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This strikes me as being a major societal bug. I agree that it's in the short term interests of the person to avoid getting tested. But, many people avoiding testing and thereby creating a pressure that it's normal and okay to do that, is what causes the silly situation in the first place.
A lot of the other scenarios you write about seem similar: strategic ignorance can be helpful for the individual in the short term, but a general policy of deliberate non-ignorance would be better for everybody overall.