My roommate has Covid, with flu-like symptoms. I showed up to volunteer down the street, they had me take the Covid Home Test and it showed up negative.
I probably didn’t test precisely correct, so it coulda been a false negative. But since I had Covid well before there were “vaxes” for it, I have some natural immunity.
The way I look at it, if I were headed to be with family and tested negative for Covid then I woulda showed up and loudly proclaimed I tested neg. If they all come down with a 99.6% survivability disease then that’s on the testers, not me.
A disease with 99.6% survivability is NOT a pandemic.
The Boulder study showed that almost 1/3 of college roommates did not share Covid.
You realize that even with 99.7% survival rate, that means over a million dead Americans if each gets infected once. Not counting repeat infections and more variants.
You also have many more who “survive” but get serious long term damage