Kikapu wrote:... More testing does not make more positive Covid cases, but instead, it discovers more positive Covid cases which are already there...
Yes, this is perfectly true as long as you don't put these results into a hysterical looking graph which implies that case numbers are on the rise when they aren't. Let's say the tests in use, which in fact are so unreliable as to be meaningless, will give a "positive" whether false or not in one out of 1000 tests. So, in a city of one million, if you test everyone you will get 1000 positives. Let's say in one week you test 10,000 people. You will get ten positives, but there will be another 990 so-called cases out there, if you accept the validity of these tests, that went undetected because those people were not tested. Next week you test 20,000 people and you wil get twenty positives, but there are another 980 so-called cases out there that were not picked up. In the third week, you test 30,000 people and get thirty positives. There are still another 970 so-called cases out there that would have been detected if you had tested the whole population. You could put these figures together and create the impression that cases are rising fast - from 10 to 20 and then 30, when the so-called Covid cases that are out there are constant at 1000. A totally false narrative is being constructed.