The COVID Kabuki Dance

For John, BLUF:  I continue to think that there is still a lot to learn about COVID-19 and much of what we do to protect ourselves is a Kabuki Dance.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Study:  Asymptomatic and secondary infected individuals do not infect others

From the Behind the Black Blog, by Mr Robert Zimmerman, 22 November 2020.

Here is the lede plus two:

A new study published in the journal Nature has found that people who are either asymptomatic or undergoing a secondary illness of COVID-19 are simply not infectious, and don’t give the virus to others.

In other words, it appears that the only time people can infect others is when they have the virus for the first time, and only when they are symptomatic.  Lock downs and the use of masks by the healthy accomplish nothing.  All you need to do is quarantine the symptomatic patient, as human societies have been doing for centuries and centuries.

To once again emphasize this point, wearing masks if you are healthy and not sick protects no one.  Social distancing if you are not sick protects no one.  Shutting down businesses, such as reducing capacities at restaurants so they can’t make a profit, protects no one.  Curfews protect no one.

I look forward to clarity on this issue.  I got the first article from Science Fiction Author Sarah Hoyt (Via InstaPundit), who also sent along this item, from The Critic, a UK web site, "The Covid Physician’s true coronavirus timeline:  'My experience is no one but the government and mainstream media are sharing apocalyptic Covid-19 death experiences with me'”.

I am still dancing the dance, because one never knows which steps are of high value.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff