Posted on 08/26/2020 7:44:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
They are trying to pump the numbers up again.
I believe we have reached herd immunity and the numbers will keep on dropping.
When the prevalence of a condition is low, as is the case with an asymptomatic patient with CoVid, the false positive rate exceeds the prevalence rate.
This means that a false positive is more likely than a true positive.
But, you’ll still have to be quarantined.
CDC quietly acknowledging that asymptomatic transmission is a myth. It is rare enough to ignore.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32513410/
If you test positive PCR, and are asymptomatic, or 9 days after 1st symptom, you are flat out immune. No mask needed, no social distancing crap. Have fun.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html
Have been saying for a while...at this point they should be testing for antibodies if you don't test positive.
Reversals on masks, reversals on testing, must be time to try to pump the numbers back up - gotta keep this thing going until November!
Pandemic paranoia: too precious to waste.
Clueless.
Effing clueless, the whole lot of them.
Trump needs to clean house. Fire them all and go
recruit some REAL doctors.
‘Rat fight!!!!!!
They’re cutting their losses and moving on to the next plot.
God help us.
The media helped the tyranny of the idea that asymptomatic people were more of a threat than they actually are. THAT helped cement the idea that ANYONE you encounter could be a potential viral contaminant agent, so everyone should be suspicious of everyone - thus universal 100% 24/7 masking and universal 100% 24/7 social distancing.
That was the only way they could obtain next door neighbors none of whom were ill nor knew anyone who was ill and who always masked up when shopping, would only have a conversation with each other standing quite away from each other in their separate yards.
Re: “Asymptomatic - that is exactly what a vaccinated person is.”
That’s news to me. Asymptomatic, but infected, persons can and do spread infections to other people.
Re: “Healthy or infected without symptoms - Why do you need to know?”
Because it is not possible to create a useful epidemiology unless you know how many are infected, but not sick.
So we've never created a useful epidemiology for any other virus? Because this is the only time in history we have done this ridiculous amount of testing for any virus.
Thats news to me. Asymptomatic, but infected, persons can and do spread infections to other people.
A vaccinated person, if the vaccine actually works as intended, merely has developed temporary antibodies to a specific protein (not the actual organism itself) from the targeted virus. It does not prevent that individual from becoming infected and spreading that infection to other people.
If you do not believe that a vaccinated person can become infected, please cite the biological process that would prevent any circulating pathogens from entering their body through the nose, mouth, eyes. Do you believe a virus knows who is vaccinated and who is not? Do you think a vaccine creates a magic force field that prevents the virus from entering?
Not to mention the fact that, in the case of the flu vaccine, the efficacy rate at best is between 40-50%, which means at least half of those vaccinated are still getting the flu and thus are capable of spreading it. Check out the following statistics from the CDC concerning flu vaccine efficacy:
2018-19 flu vaccine efficacy (CDC)
You are not alone in blindly accepting the nonsensical conventional wisdom that getting vaccinated protects those around you, kind of like wearing the mask. It's an effective tool to guilt you into doing something that they cannot convince you to do with provable statistical data.
Re: Epidemiology
I thought it was obvious that I was talking about COVID-19.
If you have no sample number of asymptomatic infections, how can you estimate herd immunity or case fatality rate or other useful metrics?
Re: Asymptomatic, but infected, persons can and do spread infections
Once again, I thought it was obvious that I was talking about COVID-19.
I have no idea why you wrote 5 paragraphs about vaccines and vaccinated persons.
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