Posted on 12/27/2020 5:31:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The study, published in the November issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Communications, studied 9,899,828 residents of Wuhan, screening them between May 14, 2020 and June 1, 2020. The results provided clear evidence as to the possibility of any asymptomatic transmission of the virus.
The study was compiled by 19 scientists from the Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Wuhan, and highly respected scientific institutions in the UK and Australia.
Titled Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly 10 million residents of Wuhan, China, the study thoroughly debunked the concept of asymptomatic transmission.
Out of the nearly 10 million people in the study, results revealed “300 asymptomatic cases” were found. Utilizing contact tracing, of those 300, not a single case of COVID-19 were detected in any of them.
Asymptomatic spread of COVID not a thing. https://t.co/TwF4A43JHi. Have some well considered hugs. Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China | Nature Communications https://t.co/gFgSsKxjPo
— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) November 22, 2020
Further examination of the study subjects revealed that “virus cultures” in the positive and re-positive asymptomatic cases were all negative, “indicating no ‘viable virus’ in positive cases detected in this study.”
The age range of those found to be asymptomatic was between 10 and 89 years of age. The asymptomatic positive rate was “lowest in children or adolescents aged 17 and below” and the highest rate was found among people older than 60.
The study also concluded with high confidence that due to a weakening of the virus itself, “newly infected persons were more likely to be asymptomatic and with a lower viral load than earlier infected cases.”
In June of 2020, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, stated publicly that she doubted the narrative advanced by the political class on asymptomatic transmission.
Van Kerkhove explained during a press conference that, “from the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.”
In fact, Van Kerkhove couldn’t point to a single case of asymptomatic transmission, noting that numerous reports “were not finding secondary transmission onward.”
The false narrative of asymptomatic transmission has been the justification used by the political and activist classes for lockdowns enacted all across the world.
Even the US Centers for Disease Control has been politicized in its advancing of the asymptomatic transmission false narrative. They falsely advance claims that asymptomatic people “are estimated to account for more than 50 percent of transmissions.”
There is no scientific data to corroborate this position.
A growing number of social scientists have started to advance the idea that the lockdowns – most prevalent in states with Democrat and Progressive governors, and in many cases states critical to the 2020 General Election – were nefariously instituted to facilitate a manipulation of the election process.
1. This study was done POST-LOCKDOWN. They had already wiped out Covid in Wuhan.
2. It says right in the abstract that out of the 10 million people, they found NO NEW SYMPTOMATIC CASES at all.
3. If there were zero symptomatic cases in 10 million, people then it is not surprising they couldn't find any symptomatic contacts among the few asymptomatic cases that turned up.
5. There could have been lots of asymptomatic spreaders in Wuhan prior to the end of the lockdown. They would not have been identified by this study.
6. This study does not tell you anything about the contagiousness of the vastly larger number of asymptomatic people in a country where there is un-contained spread such as our own.
“Where did the “6 foot rule” come from? Can’t possibly be scientific.”
Actually it came from the 1918 Influenza outbreak, as they didn’t have much to go on.
Since then the CDC has been too busy searching for microbes hiding inside gun barrels (to prove guns are an ‘epidemic’) to bother with trivial concerns like trying to preventing nation-crippling pandemics.
When your goal is to cripple a nation, prevention ceases to be a priority.
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To be complete...this study is also coming out of:
Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The bottom line on this study, there was a 0.0% new covid positive tests resulting from "close contact" with people who were covid positive but not showing symptoms (asymptomatic).
Put another way...out of nearly 10 million people, only 300 were new covid positive but not showing signs of it and 1,174 people who were close to those covid asymptomatic's, nobody new got infected. Nobody.
This is evidence that the orthodoxy here in the U.S. and most of Europe that lockdown's, cloth mask wearing, "social distance" mandates and selective business closures are not based on "settled science" along the lines of the man caused globul warming scam...but rather, based on liberal politicians desire for power and control.
The take away is this...
If individual people (esp those with compromised immune systems & the very old) feel the personal need to put a cloth mask over their mouth or nose, then that is their individual right.
But governments, whether state or local (or soon federal) should NOT be in the business of mandating any such thing and should NOT be selectively closing down some businesses, while allowing others to remain open.
False. This study was done post-lockdown and claims relevance only in that context: "The citywide screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan is a mass screening programme in post-lockdown settings, and provided invaluable experiences or lessons with international relevance as more countries and cities around the world entering the post-lockdown phase."
A study done in China? No thanks
I quoted directly from the study.
Or is it the lockdowns and cloth masks that you think are legitimate?
+1
[Where did the “6 foot rule” come from?
Can’t possibly be scientific.]
Right. Scientific would be in meters. /s
“What part of what I stated was false?”
The part I quoted. The study is not evidence of what you claim - for the reason I explained.
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