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In response to "Shouldn’t everyone’s goal be to reopen the economy as safely and as soon as safely possible? Why is this political? Shouldn’t we want to fully " by JackDawson

My point is that expanded testing helps Trump make his political point so even within that viewpoint I don’t see why he wouldn’t be pushing for more.

Posted by Dano (aka dano) May 10 '20, 10:26

I’m just accepting the fact that it’s political and still don’t understand it. Testing a large number of asymptomatic people is going to greatly increase the number of cases but it will also lower the mortality rate because that’s how math works.

So if I went in with the motivation to open the economy up faster I would want broad testing so I could make the case that the deadliness of the disease was over stated.

Basically more and broader testing seems to make sense for so many reasons even an economic political reason so I don’t understand why it’s controversial at all. Is it just that someone Trump doesn’t like suggested it first so he has to be against it?

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To be honest I can’t keep track of whether he’s in favor or against testing? - JackDawson May 10, 10:31
There's also a portion of it that's based on Jared telling him his model says it goes to zero in two weeks so why do anything? -- nm - Reagen May 10, 10:30
"numbers go up = bad. so what if, no numbers?" -- nm - Reagen May 10, 10:28 3
- The more we test, the more we find! -- nm - Spawn May 10, 10:42
- Deaths go up is bad for sure but you don’t think a lower mortality rate can be spun? - Dano May 10, 10:38 1
  - It absolutely could but you first have to bear the pain of a dramatic shoot up in number of cases, and he won't do that - Reagen May 10, 10:52

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My point is that expanded testing helps Trump make his political point so even within that viewpoint I don’t see why he wouldn’t be pushing for more.

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