I'd like to hear input from our medical professionals on this, but how much is testing capacity related to $$$? I wonder if money would have been better spent instead of giving $1200 checks and unemployment that pays more than people's jobs, had it been put into vastly increasing and speeding up testing? Or even if we put a bajillion dollars into it, would there still be other significant bottlenecks?
The way some new information is looking regarding how many untested people may have had the virus, including with symptoms too mild to notice, the infection vs mortality rate might have let us reopen things a month ago.
For myself, on days in the last couple of months that I've had a little cough or a runny nose, I was wondering if it was just pollen or hey, [paranoid] did I catch the virus? Had there been a quick and easy way for me to get a test (both for the virus and for antibodies), I would have already had myself tested just for the heck of it. With all the restrictions on who can be tested, due to the lack of testing materials and personnel, there was no easy way for me to do that.