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> In 2023, COVID is a bad cold/flu. Bad flus are deadly. > With the flu, we know that people are no longer contagious once symptoms are gone Famously, Covid
by drewrv 3y ago
> In 2023, COVID is a bad cold/flu.
Bad flus are deadly.
> With the flu, we know that people are no longer contagious once symptoms are gone
Famously, Covid is different in that it can be spread asymptomatically.
- Izkata 3y agoI remember reading study in late 2020 that came up with: 0% asymptomatic spread, 1.2% pre-symptomatic spread, and 98.8% symptomatic spread.
- blindriver 3y ago> Bad flus are deadly. Agree. Also, colds are deadly to some as well. > Famously, Covid is different in that it can be spread asymptomatically. This is another fallacy. All they did was test for the presence of the virus through PCR tests. But that doesn't show anything about infectivity. Every study I could find showed decreasing confidence over the years since 2020 that asymptomatic patients are actually infectious/contagious. Just because they can find the virus on you doesn't mean that you're infectious, those are two different things, and something that actually hasn't been measured properly.