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This is what I quoted. How does that turn into less than 60k tests per day in the chart you posted?
As for the other stuff, I'm going to make an effort to stop arguing. You (and some other posters) and I have VERY different opinions on how this pandemic should be handled and neither can change the other's mind. The science is nowhere near conclusive enough to reach the "right" answer which is why the response has devolved into a political issue.
The main difference is that if it is handled "your way," I am unable to make my own decision do many things I consider important and be allowed to do them by other people who decide to be "open" for me to do them. If it is handled "my way" then you can elect to not do things that you consider too risky and others can decide if being "open" is too risky on an individual basis.
Covidtracking has a link to their data, from the state. You can see it yourself. A quick examination shows that your chart is including repeat testing. While when computing positivity rate and reporting cases, the State (and Covidtracking) is only reporting first-time positives. If your chart was actually accurate, that would mean the Florida positivity rate has been 5-10%%%! Which we know isn't true.
Now, I've got no problem with a libertarian political view. I do have a problem when anyone, for political purposes, attempts to twist and distort the data and facts in favor of their political view.
We are a society of rules established for our mutual benefit. I suppose, under your way, we would get rid of laws against drunk driving -- that's an individual choice. If people consider it too risk, they shouldn't drink and drive, they shouldn't get in the car with drunk drivers, and they probably should avoid roads with drunk drivers. We shouldn't have speed limits -- individual choice if you want to drive at dangerously high speeds. We shouldn't have laws against smoking in public places -- If you want to avoid second hand smoke, just stay in your own house. Yes, an employee totally dependent on their job, could "elect" to quit and starve to death if going to work is too risky.
Certainly, that libertarian viewpoint is a legitimate philosophy in theory. But that's not the way our system works here. We have a complex system or laws, rules, customs and norms, established for mutual benefit and mutual safety. A system that protects individual liberty, but will prevent people from using their individual liberty to harm others.
So you want to argue for libertarian government... Go for it. But don't lie about the data. Own the argument, "if people want to drive drunk, if people want to expose others to cancer causing second hand smoke, if people want to spread Covid among their friends, family and co-workers, if companies want to endanger their employees..... they should have the right to do so."
