'Moonshot' hype illustrates the UK government's obsession with tech hyperbole
I reckon the one thing &quot;Project Moonshot&quot; actually demonstrates is how much media coverage of Covid-19 is partisan horseshit. It&#x27;s basically identical to what the New York Times and other American media publications have been claiming the US desperately needed for months, and they portrayed it as a neat, easy solution that the US would have had months ago if not for Trump&#x27;s incompentence. Yet when the UK government and Boris Johnson - who is seen as our equivalent of Trump - attempts something similar, suddenly there&#x27;s a wave of news articles in the UK context about how it&#x27;s impossible, the tech doesn&#x27;t even exist, it would have far too many false positives, and so on. Pretty much the exact same plan is being spun in the UK as a delusional distraction by right-wing populists that pushes a quick fix where none exists, and in the US as a easy fix that would&#x27;ve happened if not for the incompetent right-wing populists refusing to do it as part of an evil cover-up. (Needless to say, pretty much all the problems with false positives, inadequate technology, the diffculty of scaling up, etc would have been much bigger problems in the US a few months ago given the much larger population and the improvements in Covid-19 testing technology since then.)