Posted on 11/27/2020 4:38:21 PM PST by karpov
Here are some Covid realities that we’ve long alluded to that might be useful to spell out in the current surge.
U.S. government scientists now estimate that 40% of cases are asymptomatic and 80% of symptomatic cases are mild—in short, 88% of subjects don’t know they are infected or have no great incentive to find out if they are suffering from Covid or some more familiar bug.
An American adult typically suffers two colds a year, while school-age children may suffer 10 or more, and 20 million of us get the flu. A conservative estimate, then, is that 13 million Americans every day suffer from something not readily distinguishable from mild Covid (never mind asymptomatic Covid).
This perhaps explains why, despite conducting 186 million tests since the plague arrived, we’ve found only 12.7 million cases. Most who have Covid aren’t getting tested; among those seeking tests the large majority are suffering from something that isn’t Covid.
The implications have been slow to sink in. Embarrassing as America’s early testing fumbles were, the consequences were likely small. Odds did not favor corralling multiple outbreaks, among existing colds and flus, seeded here and there by travelers from Asia, Europe and elsewhere. (Indeed, false positives from every kind of test would have swamped any effort to identify Covid cases before they reached a critical mass.)
Government should have quickly freed the market to supply the diagnostic testing that the public demanded, but such testing was never a means to control the epidemic or even measure it. Maybe 186 million tests a week would do the trick, but not over nine months.
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It’s just the flu bro.
If you have no symptoms, at what point can you pass it on? Is everyone a carrier? And if so, we’re getting more positive cases....but somehow I imagine with smaller loads.
How ingenious of those bioweapons specialists to use the common cold as their mode of transference, you know, instead of the other two modes that were deemed too ineffective - ticks and mosquitoes.
May be there is no true Covid only flu that identifies as Covid? ;-)
Asymptomatic is likely rare. Same with small children giving it to adults.
Overtesting with a huge percentage of false positives doesn't really inform any public health mission.
However, it does scare the public, which is the ultimate mission.
Guess what? We don’t have clue. Other countries do. Hmmm, obviously we care more about money than health. A “bout” of bad health for America was always getting in the way of picking our butts out of bed and getting to work.
Covid couldn’t care less about that attitude. We needed someone (a fatherly figure) to sit ourselves down and explain that covid was the enemy. Not for everybody, but we were not going to abandon the folks who were dying. Someone to rally and outline the way we were all going to destroy this disease it together.
Did every state need to go into a lock down in March? It’s easy to look back and decide about that now. Not so easy to know in March.
Instead for months even to this day we bicker about:
1. Is it a hoax?
2, Is wearing a mask a symbol of tyranny?
There must be bodies everywhere.
Apparently I had it and got over it.
Never knew.
And because of my damaged lungs it was suppose to kill me. Or at least make me very sick.
They wanted to do "contract tracing" on me and I told them that I could not possibly remember everyone I had contact with for the past nine months but the ones I had the most contact with never showed any symptoms either. And some of them were tested.
The body is an amazing thing. You have cells that could become cancerous. Your body takes care of them..until it doesn’t.
Some people’s bodies will take care of Covid-19 and the person will never know they were invaded. Much like you don’t know how many times your body keeps you from getting cancer
Until it doesn’t.
So for you, your body zapped Covid-19 into oblivion.
Other people are not so lucky.
At least now you know how your body reacts to Covid 19
We going to have to wear masks for the rest of our lives?
I used budesonide in my nebulizer and cough syrup with codeine to allow me to get some sleep. It lasted about a week and I was a bit weak and drained for about a week afterwards.
No fever, no loss of taste or smell, just a bad cough.
It was the only time I have been sick this year.
Oh, weird thing, my husband got tested. His came back negative. So either he is super resistant or this is actually rather difficult to catch.
not sure if they were focusing on what you put in your nebulizer back in May but they are now.
You lucked out with the right treatment
its a very bizarre disease.
it is possible your husband got it but his T cells kicked it out before his body registered the antibodies....or...he had the antibodies and they disappeared
I avoid people when I get these attacks so maybe I just did not pass it on to anyone. When you are coughing so badly that you are throwing up you have a tendency to stay in.
was it a script or the OTC version?
I have some on hand at all times as it can get really bad really fast and we are out in the sticks.
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