Posted on 01/04/2022 4:39:15 PM PST by lightman
We need to relax here, folks. We need to relax. COVID is contagious. Omicron is ripping through the US with 1 million new infections recorded yesterday, but the latter is mild. The overall virus has a very, very high survivability rate. Is it a walk in the park? No—but it’s not super Ebola. This isn’t The Stand or Station Eleven. It’s something we’re going to have to live with after China’s lab experiment gone awry. The experiment that Anthony Fauci’s NIH funded. So, given the hysterics concerning testing and a host of other COVID-related issues, we have a new way to gauge the level of infection. For this, you’re going to have to stick your head in a toilet—literally (via NBC News):
Experts say wastewater holds the key to better understanding the public health of cities and neighborhoods, especially in underserved areas that do not have equal access to care.
“Every time an infected person uses the toilet, they’re flushing this information down the toilet, where it’s collecting and aggregating and mixing with poop from thousands of other people,” said Newsha Ghaeli, a co-founder and the president of Biobot Analytics, a wastewater epidemiology company based in Massachusetts.
“Even if you can’t access a test, you’re still pooping,” Ghaeli said. “It doesn’t depend on you having access to health care or health insurance.”
Monitoring sewage can also measure other public health concerns, such as obesity, opioids and even polio, said Sheree Pagsuyoin, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The pandemic has ushered in a new era of wastewater analysis, once a maligned discipline, to inform public health policy.
“It’s sort of like mapping a trend,” Pagsuyoin said, adding that there has been a “paradigm shift” as more cities turn to sewage analysis to better understand local challenges.
Recent wastewater analysis from a variety of sources across the country indicates an unprecedented surge in infections at a time when millions of people are forced to reconsider travel and holiday plans.
Now, we must be aware of ‘poop COVID.’ We’re done. We’re tired. The CDC looks as if they obliterated the remaining vestige of their credibility which has degraded over the past 18 months or so. When they shortened the period of isolation, liberal America went ballistic. The science is no longer to be trusted, huh? The science is wrong. Why is that? Is that because it chipped away at the aura of fear and anxiety that liberals are addicted to with this virus? Maybe. I’m not sifting through crap regarding this virus and the folks.
‘Poop COVID’—is this where we jumped the shark on this or was that eon ago? I know you all think it’s the latter. It most definitely is, but what moments? I feel like this has been a brutal descent down the slope ending only with the mangled corpse of the expert class who torched everything to help their side win a presidential election.
Chew on this:
There is a lot of REAL science indicating that COVID—like cruise ship noroviruses—is spread primarily be fecal to oral transmission.
Let that sink in.
Remember about a year ago when there were a few quickly buried stories about communities in the New England states that were going to start testing sewerage for COVID?
Let that sink in.
Now consider this: In many States (California for sure) the mask mandates are explicit that those in restaurants MUST wear a mask INTO THE RESTROOM where of course that cloth will absorb all toilet odors and other zhit.
Let that sink in.
Then the patron MUST wear the zhit laden mask back into the restaurant so that with every exhale the patrons innocently eating pancakes can get a dose of the restroom zhit.
Let that sink in.
Think this is an overactive imagination?
Check this out:
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/04/24/aerosolized-pathogens-toilet-flushes-public-bathrooms-study/5451619211353/
Bottom line: If mask mandates really followed “the science” they would require mask REMOVAL before entering a public restroom and securing the mask in a ziploc type bag, and reapplying the mask ONLY upon leaving the restroom.
It’s something we’re going to have to live with after China’s lab experiment gone awry.
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Started and funded by Fauci.
“1 million new infections recorded yesterday,”
Not on worldometers https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I’ve been trying to find where that number is from and can’t.
It’s all pipes! What’s the difference? -George Constanza
Karl denninger pointed this fact out in early 2020.
NYC apartment dwellers, completely isolated contracted Covid . How? Pipes!
Detectable does not mean infectible. At the beginning they were detecting COVID on shoe strings 999 days later. Ridiculous.
If you are detecting it at a higher rate than it exists.. you have a false pos. Lots and lots of false pos in regular pcr tests. They are just making sh1t up.
After a trip though the forum, I always feel enlightened.
As of 2 January 2022:
For the world:
( 5,440,715 “global deaths”) / 7,917,528,778 global population ) x 100 = 0.0687%
Less than seven one-hunredths of one percent “global deaths” from Covid over two years.
Bkmk
No wonder that 80 + percent of deers are infected!
And why the supermarket produce sections have been picked bare.
Sewage wastewater monitored for Covid in SF Bay area.
WHEN IT COMES TO TRACKING COVID-19, SMCSD IS FLUSH WITH DATA
As part of the ongoing efforts to detect and stop the spread of COVID-19, the District is participating in a UC Berkeley study to test for the novel coronavirus in wastewater. In addition to airborne droplets, coronavirus can be shed through the digestive tract and into our sewers. Researchers hope that by monitoring for dead COVID-19 cells in wastewater they can help identify outbreaks in their very early stages, possibly even before they show up in regional case counts.
Wastewater Does Not Spread COVID-19. Although viral particles can be detected in wastewater, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have assured the public that “there is no information to date that anyone has become sick with COVID-19 because of direct exposure to treated or untreated wastewater.”
Early Warning System. Because the testing samples pooled wastewater from the entire service area, it cannot identify individual homes or businesses that might be the source of detected virus particles. So, while it cannot identify individual infections, like a nasal swab, centralized wastewater testing could provide a safe and unintrusive early warning system to help county officials understand where COVID-19 might be spreading in the community, and how fast: the more virus detected in the wastewater, the more likely a widespread outbreak could be underway. Early detection can help public health officials make decisions about how to allocate resources, like testing centers, where they are most needed.
Low Cost, Fast Testing. The random samples are collected at regular intervals and shipped to a central testing location at the Berkeley Water Center. There, the COVID-WEB team uses a technique that rapidly stabilizes and concentrates any viral RNA present in a sample so it can be measured in the lab. The technique uses table salt, ethanol, and other low-cost, easily obtained materials, making it less expensive and more sustainable than techniques that rely on complex or expensive reagents. The test is also very sensitive and very fast; turnaround is down to about three days per sample.
SMCSD Is One Of Six Agencies in Marin County Participating in the Study. Agencies in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties are also participating. The Berkeley team is rapidly expanding capacity in order to give public health officials another weapon in the battle against COVID-19 in the Bay Area. Wastewater testing may also give scientists a tool for tracking virus strains as they mutate.
NBC (i.e., out of thin air)
Reuters was running it too.
I think someone pulled the world cases number and said it was the US.
... Does this mean we are all going to have to wear Butt Masks when we poop now so COVID doesn’t enter the sewage system???
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