The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare. Forget even Fauci’s previous suggestion that asymptomatic transmission exists but not does drive the spread. Replace all that with: never. At least not in this study for 10,000,000.
Oh.

Get sick from this flu or really sick from the shot…
Hmmmm.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-issues-new-guidelines-launches-probe-after-1000s-negatively-affected-following-covid
And this is not included the mutations in the UK.
The rich and politicians say that your saving money and making money with these lockdowns…
https://www.rt.com/uk/510257-sunak-brits-savings-spending-spree/
Such a big disconnection from reality which shows why we are becoming “Road Kill” from political policies.
Wht not “Yore makin’ money”?
I don’t know about that…..the symptoms can be so subtle you might not even notice…or just think you’re having an off day…..didn’t get enough sleep…..have a slight cold
Maybe it’s being transmitted by n-waves emanating from the canals on Mars.
Or flatulence. Silent But Deadly…
So now we believe the Communists?? The study was done on 10M people in Wuhan. A study that large must have the full blessing, and possibly the influence, of the CCP. On a March Joe Rogan podcast world renowned epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said the spread was asymptomatic. I believe Dr. Osterholm. I don’t believe the CCP.
“We now have conclusive evidence that this disease is also being transmitted through asymptomatic carriers, or people who show no symptoms,…” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, on March 16th. https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/03/16/asymptomatic-people-may-be-driving-spread-coronavirus/
– How about the CDC? I trust them more than the CCP. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6914e1.htm.
– The Lancet says “Our findings suggest that people with asymptomatic COVID-19 are infectious but might be less infectious than symptomatic cases.” I trust the Lancet more than the CCP. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32651-9/fulltext
My conclusion: if thousands of people per day are only catching COVID from people hacking, sneezing and coughing, maybe the largest comorbidity is stupidity. Hand out the Darwin awards.
Dr. Osterholm has stated from the start that he doesn’t believe in lockdowns. I agree.
If you are not sick you can’t spread it.
I think the virus is out there. You do not have to catch it directly from another person. The key factor regarding people getting sick is their own immune system. This is born out by the stats of people who get seriously ill from the virus. The lock downs make no sense, and worries about asymptomatic transmission are excessive. It is not just the CCP making this claim. Worrying about asymptomatic transmission requires you to hide from life. And note that many people who end up getting infected state they were very careful about distancing and masks. You cannot hide from a virus. A virus will run its course.
Bottom Line…??
Mandatory Masks – UTTER BS
Social distancing – UTTER BS
Lockdowns – UTTER BS
PANDEMIC – UTTER BULLSHIT
This was planned, planned and then planned some more my friends. All to get a FAUX vaccine entered in your body to act as the primary Genetic Manipulation petri dish. And there isn’t one person on the planet who can tell me with a 100% Certainty what’s in said Injection.
done for Trillions of Dollars
done for KONTROL
Possibly done to thin the HERD….
All this coming on the heels of the WHO, that just declared the PCR Test creates False Positives…?? Yea, come on, tell me this shitshow wasn’t planned
100% agreed.
All politicians and bureaucrats that shoved this down our throats need to step down now and be sued for all they are worth. Starting with pin head sock puppet in Ottawa and his minions.
I have been saying for months the class action lawsuits are going to be epic.
The “Great Swindle” cannot be allowed to happen.
Can you imagine, in return for writing off all the debt in Canada, they want us to give up everything!!
Not only is this not going to happen it represents trillions in private property being turned over to the UN?? for trinkets on the dollar. Then be treated like serfs.
No house for you.
No car for you.
No meat for you.
These people are insane.
Interesting theory, Steakman. Introduce a virus and then introduce a vaccine. Perhaps the vaccine could contain a mild birth control solution. Continued booster shots to be on the safe side. End result most women become infertile. Right out of the Handmaid’s Tale. Attwood was prescient in her book. Why would the Chinese do that. Consider that their one family one child didn’t work. Consider that the country can no longer produce enough for their population. State ordered infertility could be easier to implement if no one knows about it and a good lot easier than cleansing millions by interment into a concentration camp. This conspiracy theory has legs, lets see where it goes.
If you were to take away this Pandemic we are having right now, what would be happening in Washington right now?
The streets would be full of President Trump supporters all the way to the Whitehouse and many Democrats houses would be surrounded in these battleground States.
Pretty suspicious timing with Chinese flu and their huge influence with the Democrats.
Just saying how a minor Pandemic has given our leaders special powers at this particular time is highly suspect.
As of today this pandemic has killed one in every 2700 people in Canada.
Most likely over 80 with multiple comorbidities.
How much longer would they have lived if there was no COVID
That’s the 500 billion dollar question
In Canada life expectancy for men is about 80 and for women its about 84.
The average age of Wuhan flu death in Alberta is 82.
787 people die everyday on average from all causes in good old Canada. To think someone may or may not have lived longer under any circumstances is specious to say the least.
There is no fog. There is deliberate intent.
The article quotes some WHO staffer back in June saying transmission by asymptomatics is “very rare”. Yet in August this narrative was still making its rounds in the media:
“””The WHO currently estimates that 16% of people are asymptomatic and can transmit the novel coronavirus, while other data show that 40% of coronavirus transmission is due to carriers not displaying symptoms of the illness.”””
When I see “The WHO currently estimates” is see bullshit.
“40% of coronavirus transmission is due to carriers not displaying symptoms of the illness.”
Probably true, since pre-symptomatic people do not display symptoms, and yet they spread it.
Go on scholar.google.com yourself and you can see all of the studies that show that pre-symptomatic people, people who are asymptomatic right up until they get symptoms, not people who never develop symptoms, spread the virus readily, probably more than people with symptoms
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=presymptomatic+transmission+covid&btnG=&oq=pre
If only people with symptoms spread the virus, it would have died out, just like SARS did.
How would you dven know if it died out or not, given the sloppiness in Covid counting. Autopsies are not done for Covid deaths. We don’t know what the real stats are.
It’s true that you can make up a conspiracy theory to ‘rebut’ any fact presented. Of course you are mostly just fooling yourself.
You are quoting a google article. It’s like quoting the New York Times or CNN. The bullshit is the article, not the “data” it claims to have. I trust most msm sources about as far as I can throw Biden.
I think that the study pivots on a country that hates us buts loves our ability to buy. I think the CCP made this virus intentionally. We haven’t been told enough to know for certain that it was released intentionally but we could find out with Trump in office. With Biden it will take a lot longer. But the claims that are refuted by the study are worth questioning. And the suggestion that the Lancet has credible information is laughable. Lancet lost its drawers in the “study” it claimed in the Iraq war. I think they tell very tall tales in that boardroom.
“There is no fog. There is deliberate intent.”
Yes. COVID19 has been so politicized that internet information from 2019 and earlier dealing with the efficacy of masks and social distancing have been blocked or removed.(they tested both and NO they do not work)
That is deliberate intent and don’t think for a moment that the governments and their doctors do not know the truth about these issues and are suppressing that truth.
Too bad this debunked and discredited report comes to us via those notorious right-wing conspiracy-mongers at the American Institute for Economic Research rather than from more reliable reporting by anonymous sources close to the situation at CNN, MSNBC, the NYT or WaPo.
Bad tests. I said this before. COVID 19 tests are not sufficiently reliable, therefore not valid in predicting whether a person has or does have the disease.
This is what I learned in introductory courses 40 years ago as a testing and assessment specialist, not in the physical health field, but the same principles apply across disciplines.
Notice that the study never mentions “pre-symptomatic” spread, which has been thoroughly documented to happen. It talks about people who are so mildly infected that they never get symptoms. You can only do this retrospectively. If you are pre-symptomatic, it means that your viral load is building but you haven’t developed symptoms yet, and in this case you certainly can spread the virus.
What it does suggest is that forcing children to wear masks when it distresses them is probably a waste of time, since they rarely develop symptoms and are usually straight out asymptomatic even when they catch it, not pre-symptomatic.
If anybody here can explain how they can know, when they are infected and don’t know it because they don’t have any symptoms yet, whether they are pre-symptomatic and infectious or will remain asymptomatic and most likely unable to spread the virus, I would love to hear it. Explanations requiring accurate crystal balls not accepted.
There are zero reports of a student passing it onto a teacher, worldwide.
It is probably pretty rare, this study might well explain it. Schools should re-open, and older teachers should be allowed to retire if they are too scared to do their jobs.
If you aren’t sick you can’t spread it.
Simply not true. SARS could only be spread by symptomatic people, and that died out. This is still growing for a reason. People who do get sick spread it for three days before the symptoms start. People whose symptoms never start, don’t spread it.
Sick Kids hospital in Toronto has indicted that children should not be forced to wear the masks. Masks are dehumanizing and particularly harmful in a learning situation. May be authorities had good intentions initially, but things have turned sinister. I see no escape from excessive government control.
Masks are not dehumanizing, what is dehumanizing is not caring about one’s fellow man enough to make a small effort at slowing the spread of a virus which can kill people. Masks slow the spread, it’s not even questionable.
You guys get so emotional about masks, it’s like those feminists and their Handmaid’s Tale nonsense. I think it’s because you guys are really afraid of the pandemic, and and you have transferred your fear to the one most visible sign that there is a pandemic. It’s cargo cult medicine, if you could only get rid of the mask, the pandemic would go away.
Sorry Tim, Linda is right, I think. I wear a mask because I am older, but little kids??
Hey Tim, early on, Faucci, The WHO, The UK’s Chief Scientific Advisers and The CDC all said:
Masks don’t stop the virus,
Lockdowns don’t stop the virus
Asymptomatic people don’t spread the virus.
Now they say the direct opposite.
They were either wrong or lying then or they are wrong or lying now.
You have 4-40 trillion virons( individual viruses) in and on your body at all times. Everyone. Always.
We are as if underwater in a sea of viruses. Everything you touch, breath, your car, clothes, pets, cans on the shelf…everything. Always.
Biologically, in your 80’s, you are long dead. Your immune system is done. Toast. Down 90%. Only modern wealth and medicine has gotten you there. 50 years ago most of todays 80 year olds would of been dead in their30’s, 40’s, 50’s.
Young people, the true future can not afford these governments, nor children. So your nation dies off too.
Government now imports young. Like any commodity, product, thing.
Tim wearing a mask to stop a virus is insane. If you wore a mask that could stop a virus you would suffocate, that is a freaking fact.
That report in Nature is Red Chinese propaganda.
Wuhan flu has not been contained in Red China. All that has happened is that reliable testing and case reporting ceased months ago.
If you are a young Chinaman and complain of COVID-19 symptoms, you are given two aspirin and ordered to stop spreading rumours if you know what’s good for you.
If you are old, you are taken to an isolation ward to be put down on the spot.
By May and June, when the supposed study took place, Chinamen had been well trained to go along with the “American flu” narrative.
That sounds about right … pure ChiCom propaganda. It is, after all, what they do. How they roll.
Remember all those “hot spots” seen from space in Chinah, of suspected burning bodies, not buildings? Round the clock cremation at the crematoriae. They could afford a bit of population reduction, in their minds. Nice buncha Ximen.
Many thanks to Kate for linking to this article, which is published on the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) website. That website is a gold mine for anyone who believes in individual and economic freedom! For example, the view of SDAers on the China virus is so eloquently expressed in one article:
“If science had been followed in 2020 – in all fields – we’d be much healthier and wealthier than we now are. But control freaks have used Covid-19 to justify still more government controls, still more statism. In every field they’ve cited chaos as an (alleged) reason to ‘reimagine’ (i.e., sabotage) capitalism – a system they hated already, pre-virus – to promote despotism, a system they preferred already.”
https://www.aier.org/article/yes-follow-the-science-in-every-field/
It’s the ONLY WAY the deep state (the worldwide deep state) could stop Trump. Nothing else they tried had worked. Mail-in FRAUD … because FEAR of voting in-person … because of COVID and asymptomatic transmission. Crash the incomparable Trump economy.
It was the only way.
Assassination would have just created a martyr for the conservative cause.
Butt, Kenji, we know that the chinese are a stupid turd world nation that can only produce crap, or so the FOOLs in here keep posting
Because they hid the fact that the study was about asymptomatic spread and never mentioned pre-symptomatic spread, the article is extremely deceptive. It’s more Lysenkoism of the right. It’s pretty much a downright lie.
So, just wondering, how would we know if the COVID vaccine doesn’t have any long term side effects – things that they could not possibly have figured out in the brief time it’s been tested?
For all we know it could be rendering men sterile or causing early onset Parkinson’s. If a vaccine can cause narcolepsy, it’s not out of the question.
We have no idea about a damn thing as it has never been tested properly or at all for that matter.
Seems that covid mitigation measures (lockdowns etc.) are to the actual virus in the same way “climate change” mitigation measures (kill oil, kill cars, etc.) are to actual climate, i.e. not related at all. In both instances the measures pushed by our self-styled “betters” are just a cover for their real agenda which, as always, comes down to power and money.
To be fair … this wasn’t really a study of 10M people … but of 1,174 asymptomatic cases. Still the answer of 0 for 1,174 is shockingly counter to the narrative. None. Zero. Not one transmission of an asymptomatic case of the ChiCom plague.
And why do our superiors ignore such studies that run counter to their policies of mass SHUT DOWN? It’s the principle of “One”. If just ONE citizen dies of COVID from asymptomatic transmission !? … then we must ALL change our lives and give up our freedoms to SAVE that LIFE!! Right!? This is what we are constantly told in a scolding tone by … *ahem* … the “experts”. “Wouldn’t you feel horrible if you unwittingly murdered grandma with your asymptomatic case of COVID!? … so … STAY HOME and WEAR YOUR MASK … CRIMINAL!!!” Yes … the study found NONE … but what IF? ONE happened? It could happen! (they say).
Meanwhile … The principle of “One” is nowhere to be seen in Seattle … where the walking corpses and criminals are enabled and encouraged to take lives.
Seems this politicians lockdowns have more to do with keeping people from gathering in large crowds than actually fixing this Pandemic.
Fear of possible American riots spill over?
That massive voting fraud could have people finally understanding that our politicians are screwing us.
I’d go with their first assumption……that their testing is accurate at all
…are they really testing people that are positive and showing no symptoms…..how many of that is false positives…or positive because of left over virus pieces
Lots, I think. The test is designed to identify more false positives than negatives.
So no virus cases in CCP China. No asymptomatic spreading eva but….
China To Vaccinate 50MM People Before Lunar New Year
Pre-symptomatic-asymptomatic-willful spreaders— it makes no difference. We will be getting the full CCP treatment.
PS
Nature Research is part of Springer Nature.
Outcry as latest global publisher bows to China censors
https://www.ft.com/content/2d195ffc-be2e-11e7-b8a3-38a6e068f464
L-Under Medical Science, you quarantine the sick to inhibit infection and search for therapeutics and finally vaccines if the time and cost proves justified.
Under Marxist Medicine, you quarantine both the healthy and the sick and thus maximize the harm (cure being worse than the disease) and suppress searching for therapeutics. Vaccination doesn’t not end the restrictions because it’s efficacy and safety have not been proven, as yet. (precautionary principle=fear)
Marxist Economics works similarly, collectivize farming: then under Soviet Communism 6 million starve in the(Holodomor) Ukraine, the bread basket of the U.S.S.R., in Communist China 40 million plus starve.
All power to the state is justified in order to eliminate poverty. It requires that the individual creativity and industriousness of self-governing individuals being outlawed. Otherwise, the corruption of absolute power would be too obvious.
Compare and Contrast the old vehicle for critical thought is likewise banned in Marxist controlled schooling. Because facts that lead to truth is a process, one that disrupts your erroneous mapping of reality. This process causes hurt feelings in the most insecure, the most neurotic and the rest being conditioned to be more neurotic. Thus exaggerating a normal aspect of human personality, until it becomes dysfunctional. Dysfunctional for society, yes, but it’s handy for use in control through fear.
When news that social distancing and masking would continue through 2021, even with the vaccine, a second level of skepticism arose. The protocol proposed is the most vulnerable first and state employees(first responders/teachers, no matter how low-risk) second, next highest risk/vulnerable wait until 2nd – 3rd quarter of 2021.
Note- Pfizer’s vaccine has not been tested on those under 16, nor tested for it’s effect on fertility, also, the full range of side effects will take a year or two or longer to emerge.
Marxist Medicine supports continued restrictions and mandatory total population vaccination, without informed consent ! This regardless of the consequences, yet again. Just as Marxist Collectivization of farming did. Because under Marxism, individuals do not have sacred rights, the state does not serve the citizen, but just the other way around.
The exception proves their rules. Give them incontestable data and they’ll point to some Lancet study or anecdotal proof.
Americans elected yet another mask nimrod, so now we can begin our John Gill presidency as Biden’s babbling continues.
Lies about one President and latently revealed truth of the Biden crime family were used against Trump.
While scores of millions of Americans reveal that would have changed their mind on the Presidency, which Dems didn’t steal.
Meanwhile, by strange happenstance, DeMarxists lost everywhere else, though they cling to hope GA with a false prophet.
Because you see when Twitter said it wasn’t true and banned a venerable newspaper, that was right; so it’s only true now.
Democrats made major blunders, as did Trump’s advisors and so-called scientific establishment who, instead of opening up debate, retreated to their careers and have left the world wide open for a true pandemic for their failing to provide opportunities for herd immunity and using ideology rather than epidemiology cancelling out cheap therapeutics in favour of expensive drugs.
Things that make you go hmmmm: https://www.conservativereview.com/mandatory-u-s-employers-can-require-employees-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-new-guidelines-say-2649560909.html
So, what happens when someone comes out with a “better vaccine”, than the one you just got to get that job?
or
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-britain-variant-idUSKBN28P158
what does it cover?
Becoming a Lawyer might be a good career choice, these days.
Oh, buying anything from Chinah, these days?
The idiots and morons that inhabit this country need to stand up by the millions and say enough is enough. It is a flu virus and had it been treated like that it would be long gone.
Before these moribund mendactics are done with us, we’ll have more needle marks than a heroin addict.