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I'm sorry, but you are stupid. You are saying that the state intentionally test more people to reduce positivity rate! That's plain stupid. Back in the days where we were testing 5K people, the number of positives may be less, but that wasn't because there was less people infected, how can that be with 30% positivity rate. It was simply because the state was missing a lot of asymptomatic or less symptomatic people. Now with more than 20K tests per day, you are logging more positives. I'm sure if we could do 2 million tests per day, we would be seeing many thousands of positives. But that would not mean, we are deteriorating.[/quote]

Yes, the state is intentionally testing more people.  Of course the hope is that doing so will lower the positivity rate.  That would mean cases are low and we are doing what we need to be doing.

In Italy right now, because spread of COVID is so low, they absolutely can do 2 million tests per day but find very very few positives.   That's where we need to be.

This pandemic won't be over until we get our cases under control.  We need them to be low enough that any outbreak can be addressed very quickly through contact tracing and quarantine.  Over and over countries and states are learning this.  Either they learn it the easy way (through watching what happens in other countries) or the hard way.  Unfortunately here in the US we have to do everything the hard way.

I don't WANT there to be lots of cases.    I want my kids to go back to school and college!  I want to go back to church and the gym and theaters and have dinner parties.

I just know by looking at our statistics that there ARE lots of cases, and we are not trending in the right direction.[/quote]

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