Is the implication that we're now against data?
first off Elon continues to say things that are in the interest of Elon not in the interest of the public.
Elon is on twitter record supporting a coup for lithium. So just understand that he has a history of bias in self-interest.
outside of this the major problem as above is that there is zero reason your test should cost this much. I would like to see the breakdown because the test themselves don't typically cost the price that is shown.
Even wholesale to a clinic testing is cheaper than that. I'm guessing that that cost includes a physician interpreting the result and giving guidance the patient or what to do next.
The issue is that there is zero reason you should be giving me any money for your test. It is positive or negative and a pamphlet provides the first aid guidance needed to decide if you should go to the emergency department if you're one of the severe cases.
Elon musk might be raising the point that if you're a testing company more testing means more money. But he also implies that somehow testing is a money grab only. When in fact testing is the only way you get rid of all the other stuff and as a public good testing is how you get America back to work without America paying for a lot of hospital care and dead citizens.
Testing is a great investment and it seems strange that anybody would be against figuring out if a person presenting with covid-19 symptoms is covid-19 or not.
