Why are we testing healthy people?

Vincent J. Curtis

25 Dec 21

We’ve known since March, 2020, that COVID-19 is dangerous almost exclusively to the old, those over 80 years especially.  It can also be dangerous to younger people who suffer from certain afflictions: diabetes, obesity, and respiratory ailments.  We see this in Ontario’s morbidity and mortality numbers. The over 80 demographic suffered the most deaths, followed by the 70-79 demographic.  Mortality falls dramatically in the 60-69 demographic, and becomes miniscule to practically non-existent in the younger demographics.

The question arises, “why are we testing healthy, asymptotic people at low risk?”  Of course, knowledge is an unlimited good, but when test kits are expensive and limited in supply, questions of sensible economy enter the answer.  Asymptomatic people are that way because their bodies aren’t manufacturing viruses on a mass scale.  When infected, the virus uses the body’s tissues to reproduce itself; that, in turn, produces a response in the body, including swelling, production of certain fluids, and auto-immune response.  The auto-immune response kills viruses directly, but the body can also rid itself of viruses by discharging them into the air.  The absence of these symptoms means that person is not a likely source of spreading the infection.  Hence, asymptomatic people are at no risk either to themselves or to other healthy people.

It makes no sense, therefore, to test asymptomatic young people.  What is done if a test comes back positive?  Useless quarantine, unhealthy locking down, and subjecting others to unhealthy lockdown treatment.

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