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WastelandCowboy posted...

Hey guys. If we stop testing for Covid-19, we won't have any more cases!

To be fair, this is basically the same way the US has measured unemployment for decades.

In other words, the unemployment rate is usually only measured by counting the number of people who are actually collecting unemployment benefits. But unemployment benefits only apply for a specific amount of time before you're cut off, so if you go too long without getting a job, they stop paying benefits and you no longer count as "unemployed" for calculating the unemployment rate - you simply no longer exist at all statistically. Thus we artificially keep the numbers down by ignoring the people who probably most need our attention.
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