03-19-2020, 09:32 AM
(03-19-2020, 09:22 AM)Au165 Wrote: I keep seeing outrage over "tests" but the reality is the tests mean nothing. The test only tells you at that second if you have the virus, the second you walk out of the place you were tested you could potentially be infected and therefor a carrier who will infect others. If you are in the hospital already a positive test will not change the way you are treated, if you aren't in the hospital because the symptoms weren't bad enough to send you there in the first place the test won't change that.
So if tests mean little in terms of preventing the spread, and they mean little in the treatment, why are we so obsessed with them? The answer is simple, people are scared and it seems like something that can be "done". The reality is the virus is going to run it's course until we come up with some sort of medical intervention. Now when we actually have some sort of intervention then testing will be more important, however right now the panic and anger over testing seems more like fake outrage rather than a truly logical one.
I think testing can be valuable in that you can alert others you have been in contact with who may now have it but still be asymptomatic.
What the hell is the word for getting a disease from someone else. Contrived is in my head and I can’t move it out to get to the real word. It’s driving me nuts.
Edit: contracted. Whew.
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