Originally Posted by
skywatch
No test of infection or infectiousness is currently available for routine use. As things stand, a person who tests positive with any kind of test may or may not have an active infection with live virus, and may or may not be infectious"
Which has been known to be the case by anyone educated in public health since Bayesian Probability was first developed in the late 1700s.
http://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~ifischer...se_Testing.pdf
The only real issue is whether our elected politicians are merely abysmally ignorant, intractably stupid, or just snowflakes, although I suppose ‘all of the above’ might also be in play.