[St Charles Owl]

I can see the benefit of finding out if you've already had it but it's a pointless exercise for anyone who hasn't, particularly if still working/ going out.

I get that a test only shows if you have the virus at that moment, but doing more testing will find people who are in that 10 day period where they are asymptomatic but still capable of passing onto others. People will naturally take social distancing far more seriously if they know they have it even if no showing symptoms.

Germany and South Korea are the two countries who are doing far more testing than anywhere else, and their rate of spread is far less than those countries not doing as much testing. Germany has done nearly 1m tests, the Uk has done 200k, Spain and Italy's total test numbers done even add up to what Germany has done. So far Germany has only 1600 deaths, the UK has nearly 5000, yet Germany has over twice the number of cases, that has to be because they are testing far more people.