The Philippines so far does not have an effective infrastructure for testing for the Corona virus. Also they do not have an easy path for people who want or need to be tested.
Only a very small percentage, correct that, only a very, very, very small percentage of the general population has been tested. Among those tested most likely are medical personal, first responders or people with clout. This does not give you meaningful data on how to proceed.
If random testing of the general population is done, you could have a ratio between healthy an infected, you could determine how many healthy appearing people are actually carriers.
Once you know where you are, then you can determine where you're going. It's slip shot to say we don't know where we are or where we are going, so were going to totally lock down everything (people).
If unrest comes, it will be because of the pain inflicted on the general population. It could reach the point where the police or military will not be able to maintain control in certain areas of the country.
Lets make the pathway to testing a priority so intelligent, informed decisions could be made.
Importance of Virus Testing
Also the current ratio of sick to deaths is severely skewed. The latest numbers that I see are 7192 cases and 477 deaths in the Philippines or about a 7% death rate. With testing the sick number would much higher while the deaths would remain the same so who knows what the actual death rate is?
AaronAardvark wrote:Also the current ratio of sick to deaths is severely skewed. The latest numbers that I see are 7192 cases and 477 deaths in the Philippines or about a 7% death rate. With testing the sick number would much higher while the deaths would remain the same so who knows what the actual death rate is?
Yes, it's easier to report a death, than an illness.
Sadly they will never stop it in the Philippine's, Manila has over 60% of all cases in the Philippnes, and once it really takes off in the slum area's they will never be able to stop it.
Island isolation is the best thing that the Philippines has to stop it.
AaronAardvark wrote:Also the current ratio of sick to deaths is severely skewed. The latest numbers that I see are 7192 cases and 477 deaths in the Philippines or about a 7% death rate. With testing the sick number would much higher while the deaths would remain the same so who knows what the actual death rate is?
Correct.
Add the pointless but expensive waste of time mass testing is, and we'll never know the real numbers.
So many people are calling for mass testing, but it's a total waste of time as a negative could well be a positive the first time the patient gets near an infected person, and they're far more likely to get the virus when being tested than if they avoid people exposed to infected patients.
Testing suspected positives makes sense.
It has been estimated that there are over 380 trillion viruses inhabiting us, a community collectively known as the human virome. But these viruses are not the dangerous ones you commonly hear about, like those that cause the flu or the common cold, or more sinister infections like Ebola or dengue or this current one Covid 19,
“If ONLY we had a disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute"
Look no further!! Trumpy Pooh must have one! He was just mentioning about people using disinfectant internally!! Big hit! Caused him to shut down his Friday virus update early! 
Perhaps we could avoid knocking Trump. I don't want to have to start messing about with all the political rubbish again.
As with all products, ALL disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines”
manwonder wrote:As with all products, ALL disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines”
Most people know that.
Fred wrote:Perhaps we could avoid knocking Trump. I don't want to have to start messing about with all the political rubbish again.
Fred why do you block political posts except when they knock Trump?
Gentle reminders, as with all previous cases, are better than removing posts. The same applies to all political bias.
To the topic, or at least close, some total hatstand in Spain has proven 5G coverage and covid19 hotspots are pretty much the same. However, he neglects to mention 5G (as with all new mobile services) covers the cities first as that's where the most potential customers are. Of course, being crowded, they tend to suffer more cases of all communicable diseases.
One has to be very careful of morons and idiotic ideas, more so because some people are terrifically stupid and actually believe that sort of rubbish.
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