Sometimes it’s done unethically. Sometimes it just happens.

More than 1,300 at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center test positive for COVID-19

The main points of note:

Out of the 2,450 total tests, more than 1,300 staff and inmates tested positive.

According to the state, analysis of the test results confirmed that 98% of those who tested positive are asymptomatic.

This would argue that there should be roughly fifty times the number of people with the Commie Cough than currently calculated for the simple reason that 98% of the people who halve it have no symptoms and are thus unlikely to be tested. And so, according to THIS, there are currently 1,069,375 confirmed cases in the US, with 62,996 deaths, for a mortality rate of *something* like 5.5% (probably higher, since a lot of the current cases have yet to run their course). But factoring in the prison data, there should actually be about 53,500,000 cases, with a mortality rate of 0.12%.

The testing on prisoners is of course an intentional act. But the actual infection of the prisoners is almost certainly Just One Of Them Things, aided by the high population density.

Lessons to be learned include that it *seems* that the Pinko Pox is not as fatal – at least to the kind of folks to who populate prisons – as it seems to be… and that high population densities are bad for public health. Consequently, things like public housing, apartment blocks, condos, public transportation and San Francisco should be banned.