testing accomplishes two things:

1. it makes the official infection rate rise. the more tests are taken, the more positives will be found. this makes us "look bad" for having much higher infection rates than other countries who did much less testing.
2. as the infection rate rises, the death rate becomes diluted and we learn that the virus is significantly less dangerous than everyone expected.

we should absolutely continue to test, but we should acknowledge the second point more and stop focusing only on the first point. the entire situation was blown way out of proportion. that is not my opinion, that is what the data shows and will continue to show as we continue to test.