Man, the internet is really messing with America’s mind. Cable “news” too. We’re all doubting each other’s sources and all it’s doing is dividing us. Believing in fairy tales is not healthy ever. All it does is lower the bar for everything to become “facts”. This is one case where trickle down really works. Disinformation overload.
This happens in many countries. Politics is forbidden on BLF, otherwise I could point out a driving force behind the conspiracy myth. Well known in Germany.
Yeah, precisely my sensation when I hear something from Fox News :laughing:
Oh, oops, I just don’t drink coffee
Honestly, the whole situation told by the nurse was WOW! Of course not everyone experiences the same, still, the report is mindblowing and unfortunately she’s not the only one seeing those situations in the ICU or other caring units :zipper_mouth_face:
That study was posted on a website that often posts papers that have not been peer reviewed, and only reviewed by the editors of the website. They don’t make that clear on the study report page, so I am mentioning it here. That particular study also involved data collected in China after a four-month, total lockdown of everyone in the studied population. We don’t have that kind of a situation in the USA, and we never will. In addition, the report doesn’t say whether the people who tested positive but were asymptomatic were isolated after the lockdown and before the testing from others, or lived as normal in full contact with families, friends, co-workers, etc. There’s too many variables unlike the USA, and too little known about how the study results were obtained, to draw general conclusions from it that are applicable to the USA or other countries where there haven’t been total lockdowns of large areas.
Purely asymptomatic people, who don’t develop symptoms at all during the infection, don’t spread much. The issue is that pre-syntomatic people (the ones that will develop symptoms a few days in the future) can easily spread the virus.
That’s what the WHO tried to tell, as that information is useful for contact tracing purposes, but it was misunderstood.
The problem is that we just don’t know yet how to tell apart pre-syntomatic cases from asymptomatic cases.
Most Covid19 papers are not reviewed yet, the peer review & publication process is just too slow for an ongoing pandemic, so everybody looks at the preprints.
Sure there are speculators also in conspiracy theories, however feeling the daily hammering of massmedias and watch how the world turn there may be some thrut.