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Originally Posted by Marcellus
That's not even the point. Its not time effective nor useful to test people who have simple been "possibly exposed" and exhibit no symptom.
We have probably dealt with close to 100 close contact scenarios and the health departments did not test a single person unless they became symptomatic. This is across Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma from a state perspective and 5 or 6 county health departments.
By the time you wait long enough to definitely determine the test would be accurate the quarantine time will have expired and if you have been asymptomatic you don't need a test. At that point you may as well do an antibody test.
People went from bitching about a back log of testing to bitching about this stuff.
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Oh I agree. The goal posts are moving fast enough to be confused with a game of musical chairs.
The fact is people need to start getting a grip that "cases" does not mean what we thought it meant 6 months ago. Particularly in my area. Cases are in "the red zone" yet fortunately for most and not so fortunate for the elderly is the death count has literally not changed in months in the age groups 69 and under.
So if I see the largest age group to get the virus in my area is 20-29 yet only one person in that group has died in 6 months there are multiple reasons why people won't and maybe even shouldn't waste their time getting tested.
The media and some others still want to equate cases to a death sentence. When that gets challenged then it goes to anecdotal evidence of possible residual effects. And round and around it goes, deaths-cases-residual effects-deaths-cases-residual effects.