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I'm not saying don't test. I'm asking what we do with those that test positive?. And if you test everyone, it has to become a round robin because someone could test negative on day 1 and positive on day 3. When one wears a mask, they don't spread the virus to other near as readily as without. And if the other person also has a mask, then they don't get it either. Washing hands takes care of contact.

[b]Again, aren't people already out there putting their lives on the line so that others can not take the risk?[/b][/quote]
Yes. But having the majority of people stay home is also protecting those frontline workers by keeping public spaces less crowded and generally slowing the spread of the disease.

Also, testing is not about individuals...it's about understanding the infection rate in a community. It would allow communities with lower infection rates to potentially be more open than those with higher rates...and if there is a resurgence, a community can close down before things become catastrophic and hunker down until the outbreak stabilizes. You seem to have difficulty understanding public health decision-making which is done on a population, not individual, basis. I am similarly not a public health expert...but I try to listen and don't assume I know more than people who actually have spent lifetimes trying to understand these things. It's a good thing that neither of us is in charge of making these decisions.[/quote]

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