If a test gives a false positive, is a second test of the same type equally likely to give a false positive? In other words, would double testing yield significantly greater accuracy and confidence?
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Also: an idiot on other things:
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Huh? Arizona? Cases per day over the last week is well over 2000, with one of the highest infectivity rates per person tested in the country! So weird.
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Ah, but if you take a reverse log of the infection to pollen count ratio then cases are on an inverse negative bayesian slope, soâŚ
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I donât think that word means what you think it meansâŚ
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And to just emphasize how lackadaisical weâre being, even in a place that is taking it relatively seriously the people in charge are perfectly fine with opening up further with a rate twice as high as what is currently freaking out Paris:
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Relevant to both the pandemic and the RNC:
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whatâs the point of contact tracing again 
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Good to know Iâm just not going to be outside until at least January 21stâŚ
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So does this justify refugee status if I want to go live somewhere else?
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I like how this Lincoln Project video sums up his coronavirus response:
I first thought that itâs not possible for this to be real, but if you think about it it makes prefect sense (in a horrbily sociopathic way) if their goal is to cancel or delay elections.
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Presumably they only tested for C19. 
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I swear, theyâve already caught something that makes them want to spread disease to other people.
eta:
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If other countries ban US citizens until next year, my best option might be to find a boat and remain at sea. Refugees attempting to land on foreign shores havenât been very successful in past decades, and the situation is getting worse:
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Turns out a pandemic that hits obese people really hard to the point of making people want to lose weight to increase their odds of survival is bad for the corn syrup water business
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