Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "US Pandemic Update" video.

  1. What you describe is so backwards, why are they using tests known to give many false negatives and positives. There are so many things wrong with what you describe. Not saying this is the case in your state because it seems no precautions are required, in Queensland Australia every single person to come in contact would need to quarantine 14 days regardless of PCR test outcomes. A few weeks ago a fairly small hospital I guess a nurse tested positive, the entire 181 work force was quarantined and replaced within 24 hours I think. A little different to the procedure in your state.
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  2.  @kirim8621  How so, take Australia plus New Zealand , 30,000,000 population and not sure but let's say 20,000 tests a day in total. In the last 3 weeks maybe 10 to 20 positive cases per day with less than 10 representing 19,500 tests give or take per day in the community and the other tests of people in quarantine arriving internationally showing that there is a much higher rate of infections overseas. It's true the tests are not 100% however the 99.99% correct positivity or whatever it is, is good enough. The rapid tests aren't used outside of the US that I am aware because they might be 90 or 95% accurate or completely useless in stopping an outbreak in layman's terms. So totally agree with you , can never get to 100% accuracy.
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  3. Anecdotally or here say someone who worked in a covid ward and seemed genuine said deaths weren't appearing in the stats. There is a political campaign on at the moment so unlike that person's opinion of a cover up , it's half correct, they are likely reporting slowly which can't be proven, the numbers may very well become more reliable in a week or two, depends how long for the election result. You can still trust the numbers just not the timelyness . So most recent preliminary data is way out, pretty sure India with all it's problems has more timely data.
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