Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
There's a 14-day incubation period. During that 14 day period you could test positive, without having any symptoms yet. Knowing in advance that you DO have the virus, can help you prepare, AND can be your notification that it's time to self-quarantine so you don't give it to anyone else.
A negative result won't offer this, I understand. But a positive result can possibly save your life, and the lives of everyone around you.
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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
What is so hard to understand? If you get tested at 10:00AM and get infected at 2:00 PM your test is going to be negative. You'll be walking around all fat, dumb and happy that you tested negative, but that won't be true because you are infected. For testing to have any benefit is if you are tested daily.
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Read what Orange Blossum posted. What if you feel mildly sick, not bad enough to call a doctor, but just to be sure, you get a test, and test positive. Then you isolate, cancel your plans to party at Cody's that evening, and don't infect a dozen other people. A free no-hassle virus test seems quite worthwhile and valuable to public health, doesn't it?