Many governments (including the one that occupies my country Switzerland) drove economies into the ditch. These governments won't admit that this was wrong from the start. Now they have to pretend the USA is too dangerous.

People from high-occurrence areas are a risk to people from low-occurrence areas.

That said, it's possible that both approaches were poor.

We'll only understand the cost of lockdown in hindsight: increased poverty, increase joblessness, increased mental health issues, etc.

Some problems don't have any good-looking solutions.

IMHO companies should include older designs, or allow people to adjust everything. So Windows 10, for instance, could come with the designs of 10, 8 and 7.

It already does.

As far as I can tell, Windows 10 doesn't natively allow you to use the older window decoration styles—you'd have to purchase 3rd party software to do so.

That was a snarky dig at how Windows still has different styles and paradigms from different eras in different places. Menu bars, tool bars, control panels, and so on.

>How superficially do they check their customers?

I'm not an expert but maybe they just believed in the books. Or maybe they checked the documents, but the documents were forged, so checking the documents would have been useless.

One country should decide to fine Apple. The fine should be a tenth of the market capitalization. Problem solved.

Do you think something like this might happen?

I think the public must get the message that there was no terror virus. This will let the idea terror virus disappear. People who are having the idea will have to realize that have been taken in by charlatans. This won't feel nice.

I think the fear of a terror virus was so great that a virus that didn't have such a bad quality was mentally turned into a virus that has this bad quality.

Isn't it also possible that the PCR test was wrong and it was something else, like a cold?

The PCR test is a very specific test. A positive test means the RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was detected. A negative test, however, would not be as strong of an indicator as false positive rates are quite high early or late in the infection (https://www.biotechniques.com/coronavirus-news/news_false-ne...).

As far as I know a false positive in PCR is not very likely, but of course it is possible.

PCR is very unlikely to give a false positive if you never had the virus. The viral RNA simply isn't present to be detected. A false positive from PCR most likely came from contamination of the test materials.

PCR is quite likely to give a false positive if you previously had the virus but have recovered, including asymptomatic cases. There are still pieces of viral RNA that can be detected by PCR, even if they're inactivated by having destroyed the viral coating and you're no longer contagious.

So PCR is pretty accurate at saying if you ever had the virus, but not so accurate at saying if you currently have it at contagious levels.

Or the antibody test was wrong. Seems most of the tests look super noisy.

I'm not sure if it's the case but maybe 60% is the possible maximum?

I hope I understand it correctly how germs spread. Is it like this?

Imagine an infected person infects 4 other persons, and the incubation period was 1 year. Probably everyone would get the germ.

But if the incubation period was 1 second, at a certain point 1 infected person would find less than 1 person who is infectable (not already infected / had an infection that is gone now / has had an immunity? / etc.).

I posted elsewhere, but yes, there are thresholds for transmission when enough of population has developed immunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics

They are so annoying that I block scripts of captchas in uBlock Origin. So far I've blocked the scripts of recaptcha and hcaptcha [1]. If a website uses a script captcha I leave. But recatcha told me once I was a bot, so I guess it's OK that I don't use websites that don't like bots.

[1] The 3 uBlock Origin filters:

  ||www.google.com/recaptcha/*$script,important
  ||www.recaptcha.net^$script,important
  ||hcaptcha.com^$script,important

Is there a market for these tiny photographs?

No, just an open door to litigation.