“You’re just utterly, irretrievably wrong...One of the doctors in China, who had not been to Wuhan, caught it from a doctor who HAD been to Wuhan (this was back in January, btw), merely by sitting at the same table as him at a conference.”
I think you’re wasting your time with these types. I suspect part of it is denial, they simply cannot grasp the thought that something so dangerous could be transmitted so easily. But why the hell not? Anyway, denial is understandable as people start to grasp the implications of aerosol transmission.
In my case I sent an email to my boss last week and told them I’m going to work remotely at home until it’s over - implying if they don’t like the idea, they’re welcome to do as they wish. Obviously I can take whatever outcome comes of it (no response yet)...but just as obviously, most others cannot. Hence the need for denial.
GEORGIA
MARCH 08, 2020ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is awaiting confirmatory testing on four new presumptive positive tests for COVID-19 in Georgia residents. Testing was completed today at the Georgia Public Health Laboratory (GPHL) and the results have been submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for verification.
One individual is from Fulton County, another individual is from Cherokee County, and the other two individuals are from Cobb County, but they have no connection to each other. All of the individuals are hospitalized, and the sources of their infections are not known.
With the addition of these four presumptive positive cases of COVID-19, there are now six presumptive positives pendingconfirmatory testing by CDC, and five confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Georgia.
Meanwhile, those getting caught breaking a quarantine and risking others continue to somehow think they were justified if the positive test results hadn’t quite got back to them yet:
Note also in this story how a student returning from Italy within the week is out and about on public transportation.
ANd yet on a cruise ship with hundreds of people infected, the total transmission rate, after being stuck together with horrible quarantine procedures, was 17%. In other words, over 80% of the people on a ship that was a breeding ground for the disease did not contract the disease, even asymptomatically (410 of the 705 that DID get it were asymptomatic).
Is 17% a big number, or a small number? Did that one doctor cough in his hand, and then shake hands? Did the other doctor wipe his face, or pick up food with his now-infected hands? Did anybody else at the table get it? Anybody else in the conference?
It could be highly contagious, but we don’t know that. We have one really bad case in a nursing home where by their own reports they couldn’t have spread it more if they had been trying to do so, because they did so many things wrong.