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IT'S POLITICALLY MOTIVATED - THE DEMS Want to keep this going... This has nothing to do with Trump.. Get that straight.
The Dems want to shut everything down...
Yup... even though Vitamin D is protective they ignore that and obsess over the masks... masks which are just likely to slow everything down... so that their beloved teachers don't have to go to work and it will last through November.
So we're back to, only counting people if they're symptomatic and test positive? Like we should have been doing all along so as not to skew the numbers???
It’s as if CDC finally realized its not worth destroying the global economy over a 99% survival rate virus.
Poverty and unemployment will end up killing more people than this virus ever could.
Doing a complete 180 and not contract trace testing for an infectious and deadly disease that has killed almost 200,000 here nationally and almost 1 million worldwide..... something smells fishy here. Too say this is perplexing to many doctors and people in infectious disease would be... an understatement.....
Right, but here’s the thing, positivity rates are calculated by comparing the number of positive tests for the coronavirus with the total number of tests conducted within a 24-hour period.
Example for State A, where the people of the state have been told by the CoVid gurus that schools (and rest of things) should open completely once the the positivity rate is below somewhere between 3-5%. Compare these two scenarios:
The state has been conducting an average of 100 tests a day since tests are hard to get and essentially have to be ordered by a doctor or the health department. The state is getting an average of 7 positive results a day:
- Positivity rate of 7%
The state increases its testing, the contact tracers are notifying anyone the infected person has been in contact with, people can just get the test if they are concerned. The state is now averaging 500 tests a day. The state is getting an average of 10 positive results a day:
- Positivity rate of 2%
So even though you are now catching 3 more confirmed cases a day, your positivity rate has significantly gone down. Additionally, you are no longer able to continue to factor in a case as probable once you get negative results for that case.
This will likely result in the people demanding the schools get back on regular schedule. They will stop being freaked out so much so they will be less compliant with masks. And, finally, all that free flowing crisis money will start drying up. Basically, people will start demanding life start returning to normal.
How about another example for "state A": the state is now averaging 500 tests a day, but actually getting ... 75 positive cases. So the positive rate is now 15%.
So you think a governor who is not a health official knows more than the CDC?
Trump has them now.. all he has to say is... the opposite of what he wants.
He wants more testing... he does he doesn't and the democrats refuse not to test.
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