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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Like bigdeal said, positive test results mean nothing. Hell, if it were possible for everyone in the country to be tested today, there may be 150 million Americans test positive out of 330 million total population. Almost everyone on the planet is eventually going to get the Chinese Virus if they haven’t already had it.

Undercounting the number of infected individuals is inevitable without testing absolutely everyone, but there's an increasing body of evidence that it is unlikely we are undercounting to anywhere near the degree you suggest.

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A small town in Italy (~3,300 people) had repeated rounds of testing every single person in the town. Active cases peaked at about 3% without about half of those asymptomatic. ( https://www.ft.com/content/0db...ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3 )

Iceland (~360,000 people) has been letting anyone who wants a test get one. At the end of last week, about 5% of the population had been tested, again, with about half being asymptomatic. ( https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01...irus-intl/index.html ) As of April 5, Iceland had performed ~28,000 tests ( ~8% of the population ) with 1,417 positives (~0.4% of the population). ( https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus )

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You said "positive test results mean nothing."
That's only true if we might be under-testing by orders of magnitude.

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Seriously? I wasn’t suggesting anything. Wow.

You said "positive test results mean nothing."
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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
This happened a couple miles down the road from where I'm typing. Stupid jackbooted thugs. Unfortunately these are the type of leo's that make up the norm in Colorado. The good cops are very few and far between in these parts.

This right here is the stuff that gives people a bad taste for government and law enforcement. I have spent my fair share of time behind a badge, as a Deputy, while I was in college and a little bit after. This would just not have even crossed our minds to cuff someone for this. If you can't diffuse a situation of a family playing in an empty park, then you need your badge taken away and handed a box of crayons. Because your abilities as a LEO are for shit. What makes it even worse is there were 3 chances for them to find some common sense ( 1 chance for each officer). I would bet good money that at least one of them said, "We are only following orders."

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
So now there is a theory that 5G cellphone towers are to blame and people are burning them in the UK and threatening to tear them down here???

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
[T]he main reason a lot of Americans went to Soviet Russia during the Great Depression to find work, believing the utopian stories they were reading in the papers. A lot of them never made it back home to the US.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
So now there is a theory that 5G cellphone towers are to blame and people are burning them in the UK and threatening to tear them down here???

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Originally posted by parabellum:
the next generation after 5G was going to be called 666G.

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[T]he main reason a lot of Americans went to Soviet Russia during the Great Depression to find work, believing the utopian stories they were reading in the papers. A lot of them never made it back home to the US.

An excellent book about that little-known aspect of history: The Forsaken.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
OK we are officially in a science fiction movie.

NYC using drones to tell people to social distance.