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>> >>>> Ian Jackson snipped-for-privacy@g3ohx.co.uk> posted
>>>>> In message snipped-for-privacy@ryzen.lan, Commander Kinsey
>>>>> snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com writes
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>>>>>> 80% of people don't even get symptoms, nevermind die.downfall. >>>>>
>>>>> 80%? I keep hearing 'a third'.
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>>>> Well, we don't know, because large numbers of asymptomatic people
>>>> have never been tested, so we can't tell whether they have been
>>>> infected. The estimate given by any particular source probably
>>>> depends strongly on the message they want to pass on.
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>>> PHE has an ongoing, random testing system, which should give a pretty
>>> good picture of how widespread asymptomatic infection is.
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>> Do they drag people off the street?
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> Nope, just sample at random.
You mean it's compulsory? (That's kind of what is mean by "drag people off the street".)
I went to a barber once who did that - almost literally. I looked in and withdrew when I saw the queue of men sitting down waiting - then one of the barbers came out and persuaded me to come back in, which I did.