Rev. Rye Wrote:I think the CDC wold beg to differ about that.Look, not a single child-to-parent transmission of COVID-19 has been confirmed. Not a single one, that is how rare it is. It is not unreasonable to assume it has happened a few times, but closing schools because of that assumption is unreasonable.
Rev. Rye Wrote:Especially the bit about how asymptomiatic spread is rare.You know, I find it funny that the same people who are thinking asymptomiatic spread of COVID-19 is not to be neglected... are usually the same people who are advocating for forced vaccination to lower the spread of COVID-19 to protect those who cannot be vaccinated (people with auto-immune disorders) or for whom vaccination will not work (immunocompromised people). All vaccines we have against COVID-19, and probably all vaccines against coronaviruses we will ever have, do not provide sterilizing immunity, they just alleviate the symptoms. At the same time, you are denying the obvious fact that alleviating the symptoms leads to reduced spread. Makes no sense whatsoever.
Rev. Rye Wrote:You seem to be confusing vaccination with medicationNo, I am not. Some vaccines, such as vaccines against measles or tetanus, provide you with sterilizing immunity. That means you cannot catch the disease. But such are rare. Most vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, do not stop you from catching the disease, they are there so that when you inevitably get infected, you have little or no symptoms. And, since you have little or no symptoms, you are unlikely to spread the disease. If COVID-19 patients were given antihistamines to suppress their immune system, it would also lower the spread, but it would increase the mortality. Antihistamines, though, may be useful for the bird flu pandemic that will likely soon come, since bird flu kills people by turning their immune system against them and people with weaker immune systems have a higher chance of surviving bird flu.
