Well said, testing complaints are too simplistic

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Mar 29, 2020
8:05:58am

Artist Walk-on

Well said, testing complaints are too simplistic

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Comprehensive Icelandic coronavirus testing shows half of those who tested positive have had no symptoms.

SierraCoug Truly Addicted User

3/29/20 1:28am

Yep, It's my strong opinion that Americas original sin was...

3/29/20 1:43am

I think that too. Government agencies and bureaucratic rules bungled this up

HighHorse

3/29/20 3:18am

Are you saying you would force people without symptoms to be tested?

3/29/20 5:13am

Who said anything about force?

3/29/20 6:14am

There is no way to read your post except as a complete embrace of roving gangs

Gustav

3/29/20 7:07am

The bureaucracy in America was definitely exposed on that one

3/29/20 5:13am

Doubt it. Not sure much would have made a difference

Acorn

3/29/20 6:24am

Well said, testing complaints are too simplistic

Artist

3/29/20 8:05am

To contain such a infectious pathogen such as COVID...

3/29/20 5:00pm

That isn’t accurate

BYU'01

3/29/20 11:18am

Didn't Germany do wider testing too?

Acorn

3/29/20 11:29am

Both followed similar strategies of testing as well as tracking people who’d...

Sumguy

3/29/20 11:46am

So please explain why Germany has 60,000 cases and SK has 9K

Acorn

3/29/20 11:48am

As of 3/20, S Korea had tested 2x as many people as Germany

Sumguy

3/29/20 12:31pm

Test 100k people with a 90% accurate test you can get 10k false pos

Artist

3/29/20 3:27pm

The problem with testing inaccuracies is false negatives

Sumguy

3/29/20 4:59pm

And the executive branch took it soooo seriously

Celeritas

3/29/20 8:55am

we shouldn't need a test to save us from throwing out all of our common sense

kiyoshige

3/29/20 8:59am

Yep our whole pandemic response was based on early and often testing.

Cougar99

3/29/20 9:00am

And only 6% of those tested are testing positive

AZ Coug

3/29/20 1:44am

The cruise boat had 55% with no symptoms. Of course that wasn't

Acorn

3/29/20 5:54am

RE: The cruise boat had 55% with no symptoms. Of course that wasn't

bythenumbers

3/29/20 6:40am

Makes me wonder if that could also be true of any other diseases

buffgato

3/29/20 7:25am

I think not

bythenumbers

3/29/20 8:09am

How many asymptomatic people on the cruise got it so mildly that

ABCoug

3/29/20 7:26am

Exactly. All the people whining for more testing

Acorn

3/29/20 7:51am

Wired magazine showed 50% of tests were faulty

flyzag

3/29/20 6:50am

Link? I can’t find anything that supports your claim

Odysseus

3/29/20 8:28am

Here you go

flyzag

3/29/20 11:43am

I thought you were talking about the tests in Iceland specifically

Odysseus

3/29/20 11:47am

I read they used the same tests. Most every one did.

flyzag

3/29/20 11:51am

Gotcha

Odysseus

3/29/20 12:42pm

And we are trusting wired magazine for critical scientific analysis?

Boring

3/29/20 8:36am

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