CDC widens early virus detection surveillance at airports

[harddriver]

Funny I don't see them testing anyone for TB, Cholera, Malaria, Typhus or other communicable diseases crossing the US southern border do you?

https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-widens-early-virus-detection-044208345.html

Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its infectious disease surveillance program to detect more than 30 bacteria, antimicrobial resistance targets and viruses including influenza A and B, and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, and SARS-CoV-2.

The agency will launch the pilot program in four of America's busiest airports: Boston Logan International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

This is an expansion of the agency's Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program. Samples that test positive will be uploaded to public databases that will help educate and inform public health officials and decision makers about the prevalence of infectious respiratory diseases, such as COVID-19 and other ailments.


The surveillance program, led by CDC's Travelers' Health Branch, was introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic to detect new SARS-CoV-2 variants and other pathogens. Health workers test nasal swab and wastewater samples from passengers arriving on international flights at U.S. airports and volunteer to be tested.

 

[Bad Brain]

Yeah, total double, triple, quadruple standards. But at least it's voluntary. For the time being

 

[Dan Gleesak]

Wastewater sampling is pretty nifty

 

[Bad Brain]

Wastewater sampling is pretty nifty

Because it really helped ?

 

[Dan Gleesak]

Because it really helped ?

It certainly helped. It’s probably one of the more reliable ways to track infection rates.
Plus it’s about as non invasive as it can be

 

[Bad Brain]

It certainly helped. It’s probably one of the more reliable ways to track infection rates.
Plus it’s about as non invasive as it can be

Of course! …Is there any topic where you don’t agree with the official narrative? ?

 

[Dan Gleesak]

Of course! …Is there any topic where you don’t agree with the official narrative? ?

Lol what narrative are you talking about? What exactly do you think they tested wastewater for?

 

[Dan Gleesak]

Maleficent effluent

 

[Krull]

 

[Krull]

Lol what narrative are you talking about? What exactly do you think they tested wastewater for?

Ayniton27

 

[Dan Gleesak]

Ayniton27

I’m still wondering what is wrong with testing wastewater. Tons of tests are run on it everyday, what’s wrong with one more?

 

[Bad Brain]

I’m still wondering what is wrong with testing wastewater. Tons of tests are run on it everyday, what’s wrong with one more?

It could potentially be an invasion of privacy, depending on the testing methods and analysis. But tell me what the benefit is, other than to keep you scared?

 

[Dan Gleesak]

It could potentially be an invasion of privacy, depending on the testing methods and analysis. But tell me what the benefit is, other than to keep you scared?

the testing method is that wastewater goes though many many tests before and after it is treated, stored and released back to the watershed. Testing for a virus is just one more thing on the list of things already tested for at waste water facilities. It is not an invasion of privacy. It is a way of tracking infectious diseases of an area. I don't care how evil you think the CDC is, you cannot tell me it's a bad idea to know when diseases enter and leave communities.

in this instance it seems they are testing just the wastewater from one airplane at a time. that also seems like a clever way to track a virus.

 

[Bad Brain]

You don’t know what they’re actually doing, whether they are matching DNA to a personally identifiable database for example. It’s weird, creepy, but definitely fitting. Furthermore, it has not been demonstrated (like the PCR), that positive results don’t correlate with actual sickness and disease. Why not poll the hospitals for a tally of truly sick people? And even if it was an accurate measure of the prevalence of COVID, what good does it do? Get people to mask harder? ???

 

[VonBonfire]

I don't care how evil you think the CDC is, you cannot tell me it's a bad idea to know when diseases enter and leave communities.

In the wrong hands that kind of information can be used to manipulate people. At best it's not like "oh look there is an outbreak of the flu in our community" does anything for people suffering from the flu.

Like I hear people with covid say "I think I have covid. I better get tested". They get tested "yup I got covid". Wow, what a sleuth. It's like someone who needs to check if their wee wee is still attached in the morning when it's already self evident. A nation of simps.

 

[Dan Gleesak]

In the wrong hands that kind of information can be used to manipulate people. At best it's not like "oh look there is an outbreak of the flu in our community" does anything for people suffering from the flu.

Like I hear people with covid say "I think I have covid. I better get tested". They get tested "yup I got covid". Wow, what a sleuth. It's like someone who needs to check if their wee wee is still attached in the morning when it's already self evident. A nation of simps.

Well how can you have accurate numbers if people don’t test, and report? I don’t get how this is a bad thing.
Seems like testing waste water is unbiased, un-invasive and fairly anonymous.

They aren’t testing people’s individual shitters, they are testing the town (or towns) as a whole to get a general idea

 

[Bad Brain]

Well how can you have accurate numbers of people don’t test, and report?

If they don’t test or report, maybe it’s not a big problem, now is it?

I don’t get how this is a bad thing.

It keeps the hysteria alive.

 

[VonBonfire]

Well how can you have accurate numbers if people don’t test, and report? I don’t get how this is a bad thing.

How do accurate numbers stop a disease?

They aren’t testing people’s individual shitters, they are testing the town (or towns) as a whole to get a general idea

Glad I got my own septic! Only person digging through my shit is the pumper truck man trying to get his oakleys back out my sewer, lol.

 

[Bad Brain]

How do accurate numbers stop a disease?

They ain’t accurate

 

[VonBonfire]

They ain’t accurate

Yes but he doesn't see how inaccurate numbers are a bad thing.

LOL