I was saying it back in February! This one seems to have a strange combination of short duration before contagiousness but long duration before symptoms appear.
The one (possible/hopeful) good thing is that a lot of people do not have severe symptoms.
I still think it’s terrible to risk the elderly.
We probably need to work toward gettign the tests out there and lifting these lockdowns/quarantines ASAP.
We also need to institute very strong safeguards for our elderly/at-risk populations at the same time.
The sky had to be falling iot sink the Trump economy, at least here in the US.
Several, many, of us stayed this would attenuate to approximately how influenza stands. Do we get a double portion of the bankrupt stimulus package? Maybe only half?
Evil walks anmong us and it isn’t a virus....
isolate them...keep them in your home with you and take care of them....same with sickly people....you have the power over this....
but no, we need to kill off our livihoods and that of millions upon millions just because it would have been sooo mean to keep grandma and grandpa at home....
What people are not educated about is when are people who have Cov-19 contagious to others. It is generally not when they are asymptomatic (have no symptoms at all) and the majority who get a Cov-18 infection seem to be asymptomatic or have a mild illness response.
An infectious virus becomes potentially contagious to non-infected persons, via some form of person to person contact, when a person with the virus begins to exhibit viral shedding. In the Corona virus family viral shedding only occurs before the onset of symptoms about 14% of the time. 85% of the time, if illness has not shown up viral shedding is not happening and the infected person is not spreading the disease. It is not even clear how many (what %) who are Cov-19-positive are and remain asymptomatic until a subsequent test shows no longer positive.
That misunderstanding has led to overstatement of how infectious are the collective body of Cov-19 positive persons.
If you test too much you will produce a fake epidemic. Our tests will create at least 1% false positive, although numbers are not published. The WHO tests had as much as 10% false positive.
VIRUS DENIER!!!
It’s not just the elderly. There are many in their 40’s-50’s who are hospitalized.