[Scythian]

Once that happens, the confirmed cases will explode simply because our capacity to test will increase by a factor of 50.

So what, people aren't dropping dead from it ...

[Pete]

So what, people aren't dropping dead from it ..

I never said they were. A pandemic is spread of illness, not death. The relevance of an explosion of confirmed cases is that a confirmed case is one of the criteria for school closings in the State pandemic mitigation plans. An dramatic increase in confirmed cases would, therefore, imply an increase in school closings.