Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
If you expand testing enough, you can test a much wider swath of society, even those not showing symptoms.

That's the point. Right now, we have to just wait and treat people with symptoms because we can't test enough people to catch it before they show symptoms. But that leaves asymptomatic people spreading the virus, which is why nobody can get ahead of this thing.

I don't know when testing that widespread is possible, but it's the only way to accomplish a wider opening of the economy without another big spike in cases.
I'm somewhat convinced the current tests are average at best anyway. There's about a 10% positive rate out of all the test performed. That just doesn't compute to me if people getting tested have a lot of the symptoms. Unless there is some other virus floating around.