Dave
It seems that you are an eternal optimist.
“The more you test the more you find ‘infected’, which is portrayed as alarming, except it means the virus is mostly harmless as the % fatality gets smaller, and this year’s death rate are below the average for preceding 5 years.”
Yes that is true the mortality rate will fall if you test more. But you will not reduce the number of people dying by testing more and that is the fact we are now dealing with, more than 10,000 deaths in the last two weeks, if we tested another million and they are all negative, that would still mean that 10,000 have died. Also that the million tested were negative today doesn’t mean that another 100000 will not be positive next week with another 10,000 deaths. Using backward looking statistics to try and predict the future is worse than useless, it is dangerous.
As to your last sentence, Clark has already pointed out that this is no longer true, but ignoring facts won’t make them go away.