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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

You know there's something wrong when you're in the middle of what they purport is a pandemic worthy of hysterical, draconian measures, and the only thing they seem to care about are "cases," not deaths, not hospitalizations, but cases. Because if you talk about deaths and hospitalizations, you get the picture that we are pretty much through this and have been since roughly the beginning of the year, especially in places that stayed open, put one foot in front of the other, and just dealt with it like adults.

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Brian D. Hopkins MD's avatar

Part of the testing is attributed to hospital-required mandatory testing of all (or most) patients that get admitted. Certainly every elective surgical case is required to get tested prior to surgery. I believe this is true in all states but certainly here in crazy California. Additionally, as everyone knows, the hospitals are incentivized to test ($$$) and will not stop until the incentivization goes away. Thus, we will continue to have a static level of tests done despite a near-zero prevalence, and it will not end until the motivation to test goes away. Even with a true absolute zero prevalence (if reached), the false positives alone will generate the hospital reimbursement income that will more than pay for the cost of testing.

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