Posted on 05/12/2020 7:56:46 PM PDT by conservative98
On March 24, I wrote a column asking when the coronavirus actually began and why it mattered. The article got 1.4 million hits presumably because it touched on the core assumption that has been driving this lockdown – that somehow, we could arrest a virus before it spread without regard for the fact that it had already spread far and wide. Yesterday, Ohio officials revealed new evidence that this virus was already spreading in January, once again proving that any effort to push lockdowns this late in the game is moot.
Based on new antibody testing, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton announced Monday that her department has discovered six cases of the virus in five different counties that began in January. Based on calculations of symptoms and transmissions, they have estimated that the cases began on Jan. 7 and Jan. 26 in Miami County, Jan. 13 in Montgomery, Jan. 18 in Richland, Jan. 20 in Summit, and Jan. 27 in Warren.
Other states have already identified more cases from much earlier than previously thought, but Ohio’s case in January 7 would be the earliest known case in the country so far. It makes sense that now that antibody testing is becoming more widespread, we are discovering that many more people had this virus earlier and didn’t even realize it. This is why those pushing swab tests and contact tracing don’t seem to be in a rush for antibody tests, and many are even panning them.
We also know that many more people who have contracted this virus have never developed symptoms. The fact that this has spread so much for so long demonstrates the folly in the entire premise of a lockdown.
The CDC has already written years ago regarding mitigating the spread of flu that “the effectiveness of pandemic mitigation strategies will erode rapidly as the cumulative illness rate prior to implementation climbs above 1 percent of the population in an affected area.” The massive asymptomatic spread for months ensured we reached that threshold before we knew what hit us.
There is nothing unique about Ohio, and this revelation is likely just the tip of the iceberg in every state. The implication of this reality is that we were going about our lives with absolutely no changes for weeks, if not months, while this had already spread, and perhaps some of those presumed to have been hospitalized with the flu and pneumonia were really positive for COVID-19.
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Thus, the entire premise of flattening a curve and stopping a spread on a highly transmissible and often asymptomatic virus was always a lie, given the timing of our government’s response. Yet, time and again, Dr. Fauci and the Republican and Democrat senators at today’s hearing spoke as if they have the ability to mitigate this virus and that somehow we need to do more to shut down our lives for the remainder of this year than we did while it was spreading in January and February. At some point we must ask: Is anyone in government really interested in getting to the bottom of the science about this virus, or is the lockdown an end in itself?
and ... we have a winner
Was it coronavirus? Was it spreading through our office two months before lockdown began, or even when it was thought to be limited to Wuhan? I don't know... but I do wonder.
I started posting this in late February....and now there is “scientific data” to back this up;
1) MOST of us have been exposed.
2) MANY of us have been “infected”
3) SOME of us have been “symptomatic”
and, unfortunately
4) SOME of the infected and symptomatic will be really sick and die.
And now the data shows that category 4 are mostly very elderly with multiple co-morbidities aka “underlying conditions”.
This has NEVER been about YOUR health.
This has NEVER been about “protecting the most vulnerable”
Call me a FLUbro...that would be a badge of honor.
Horowitz: Ohio officials discover six coronavirus cases from January
That’s nothing. I discovered 8 cases of beer under a blanket in my garage.
And just like the virus, the numbers are going down
I got a very bad cold sometime in January. Was it corona?
Hope the beer was not stale. Hope you enjoyed yourself.
Either we had the virus in January, or infected people from China flying here from China that month MAGICALLY had the virus clear from them halfway over the Pacific.
Sheltering and cowering in place can kill you and your loved ones!:
Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writing in the Hill:
“On Wednesday, Cuomo announced the “shocking” news that 84 percent of all hospital admissions were either people sheltering at home or nursing home residents. He shouldn’t have been surprised. The risk of coronavirus infection occurs overwhelmingly indoors. Researchers in China identified only one outdoor outbreak of infection among over a thousand cases studied.
Most transmissions occurred at home, rendering the close-down-all-businesses-and-shelter-in-place rule contraindicated.”
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Study reveals that vitamin D likely to reduce serious coronavirus complications:
Remember locking and cowering down at home or in a nursing home eliminates getting your vitamin D, nature’s way by going outside and walking and talking to your neighbors.
Vitamin D is produced in the skin from UVB sunlight exposure and is transported to the liver and then the kidney where it is changed into an active hormone that increases calcium transport from food in the gut and ensures calcium is adequate to keep the skeleton strong and free of osteoporosis.
The study found that vitamin D can also support the immune system through a number of immune pathways involved in fighting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
This has NEVER been about YOUR health.
This has NEVER been about “protecting the most vulnerable”
My son & DIL went to Las Vegas in January for an extended vacation and she came back with something but 3 trips to the dr resulted in no flu diagnosis. But I’m guessing that she didn’t have a Covid test way back in January here in Indiana. She had much difficulty breathing, was very ill.
Grateful that none of her extended family got it, or we did and were asymptotic. Now we are in an area with a Tyson plant in a small county with nearly 2,000 positives.
Even as the outbreak fades, and the economy comes back to vigor, the media continues to trumpet the dire news of a Trump loss to Biden in November.
The Puppetmaster has spoken.
Hindsight can make anyone sound smart....
OHIO PING!
Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.
Horowitz: Ohio officials discover six coronavirus cases from January
5/12/2020, 10:56:46 PM · by conservative98 · 13 replies
conservative review ^ | 5/12/20 | Daniel Horowitz
next door to Miami County. Swear 4 of our drivers had this Mid February. One still has no sense of taste.
PS Patient in Miami County visited Hawaii
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