Not at all. It would be illogical to make that leap (for my part or yours).
Probably the vast majority of positive covid tests come from testing centers set up specifically for covid, and also come from asymptomatic people. We are NOT, I repeat, we are NOT testing asymptomatic people for the flu.
However, if you see a doctor, and you have flu-like symptoms, it’s standard procedure to get a flu test.
So why are we testing asympomatic people for COVID?
It doesn’t transmit. Even though they tried to lie and said it did.
In any event- my point still stands. We are testing for Covid much more aggressively and by a much higher factor than for flu or other respiratory diseases that have identical symptoms.
To some degree you are right. Everyone wanted to know if they had covid because their cousins uncle 5th removed farted at church and they could smell it so they must have it. Tons more testing leads to tons more asymptomatic.
driving up numbers with asymptomatic did lead to hysteria. It didn’t help to see Europe with massive deaths, NYC with massive deaths, and lots of other locations. Should that have been applied to smaller/regional areas? NO!
Now testing was needed to help symptomatic people. How they determined who was and wasn’t symptomatic is what I’d like to know?
Is this really a question? The testing is all about pandemic mitigation. Whether you disagree with it or not, there’s no need to change the subject at hand.
Don’t move the goalposts!!! Your point was never that we test for covid more aggressively than other diseases. I would agree with that much. You brought all this up in relation to covid deaths, because your assertion is covid deaths are overcounted.
And then when it was failed mitigation, shown by every timeline in the world…Or at least 90% of them. Before we even take it into risk/reward territory(where your argument turns to total dog shit)…Why was this mitigation doubled and tripled down on?
Your assumption, you mean. All your data points are about PCR tests being too sensitive (for asymptomatic people), and all the huge test numbers (for asymptomatic people), and then you do the old switcheroo and try to apply that to people dying in hospitals.
Why does this commie cunt motherfucker always tell us he’s not doing something while doing it? Remember when he act surprised the other commie cunt warden was back…remember when he told us all that he only saw storm’s posts because he wasn’t logged in (he was commenting on every other one at that point)