While you want to test as much as you can I don't think the total number of tests is as meaningful as the percentage of positive results from those tests. It's that percentage that determines what we do.
Nebraska has always tested higher risk people. People that traveled, people exposed to positive people. It appears as long as the percentage of positive results stay in the teens, the hospitals can handle things. I saw a chart last week that showed most tests in Nebraska was in the teens, except Crete where they are having a packing plant outbreak and it was 30% there.
But to me the big deal was the new testnebraska results. Here the tests are by appointment but are more random then the other tests we've done. They started testing in Omaha and Grand Island, two places that have seen a jump in cases. But Rickets said the other day out of the first 900 results they got back there were only 30 positive results, that's just 3%.
From day one it's always been about not overrunning the hospitals, that hasn't changed. You keep the test results of positive cases under 20% there will be sports, maybe very restricted, but there's no reason not to have sports if the hospitals are not overrun.
There's no vaccine coming, so it's up to herd immunity. The key is how fast can you get up to 70% of the population getting the virus while still not overloading the hospital. If you're an old fart like me, you back off, stay safe, and let it all play out.