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Pretty well. I haven't been to a doctor in multiple decades and never got tested or vaccinated. Pretty much never wore a mask either.

nso 5y ago
To be fair, you have no idea how you fared since you 1) haven't been to a medical professional 2) haven't gotten tested
- ARandomerDude 5y ago
  - pengaru 5y ago
    Walking into my local bank dressed like a bandit, not only without getting arrested but even being thanked for it, was a bucket list item I didn't know I had. Masks have been fun. Do you often make mountains of molehills?
    - Dharmat55 5y ago
      What is 'fun' about wearing a mask? (Especially against one's will.)
      - pengaru 5y ago
        > What is 'fun' about wearing a mask? I'll just defer to Ministry here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPI9b9N6CQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPI9b9N6CQ
icedchai 5y ago
You may have had it and spread it to others. Asymptomatic cases are very common.
- cmoscoso 5y ago
incanus77 5y ago
> Asymptomatic infections have the same infectivity as symptomatic infections. [1] Congratulations, you're massively inconsiderate! [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227597/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227597/
- emerged 5y ago
  ..and proud of it I’m sure. Sums up about half the country. I feel like middle ground is better personally. Empathy without authoritarianism.
- apatters 5y ago
  Are you saying that asymptomatic patients are equally likely to spread Covid as symptomatic patients? I don't think the study supports that conclusion. If you read the Conclusions section, it absolutely does not make that conclusion. The only sentence in the study which might support that idea is the one you quoted, but I think that's a misreading -- infectivity is a specific term in epidemiology that refers to how effective a pathogen is at establishing an infection. The virus can have the same infectivity in two patients, but one can still be more or less likely to spread it because they have a higher/lower viral load, cough more/less, wear a mask/don't wear a mask, etc. In fact I'm pretty sure I remember the WHO saying last year that they thought asymptomatic patients are less likely to spread the disease because they aren't coughing and sneezing, which are the primary means of transmission. Also, please don't call people names, it's against the HN guidelines, if you think he exposed a bunch of people to Covid without knowing it, you can just say that.
  - incanus77 5y ago
    Fair. No, I wasn't necessarily saying the same re: spreading, more so that asymptomatic carriers can spread, and thus aren't immune to needing to be considerate of those beyond themselves. No one will ever know for sure if the person in question did infect others, which is sadly just the grey area that some need to see it fully their way.
unsupp0rted 5y ago
My dad bragged for 2 decades about never having been to a doctor in all that time before he died early from a combination of two easily preventable / controllable illnesses.
president 5y ago
This is how it should have been. I continue to say to this day, if things were really that bad, people would have tested/vaccinated/masked/locked down on their own volition. They would not have to have been mandated or compelled to do so. The moment the hard censorship and cancelling came out to any narrative contrary to the official one, it should have been obvious there was something fishy going on. Unfortunately, people were too wrapped up in fear/hatred to think rationally.
Dharmat55 5y ago

nso 5y ago

To be fair, you have no idea how you fared since you 1) haven't been to a medical professional 2) haven't gotten tested

ARandomerDude 5y ago
- pengaru 5y ago
  Walking into my local bank dressed like a bandit, not only without getting arrested but even being thanked for it, was a bucket list item I didn't know I had. Masks have been fun. Do you often make mountains of molehills?
  - Dharmat55 5y ago
    What is 'fun' about wearing a mask? (Especially against one's will.)
    - pengaru 5y ago
      > What is 'fun' about wearing a mask? I'll just defer to Ministry here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPI9b9N6CQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPI9b9N6CQ

icedchai 5y ago

You may have had it and spread it to others. Asymptomatic cases are very common.

cmoscoso 5y ago

incanus77 5y ago

> Asymptomatic infections have the same infectivity as symptomatic infections. [1] Congratulations, you're massively inconsiderate! [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227597/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227597/

emerged 5y ago
..and proud of it I’m sure. Sums up about half the country. I feel like middle ground is better personally. Empathy without authoritarianism.
apatters 5y ago
Are you saying that asymptomatic patients are equally likely to spread Covid as symptomatic patients? I don't think the study supports that conclusion. If you read the Conclusions section, it absolutely does not make that conclusion. The only sentence in the study which might support that idea is the one you quoted, but I think that's a misreading -- infectivity is a specific term in epidemiology that refers to how effective a pathogen is at establishing an infection. The virus can have the same infectivity in two patients, but one can still be more or less likely to spread it because they have a higher/lower viral load, cough more/less, wear a mask/don't wear a mask, etc. In fact I'm pretty sure I remember the WHO saying last year that they thought asymptomatic patients are less likely to spread the disease because they aren't coughing and sneezing, which are the primary means of transmission. Also, please don't call people names, it's against the HN guidelines, if you think he exposed a bunch of people to Covid without knowing it, you can just say that.
- incanus77 5y ago
  Fair. No, I wasn't necessarily saying the same re: spreading, more so that asymptomatic carriers can spread, and thus aren't immune to needing to be considerate of those beyond themselves. No one will ever know for sure if the person in question did infect others, which is sadly just the grey area that some need to see it fully their way.

unsupp0rted 5y ago

My dad bragged for 2 decades about never having been to a doctor in all that time before he died early from a combination of two easily preventable / controllable illnesses.

president 5y ago

This is how it should have been. I continue to say to this day, if things were really that bad, people would have tested/vaccinated/masked/locked down on their own volition. They would not have to have been mandated or compelled to do so. The moment the hard censorship and cancelling came out to any narrative contrary to the official one, it should have been obvious there was something fishy going on. Unfortunately, people were too wrapped up in fear/hatred to think rationally.

Dharmat55 5y ago