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What’s the point of testing? There is no treatment. So knowing you have it or not is pointless. If you have it, and it’s serious, you’ll seek medical attenti
by pneill 7y ago
What’s the point of testing? There is no treatment. So knowing you have it or not is pointless. If you have it, and it’s serious, you’ll seek medical attention regardless of whether you know it or not.
When you see the ridiculous on hand sanitizer and toilet paper, even if there was an over the counter version, you wouldn’t be able to find one in the store.
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- chippy 7y ago"Whats the point of testing if you are a healthy 20 year old caring with 85 year olds" This sums up the silicon valley mindset for EVERYTHING. If you find it hard to understand what I am meaning the be worried.
- pneill 7y agoSo you’re just going to test yourself constantly? If you experience symptoms for any illness and you care for seniors, you should remove yourself from care. No need to test.
- im3w1l 7y agoDon't people have low level symptoms basically all the time? Like if you add up all the times your throat feels a little bit sore, or nose is a little bit stuffed or you cough a few times a day or you have a bit of a headache or you feel a little bit lacking in energy... That should add up to like half a year. So I'm not sure if what you are proposing is realistic.
- dboreham 7y agoSymptoms are fever and a dry cough (no runny nose, no sneezing). At least for me and my family that happens basically never.
- scarejunba 7y agoIf I have it, I know to self-quarantine. That's useful to me because I don't want to infect people. Listen, normally, questions like this are useful but this one is obvious.
- pneill 7y agoIf you experience symptoms you should self quarantine. If the test comes back negative, you’ll just keep testing yourself until you find out you have it?
- timmytokyo 7y ago1. To give epidemiologists and public health officials a better picture of how widespread the virus is. 2. To make it more likely that infected persons isolate themselves to avoid spreading the virus further.
- pneill 7y agoThey get that data the same way they always do, from people seeking medical attention. People who are symptomatic for anything ( flu, cold, etc) should always isolate themselves. What’s madness is asymptotic people testing themselves.
- enumjorge 7y agoThere's a lot we don't know about this new strain of virus, which makes it hard to contain it. Testing provides data points. I'm not sure why it's so hard to understand that having more data as opposed to less when facing an unknown is a good thing.
- progman32 7y agoHaving a positive test is an ironclad excuse not to go into work, for one thing.