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by IAmGraydon 2273 days ago
You’re forgetting the possibility that a large percentage of the US population is already infected and asymptomatic, in which case the shutdown was ineffective in the first place.
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We can’t act on that possibility without data.
That's why we should be conducting random tests on samplings of the populations. This would be a statistics problem.
I absolutely agree, but we’re currently SOL.