Q: When is a Person With NO SYMPTOMS a "Case"? A: ONLY when its a "COVID Case."
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 7 months ago to Politics
To start with, we have the mangling of the concept of a ‘case’.
Previously, in the world of infectious diseases, it has been accepted that a ‘case’ represents someone with symptoms, usually severe symptoms, usually severe enough to be admitted to hospital. Here, from Wikipedia…. yes, I know, but on this sort of stuff they are a good resource.
‘In epidemiology, a case fatality rate (CFR) — sometimes called case fatality risk or disease lethality — is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of symptomatic people diagnosed with the disease.’ 1
Note the word symptomatic i.e. someone with symptoms.
However, now we stick a swab up someone’s nose, who feels completely well, or very mildly ill. We find that they have some COVID particles lodged up there, and we call them a case of COVID.
A symptomless, or even mildly symptomatic positive swab is not a case. Never, in recorded history, has this been true. However, now we have an almost unquestioned acceptance that a positive swab represents a case of COVID. This is then parroted on all the news channels as if it were gospel.
Previously, in the world of infectious diseases, it has been accepted that a ‘case’ represents someone with symptoms, usually severe symptoms, usually severe enough to be admitted to hospital. Here, from Wikipedia…. yes, I know, but on this sort of stuff they are a good resource.
‘In epidemiology, a case fatality rate (CFR) — sometimes called case fatality risk or disease lethality — is the proportion of deaths from a certain disease compared to the total number of symptomatic people diagnosed with the disease.’ 1
Note the word symptomatic i.e. someone with symptoms.
However, now we stick a swab up someone’s nose, who feels completely well, or very mildly ill. We find that they have some COVID particles lodged up there, and we call them a case of COVID.
A symptomless, or even mildly symptomatic positive swab is not a case. Never, in recorded history, has this been true. However, now we have an almost unquestioned acceptance that a positive swab represents a case of COVID. This is then parroted on all the news channels as if it were gospel.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (A.S.F., H.C.L.); and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta. Feb 28, 2020
We should know the M.O. of these creatures by now and that they will continue to "Confound" our language.
Ever get the feeling we are back in Babylon building a tower they know will collapse?
We will all be better off when they are gone to their ultimate punishment.
The real measure should be hospitalizations and fatalities - not infections. That's what determines the danger of a particular disease regardless of communicability. And in the beginning, this was the metric. Then when the power-mongers found out that the disease was a bust and not nearly as dangerous as they hoped, they moved the goalposts. Saw this even in my own (conservative) state.
I think that has been under discussion a number of times here, so I won't go on about it, but it just drives me crazy when I hear "rising number of cases" on a radio program (I don't watch tv) and KNOW that just last week they were talking about how the counting of cases is going to change. It DID change, but the reporters are "conveniently" forgetting that this week and pretending the up-to-16X increase is somehow important!
It's all about control
The media and the left are exceedingly good at this scare tactic. The Right's versions: "Reefer Madness", hell, record labels, etc. have all become passe, about as scary as Halloween decorations. And... no one is going to take the time to read/understand/evaluate something like Libertarianism or Objectivisim. So the outcome will be that the left wins, and Atlas Shrugged plays out while the world devolves into not total chaos, but the Chinese Party's lap, and we all become slaves until the next revolution ... without any weapons.
Welcome for the Friday afternoon cheer up!
Democracy is a poor system when anyone can vote and unlimited funds are used to put forward only candidates that are under elite control.