[madprof98]

They only want “mass testing” to delay reopening the economy so that Trump will crash and burn in November. That’s it. The only reason.

[SaxxonWoods]

Yes, that’s why everyone must stay home forever. Until there is a vaccine. Then some people will die and some won’t, like now. But the dying will be govt sanctioned so that will be OK.

[decal]

“I fail to understand how doing millions of tests on apparently well people is going to guide policy in any significant way.”

The more tests you do, the more really sick people you'll find, the better excuse to re-shut everything down.

It's happening right now where I live - two towns in adjacent counties are testing anyone who asks for it, but ONLY if they show symptoms.

[DallasBiff]

I worked at a DFW airport area hotel, and was a shuttle driver, and picked up people from all around the world and stored their luggage.

I'm fine as of right now today, maybe one day back, don't know which month, before the lockdown, I may have had a slight fever but didn't think it was anything but a slight cold.

I was in the ultimate social situation, and I'm still fine. I think the fear has been overblown.

[RJS1950]

The statistics and medical gurus seem to have some problems with simple grade school computations. One of the latest is a breakdown of the spread in the U.S. It shows 61,635 deaths (questionable), total cases of 1,063,863 total cases with 147,114 recovered. Now, just a casual observer might note that if you subtract the deaths from the 1 million+ number and then subtract the total recovered from that number you end up with 855,114 cases unaccounted for. If they didn’t die and didn’t recover then where are they? In ICU? I don’t think so. Could it be that the total number of cases along with the total number of deaths are both wildly inflated with unconfirmed or assumed infections deaths? More BS to feed the panic; keep those numbers in the scary range so the sheep don’t catch on.

[central_va]

The Fearpers won’t like this....

[devane617]

Wonder if “Positive” people qualify for Social Security Disability? Hmm...The big payout begins soon.

[exDemMom]

Exactly what kind of tests were these? Were they tested and found to have active virus? Or was this an antibody test that may have only been picking up recent cold infections?

The most complete data I have been able to find on asymptomatic vs. symptomatic cases was from the Diamond Princess, where everyone was tested. IIRC, 18% of the infected did not have symptoms. This is probably in line with other colds.

[gas_dr]

Are a vast majority of CoVId Cases Asymptomatic?I>

In one word -- YES. Has been since the original assault on our freedoms.

[TBP]

It sure looks that way.

[Drago]

We are now moving out of the “antibody testing to see the “denominator”/lethality of COVID-19 compared to reg. flu” phase and now moving into the “raw fatality numbers” phase because we are now exceeding the fatality totals for the worst “regular flu” in the last 10 years. Going to have to start comparing it to the 1918 Spanish Flu or the 1957 Asian Flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

https://www.ranker.com/list/worst-us-flu-seasons/laura-allan

[MinorityRepublican]

We’ve had over a million confirmed COVID-19 cases in USA. So how many people are untested but got infected?