Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavirus Control

Re:Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavi... by zabana on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @09:25AM (#22812705)

keyword here is confirmed. Many of us carry the virus and are untested (or "unconfirmed") so that 5% number is likely to massively decrease to around 0.5% at some point if (second keyword), governments decide to implement large scale testing.

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Re:Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavi... by simion314 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:15AM (#22813111)

But if you also would consider that without the lockdown the number would have been worse you need to adjust the numbers to reflect a larger infection rate and a collapsed health care where everyone with complication is dead.

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Re:Governments Introduce Surveillance Under Veil of Coronavi... by ozim on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:25AM (#22813731)

I am going with train of thought were tested and confirmed were tested because they had high chance of getting virus. You don't test people who had no chance of getting a virus so I don't think those numbers are that much higher.

Second thing is that testing already was increased in a lot of places but last 2 days new cases number did not grow it stayed around the same.

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