Virtually all testing is still exclusively people who are symptomatic and meet specific requirements (save for the rich and connected). Large scale testing of the population at large would produce only a small number of additional positives, mostly those who are pre-symptomatic. Ignoring the problem by not testing does not result in fewer infections, will not clear out hospital rooms and ICU wards, and will not reduce fatalities.
Is the MSM hyping this event? Yes, that's what they do. Do bigger numbers make bigger headlines? Yes, but it is Public Health Departments and hospitals driving testing, not the MSM. Are the left blaming Trump? Obviously. But painting posters here as "bots" who are part of some organized plot to get Trump is bizarre and paranoid. And calling for them to be banished worse.
https://mises.org/wire/covid-19-experts-have-no-crystal-ball
COVID-19: The “Experts” Have No Crystal Ball
...Skepticism is the proper tool to use with any holder of
any crystal ball. That is true, regardless of the complexity
of the algorithm that they claim shows irrefutable proof of
what the future will bring one day from now, one year from
now, or one century from now.
The future is unknown to us and investing all of a society’s
options in one path is detrimental to a successful outcome.
One way that free societies have long prospered is by
allowing individuals to produce many varying paths, some of
which work, some of which fail. That is the risk mitigation
method of freedom and individual choice. A single, unified
path that no one may oppose removes a great deal of risk
mitigation and forces many to make a single bet on a single
path. That is a truly foolish idea given the fact that no
one has a crystal ball.
To believe in the utility of central planning you must be
able to fall for the idea that someone somewhere has a
crystal ball. Individual freedom is not only moral, it
provides utility and risk mitigation in moments of crisis,
precisely like the one we now face.
American federalism provides for fifty experiments.
Individual freedom in America provides for 330 million
experiments. Some win, some lose. That’s life.
Authoritarianism that drags everyone down a common path
merely ensures that all will eventually lose...
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