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Cyberyeti, can you point to ONE recent example where the UK government claimed that people who do not (yet) have symptoms are not very contagious? Just one?

Asymptomatic coronavirus carriers are contagious, but perhaps less contagious as their own immune systems are coping better with the covid-19 virus thus decreasing the viral load that can be transmitted to other people. With a smaller viral load available to infect, contagion is not as severe - this has been proved with other respiratory diseases such as SARS.

In turn, many people who are relatively healthy can perhaps cope with this level of covid-19 and become asymptomatic themselves with few signs of the illness, and they will also have smaller viral loads to infect other people, etc.

Unfortunately the problems probably occur when viral load exposure is high, by being around many asymptomatic people who also have the virus or by being in contact with one person (or a few) who have high viral loads themselves.

Thank you guys so much for the entertainment. This is more fun than watching a monkey trying to f$$k a football.

EARLY ON in the coronavirus pandemic, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar assigned a top aide to run the day-to-day U.S. response. The aide’s occupation before his ascension to his prominent post? Labradoodle breeder.

That is only one of the absurd and alarming examples of unqualified or otherwise dangerous political appointees carrying out critical duties in the Trump administration — and the worst part is, the public isn’t even aware of many of them. The United States government employs some 4,000 political appointees, more than any other industrialized democracy. Approximately 1,200 must be confirmed by the Senate, yet thousands remain who can be installed in their positions in the shadows.

The man responsible for overseeing the child separation policy at the border, for instance, had never spent any time resettling refugees before he was put in charge of refugee resettlement. He was, however, an antiabortion advocate, which perhaps explains why he sparked scandal by trying to stop detained minors from getting abortions.

Currently, the White House is urging the hiring to a key Pentagon position of Rich Higgins, a conspiracy theorist fired from the National Security Council after propounding the theory that a “deep state” composed of the media, Black Lives Matter, Islamists, the United Nations and more was working together to undermine the president. The myth has stuck.

A top HHS aide’s last job was ‘Labradoodle breeder.’ He’s one of many unqualified appointees.


I'm not laughing.

The patronage system has to go. Remember Michael "Brownie" Brown who bungled the Katrina response as FEMA director. His main qualification was being an official in the Arabian Horse Association.

I won't even start to get into the nepotism of the Grifter in Chief, or his 1000+ other incompetent political appointees.

A little off topic, but Pilowsky, paragraphs make a huge difference. It might be a good story but I find it almost impossible to read that wall of text.

Hitting enter twice (not just once) every so often makes things far more readable.

Asymptomatic coronavirus carriers are contagious, but perhaps less contagious as their own immune systems are coping better with the covid-19 virus thus decreasing the viral load that can be transmitted to other people. With a smaller viral load available to infect, contagion is not as severe - this has been proved with other respiratory diseases such as SARS.

Cyberyeti, can you point to ONE recent example where the UK government claimed that people who do not (yet) have symptoms are not very contagious? Just one?

cherdano, do you have any actual qualifications? or, like Peter Navarro, are you just making this stuff up as you go along?

cherdano, do you have any actual qualifications?

15. The incubation period is the delay between an individual becoming infected and
developing symptoms. Current estimates give an average incubation period of 5 days
(range 1–11 days). This is approximately twice as long as for influenza. The maximum
incubation period is used to define the period required for isolation, currently believed to
be 14 days.

10. Inkubationszeit und serielles Intervall
Die Inkubationszeit gibt die Zeit von der Ansteckung bis zum Beginn der Erkrankung an. Sie liegt im Mittel (Median) bei 5–6 Tagen (Spannweite 1 bis 14 Tage) (45, 196).

Based on existing literature, the incubation period (the time from exposure to development of symptoms) of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses (e.g., MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV) ranges from 2–14 days.

The incubation period for COVID-19, which is the time between exposure to the virus (becoming infected) and
symptom onset, is on average 5-6 days, however can be up to 14 days.