[ExI] ;covid test

[Darin Sunley]

If false positives are, and always have been massively pervasive, it means
the entire narrative around "asymptomatic transmission" [You know, that
thing that has never been a meaningful component of any upper respiratory
tract pandemic in the history of mankind, and for which we turned all of
western civilization into a dictatorship run by public health
professionals? That thing?]  has been massively flawed, right from the
beginning.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 8:39 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> Report today:  Thousands of BRits may be false negatives.
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> Well, duh, if you don't have a perfect correlation and make a cutoff you
> are going to have false negatives and false positives.  The question is:
> where do you set the cutoff?  I assume that the worst thing is a false
> negative.  For a false positive you test again.  For false negatives?
> What?  Anyone know?
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> Billw, there has never been a consensus on the balance of where cutoff
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> We tend to blow off the false positive: you just test again.  Sure.  But
> then you spent the money for two tests and might have caused someone to go
> into isolation unnecessrily.  Think of a scenario please where a false
> positive is far more serious than a false negative.
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