The Virus Lessons Were Getting Wrong
By H.W. Jenkins, Feb. 5, 2021, Wall St. Journal

In the New Yorkers recent Covid opus, which took up an
entire edition of the magazine, it cites two €œmissed
opportunities€� to defeat the virus: Chinas failure to
fess up about human-to-human transmission and the early
U.S. testing fiascoes.

Its wrong about both. Covid was out of the bag globally
before Beijing even knew it existed. And U.S. testing
could hardly have isolated early Covid sufferers when 59%
of spreaders have no symptoms and most of the sick have
symptoms indistinguishable from the colds and flus millions
suffer every day.

The new coronavirus was an efficient spreader and was not
going to be stopped, as much as politics resists the idea
of realities that cant be changed by politics.

A third €œmissed opportunity€� was mask adoption, but masks
are only one element of social distancing. Research by the
Covid States Project shows that, starting early last summer,
Americans donned masks but curtailed their physical
separation, contributing to the year-end surge.

Its absurd that only now the CDC, very quietly, has begun
recognizing, as it does with flu, most cases go unreported.
As of Dec. 31, when the media was highlighting 19.7 million
€œconfirmed€� cases, the CDC now estimates 83 million were infected.

A long-running USC survey shows that risk perceptions have
been distorted in exactly the way you'd predict: Americans
overestimate their risk of dying from Covid & underestimate
their risk of catching it, with the result that millions
likely have been selecting a level of risk that ill serves
them, their families and society.

In the first weeks of the pandemic, the CDC warned that
most Americans would encounter the virus. This advice
eventually disappeared from its website. It was never
mentioned by any politician. Why? It sounded too much like
govt washing its hands of protecting the public.

Biden took advantage of his 2nd day in office to say
something true: €œTheres nothing we can do to change the
trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.€�

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-vir...ng-11612562285

David P wrote

The Virus Lessons Were Getting Wrong

We got wrong would be more accurate.

By H.W. Jenkins, Feb. 5, 2021, Wall St. Journal

Just another stupid journo.

In the New Yorkers recent Covid opus, which took
up an entire edition of the magazine, it cites two
€œmissed opportunities€� to defeat the virus: Chinas
failure to fess up about human-to-human transmission

But when they worked that out, they did a lot
better at stomping out the virus than most and
ended up with fewer corpses than Italy or the
UK which is a pretty decent result given the
number of people in china.

and the early U.S. testing fiascoes.

Didnt happen in china or korea.

Its wrong about both. Covid was out of the bag
globally before Beijing even knew it existed.

BULL****.

And U.S. testing could hardly have
isolated early Covid sufferers when
59% of spreaders have no symptoms

That number is straight from someone's
arse, we can tell from the smell, and the
whole point of testing is to see who of
the symptomless are infected, stupid.

and most of the sick have symptoms indistinguishable
from the colds and flus millions suffer every day.

Thats why we have testing, stupid.

The new coronavirus was an efficient spreader
and was not going to be stopped,

How odd that all of china, new zealand,
taiwan, vietnam etc stopped it.

as much as politics resists the idea of realities
that cant be changed by politics.

How odd that all of china, new zealand,
taiwan, vietnam etc stopped it.

A third €œmissed opportunity€� was mask adoption, but
masks are only one element of social distancing.

Masks arent social distancing.

Research by the Covid States Project shows that,
starting early last summer, Americans donned
masks but curtailed their physical separation,
contributing to the year-end surge.

How odd that masks worked fine in taiwan.

Its absurd that only now the CDC, very quietly,
has begun recognizing, as it does with flu, most
cases go unreported. As of Dec. 31, when the media
was highlighting 19.7 million €œconfirmed€� cases, the
CDC now estimates 83 million were infected.

Because they are now testing, stupid.

A long-running USC survey shows that risk perceptions
have been distorted in exactly the way you'd predict:
Americans overestimate their risk of dying from Covid
& underestimate their risk of catching it, with the
result that millions likely have been selecting a level
of risk that ill serves them, their families and society.

In the first weeks of the pandemic, the CDC warned
that most Americans would encounter the virus.

And they did.

This advice eventually disappeared from its website.

Because that was obvious.

It was never mentioned by any politician.

They are completely irrelevant.

Why? It sounded too much like govt washing
its hands of protecting the public.

Then you need a new hearing aid, BAD.

Pity about vaccination and vaccines.

Biden took advantage of his 2nd day in office to say
something true: €œTheres nothing we can do to change the
trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.€�

Thats bull**** too with vaccination, stupid.

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