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NCjack

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15. Donnie, if you slow the rate of testing, you can get less positives
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 10:29 AM
Jun 2020

in the smaller sample. You will also get less negatives. But, the percentage of positives does not change as the sample size is reduced.

Using your FU'd logic, less negative cases would mean that the Coronavirus infection rate is increasing. So, you should increase testing, which would give you more negatives (and reduction in CV infection). Which is absurd. In fact, Donnie, you are absurd.

In interpreting test results, you must use both the numbers of positive and negative results in the daily sample to produce a meaningful number that can be plotted on a trend graph. That useful number is the number of positives per 1000:

[Number of positives / (number of positives + number of negatives)] x 1000

I'm sure that scientists Drs. Fauci and Birx have explained that to you many times. But, you are too stupid or too duplicitous to stop mis-presenting the idea that reducing testing rate reduces the measure of the percentage of infection.

Conclusion: Donnie, you are too stupid and ignorant to be president. Resign Now.

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