Something interesting my wife pointed out about using positive “cases” as a metric for justifying Covid-related restrictions: you cannot test for Covid, you can only test for the presence of the Coronavirus. That tells you nothing about if the person is sick, contagious, etc.

And we know from current research that rates of asymptomatic transmission are very low. Hospitalization data is probably the most useful # to determine how “bad” the virus is, but funny—we’re not being shown much of those data lately (bc it’s VERY low in most cases)

So when we keep hearing “X number of cases!”, it’s just people that have Coronavirus detectable in their blood. It’s not “X number of sick or even contagious people”.

Anyways, once again—my bio-sci/prof wife basically feels the danger of the virus is being VASTLY overstated.