Re:Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19
by kaczordon on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:21PM
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I don’t recall any superspreader events after Trump rallies either.
And no I just think lockdowns have done far more harm than good. This paper is a meta-analysis of 54 prior studies that involved a total of 77,758 subjects reporting secondary transmissions in households. Conclusion: Asymptomatic people are not a factor for spreading Covid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33315116/
FYI that study has been cited a few times by the CDC even.
So yeah all this masking and social distancing has really not been needed. If you have symptoms then stay home should have been the guidance.
If you take a look at the BLM riots in the US, a lot of people were wearing masks. It's a contrast to several Trump events, where a lot of supporters famously got infected. That's not to mention the huge spike and spreading after spring break 2020..
I get the sense that you're trolling tbh.
Edit: Let us assume you're not.
"[Trump rallies gauged to] have led to more than 30,000 additional cases and at least 700 additional deaths."
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-31/super-sprea...
"We demonstrate that cities which had [BLM] protests saw an increase in social distancing behavior for the overall population relative to cities that did not,” reads the report called, “Black lives matter protests, social distancing and COVID-19.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-blm-protests-have-n...
The CDC states that schools are not particularly bad, and the worst scenario are small, informal gatherings cf. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-spreads-easily-expert...
These 3 articles suggest that it comes down to behavior. So if we assume that the Swedish studies are correct, they would reflect how schools deal with protocols. I think it's fair to assume a different result e.g. outside Sweden or Scandinavia.
It's also premature to say whether this still applies wrt the new variants from Brazil, GB and South Africa.