[FreeReign]

The high transmissibility of Covid-19 does not in any way support a supposition that it is already widespread.

A higher transmissibility than what we first thought would indicate that the disease is more widespread than we first though. It would also require that the disease be less symptomatic.

I have to wonder exactly what the guy said vs. what is being said here.

I agree with that. We need Ferguson's direct comments instead of Jim Hoft pharaprasing them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A higher transmissibility than what we first thought would indicate that the disease is more widespread than we first though. It would also require that the disease be less symptomatic.

Otherwise bodies would be stacked like cordwood in the streets. Your logic is infallible.

[exDemMom]

A higher transmissibility than what we first thought would indicate that the disease is more widespread than we first though. It would also require that the disease be less symptomatic.

No, the high transmissibility is actually the reason we have the severe control measures that we have. Remember Ebola in 2015? Remember how no measures were taken to stop its spread in the US? That's because it is not very transmissible. There is no evidence to support a belief that Covid-19 is somehow spreading like wildfire or that there are millions of undiagnosed asymptomatic cases.