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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by cstejerean on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:49PM (#27456152)
> There's also evidence that asymptomatic people don't spread COVID. This would mean that if they don't have symptoms, you won't get it, and if they do and they're like most people, they'll stay home which means no transmission.

We wouldn’t be in the middle of a pandemic if this were true.

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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by jokethrowaway on Thursday June 10, 2021 @06:07AM (#27458952)
It's been a pretty mild pandemic. What has been newsworthy about was the removal of freedom, not the number of dead people.

It's flu-like transmission - which is mostly through droplets. If you're not sneezing in the face of people you don't have high chances of passing it around

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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by galoisgirl on Thursday June 10, 2021 @06:47AM (#27459184)
It's the 9th pandemic in human history in the number of deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics#Major_epidem...
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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by briefcomment on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:43AM (#27460657)
Looks like it's much lower than 9th population adjusted.
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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by ping_pong on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:48AM (#27458061)
There a difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic.
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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by tomp on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:04AM (#27458187)
Parent poster actually meant presymptomatic.

> This would mean that if they don't have symptoms, you won't get it

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Re:Evaluating necessity of Covid-19 vaccination in previousl... by rimliu on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:56AM (#27458120)
Why so? Or are you mixing up asymptomatic with presymptomatic, as many do? It is clear that latter do indeed play a big role in spreading infection, but the science is not so clear on the former. Likely that asymptomatic do not spread it.
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