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To: rintintin
Maybe you should stop posting this idiocy.

Dr. Fauci explained exactly why mass testing is completely useless in this case, and I've posted that explanation here on FR every time I've read your silly claim that testing 330 million people -- apparently on an hourly basis, since that's the only way it would be effective -- is even possible, let alone necessary.

2 posted on 04/20/2020 10:14:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: Alberta's Child

It is timing, correct? You may test negative, be exposed as soon as you leave the doctors office, and the assumption would be that you don’t have the virus.

Also how long does it take for the test to be done. Days? A week?

And how often do you have to be retested?


13 posted on 04/20/2020 10:19:59 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Alberta's Child
This article just jumps to the conclusion "Testing Good -- must test everybody" but it utterly fails to explain WHY we should do all that testing and what we would do DIFFERENTLY with the test results in hand.

Would you get a "COVID Passport" that allows you free travel anywhere without a mask?

Most countries have gotten over the peak of new cases and are on the downward slope now (chart below). BE SURE to recognize that these are 1) per capita numbers and 2) there are VERY DIFFERENT Y-axis ranges for the four rows.

This country data all conform to Farr's Law. "In the mid-19th century, Dr. William Farr made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern that can be approximated by a bell-shaped curve. He noticed that this time-evolution behavior could be captured by a single mathematical formula (“Farr's law”) that could be used for epidemic forecasting." (source: Relatedness of the incidence decay with exponential adjustment (IDEA) model, “Farr's law” and SIR compartmental difference equation models )


48 posted on 04/20/2020 10:52:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Alberta's Child

The same Dr Fauci that is bad mouthing anti-lockdown protesters?


77 posted on 04/20/2020 11:47:04 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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