What I want to know is who are all the people that are getting tested this is the only way there is a spike in cases is by the testing. Do people have symptoms or are they just getting tested?
Good question, funfan.
If that’s the case, and the symptoms are that mild, WHY HAVE A WORLD SHAKING FIT ABOUT IT??
The Left is using this to make us all look like fools...but I’m not buying the hysteria.
In my county, we are punished collectively if the “testing isn’t high enough.” Schools must stay closed until we test more.
So moms, desperate to get schools open for their kids, go get tested even symptomless.
My county even went to Kaiser and told them to stop requiring symptoms or physician orders before allowing testing.
And we have an “equity metric” so that if certain low income cities in our county have higher infection rates than the county in general, restaurants have to stay closed.
As my daughter said to me the other day - a pandemic where you have to get tested to even know if you are infected is not a scary pandemic.
Both.
There are two groups, with of course some overlap between them.
Group 1 consists of "important" people (like politicians), athletes, high risk individuals, and those like health care workers whose activities tend to place them at increased risk of infection. By now this group is fairly well established as to who gets tested fairly regularly. I would suspect that as more cases are reported, some additional individuals might be added to this group, but I also suspect those additions are, at this point, not a big number. These are, basically, your "just getting tested" group.
Group 2 is by far the larger group, consisting of individuals who have symptoms, or believe they do. My immediate family and I were part of this group for a few days: My daughter brought home a "bug", we all requested and got tested for COVID-19 and came out negative, but despite trying to take some precautions, my wife and I also got it, whatever "it" was. It just wasn't COVID-19.
We ARE going into the fall respiratory disease season: Therefor much increased numbers of people are going to come down with one bug or another, show symptoms, and desire to be tested. Some of those will be infected with COVID-19, as it is one of the most infectious bugs out there. COVID-19 "positives" are sure to rise.
This is all normal and to be expected. In and of themselves, the increased positives mean little more than what I just laid out, above.
That said, an important caveat is that in the past, increased positives DID lead to increased fatalities.
A much more telling metric is the number of serious or critical COVID-19 cases. So far in Oct., this number has risen, but, NOT dramatically so.
Casualties (as defined by me = fatalities plus the quite significant numbers of those left with long term damage) are a lagging indicator and must be considered very carefully and cautiously when making predictions. That said, at present, if using a 7-day average, they are a fairly flat curve. The trend over the last several weeks has been a slight drift downward. Based on hospitalizations or serious / critical cases, I would expect that to turn into a modest increase -- not good, but also surely not deserving this MSM & Dem hype as if the entire East Coast of the US had just been wiped out by an asteroid-tsunami!
I suspect when people start interacting with each other (as in the case of school reopenings, or BLM protests), they start spreading diseases. Most of the time these are common colds. Sometimes it’s a norovirus or the flu or COVID-19.
My spouse got tested for common cold symptoms because she was paranoid of spreading COVID-19 to elderly relatives. It was our “luck” it was actually COVID-19.