And a test doesn’t tell you you aren’t going to be positive tomorrow. It just tells you you weren’t positive 48 hours ago!
Fauci explained all this live at the press conference. I wish people would listen. With AIDS it’s different. You can get tested, be negative, take no at-risk behaviors, and a year later that negative test is still relevant. With COVID by the time you have a negative test result back it’s no longer even relevant. Only positive tests are relevant.
The fact is that there’s no point in testing people to demonstrate that they are negative. And there will never be enough testing to test every asymptomatic person, and a significant proportion of spread is from asymptomatic carriers. Those three incontrovertible facts lead to some very basic and sobering conclusions.
So this fear of people being forced to show a negative test assumes we’ve somehow found our way into an anti-science twilight zone kabuki theater to begin with. Which frankly wouldn’t be far off from where we are already, but can we please at least acknowledge it’s based on fear and hysteria and not any kind of science?