Sounds like the science remains on the side of fiction.
I'm vaccinated and will no longer wear a mask unless I really want to visit/patronize a business that insists on it as a condition of entry. The science seems quite settled, politics aside.Quote:
Here are some things we do know.
In May and June of last year, the Chinese government conducted an extensive study of the residents of Wuhan where the pandemic first appeared. In the course of this study, they conducted medical screening of ten million people. This included a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening program and also contact tracing. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases.
Ten million people at the epicenter of the pandemic were studied by a Communist regime with the power and authority to test them all and scrutinize their lives as closely as possible, and not a single case of asymptomatic transmission was identified.
Somehow that fact, that a study of ten million people found no evidence of asymptomatic transmission got lost in the shuffle, but increasingly physicians and scientists around the world are beginning to point out the obvious. We have no actual reliable evidence the disease spreads asymptomatically.
Even the WHO is grudgingly beginning to admit the obvious. Per that organization, contact tracing in multiple countries does not actually support the proposition that the disease can be spread by individuals who are asymptomatic. The number of asymptomatic patients is at a minimum far fewer than previously thought.