All those positive cases are from all that damn excessive and irresponsible testing........../s
That's literally true. There are more false positives than false negatives by orders of magnitude. It's counterintuitive but fairly simple math. Even a highly accurate test, even one with a 99% accuracy, which COVID tests don't even come close to, will have an extremely bad false positive rate on a large population when the issue they're detecting - in this case, Chinese Lung AIDS - has a low incidence in that population.
That's literally true. There are more false positives than false negatives by orders of magnitude. It's counterintuitive but fairly simple math. Even a highly accurate test, even one with a 99% accuracy, which COVID tests don't even come close to, will have an extremely bad false positive rate on a large population when the issue they're detecting - in this case, Chinese Lung AIDS - has a low incidence in that population.