An interesting article from the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) is gaining increased attention as questions about asymptomatic spread of COVID-19, the baseline for all COVID mitigation, is being reconciled with the latest tracing data.
In essence, the larger question being asked is: can people without coronavirus symptoms spread the COVID-19 virus? This question is at the heart of all current COVID mitigation efforts. If there is no asymptomatic spread then what is all of this mask wearing nonsense and shut-down mandates all about?
A research paper published on November 20th highlights a case study of almost 10 million people in China. What the study found was there were 300 cases of Coronavirus in the population being carried without any symptoms at all. So the scientists then tracked the asymptomatic carriers. The contact tracing of 1,174 “close contacts” with the asymptomatic carriers showed ZERO transmission. Not a few, not a couple, but zero -none- not a single transmission of Coronavirus from a person without symptoms.
The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare. Forget even Fauci’s previous suggestion that asymptomatic transmission exists but not does drive the spread. Replace all that with: never. At least not in this study for 10,000,000.
[STUDY] … Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated.
No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.
One might suppose that this would be huge news. It would allow us to open up everything immediately. With the whole basis for post-curve-flattening lockdowns crumbled, we could go back to living a normal life. The fear could evaporate. We could take comfort in our normal intuition that healthy people can get out and about with no risk to others. We could take off our masks. We could go to movies and sports events.
… We keep hearing about how we should follow the science. The claim is tired by now. We know what’s really happening. The lockdown lobby ignores whatever contradicts their narrative, preferring unverified anecdotes over an actual scientific study of 10 million residents in what was the world’s first major hotspot for the disease we are trying to manage. You would expect this study to be massive international news. So far as I can tell, it is being ignored. [More]
In essence, what the study of 10 million people confirmed is what many people, doctors, scientists and World Health Organization already suspected.
Like the common cold and flu when a person is infected with the virus they are only infecting others when they have symptoms: cold, runny nose, coughing, aching, sneezing, fever, congestion etc; hence, when a person has an illness they should isolate to not spread the virus. However, when a person has no external symptoms of the virus, just like the cold and flu, they are not a risk of transmitting the virus to others.
♦ This is a major issue with massive ramifications because all of the current COVID-19 mitigation effort is based on the principle that people can carry and spread the virus while having no idea they have it, and no symptoms.
If asymptomatic transmission is not happening, and it appears with scientific certainty it is not, then all of the current lock-down regulations, mask wearing requirements and social distancing rules/decrees are based on a complete fallacy of false assumptions.
The asymptomatic case study published in November affirms the earlier reporting from the World Health Organization that COVID-19 is only known to transmit from people who are showing symptoms of the virus. In June of 2020, Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said transmission of the coronavirus by people who aren’t showing symptoms is “very rare.”
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As you can see from the video explanation, in June 2020 Ms. Kerkhove could not identify a single study or case that was traced to asymptomatic spread; but scientists still thought it might be possible so she -and others- kept using the “very rare” terminology.
However, with the latest information and a far more lengthy timeline to study the disease, the cumulative 2020 data shows “very rare” actually means “never”, asymptomatic spread just doesn’t happen – EVER.
So why is the entire world engaged in COVID-19 mitigation processes to block the transmission of a virus that has never, not even once, been identified as occurring?
In the mean time, drink Tonic Water. Which “contains quinine”, the precursor of synthetic HCQ.
That video is from June 2020. Is it still accurate?
ATTENTION!!
NO EVIDENCE THAT THE IDENTIFIED ASYMPTOMATIC POSITIVE CASES WERE INFECTIOUS!!!
Please listen to latest push from the John Hopkins University to promote and justify the mandates , basically saying we have no rights , and even if it’s not safe “ just tell them it’s safe “ . Scary ! Someone needs to out these people and go after them before they go after us !!!
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/11/20/could-coronavirus-vaccines-become-mandatory/
I just read part of it and commented. Industry shills.
@ Sara It’s what ya get from going from 2000 year old Hippocrates god/ higher power based art of medicine, to a for profit Scientism [not science] based industry & shills! Medicine has killed three of my loved ones & Vax injured my grand son, I know of no one who cough Coved 19! Do you? All this psychopathy is nothing more than age old Good Vs. Evil, God Vs. Satan in a War for Your Soul! And Satan’s boys are winning ,this round!
There is no such thing as an “asymptomatic case.” A “case” is defined by symptoms. (Ask any MD) The most common test returns mostly false positives, based on finding virus detria in the nose, which is full of all kinds of bad stuff that never results in infection. All bogus, like most of the statistics associated with the “pandemic.”
I refuse to be paranoid about this virus. I do take nutrients to reduce chances of infection.
Earlier in 2020 I did have runny nose for about a week. Then, GONE.
Something no fear mongering, big pharma pimping spokesman will advise you to do! I.E. Vitamin C & D3, Zink, etc etc. Because it’s bad for the sickness industry! Who not only owns politics it own you! Try not vaxing you kids, & see what happens!!!
While I tend to agree with the conclusion that the asymptomatic cases did not contribute to the spread I must object to the headline of the story. The headline claim a study of 10 Million. Yes that was the total population of the area. The third paragraph specifically state the size of the study. “What the study found was there were 300 cases of Coronavirus in the population being carried without any symptoms at all. So the scientists then tracked the asymptomatic carriers.”
@MarkAHesseltine i see your point but look at it this way, 30,000 people were in the trial for the vaccine & only 90 got covid, so they based their whole trial off of 90 people. While that logic seems stupid, this study where 10 million were in the whole picture, 300 who tested positive for covid with no symptoms & the people around them were monitored. If what “they” have been so worried about, “the invisible killer” was true, the 10 million people would have all been effected in some way. This study is a bit late, government officials dont want to see any studies basically calling them idiots, who came up with the idea that people who are not sick & with no symptoms could be a danger? These are the brilliant minds we are supposed to listen to? Bunch of flipping ding dongs, letting peoples entire lives go down the tube for bogus fake science. & people eat it up with a spoon. I feel like im in a twilight zone episode. Elected government officials become dictators and everyone follows like zombified cult members, then act like anyone not wearing a mask is a threat to the entire populations health. Come on, if people would look at what makes sense instead of cowering to the dictators, we would not be in this mess in the 1st place. The MS Media needs to be labeled as story tellers, this is the same thing that happened when war of the worlds was on the radio & scared the crap out of people.
That’s almost as bad as the Pharma’s med. industry mislead suckers with Relative Vs. Actual risk/ benefit statistics!
I.E. look at the crude relative and absolute risks here:
RELATIVE RISK = ratio of one risk to another = 0.73/0.64 = 1.14 = 14% increased risk
ABSOLUTE RISK = one risk subtracted from the other = 0.73–0.64 = 0.09 =0.09% increased risk
So we could either say that there was a 14% increased risk or a 0.09% increased risk of heart death associated with skipping breakfast.
I think you might be misreading the article. Read above where it reads
Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated.
Sounds like a screening programme took place where almost 10 million people (9,899,828) participated. Sounds like a study to me.
According to the book Death by Medicine, big pharma pimping Medicine kills'[iatrogenic] 700,000 each year! P.C. censoring Johns Hopkin’s study claims it’s only 250,000! (“The third leading cause of death in the USA”) They claim! The bible claims “Death is the wages of Sin”! Coincidence? I don’t think so! So hurry and get vaxed! Lets move iatrogenic’s to second or first place! Big Pharma’s “death medicine needs more “Wages”!!!
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These people have to be exposed for what they are…they are getting with with most heinous crime and we all seem to be willing participants.
Found in the bin…. 🙁
I’m not a willing participant. I’m pregnant and even in pregnancy where I need 20% more oxygen, not 35% less, which is what I’d get wearing a damn mask, I’ve had to defend myself at my OB-GYN’s office, and elsewhere, against wearing masks which are very detrimental to health and immunity and the brain, but especially for pregnant women. I literally feel like I’m going to pass out, and get a fever and high blood pressure after only a minute with a mask on, so I refuse everywhere. It’s been hard standing up for myself against clearly evil and indoctrinated morons, especially in the medical field, but I do it every week. So please don’t put me into a “we” and “willing participant” category. There’s no way in hell I’ll ever be willing. I’m currently, even while pregnant, preparing my household to move to the middle of no where and live off the grid so that we don’t have to get our veins pumped fully of insanely toxic, DNA & RNA/immunity altering garbage in the new vaccine. My 1st child was vaccine-injured at her 6 month visit (well, really after all the neuro-toxic vaccines), and I finally did hundreds of hours of research, which I should have done beforehand, reading hundreds of medical journals on vaccines, and I concluded without a doubt, vaccines are a money-making lie, and they’re dangerous, and kill and injure millions every year. I stopped vaccinating my daughter and detoxed her over a year and she’s SO much healthier and doesn’t get sick. Of course we also eat mostly organic produce, cereals, and other food and filter all fluoride and toxins out of our drinking water, which also helps keep her healthy. Anyway, this vaccine for this exaggerated and lied about virus this year is going to be the most under-tested and toxic by far. It’s not surprising that Bill Gates funded a huge chunk of the so-called research/production – the same man who has publicly stated numerous times that the population needs to shrink by 20% and continue to decline instead of increase. He’s the freaking devil trying to play God and determine who gets to live or die. I guarantee this vaccine will kill 20% of the world’s population within 10 years, whether in a very short time-span to those with compromised immunity (the elderly, e.t.c), or in a short number of years after massive autoimmune disorders that will create deadly cancer in many. What’s going on is a giant scheme to make trillions from taxes, to shrink the world’s poluation, and to create a totalitarian government that rules the world – only the most elite rich will be in-charge. Of course they are so evil they’ll probably murder each other so that body will shrink. Anyway, genocide is real – vaccines are a huge culprit, especially since the 80’s, and this mask mandate garbage is a scare tactic. But, not everyone is a willing participant.
9/11 Truth inoculated me against CONVID19. Never fell for it once when the panic set in. I have found no evidence to prove me wrong during this whole time. I refuse to wear masks and have always refused. No big deal. I am glad you aren’t a zombie. The zombie apocalypse is now.
God based “let thy food be thy medicine” isn’t as profitable as Big Pharm’s sickness industry!
“People get the government they deserve” as the old saw goes! Death is the wages of sin, as the Bible says! The CCP has killed 100,000 of USA’s G.I.’s in my life time! So can you see where we are going? Hint, “Narrow is the way and only a few find it”. How sad & true is that?
It’s an iteresting article but doesn’t seem to cover people that get infected, become infectious, but don’t show symptoms until several days later. THis is not the same as the subjects of the study, who are people that never ever show symptoms. Surely the first group are the prime people who justify lock down. I would be greateful to be disproved about this.
In contrast to this and the NIH study which deny significant asymptomatic transmission, does there exist any list of published studies that back up the claims that asymptomatic transmission is a significant factor? We know the players have SAID it a lot, where are THEIR studies?