Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   No Reported cases? Date:   3/12/2020 2:27:55 PM

The question is whether they have testing kits for COVID-19 and have been using them.  As I mentioned previously the geneticist that looked at COVID-19 samples and earlier flu samples found they were genetically the same.  What this means is that this strain has been here for weeks if not months and the "explosion" in "new" cases is actually a matter of them finally testing people with the flu for that specific strain.  Recall that tens of millions have had the flu this season, hundreds of thousands have been hsopitalized and tens of thousands have died.  Probably some decent percentage of those cases were COVID-19, they just didn't know it because they weren't lookinig at it. 

So unless they have begun testing specifically for COVID-19 there will be no cases in Alabama.  The reason the cases were found in Georgia is because the two people that went to the hospital with the flu were asked about their recent travel.  When they said they just got back from Italy they tested them for COVID-19 and shazam, we have our first cases.  And because of that they started to test others with the flu and shazam, some of them had it too.

I am telling you now that 6 months or a year from now we will all be looking back at this panic and will be questioning our sanity.