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Ok, what if you are one of the false positives and have to sit at home without pay for two weeks. And because of your positive, your wife and kids have to do the same thing. And you have to notify the neighbors you had dinner with two nights ago and they have the same. Se how bad this can go, all because you had a test with no symptoms and no exposures to justify it. |
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If you're arguing that testing doesn't work in general I don't know what to tell you. Go argue with the Taiwanese CDC...they'll tell you testing has been the cornerstone of their success (and success they have had). |
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Oh grasshopper how you have missed the forest because of the trees. No the success of the east (including NZ and AU) has not come because of "testing" at all. The success in stopping the spread of this virus (as well as any other BTW) has come from serious and complete lock-down/isolation of anyone suspected of having or contacting someone with COVID. The results of positive tests and contact with actual COVID infected people results in being essentially jailed or house arrest. The very threat of this causes others to comply and report others who violate the rules. Don't kid yourselves about the value or practical results of testing, tracing and isolation. It goes against the grain of who the people of the USA are. Yes it's cultural! |
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Now we are back to your understanding of large numbers. Yes you are more likely to have a false negative but false positives are still a significant problem. Again if you test 10,000 asymptomatic pilots and one percent are false positive you just sat 100 pilots out for a few days at least. Yes you will have a second test but that will not be at the gate as that would just produce two opposite results from an unreliable test. You will have to have PCR testing and wait for those results for 24 to 48 hours. Most employers will not take the chance and require you to quarantine even after a negative PCR. From the CDC website: Not everyone needs to be tested. Who should get tested
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