Back in Canada... March 2020
If you as much as sneezed. . . . Test me, test me, test me!
They would do 500 to a 1,000 tests to find a single positive person.
Fast forward to today.
You're in bed with almost all the symptoms. . . .
Well, if I don't start feeling better tomorrow, I'll go get tested them.
What is the advantage to getting tested.... not much.
You have to drive somewhere, while you're very infectious and feeling like crap.
Go back home and wait.
Your POSITIVE.
Now what?
Nothing. You go back to bed and hope it doesn't get worse.
I presume, most of the positive testing (today) is being done by Hospitals, on admission.
Only the really sick show up there.
BBC estimated there are 10 untested cases for every positive test.
To me, testing (outside of a Hospital) is another CoViD failed idea.
Testing does works IF... the numbers are low, and the contact tracing is aggressive.
A lot of people lied to the contact tracers. Me, no, I wasn't there.
and...
The Governments all got tired of paying for real contact tracing.