First, a huge observational study in China says it is very unlikely, to the vanishing point of probability. Few people know about that, though. Second, all year last year there were many efforts trying to determine how COVID was spread, addressing factors such as how long it lives on surfaces, what environmental factors do to that viability, what differences in exposure to others makes(i.e. does social distancing make a difference). Pretty inconclusive considering all the effort to find something, the best results are better air filtration seems more effective than masks or isolation. But all the time the fear is ramped up by media, and I include ignorant opinions on social media. The SM posters may be wrong, deliberately or honestly, but they are influential. All you need now to keep the panic going is that little bit of truth that gives life to evey lie. It is true that asymptomatic people can spread disease, everyone knows about Typhoid Mary. Different disease in every way, but it's enough. Presto, we have a huge unknown body of asymptomatic spreaders, and this could only be proven or refuted by testing absolutely everyone with a reliable test and then relentless contact tracing. A perfect bogeyman.
I spoke to a person (not a friend, just someone I spoke to in passing, a elementary school teacher) that both her and her husband are so freaked out and scared about this virus that they are “fully vaxxed” she informed me and pretty much stay at home except for work, when they get home each day they take their shoes off outside the door and sanitizes them, she said she has groceries delivered to her, says they wipe down everything from the store before putting stuff away. Sanitize everything.
She freaked out when she found out a students family member had tested positive for the virus so the kid in her class got sent home, and it killed her to have to wait the whole day till the kids left to clean and sanitize her classroom. She acted like this kid had the virus and lord only knows how long he was spreading his sickies around 🙄 And you know she probably wears her freaking mask all the time outside her home.
The media has her totally and completely freaked out. I mean if you’re an elementary school teacher this shit shouldn’t even phase you, with all the germs kids spread around, come on now, but it seems like a lot of teachers lined up to get the jab when they went to the schools here to give it to any teacher/staff member that wanted it.
I have to regard people like that as mentally ill (crippling phobia). It helps me stay charitable. Honestly, if we had never heard of covid, a lot of us know someone like the teacher, and that (neurotic) is how we would have approached them.
I told it will be ok, tried to tell her the supplements to take but she wouldn't listen, said she already had her vitamins (she didn't say what vitamins) that she takes twice a day separated into morning & night times. I was like ok, and dropped the conversation and walked away. Lord can you imagine if I had mentioned ivermectin? lol
First, a huge observational study in China says it is very unlikely, to the vanishing point of probability. Few people know about that, though. Second, all year last year there were many efforts trying to determine how COVID was spread, addressing factors such as how long it lives on surfaces, what environmental factors do to that viability, what differences in exposure to others makes(i.e. does social distancing make a difference). Pretty inconclusive considering all the effort to find something, the best results are better air filtration seems more effective than masks or isolation. But all the time the fear is ramped up by media, and I include ignorant opinions on social media. The SM posters may be wrong, deliberately or honestly, but they are influential. All you need now to keep the panic going is that little bit of truth that gives life to evey lie. It is true that asymptomatic people can spread disease, everyone knows about Typhoid Mary. Different disease in every way, but it's enough. Presto, we have a huge unknown body of asymptomatic spreaders, and this could only be proven or refuted by testing absolutely everyone with a reliable test and then relentless contact tracing. A perfect bogeyman.
I spoke to a person (not a friend, just someone I spoke to in passing, a elementary school teacher) that both her and her husband are so freaked out and scared about this virus that they are “fully vaxxed” she informed me and pretty much stay at home except for work, when they get home each day they take their shoes off outside the door and sanitizes them, she said she has groceries delivered to her, says they wipe down everything from the store before putting stuff away. Sanitize everything.
She freaked out when she found out a students family member had tested positive for the virus so the kid in her class got sent home, and it killed her to have to wait the whole day till the kids left to clean and sanitize her classroom. She acted like this kid had the virus and lord only knows how long he was spreading his sickies around 🙄 And you know she probably wears her freaking mask all the time outside her home.
The media has her totally and completely freaked out. I mean if you’re an elementary school teacher this shit shouldn’t even phase you, with all the germs kids spread around, come on now, but it seems like a lot of teachers lined up to get the jab when they went to the schools here to give it to any teacher/staff member that wanted it.
I have to regard people like that as mentally ill (crippling phobia). It helps me stay charitable. Honestly, if we had never heard of covid, a lot of us know someone like the teacher, and that (neurotic) is how we would have approached them.
I told it will be ok, tried to tell her the supplements to take but she wouldn't listen, said she already had her vitamins (she didn't say what vitamins) that she takes twice a day separated into morning & night times. I was like ok, and dropped the conversation and walked away. Lord can you imagine if I had mentioned ivermectin? lol