I've recently found out the federal and state governments are still using members of the national guards to conduct covid tests in some parts of the country. I have a variety of problems with this.
First I think it a misuse of finite resources. Don't get me wrong, dealing with the pandemic is important and may just be the defining issue of our generation. Still it puts an undue strain on guardsman who are people with families and other full time jobs they need to take care of, and who might not have the exact skills necessary to carry out such a mission. Even they have their limits and so do the company's they work for, with over-burdensome deployments perhaps pushing some employers to let these valuable but unavailable workers go, causing even greater economic dislocation and troubles for all.
Additionally the finances of the various guards have been put under strain over the last couple of years having to deal with various natural and security emergencies. Overworking the system may leave it unable to cope with future and even more pressing difficulties should they arise. I think there are more effective and fairer ways to deal with our nation's health emergency.
First why don't we have the drug companies makings billions of dollars from selling their vaccines cover the cost of administering and doing the lab work associated with them. They are flush with cash and would have a better idea how to carry out these tasks anyway since they created them. Likely this would lead to fewer false positives and negatives, which I understand may be a problem.
If lack of personnel to carry out this work persists I think we should look to the scientific community itself to shoulder more of the burden. I'm not talking about the hard working medical and nursing home staff who have acted courageously through this whole ordeal but about research scientists and other corporate and academic technicians to step up and do their fair share. Many receive federal grants to conduct their regular work and as such should be at the state's disposal to assist in scientific emergencies. The same way we have a selective service ready to call up men for military duties in times of severe crisis I think we should have a parallel obligation imposed on the nation's scientists.
All people at work in scientific fields should be compelled to register for such national service and when called upon to fulfill it, administering and carrying out covid tests, be pulled away from their current roles to lend a hand to the nation. They're better suited to the work, more competent and could save state government's millions of dollars that would otherwise go to private laboratory interests.
All this would cut down on medical profiteering and pave the way for a fairer society.
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