Posted on 05/12/2020 5:24:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With some of these antibody test numbers, it probably already has.
I agree with this. Infections may slow down over the summer, but ultimately this will percolate through the populace until the majority of people have been infected. I also think we are doing a better job treating patients who get severe cases.
Because they thought they had accidentally released a virus from their Biowar experiments (See "Gain-of-Function") into their general population. As indeed they most likely did.
And all the other Governments wound up getting that same information eventually. But nobody wants to start a war over this little "oops". The oligarchies running all major counties have too much to lose. So - "it was the Wuhan Seafood Market as the source". "Just one of those things".
It is heartening to realize that Government bureaucrats across the world universally tend to exaggerate progress reports on major programs. COVID-19 is more infectious, but less lethal than expected, and continues evolving in that direction. Also, a lot of very smart people are discovering various treatments that seem effective.
We are gonna be OK. Well, most of us anyway.
Pretty much what my daughter RN) told me a few weeks ago - if you’re gonna get, it, you’re gonna get it.
I keep seeing articles about the antibody not being accurate. I not sure if I trust those test yet, maybe CA has a bunch of bad test.
“Pretty much what my daughter RN) told me a few weeks ago - if you’re gonna get, it, you’re gonna get it.”
I have seen a lot of researchers’ state this fact.
Because the chinee researcher(s) who studied the "gain of functionality" of the PRRA strand they had inserted into the virus RNA took a huge viral load and died from it, but not before they went out and infected a bunch of other people in Wuhan.
The chicoms knew it was an escapee from a bio-weapons lab, knew that it could be fatal, knew that it had "gained functionality", but were still in the dark as it pertains to its lethality.
And then took the conscious decision to let it spread to the rest of the world in the hopes that it would damage the world's economy as much as President Trump's tariffs were damaging china, and betting that they would come up with a means of containing and treating the bug before the rest of the word - now infected - spread the disease back to the rest of china.
chinee act of war.
I agree with your take that it accidentally escaped from the lab near the market. Also, that this research had obvious bio-war applications. And further, that a war wouldn’t fix any thing for anyone.
And, in case it happens again, the live market is still there to blame.
One question I still have is why Fauci (and for that matter the labs at UNC and in Canada) were dumb enough to be sharing this research with the Chinese. Sure, there’s a ready answer in that all knowledge is good, and we were cooperating with them. But the Chinese interest in biowarfare was well known, and accidents have happened at various times with this sort of research (a Russian anthrax escape comes to mind).
Even though we may hit the deaths the "modified models" predicted (100K+), and we'll never know how many may have died if nothing was done, we're past the point where continued shutdowns are more beneficial to anyone....the Dems are now pushing for a Bernie type socialism even though they knew it wouldn't fly if this never happened...I hope the People haven't forgot what it was like a few short months ago.
We've learned a lot in the last six months. The virus is clearly a lot less lethal than originally feared and the most severe affects are extremely skewed to the elderly and those with significant other health issues. These people need to be kept isolated. The rest of the world needs to get back to some sense of normalcy so that we can build up the herd immunity that is the only way this really ends.
Moreover, we now have effective treatments that can reduce severe outcomes even further, which is why treatments like early administration of HCQ+Zinc+Azythromycin at initial diagnosis are now becoming standard in places like France and other countries that are not fixated on expensive new drugs and far-off vaccines, and are also increasingly being used prophylactically by healthcare professionals and those who most at risk.
Complicating this is local officials and administrators who are reveling in their new-found dictatorial powers and the political motivations of those who only view this through the lens of what can yield an electoral advantage come November. That needs to be dealt with separately, and no doubt it will be. But it's really up to We the People to start pushing hard against the local jailers.
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