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Sorry, I might not be understanding where you're going with this. I initially thought you meant "you can know you're at risk of spreading COVID, because everyone is at risk of spreading COVID."

Certainly, anyone who receives a positive PCR test for COVID should quarantine ASAP. But if you're incubating COVID, but not infectious yet, the tests will return negative. A test only tells you whether you were infectious at the time of the test, so by the time you've seen the results, the information is already outdated.



> I initially thought you meant "you can know you're at risk of spreading COVID, because everyone is at risk of spreading COVID."

No. That wouldn't be a particularly useful statement.

Dismissing the aggregate risks solely based on your own is short sighted.




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