We should be at a place

[GoodTaste]

As I read "...We should be at a place...", my first reaction is that if I wrote it, I would have written "...We should have been at a place..."

What is the difference between "...should be..." and "...should have been..."? It seems to me that "should have been" is more emphatic than "should be". I am not sure.

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The surges in cases happen so quickly — some labs have seen their demand double or triple in a matter of days — that health providers have little time to broker relationships with new testing partners.


“I’m continuously frustrated that this is still a problem,” said Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious diseases at the Association of Public Health Laboratories. “We should be at a place where getting a test isn’t as challenging as it used to be.”

Source: NYTimes June 25, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/upshot/virus-testing-shortfall-arizona.html

 

[probus]

No. The difference is that "we should have been" refers to a time in the past. Therefore it leaves open the possibility the we are now at that place. In contrast, "we should be .. " makes it clear thay we have not yet reached that situation.