I remember back in the old days of Covid (5 months ago) the hysterical ‘experts’ were trying to convince us that probably 50% of Covid infections were asymptomatic and that THOSE clueless asymptomatic people were unwittingly going around infecting everyone and their granny.
It was part of the bullshit they used to scare gullible dummies like Melissa Johnson into becoming mask nazis who hit people with their cane or sprayed mace in people’s faces if they didn’t obey and strap on a dirty face diaper 24/7. It allowed them to spew all sorts of pious bullshit about how “we are protecting YOU” and “worrying about YOU”.
Morons like Melissa Johnson are who C. S. Lewis was talking about when he said:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Of course, the idea of the asymptomatic super spreader was all a load of crap.
NOW it turns out that only roughly 20% of infections are asymptomatic. Not 50%. Furthermore, those asymptomatic infected people are EXTREMELY unlikely to get anyone else sick:
Presently, it appears that asymptomatic (or very light symptomatic) infections have a 0.3% secondary attack rate, compared to 15% for symptomatic. This is for close contact like an extended conversation in a home setting for example. ASYMPTOMATICS ARE NOT DRIVERS OF SPREAD.
That’s .003 for you math challenged people out there. Or about 300-1 odds.
So, much like any other cold or flu, if you feel like shit and thus KNOW you are sick, then stay home. Which most sane people do anyways since you really don’t feel like getting out of bed, now do you? The answer is NOT to strap a dirty face diaper on every single person JUST IN CASE they may be one of the very few who are infectious and don’t know it. Why? Because even THOSE people are EXTREMELY unlikely to pass anything on to you.
Unfortunately, dummies like Melissa Johnson and other members of the Branch Covidian Cult will NEVER change their minds when presented with facts. The pain of admitting they were duped is too great. Better to cling even harder to the cult and double down, as we are seeing right now in Texas.