Depends on the type of test: Coronavirus Testing Basics
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Depends on the type of test: Coronavirus Testing BasicsThe problem is that the tests used will show positive even when the immune system has done its job and destroyed the virus, leaving pieces of the virus floating around, which are detected by the commonly used tests. It's rather like you having a flat tire on your car and the tire store saying you need 4 new ones because if one is flat they must all be.
Stands to reason, doesn't it? Look at the words:I am coming to the conclusion that the politicians and the experts are all full of dung.
Actually, quite glutinous from his photos!Yes but is the benevolent despot you describe gluten free?
Why do masks and distancing seem superfluous?I still practice the distancing and wear a mask as per the "guide lines" which seem to be so superfluous that I am coming to the conclusion that the politicians and the experts are all full of dung.
Because there's so much spurious and misleading information floating around out there that people start to question the effectiveness and necessity of these measures and begin to subscribe to conspiracy theories about nefarious manipulation of the innocent and ignorant public.Why do masks and distancing seem superfluous?
I think you're right. IMHO, globally, we've long since lost any chance we may have had to get ahead of this thing and corral it. We'll have to learn to live with it as a permanent fixture, like the flu and the cold, and the sooner we as a species learn to accept that fact and adopt the attitudinal, lifestyle, and institutional changes to cope with it, the sooner we can relegate it to the less lethal status of its viral relatives. Forget panaceas like vaccines and miracle drugs. It can evolve faster than our science can.From reports on various news channels, I'm thinking that this plague will never end. People becoming re-infected with a new variant while World wide there are dramatic increases in the infection rate.
I'm not sure I want to, but if that's what happens, que sera sera. But I'm not banking on it.I happen to be one the Boomer Generation and I plan to out live many of the Millennials.
Well, now even the New York Times has been forced to admit that our testing methods produce a huge number of false positives, perhaps even the majority of test results.
According to The New York Times, potentially 90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus
present in their bodies that such individuals do not need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing. Leading public health experts are now
concerned that overtesting is responsible for misdiagnosing a huge number of people with harmless amounts of the virus in their systems.
Looks like what that immunology expert doctor was warning about, with the tests detecting pieces of the virus.
Sadly, I agree.I think you're right. IMHO, globally, we've long since lost any chance we may have had to get ahead of this thing and corral it. We'll have to learn to live with it as a permanent fixture, like the flu and the cold, and the sooner we as a species learn to accept that fact and adopt the attitudinal, lifestyle, and institutional changes to cope with it, the sooner we can relegate it to the less lethal status of its viral relatives. Forget panaceas like vaccines and miracle drugs. It can evolve faster than our science can.
It didn't have to be this way. We (or at least some of us) have known for some time how to deal with outbreaks of this kind. We just haven't had the social will and social cohesion to allocate the resources to prepare for this kind of threat before it becomes imminent. For that the butcher bill is being paid, but not by the guilty parties.
As a species, our widespread inability to differentiate factuality from ideology and adapt to rapid change might well be our undoing, or at least the undoing of our society as we know it.
This may sound callous, but depending on your perspective, you could say this pandemic has some benefits. Like reducing the huge burden the boomer generation has placed on the Social Security system.
We who have grown up in a world of eternal verities and stable institutions are philosophically and emotionally ill adapted to life in this explosively changing social environment we find ourselves in. Alvin Toffler nailed it in his book "Future Shock" back in the 1960s. Not enough people have read it. And unfortunately the people who need it most won't read it.
Is this cause for feelings of depression? On a personal level, no, life will go on with or without any particular one of us individually. And our descendants, having grown up in a much more fluid and fast paced world than we did, are better adapted. With any luck at all, they will operate the world on their watch more wisely than we did on ours.
Cheers,
Wes
For that the butcher bill is being paid, but not by the guilty parties.