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.
The reputable websites that post pre-review papers incorporate a comment process after posting. There’s no sign that is permitted or happening in the case mentioned above. I’m aware of the length of time required for the full peer review process to be done, but that isn’t an issue here.
It's frustrating to calibrate your precautions when there's only one kind of really definitive feedback you can get, you can only get it once, and when you do it's too late.
My country’s president must feel like that, he frequently uses the analogy of adjusting knobs. From a few cases in July (Winter) we spiked the past week to 200-300 daily cases (multiply by 100 to get US equivalent numbers), anything over 100 is not sustainable for contact tracing, now we closed the gyms and if the cases don’t decrease in the following week we may have to turn the knob higher.
As mentioned elsewhere — the virus seems to be getting around faster. Perhaps it’s being selected for adaption to living in human hosts? Thanks, Darwin.
The thing is, most of the popular conservative television shows tell their viewers exactly what they want to hear, and they usually resort to alternative facts that have no relation to the truth.
cnn.com doesn't do that.
They carefully selects stories that appeal to liberals, but at least the stories are factual.
And, yes, stories from any media source can be, and are, fact checked.
Wait! That’s four people agreeing on something besides the fact that flashlights are cool. Close the thread now! We need Lightbringer to bring us back to our pleasant discord!
