We need a better mechanism for letting people who stake their reputations on ideas which turn out to be clearly wrong to back down from them. https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1326068827197681664

The UK is currently running about 265,000 tests per day and apparently has testing capacity for 2x that. Slovakia-style testing (two thirds of the population tested in two days) requires a ~40x expansion in capacity. I'm fairly confident the vaccine will be around before that.

The countries seemingly running the mosts tests per capita on a daily basis are the UAE and Luxembourg, which are at about 4x the UK level. So all we need is to be enormously wealthy small country with a better existing healthcare capacity, then run 10x more tests than that.

I'm very much a 'spend an unlimited amount of money on this' sort of guy, so I'm not averse to moonshot ideas as such - I just wish it didn't come *at the expense* of following best practice in the countries which actually manage to control the spread, which it seemingly does.