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Anonymous wrote:Whether or not people test does not change how Covid is spread. But I would be fine with my children being tested weekly or even more often if it meant they could go back to school. They would be fine with it too.

Yes it does, because if you test positive with mild/no symptoms you have to quarantine and people are not willing to do that, so they don’t test and spread it like wildfire.

Correct. Asymptomatic spreaders are the reason it spreads so badly. People who don’t test spread it completely unwittingly while living their life.

There aren't nearly enough tests for asymptomatic people, and even when you do these mass testing events (which we tried) you wait 3 weeks for results. I'd gladly test myself asymptomatically if it were easy, and I'd get quick results. But neither is true...9 months in. Thanks Trump.

I didn't understand in April and I still don't understand why we don't have some modern equivalent of the WPA to get people manufacturing tests and running the results. Instead of enhanced unemployment benefits, pay out-of-work people to be trained on and then do a job that needs to be done.

Well, like I said, thanks everybody. No school for you. Maybe if you’d done your part to test and quarantine (you know give a f$$k) your kids would still be in school next week.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whether or not people test does not change how Covid is spread. But I would be fine with my children being tested weekly or even more often if it meant they could go back to school. They would be fine with it too.

Yes it does, because if you test positive with mild/no symptoms you have to quarantine and people are not willing to do that, so they don’t test and spread it like wildfire.

Correct. Asymptomatic spreaders are the reason it spreads so badly. People who don’t test spread it completely unwittingly while living their life.

There aren't nearly enough tests for asymptomatic people, and even when you do these mass testing events (which we tried) you wait 3 weeks for results. I'd gladly test myself asymptomatically if it were easy, and I'd get quick results. But neither is true...9 months in. Thanks Trump.

Well yes we agree. But this is why it’a a problem. Even from the limited testing we have look how bad the stats are. We are easily 2-5x higher in reality.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whether or not people test does not change how Covid is spread. But I would be fine with my children being tested weekly or even more often if it meant they could go back to school. They would be fine with it too.

Yes it does, because if you test positive with mild/no symptoms you have to quarantine and people are not willing to do that, so they don’t test and spread it like wildfire.

Correct. Asymptomatic spreaders are the reason it spreads so badly. People who don’t test spread it completely unwittingly while living their life.

There aren't nearly enough tests for asymptomatic people, and even when you do these mass testing events (which we tried) you wait 3 weeks for results. I'd gladly test myself asymptomatically if it were easy, and I'd get quick results. But neither is true...9 months in. Thanks Trump.

Anonymous wrote:Whether or not people test does not change how Covid is spread. But I would be fine with my children being tested weekly or even more often if it meant they could go back to school. They would be fine with it too.

It doesn't change how it is spread but it changes what we know about how and where it is spread. In many ares about 75% of covid cases have no known contact or source of the infection. How valuable is data and conclusions based only on that remaining 25%?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-covid-19-surges-the-big-unknown-is-where-people-are-getting-infected-11605474874

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Anonymous wrote:Whether or not people test does not change how Covid is spread. But I would be fine with my children being tested weekly or even more often if it meant they could go back to school. They would be fine with it too.

Yes it does, because if you test positive with mild/no symptoms you have to quarantine and people are not willing to do that, so they don’t test and spread it like wildfire.

Correct. Asymptomatic spreaders are the reason it spreads so badly. People who don’t test spread it completely unwittingly while living their life.

No, no, no. You've got it wrong. If a parent tests positive, the ENTIRE family gets tested. They don't "just quarantine." If the kid then tests positive, the parent reports it to the school and the school numbers go up.

No, usually one person is tested. Sometimes the whole family is but it is too early and they are negative and later WOULD test postive but Drs around here just tell the entire family to quarantine. postiives are actually 4-10x higher than being reported in part because of this.

Anonymous wrote:Numbers are up because nobody gives a fu%k. Myself included.

We all just got over covid (presumably due to lack of taste and smell). It wasn't a big deal. You people are insane.

Considering 290k people have died including 3k yesterday it’s clearly not nothing. You are fortunate.

Anonymous wrote:Whether or not people test does not change how Covid is spread. But I would be fine with my children being tested weekly or even more often if it meant they could go back to school. They would be fine with it too.

Yes it does, because if you test positive with mild/no symptoms you have to quarantine and people are not willing to do that, so they don’t test and spread it like wildfire.

Anonymous wrote:Numbers are up because nobody gives a fu%k. Myself included.

We all just got over covid (presumably due to lack of taste and smell). It wasn't a big deal. You people are insane.

I mean, I partially agree with you but don't you want your kids to go back to school? I do and that won't happen until we get the "metrics" back down.