What if it was a variant that was less deadly? Or less contagious? Or both?
But, yeah, just ban Churchill again for posting articles from regular news sources about regular studies produced by big government agencies.
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Sigh so now we are coming up with theories about Covid 0.1 circulating in animals in disparate geographies months before Covid 1.0 got to people?
Gonna need a lot lot lot of compelling evidence for that. Coronoviruses are widespread in nature. The idea that some forms have cross reactivity with SARS-CoV-2 is another possible explanation.
Churchill, speculate all you want but clearly put a disclaimer on it that it is speculation.
OK micro, so your hypothesis is that covid came from China, traveled to Italy, where it became less deadly, then went back to China and became more deadly, then went back to Italy?
Thatâs absurd. We should not be wasting time on this nonsense.
Thatâs not even what Jbro was wondering about, but also posting an article from The Smithsonian is not a theory.
It also claims that the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies went down from September through January, when Italy was taking no mitigating measures at all. Itâs completely implausible.
For the study in particular, it doesnât show any positive or negative control samples that might indicate just how reliable their antibody assay is.
Who the hell said anything about banning anyone?
Thatâs already starting out stupid. My only hypothesis is that itâs terribad to ban (start the ball towards banning with âthatâs bullushitâ from the arbiter of truth) Churchill for posting his thoughts about legitimate news articles and studies from national health agencies.
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For fuck sake this has happened like 10 times already.
- Churchill didnât get banned for posting his thoughts about legitimate news sources
- Take your whining to AU, real shit is happening with covid, stop putting stupid drama bullshit here.
I kinda assumed the study sequenced their samples or something to make sure it wasnât a cross-reactive antibody, but I didnât actually read the study. Kinda ridiculous if they didnât double check that.
I wish youâd stop telling people what to do.
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I was synthesizing from the comments and papers.
Sadly half of what is in the literature had significant issues. Reading critically takes a career of experience and often patience waiting for more I go to come in.
Again itâs ok to speculate just make it clear. Itâs also ok to question. I think the problem in the past was some misrepresentation and also some digging in on speculation as fact.
Most of the time, data that doesnât make sense is because there is something wrong with the data or the analysis. True revolutionary findings are much less common.
Church gets banned for blatantly misrepresenting whatâs in articles and making shut up. Donât think anyone has an issue with him posting this Italian study.
This is entirely imaginary. I looked at every time heâs mentioned âboosterâ ITT, and there was a negative response precisely zero times.
The Italian paper:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620974755
To test the hypothesis of early circulation of the virus in Italy, we investigated the frequency, timing, and geographic distribution of SARS-CoV-2 exposure in a series of 959 asymptomatic individuals, using proprietary SARS-CoV-2 binding and neutralizing antibodies on the plasma samples repository
This is code for we have no idea what the accuracy of our test is.
The 959 recruited patients came from all Italian regions, and at least one SARS-CoV-2âpositive patient was detected in 13 regions.
So a nationwide outbreak with no increase!
SMILE cohort characteristics are shown in the Supplementary Table S1. In summary, 397 patients (41.4%) were women, 63.2% were 55â65 years old, 76.8% were current smokers, and 92.9% had smoked â©Ÿ30 pack-years.
No one dying despite this cohort being super vulnerable.
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Maybe covid mutates over time, I dunno. Must be possible that it circulated and opnly bcame an issue when it became killer.
Have you had a covid test yet? Are you getting tested on the regular now that breakthrough cases seem to be real.
Right, everyone knows that the selective pressures from mutations make infections from the mutant drop over time for a while.
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3/4ths are not wearing masks in Florida, so I very much doubt that 90% support it.
âIt would go against basic germ theory for the vaccinated to transmitâ.
Itâs a novel Coronavirus after all.