We also need testing to know when people are actually healthy, and not healthy-looking.
False. People in AZ are waiting in their cars for hours to get tested.
Also YMMV. I did not have to wait at all for my test. I made an appointment at sonoraquest labs (which I believe is part of lab corps) and I was the only person there at my slot other than the staff.
I did have to “wait” in the sense that I scheduled my appointment for the next day after calling them.
If the answer is no to any of those questions then there's not enough testing to help prevent the spread of disease. Seeing there's no meaningful herd immunity to the virus and no vaccine available if there's no controls on infections the hospitalization rate of the virus will overwhelm hospitals.
The reason for shutdown orders is to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. COVID-19 is really infectious and has a high hospitalization rate. These two factors combined can very quickly cause ICU resources to hit capacity. Once that happens people die at even higher rates than otherwise. A lot of people in Italy died because ICU resources hit capacity.
You can test a million people today but unless all of those people are quarantined from the rest of the population you'll need to test them again tomorrow as they may have become infected in the meantime. Even if COVID-19's mortality and hospitalization rate was low it's still a serious illness and mass infections would still shut businesses down. A majority of causes people are down for weeks with the disease. They're not going to be able to work so if you have a cluster at a meat packing plant it'll still be effectively shut down.
I have one of these and have sanity checked it against another mouth thermometer I have from CVS and the readings agree with one another.
(There have been reports of Chinese-made thermometers lying about their readings)
Looks like there are also a bunch on amazon that will arrive to me anywhere between two days from now and a week from now.