Stick A Fork In It: Viral Transmission
TL;DR - Don't internalize the lies about how covid was supposedly spread
Even if we pretended that case counts were a meaningful metric, public health’s projections consistently missed the mark, and at day’s end all they accomplished was fomenting fear about worst-case scenarios. For example, the January 2021 model issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) predicted the country would surpass 10,000 daily cases by the end of February unless more restrictions were added. However, with no further restrictions added, cases fell below 3,000 per day by the end of February, proving their model wrong. Perhaps their forecasts were so far off base because they misunderstood covid how spreads?
Remember how public health was originally overwhelmed with concern about asymptomatic spread, the novel notion that people who were not visibly sick with symptoms such as a cough, runny nose, or fever, could be contagious? Remember how it was used to rationalize quarantining millions of healthy people all over the world, constricting them into small bubbles, separating family and friends, closing businesses and activities, and shaming anyone who dared to hug grandma? It turns out those fears were also unfounded.
On June 8, 2020, the WHO’s technical lead for covid, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, acknowledged that asymptomatic spread was “very rare,” implying that covid behaved like any other coronavirus. This positive development should have been a relief, but strangely, it stirred outrage among influential physicians and pundits. Increasingly intolerant of information that lessened the threat, they pressured the WHO to walk back that remark the very next day. Nonetheless, the cat was out of the bag: health was not indefinitely out of reach, and disease was not an omnipresent threat. On November 20, 2020, an enormous study of millions of people in Nature found asymptomatic spread to be near non-existent. And in December 2020, a meta-analysis of 54 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association laid the misconception to rest for good. Referencing this analysis in his affidavit submitted to the Ontario Superior Court on behalf the Barbecue Rebellion constitutional challenge, expert witness Dr. William M. Briggs, a former professor of statistics and biostatistics at Cornell, concluded, “even inside households where person-to-person contact was inevitable, asymptomatic transmission was estimated at only 0.7%. This number could only drop outside homes.”
It was always suspicious that, according to the official narrative, covid continually defied all previously known means of viral transmission and intuitively dodged all countermeasures, even when they varied by jurisdiction. Every mask, every quarantine, every capacity limit, every plexiglass barrier, every missed activity, every curfew, every “non-essential” business closure, every color-coded restriction level – none of it was never enough to subdue the wily virus, even though regions that were less militant were less negatively affected. Going forward, if the public will to challenge authority and critically re-evaluate questionable premises like asymptomatic spread remains weak, then cognitive dissonance will stay strong, and those disseminating scientific fictions will be emboldened. Consequently, today’s deceptions may form the basis of tomorrow’s truths, especially in the minds of the young and impressionable, who will invariably build their future on those faulty foundations. If history is any guide, this too, is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
“Even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory born viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person. Even if there’s a rare asymptomatic person that might transmit, an epidemic is not driven by asymptomatic carriers.”
– Dr. Anthony Fauci, Coronavirus News Conference at White House. January 28, 2020.
This post is part of larger article called Stick A Fork In It: The Barbecue Rebellion & The Rude Awakening, which is available in its entirety on my Substack:
