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Originally Posted by mr. tegu

People that keep taking about how great other places are doing with testing are being fooled into how much it matters. Testing makes no difference in the transfer of the virus unless people actually follow through and stay home or are forced to do so. I am happy if people that need to go the hospital get tested and the more available for them the better, but acting like it’s a government failure or scandal to not run around testing everyone or having testing stations for the purposes of distorting the numbers is just hysteria.

Think about the numbers posted for South Korea. They have tested almost 200,000 people which sounds like a lot, but that is only 0.4% of the population. Think about how small that number is. In a group of 10,000 people, 40 would be tested. Do those tests give you any confidence to stand in that group? Does anyone really think that minuscule number is a major reason why they are having success? It’s a small contributor at best as I’m sure there are clusters where a larger percentage are tested and more information is nice about who is getting it and in what ways, but still unless they don’t have the chance of passing it on it doesn’t really matter they got tested.

Cancelling schools, events, and other large gatherings is really the most effective option which we are seeing done all over the place now. Whether you think it’s an appropriate response or not is another question.

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I think it has the potential to be dangerous over reaction. That's what I've been talking about...