In addition to this statement, the WHO released a report last Friday that said:
“At present, there is no direct evidence (from studies on COVID-19 and in healthy people in the community) on the effectiveness of universal masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.”
And
“At the present time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider...”
There is no reason to believe anything the WHO says, one way or the other. They were the ones who downplayed the threat at the behest of China to begin with.
The news - if correct - is good.
But, given it’s the WHO, the “if correct”” would and should be strongly doubted.
We’re talkin’ a bin of corrupt, mostly inept, lying buttwipes.
Man, have we been played for fools ...
Translation: Asymptomatic coronavirus patients are spreading new infections.
I stopped reading as soon as it said WHO..WHO conspired with the Chinese to spread this virus world wide and we all know why did they did it too
About 2 months ago they were saying asymptomatic positives were still infectious. Now they’re not. I wonder what the story will be next month?
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Cannot believe an organization with a political agenda. The WHO is trying to get us to let our guard down in hopes of a second wave spike.
If WHO said the sun rises every 24 hours, I would want independent verification.
wouldn’t it be nice to have a politically independent source of medical information...
like a world health organization but without the allegiance to an idealogy
The contact tracers only consider it a contact if the person was exposed to someone with the virus from two feet or closedr and for 10 minutes or longer.
So that means almost zero chance of transfer from casual encounters in stores, etc.
Time to stop mask mania, make it optional for those like store workers who want them, everyone will do social distancing on their own.
Now that the revolution is in swing its time for the health orgs to move on from Covid and do the CYA they need to insist “we’ve only followed the science.”
this has been obvious all along, by scientific understanding of what it takes to pass the virus - viral load + direct contact + actions that expel the virus (cough/sneeze) contact over some period of time. Then maybe an asymptomatic person might wind up being the virus contact to someone else - might. But passing by on the street - no.
The mask - walking into a business, maybe, passing by on the sidewalk, no, unless YOU know YOU are sick or YOU are vulnerable.
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So why are we doing all this?
So all the reports of Cuomo sending recovering COVID positive patients into Nursing Homes and killing thousands of elderly was just hyperbole?
Has anyone ever photographed WHO’s decision wheel?
“Asymptomatic coronavirus patients aren’t spreading new infections, WHO says”
which would if true (but who really knows?) help lend validity of contact tracing of symptomatic folks ...
German Government Report Blasts Shutdowns
The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.
The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).
Worldwide, within a quarter of a year, there has been no more than 250,000 deaths from Covid-19, compared to 1.5 million deaths [25,100 in Germany] during the influenza wave 2017/18.
The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.