Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:27PM
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You added the "at risk" part, not me! :)
Your version applies to cars too! By driving a car, you are at risk of causing a car crash!
You said "you can't know"
With COVID, you can. Pretty easily.
Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:06PM
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Sorry, I might not be understanding where you're going with this. I initially thought you meant "you can know you're at risk of spreading COVID, because everyone is at risk of spreading COVID."
Certainly, anyone who receives a positive PCR test for COVID should quarantine ASAP. But if you're incubating COVID, but not infectious yet, the tests will return negative. A test only tells you whether you were infectious at the time of the test, so by the time you've seen the results, the information is already outdated.
> I initially thought you meant "you can know you're at risk of spreading COVID, because everyone is at risk of spreading COVID."
No. That wouldn't be a particularly useful statement.
Dismissing the aggregate risks solely based on your own is short sighted.
This really isn't remotely analogous, particularly since you absolutely can know you're at risk of spreading COVID.