Re ""Evidence the media and vested interests won't disclose." --- more testing means more cases found
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yeah ------------------- isn't that obvious?"
Yes, but much as your comment probably gives you a little buzz of superiority over those who are concerned that elected officials can be wrong, I think it is you who are missing the point.
So what is the point you're missing. Consider this, let's imagine no one at all was tested and imagine we just waited for people to die and then tested their bodies for covid. With no testing except on death, you could make a case to say that everyone who has covid will end up dying although, naturally, we can see the obvious hole in this argument. Anyway let us say 100 people died, and with testing on death only, all we can say is that 100 people acquired covid and died.
Let's then say, at the other extreme, we test everybody and we find that no one else has the virus at all. This is not what is happening, but it would indicate that whilst the virus is not widespread, if you do happen to get it, you'd most likely die. In this bleak scenario we could say we tested everyone and the only people that had covid also died.
As I said, that is not what is happening. What we are seeing with increased testing is that there are a lot of people who have the virus and quite obviously have not died. In this scenario, the one constant is the number of people who have died because testing people won't actually increase the death count, increased testing just provides more data. The difference now is that the more testing we do and the more people we find with the virus (whilst alarming to the media and the panicking public) the more we know that there are people who are quite capable of surviving the virus. Hypothetically, if you tested everyone in your suburb and all of them had the virus and 99.99% of them survived, the virus would be less of a worry to you. This is where we are heading.
So what you're missing with your sarcastic analogies of stone axes and throwing stones at birds is this point, the more people we find with the virus who aren't actually dying from it, the more we can predict that the survival rate is higher than we previously feared. More testing is finding more benign cases, showing survival rates our higher than we had feared. That is the point, media reports are focusing our minds on the number of cases and the number of deaths, but not pointing out the survival rate.
Most people below a certain age with the virus are surviving, the increased testing is revealing this fact. No one under 40 in Australia has died, out of the many thousands we know who have had the virus. Very few under 60 have died. The old and compromised should be the focus as it should be every year, not the ever increasing percentage that we can see are not affected. This is what increased testing is showing us, but, in the frenzy of counting new cases, it is being ignored.
