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School itself is a bubble. Some are doing it correctly by btd

Pro baseball is wide open. Players live at home -- so infected at home just like 68% in NYC were infected in home per Cuomo. They travel to/from home and work, go around town, etc. Thus -- they are going to be infected at the same rate as the population as a whole. Frequent testing can trap the infected at a high rate -- but it doesn't stop new infections because the source is not between players it is between players and their families.

Contrast that to college -- and more specifically college football.

1) Force players to live on campus in a controlled environment. Don't agree? Fine, you are suspended from the team and scholarship suspended too -- since the sole reason you have it is to be part of the team and obey team rules.

2) Do not allow players to leave the 4 corners of campus. period. Never. Games are the one and only time they exit the 4 corners of campus -- and in a very controlled exit and re-entry.

3) Students should be largely the same. At ND that is even easier because 95% or more live on campus.

4) Test 100% of the student body weekly.

5) Test 100% of the football team daily

6) Isolate infected on campus in COVID only dorms. FSU is doing that -- 3 dorms dedicated to quarantine.

7) All employees on campus should use hospital level PPE. N95 masks for all employees of any kind. Not regular masks -- those are outbound only. N95 to block inbound.

IMO schools are the key to stopping the spread. Get everyone going TO school where you can test them all systematically weekly, isolate them (unlike sending them home to quarantine), and control who is allowed on campus.

Regular schools should be open for the exact same reasons. Only difference there is quarantine can't use dorms -- but I firmly believe hotels should be used for quarantine nationwide and it is optional to send your kid there -- but over 50% would if it was free rooms and run like a boarding school in terms of who interacts with the kids.

To stop this you have to proactively trap the asymptomatic people and isolate them. Schools are the perfect funnel to do it. College sports even more -- because in exchange for the scholarship you have to accept the rule and constraints they can wrap around them.

EDIT: in person work would also solve it. Staying at home to work is perpetuating the spread. Test weekly at every single place of business nationwide. No exceptions. Every building has a natural funnel into it - the main lobby and most have secure access via security cards. Pass the test, get security turned on. Fail, security turned off -- can't enter even if fail to isolate.

Use the natural way of life as a funnel to test all people ages 4-65 weekly, trap asymptomatic spread, end the entire virus within 8 weeks.

We are doing the polar opposite of what we should be doing -- schools closed, not weekly testing, workplaces closed.

EDIT2: The abbott labs test also has to be massively scaled up. Why? Because it doesn't require a lab to process the test. You literally can run the tests in the lobby of office buildings, dorms, etc. You also don't need medical professionals to administer the test -- just people trained on how to use the device.

How? DPA used to grant a license partnership agreement to 20-30 top 50 pharma to use their existing manufacturing facilities to make the Abbott test in addition to Abbott. Abbott turns a profit from the license, the others also make a profit via the license, pharma has the certified manufacturing facilities already in place and pharma also already has the post marketing safety surveillance required by FDA regulations.

We could scale up within 8 weeks to 50 million or more tests manufactured weekly. Enough that we can transform to testing every single school age person and working age person weekly. Labs can still be used to add capacity -- but the Abbott test is key to scale because it can be run sans using a lab to process results.