Perspective is critical when assessing danger. An immediate threat activates our primal survival brain. As time passes (and assuming the danger hasn’t killed us) we can quiet the fear response and start to frame the danger with context.
A study that included almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, presents context on the threat of asymptomatic spread of Covid-19.
“Of the 300 asymptomatic positive cases, two cases came from one family and another two were from another family. There were no previously confirmed COVID-19 patients in these two families. A total of 1,174 close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases were traced, and they all tested negative for the COVID-19. There were 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 cases who participated in the screening. Of the 34,424 participants with a history of COVID-19, 107 tested positive again, giving a repositive rate of 0.310% (95% CI 0.423–0.574%).”
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly ten million residents of Wuhan, China
These numbers undercut the foundational argument for the Lockdowns. An argument that was initially propped up with a false anecdote.
A Chinese business woman in Germany supposedly transmitted the infection to her German colleagues before returning home.
The doctors reporting this neglected to speak to the woman and it turned out that she had been self medicating to hide symptoms in order to complete her work.
Study claiming new coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed
It’s way past time to have a rational discussion about what we can do to improve the overall health of our society.