Hilarious you're citing the CDC as an authority, when MSNBC has a spent the last 48 hours thrashing them as inept buffoons who can't obtain, authorize or distribute anything approaching the number of tests the journalism majors in the studio deemed acceptable. Which is it? Is the CDC the world's preeminent authority on the matter, or are they the mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, rudderless Trump acolytes Ive ben hearing about (non-stop) for the past 10 news cycles?
Like I said... good luck with your testing when totally asymptomatic people are chock full of virus and spreading it. When hundreds of thousands (or millions) are infected in each state, WTF good is it? On top of that tons of people are testing negative, then positive or vice versa. And if you test positive the doc just tells you to go home and take it easy?
Sidenote from Wikipedia regarding the swine flu outbreak of 2009:
"As of mid-March 2010, the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that about 59 million Americans contracted the H1N1 virus, 265,000 were hospitalized as a result, and 12,000 died."
Can we all agree that at
NO POINT in its coverage of the swine flu was the media breathlessly reporting on our impending doom the way it is now? Not even after 12,000 H1N1 deaths, while we are now at
47 corona deaths? Schools stayed open, sports were played, Wall Street saw no need to crater the entire economy, routines went on (as they should have). I wonder what the difference is this time? Real puzzler.
Alas, I'm but a simple man who rarely concerns himself with all that complicated "science bullshit".
