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Originally Posted by jfman
The pandemic doesn’t exist because people test. It exists because people get ill.
200,000 people a day didn’t test positive because they felt fine and randomly took a test for entertainment value.
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Possibly, possibly not.
But the fact is that people are encouraged to take LFTs before doing things even if they feel perfectly well.
So what you're saying is somewhat untrue. 200k people, or the vast majority of them, may well have indeed felt perfectly fine, but took a LFT before going shopping, or seeing elderly relatives, or going to a carol service for christmas, or whatever, somehow it ends up positive, they have the virus without realising it.
And those situations did actually show because people tested as opposed to them getting ill.
Add onto that the people who do have symptoms but don't have covid. Whilst strictly speaking with negative tests they can do what they like, is that a good idea?
Asymptomatic spread is an issue with all viruses, whilst the logic to stopping spread is clearly still true, testing people who aren't unwell as a long term measure clearly isn't sustainable.