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And Trudeau himself is not being tested: https://twitter.com/CameronAhmad/status/1238281503005642753. I don't understand why some governments seem so averse to testing in general and have really tight constraints around it. In comparison, Bolsonaro had an aid test positive for it and he's being tested with results coming tomorrow: https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1238232367006912514

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It's optics. Every Canadian is being told that you won't be tested if you are asymptomatic. If he was to get tested, it shows a disparity in the system.

if you're going to self isolate anyway there's not much point in testing I suppose other than for statistical purposes and at this point my guess would be that testing people on the frontlines is more important.

What "frontlines?" Everywhere are "frontlines" at this point.

healthcare workers, public service workers, food, transportation, pharmaceutical and so on. People who need to definitely know if they are sick or not.

If he tests positive then the self quarantine he is under would expand to his contacts since Sophie returned.

No point in wasting a test on someone you're assuming is and treating as infected.

Who should we test then?

People with symptoms who have had no known contact with the infected, to determine if it's covid-19 or just something else?

Edit: I'm assuming we're talking about in the reality scenario where we don't have the testing capacity to test everyone. If you're not just testing the symptomatic, you're testing everyone who isn't already in the infected set, I don't think the US/Canada is prepared for that.

I think US just doesn’t physically have enough tests.

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