Earlier this year, few people had used the term “asymptomatic” and many had never heard of it, but today it rules our lives. Although Dr. Fauci and other experts said from day one that asymptomatic spread “has May has been the engine of the outbreaks, “we have invested our lives for nine months under the premise that any of us, regardless of whether we have symptoms, could be a silent killer who needs to be isolated, controlled and masked. months go by, evidence continues to accumulate that asymptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2 contribute less to the spread than previously thought, no more.
A new meta-analysis published in JAMA by researchers in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Florida, Gainesville and the Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, found that the secondary attack rate of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers is nearly 26 times larger than asymptomatic carriers. The analysis grouped 54 studies with a total of 77,758 participants. These studies collectively looked at the chances of an infected person in a household with multiple occupants infecting other people in the household.
Not surprisingly, the authors found that the rate of home attack by SARS-CoV-2 was relatively high compared to other pandemic coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS. Overall, they estimated the secondary attack rate of households to be 16.6%. However, they found a massive gap between primary transmitters that were symptomatic and those that were asymptomatic. People with symptoms ended up transmitting the virus to household members 18% of the time, while asymptomatic people transmitted only 0.7% of household contacts.
In addition, in line with the results of other studies, “symptoms of the critically severe index were associated with a major infection in 6 of 9 studies in which it was examined.” That is, the sicker you are, the more contagious you can be.
It is really difficult to overstate the importance of this finding in relation to public perception based on the lies we have been told about asymptomatic spread. For starters, the under-70 mortality rate, according to Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis, is 0.05%. This means that your chance of dying from the virus after meeting asymptomatic people is 0.00035%, or 1 in 285,714 if you are under 70 years old. This is essentially the bulk of the American workforce. They are investing their lives because someone asymptomatic can give them a virus that is rarely deadly to them.
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Also, keep in mind that this low rate of secondary attack among asymptomatic carriers of the virus comes from domestic transmission, which is much more common than rates of attack in stores or businesses. This means that your chances of being infected and dying for someone asymptomatic simply by passing them on to a restaurant or shop (much less outdoors) are so infinitesimal that they are far below the risk we take in doing all the steps of life.
Still, politicians refuse to let go of this fixation in shops and restaurants as if they were responsible for the transmission, especially when patrons show no visible symptoms. Not only panic porn providers will never abandon the myth of mass asymptomatic spread. There is a whole industrial complex of testing behind the fixation with asymptomatic infection testing that is too large to fail with state health bureaucracies.
My former colleague Jordan Schachtel researched the cost of these tests and found that with 2 million tests performed per day, the current average cost of COVID testing in America is approximately $ 254 million per day. , $ 7.6 billion a month and $ 91.4. billion per year. “This does not include all the various costs generated by the tests that benefit the wider health-government complex, such as the cost of collecting and amplifying samples, additional doctor visits, and endless milking opportunities. the federal conquer, which continues to abandon $ 1 billion in the testing regime.
What is so baffling about politicians refusing to rethink their stance on asymptomatic spread is that this will not end the vaccine. As we continue testing with 40 layers of amplification, it is very likely that we can still detect traces of the virus, even in people who have already recovered or been vaccinated. This is likely to be true for most viruses, but since we’ve never tested 2 million people a day with super-sensitive tests, we’ve never focused on “reinfectioning” those who have vaccines.
Thus, until we restore constitutional rights and a minimum of non-flat scientific insight, employers will continue to be threatened with imprisonment, all for lying.