Which one is? And if we weren't hyper-PCR testing back then how would we have known if thousands of service members who served in the Middle East didn't bring MERS back to the states that presented as the common cold or flu? Probably just burned itself out like other Corona virus induced diseases that our immune systems bagged and tagged.
SARS-cov1, SARS-cov2, and MERS are three different viruses. There are a lot of viruses out there, including a lot that are in the coronavirus family. These viruses do share some similarities, but are definitely different. Check out their sequences and encoded proteins, mechanism of entry, etc yourself if you are not convinced. The data is published and much is accessible to the general public. Not all retroviruses are HIV1, not all rhabdoviridae are rabies viruses, and not all picornavirus are the poliovirus.
www.cdc.gov
one of the con websites (I forget who) tracked down the teacher for comment. Apparently claimed wasn’t concerned because the kids were masked.Outbreak Associated with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta)...
COVID-19 outbreak associated with an unvaccinated infected teacher in an elementary school from May–June 2021 in Marin County, California.
The argument isn’t only vaxxed v unvaxxed. The other argument is whether those previously infected with the Rona have sufficient protection and therefore don’t need the vax, need only a booster (and if so when). or need the whole course of treatment. The info that’s come out seems to indicate natural immunity is fairly robust. But of course if you haven’t had a symptomatic case, you should get vaxxed.
Btw it’s unlikely the health experts will come out at this point and say they goofed with natural immunity. Such an admission means that after the elderly were vaxxed, they probably killed a ton of people (both in the us and abroad) by not prioritizing those who had not had the Rona first.
Blame the messaging. Its shameful. There was so much focus on masking the healthy that we ignored the sick.
The messaging was made considerably more difficult by the considerable number of unqualified people putting out disinformation.
Like when Fauci said we didn’t need them and when Pelosi broadcast from China Town? Then Donald doubled down…..smh
We can argue which has been more problematic, overselling or underselling masks. Id argue its the overselling which gave people a false sense of security like the teacher in question. Stop selling a mask as the panacea of protection. How about the truth that masks only provide limited protection.
Most of the mask messages I have seen have been in the “reduces but does not eliminate” category. (The others are straight up misinformation, like you see from Grace, Hound, or Dizzy.)
The weight that the media, the medical talking heads, health policy leaders and politicians have put on mask wearing overwhelms any suggestion that masks "reduce but does not eliminate".
They even used the words eliminate or control….at various times claiming (before that message switches to vaxxing) if everyone wears one we can control/eliminate in x weeks. Even the recent mask studies have admitted they were oversold. A more proper message at the start of this would have been: hey they help a little to reduce cases particular indoors…they won’t protect you but wearing a mask might help that essential worker who needs to work. The dilemma now is that the messaging is hard to do without admitting the vaccine isn’t all that they had hoped. To claim its misinformation the health authorities did and continue to do this is out and out lying.
Very true. I would add that it would have really helped if the virus was only spread by symptomatic people, and it was clear that their symptoms were attributable to the virus. If we had great testing (easy, accessible,fast) and contract tracing in place, it would be another way people to know whether they were likely to spread the virus. With delta's ability to spread so readily, it can be difficult to get ahead of the infections.
Good morning Mr. Roadrunner. If you feel sick, stay TFH, so easy.
