Posted on 02/25/2021 8:11:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 02/25/2021 8:48:36 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year. Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades.
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Believe what you must, you are not alone.
40% of COVID-19 infections are asymptomatic. Another 40% are mild enough to be mistaken for a cold or allergies. How do you know you weren’t ever infected? Have you and your wife had serology testing to confirm whether you have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies?
And Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer don’t do anything for a disease that doesn’t actually spread via fomites. I’m not saying having good hygiene is a bad thing, but all the hand washing and Clorox wiping in the world isn’t going to prevent a single transmission of COVID-19. It’s about as effective as closing beaches in the summer.
pResident Barack O’Biden cured the flu, it’s a miracle!
Whatever the reason it proves that the flu shot was worthless all other years. We went from millions of people getting flu shots and the flu to almost nobody getting flu shots and still nobody getting the flu.
Bingo, cankles.
“Except there’s zero evidence to support any spread through fomites with COVID-19.”
That false.
“However, fomite transmission is considered a likely mode of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, given consistent findings about environmental contamination in the vicinity of infected cases and the fact that other coronaviruses and respiratory viruses can transmit this way.”
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmission-of-sars-cov-2-implications-for-infection-prevention-precautions
“Indirect transmission via fomites (contaminated surfaces) contributes to the spread of common respiratory pathogens and evidence-to-date suggests fomite transmission is possible for SARS-CoV-2. People infected with SARS-CoV-2 shed the virus into the environment, as evidenced by extensive SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected on surfaces in cruise ships, hospitals, and public spaces in urban areas such as bus stations and public squares. Infective coronavirus persists in the environment, with experimental evidence of persistence on surfaces ranging from 3 hours to 28 days, depending on environmental factors such as surface material and temperature. Viruses readily transfer from contaminated surfaces to the hand upon contact and from hands to the mucous membranes on the face. People touch their faces frequently, with studies reporting average hand-to-face contacts ranging from 16 to 37 times an hour. Taken together, this suggests surface contamination could pose a risk for indirect SARS-CoV-2 transmission, similar to other respiratory viruses.”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.20.20220749v1.full
“SARS-CoV-2 can also spread via contact or fomite transmission. The respiratory droplets exhaled from an infected person settle down on nearby fomites. They can be on surfaces such as tables, the floor, doorknobs, and other commonly touched areas. People can come in contact with the respiratory droplets by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching their mouth, nose, or eyes.”
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201202/Particulate-matter-levels-can-play-a-significant-role-in-SARS-CoV-2-transmission.aspx
“And Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer don’t do anything for a disease that doesn’t actually spread via fomites.”
Absolutely not true.
Read post 66, there’s a lot more like the ones I quote. Like I said mask hygiene is horrible, practically no one uses them properly.
Proper use of masks as PPE would be; sterile gloves on, clean mask on, do your thing, take mask off and put in garbage, take gloves off and put in garbage.
Repeat with each mask use.
My first response is that all flu has been re-classifed as Covid. Why not since a hospital gets >$10K for admitting every Covid sufferer?
That said, it is the case that flu, unlike the WuhanFlu, seems to be preferentially caught and transmitted by the little crumb crushers. But, like WuhanFlu, a mask will have zero impact on transmission. Both are virii and pass right thru any mask that also lets you inhale oxygen. Which is a nice feature of any mask. :)
It’s more than likely everything is being called covid instead of the flu.
What pisses ALL of us off is the facts are being aired now after the SC refused to even HEAR the evidence against a stolen election.
And the American people are cooling down a bit.
Democrats are Satanists
‘We test for flu and covid and we have mountains of clinical evidence to support any covid diagnosis.’
I have no doubt that clinically covid is distinguishable from influenza strains, but does that preclude devious politicians and a fear mongering media from, well, editing the numbers you are able to discern, and tossing out misinformation to make their draconian lockdowns palatable...?
by the time any true scrutiny of the public info is done, the damage itself has already occurred far earlier...
‘And your anecdote about not getting infected thus far isn’t terribly useful without any context.’
of course that’s true, as is all disseminated information without provided context; including the announced number of covid deaths...
who, precisely, is dying, and what were their conditions prior to death...?
When they start paying hospitals for reporting h1n1 like they do Civid ($39,000 per death), then the flu rates will rise to normal.
Sometimes it’s hard to really discern context. I was agreeing with you and your sarcasm
So, no more deaths from heart attacks or cancer or motorcycle accidents if they have COVID... gotcha
‘And if your employer came to you and asked you to commit fraud and medical malpractice, risk your career, risk your license, and risk prison time...’
what in the world leads you to believe that, in our current catastrophic social mindset, where it’s covid this and covid that all the time, that any doctor is going to risk anything whatsoever for toeing the political party line, or, for that matter, even believing that he is committing fraud or malpractice of any sort if he/she is operating for the ‘public good...’?
if any doctors are going to be subjected to critical sanctions, it is the one who question the covid hysteria, and who would raise questions about ethical malpractice being observed...
You need to update your sources. Info based on assumptions published last July aren’t useful in February.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4
“COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32919072/
“Viral RNA was detected in 29/55 surface samples (52.7%) and 16/42 surface samples (38%) from the surroundings of symptomatic COVID-19 patients in isolation units of two hospitals and in a quarantine hotel for asymptomatic and very mild COVID-19 patients. None of the surface and air samples from the three sites (0/97) were found to contain infectious titres of SARS-Cov-2 on tissue culture assay.”
There have been 0 documented cases of COVID-19 transmission via fomites. Zero. Maybe it’s happened before, but out of ~113 million confirmed cases worldwide, it has never been observed. It has only ever been a theoretical possibility and every time someone actually tried to test that possibility, they came up with no evidence it was actually feasible.
The easiest explanation is flu deaths were counted as COVID deaths.
Do you believe that a million doctors, 4 million nurses, millions of lab workers, and the families of over 500,000 people just in the United States alone are all engaged in a massive conspiracy together?
RE: The easiest explanation is flu deaths were counted as COVID deaths.
OK, there are an estimated 500,000 deaths so far attributed to Covid. How many percentage of that were really flu deaths? ( assuming your explanation is correct ).
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