“flattening the curve” (of confirmed cases): but what about the curves of 1) people’s tolerance to the measures to flatten this curve, 2) of the downturn of the economy, and 3) of those, ah, confined to homes? How do you flatten them as well while flattening the first? Not fun at all.
“false positive” and “false negative”: the first is about a test wrongly showing a positive presence of a virus (or any other cause of infection); the second is about a test wrongly showing that a negative presence of the suspected cause of infection (that if one were showing a symptom, the test is wrongly showing that it is not from the suspected cause); because a result could be wrong, a test needs to be repeated; so really, with one test, why worry?
Ah, but if one can’t afford nor are there enough tests to do multiple runs, how might one be assured entirely that testing — as a measure to contain the spread of infections — is a good and rational thing to do? Would it serve a purpose other than being a non-definitive simulacrum of the cause of the disease? Would this not worry us? Not fun at all.
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