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In reply to the discussion: Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is 'very rare,' WHO says [View all]SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2020, 07:29 PM - Edit history (1)
I mean, it is "rare" to die of Covid-19 if you get it, but SO MANY PEOPLE (millions) are getting Covid-19 that we have 110k dead from it.
Researchers in Iceland reported that 50 percent of their novel coronavirus cases who tested positive had no symptoms. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/50-percent-of-people-with-covid19-not-aware-have-virus
50% is a LOT of people, so even if "rare," asymptotic spread still means a lot of spread. Every day there are 20,000 new symptomatic cases in the US (we only test symptomatic people).
That means, per that Iceland study, that there are about 20,000 new asymptomatic cases each day too. That is a LOT of asymptomatic people. Let's say just 1% of asymptomatic people spread the disease (again, she did not offer up a numbet, but let's fucking guess at what she meant, since she gives us no alternative), if there are currently 100k asymptomatic people (it's probably a lot more than that) in the US, then 1,000 are actively spreading the virus. That is a big problem.
But MAGAts don't care about any of that. They are creaming themselves posting this story all over the internet because they think it proves coronavirus is not so bad. Fucking insane.