software delivery (aka continuous delivery & continuous deployment).
I put a name to "testing in devops" or "agile testing in continuous delivery" because a) those phrases are clumsy 😀 and b) the current discourse in #testing constantly collapses back on itself as big-A Agile + CDT are conflated time-and-time-again with Safety-II + Kaizen #iXR
#iXRE Interaction Resiliency Engineering
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Steve Herman
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