I didn’t say that’s what the links or studies concluded. I said asymptomatic spread is bullshit.
You also said, “I am aware that the first article is from Wuhan, I get it. Let's use it as a jumping off point.”
That is what my post did in relation to your claim.
How many times in a row is this where you hop up out the woodwork on some ‘ackshually’ type nonsense with what I post, only to be pretty clearly not understanding square one?
This wasn’t a misunderstanding about what you claimed.
This was pointing out that the article you wanted to use as a jumping off point for discussion cited a study that didn’t support it (your claim).
Did you have another reason for providing that link, or did you not intend for it to lend weight to what you said?
Like, 4? At least this time it wasn’t trying to play gotcha games on the date of a satirical video.
1. If you’re referring to the WSJ op-ed, dates were never a part of our disagreement, and it wasn’t a video. I think you genuinely might be mixing up some posts here.
2. It wasn’t a ‘gotcha’ game. I didn’t even initiate that interaction or its escalation. To use some of your wording, you hopped out of the woodwork yourself by blowing up unprompted at my response to lindy’s sidebar about Dr. Biden not having a Ph.D. with the kind of unprovoked and heavy dose of the sarcasm that you and other board administrators and moderators continually remind us to avoid in our discussions with each other. This continued despite my refusal to match your tone in my responses to you.
3. The fact that Epstein had a little fun with Dr. Biden in the beginning (using her husband's own term of endearment for her) in a way that successfully enticed interest in the article (as good op-ed writers do) didn’t turn his op-ed or the views in it into a satire. He spent multiple paragraphs spelling out why he felt non-medical doctorate degree-holders of all stripes no longer deserved the honorific. If taking the article’s arguments at face value instead of assuming satire where none was evident equated to “not knowing a joke when you see one”, then perhaps the op-ed editor of the WSJ itself should be made aware that he, too, missed the joke by also treating Epstein’s statements as a sincere rebuke of Dr. Biden’s choice in
his defense of the op-ed article.
Back from the derail to the study from the article that prompted this discussion:
One of the more interesting (and concerning, in terms of indications of virulence in asymptomatic carriers) points made by one of the researchers was that 2/3 of the asymptomatic people they tested had COVID-19 at least once before. The thinking is that body’s immune levels from the previous infection could’ve contributed to the much lower viral load during the second infection, which in turn may have lowered the virus’ transmissibility even more as compared to first-time virus contractors.
Wuhan mass screening identifies hundreds of asymptomatic cases
