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> I don't think actual science was ever being suppressed. Don't be ridiculous. We knew very early on that the passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess c
by GeekyBear 4y ago
> I don't think actual science was ever being suppressed.
Don't be ridiculous.
We knew very early on that the passengers on the cruise ship Diamond Princess continued to spread Covid from cabin to cabin despite being locked down in their cabins. Yet the scientists who pointed out that this was very good evidence for airborne spread of Covid were shouted down.
Why is this important? The mitigations we put in place were based on the theory that Covid had a droplet based spread, like the flu.
- landemva 4y agoAnd there were cases of couples on that ship locked in the same cabin with one person infected and the other not infected. Somehow some people had natural immunity, and this was not discussed or considered when the "everyone vax" messaging started.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoWhen there's new pathogen, transmission mechanism(s) unknown, and no moral way to test for "natural immunity", you don't go around saying hand wavy shit like "some people won't need it", because you have no idea who does and who doesn't.
- switch007 4y agoAre you saying coronaviruses were completely unknown to us in 2020? Have some balance.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoNope. I'm saying there was no way to know who had any level of natural immunity to SARS-COV-2.
- origin_path 4y agoThe topic was never explored so we don't know if there was no way to know. Instead, epidemiologists just assumed 100% susceptibility, droplet transmission and no seasonality, i.e. that everyone would get infected all at once in one giant wave. This was wrong and also, in contradiction with all pre-existing knowledge of both how coronaviruses work and how SARS-1 worked (SARS-1 was airborne over long distances).