Loading ...I simply report the officially reported number of positive tested cases that our state health dept. reports. I understand that the PCR test is NOT covid-specific… includes the common cold, flu, and even ebola. The PCR detects ALL coronaviruses. There IS a specific influenza test, however, and people who present with symptoms are tested for flu specific. If not flu… then the COVID test is administered and comes up positive.
The FACT is that many people are getting sick with a respiratory disease and it is spreading. You may argue with the numbers and methods, but it is the best we have for testing mass numbers of people. Yes, our ‘overlords’ are taking advantage of it to the fullest, but To deny that the disease exists at all is to be ignorant of the facts plainly apparent to those who will see. Here’s another fact: Hawaii’s hospitals are now at nursing capacity with an influx of acute respiratory disease. And the hospital admissions rate tracks the number of positive covid test increases. So the positive tests give an accurate estimate of how many of those people will wind up in the hospital with acute SARS…. ‘sudden acute respiratory syndrome’.
For those of you rebels who chafe at wearing a mask… that’s your personal choice, I guess. I do know that a mask provides some degree of protection, and I choose to wear mine in any public setting to protect myself, and my elder care family. If I see a person without a mask, I give them MUCH more than six feet of distance, especially in an air-conditioned building setting that tends to contain and spread the virus locally.
At the entrance to a store the other day I saw a person jerk down their mask and sneeze in the open. I turned around in the parking lot and fled.