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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7940607" data-attributes="member: 15700">lowkey13 pretty much hit it, but to reiterate:1. widespread testing means you catch the cases way earlier, which enables you to engage in actions to prevent spreading it.  SARS and MERS are way worse than this, but because the symptoms show up a lot faster, and we could test for it a lot faster, allowed us to contain it much better. No one feels "safe" per se if getting testing.  But there is a level of reassurance there.  Because the virus can take up to two weeks before showing symptoms, I am not visiting my grandma anymore, which sucks for her a lot.  if I knew I was clear, I could go see her.  I just can't risk it right now. Testing also allows us to get much better numbers, and come up with much better incubation, contagoius times, severity %s,  mortality %s, etc.  In most cases, the symptoms are minor, which means a lot of people aren't being tested, which skews those numbers, which means we're working with bad data.   The more information we have and the more accurate, the better.Last week I was talking with a person who worked at Fred Meyer, and she asked a lady why she was buying up all the TP.  She sheepishly replied, "I see everyone else doing it, and I don't want to miss out in case they know something I don't."Herd mentality.</blockquote>