Posted on 07/08/2020 7:39:10 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
Why everyone was wrong The coronavirus is slowly retreating. What actually happened in the past few weeks? The experts have missed basic connections. The immune response against the virus is much stronger than we thought.
By Beda M Stadler
This is not an accusation, but a ruthless taking stock [of the current situation]. I could slap myself, because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic. I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologist and epidemiologist. I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus.
Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel. Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.
But let’s look at this one by one.
(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...
I checked and failed to find this posted here. My apologies if I missed it.
The CDC and NIH are STILL dead on their collective “scientific” ass.
Defund them, they are of no positive value.
Not everyone. I pegged this from the git go.
Scientism not science. Too much authority and prominence is given to scientists when they use bad or incomplete science. A 5 year old could have told them in March they had too little data (and not peer reviewed or repeatable)to make such blanket statements at 1 million people could die, or we can beat this with isolation tactics alone, we don’t need to close our borders, etc.
It is about power to control the populace with fear tactics and power to do so.
Hubris and bad science trump mitigation every time! If they are so wrong/right/unsure on climate change after 30 years of research, how can they be certain after only 6 months? I don’t trust them.
Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel. Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.
Sums the whole thing up.
“34 % of people in Berlin who had never been in contact with the Sars-CoV-2 virus showed nonetheless T-cell immunity against it... This means that our T-cells, i.e. white blood cells, detect common structures appearing on Sars-CoV-2 and regular cold viri and therefore combat both of them.”
Bottom Line of the Article: “To get on top of the pandemic, we need a strategy merely concentrating on the protection of at-risk people over 65. If that’s the opinion of a top expert, a second lockdown is simply a no-go.”
The whole affair has me wondering how long the seasonal flu has been made in China.
Great article
Thanks
Finish reading the article.
The test used to detect the virus are so sensitive that they can detect fragments of virus still present in the blood.
Those tested may have had the disease months ago.
They keep testing people that they haven’t tested before and detect people that no longer have the disease but have fragments in their blood.
The article also points out that since COVID is related to SARS and the common cold that false positives could be due to someone having the other viruses.
Having had the other viruses could also confer some immunity to COVID.
Good article.
It’s frustrating because it is so irrational what people think and do and force upon us.
I still rely on the cruise ship as the model for the virus. I think it still holds up in general 80% nothing. (immune?) 20% sick. 2% die of which most were over 60.
Excellent find. Thank you!
With the cruise ships we started out doing it the proven right way; we quarantined the sick and exposed and when they were through it they went home and the rest of us continued our daily lives. Then, the WHO and certain “experts” declared it to be a pandemic and we all had to lock down, to “flatten” the curve. Instead of developing herd immunity, they pumped out obviously BS propaganda of 2 million dying which spooked the non-thinking, non-critical herd and now half the country is still walking around with face panties or cowering in fear. Well’s War of the Worlds broadcast was just a quick prelude of how easy it is to scare the rabble.
A helpful Freeper posted a link to an article recently that proposed that the actual mechanism that reduces viruses in summer is humidity and not temperature. I believe that summer in Saudi Arabia is probably very dry. Perhaps not the case in India; I don't know.
The paper I read used the word "sedimentation" to describe the idea that infectious droplets exhaled by an infected person could last longer in the air in less humid conditions. High humidity would preserve the size of exhaled droplets or possibly enlarge them. The larger, heavier droplets then settle quickly to the ground.
If low humidity causes droplets to decrease in size, this apparently allows them to stay suspended in the air for much longer and raises the chances of infecting a nearby person.
Houston is one of the most humid places, in the country...and, is (reportedly) having a huge summer spike.
Lots of outdoor protesting, a few weeks ago.
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