Emphasis mine.
I think it is very important to stress that asymptomatic transmission, not asymptomatic cases, are discussed here.
@all: Whenever anyone is talking about herd immunity and stresses there is a high number of asymptomatic cases, please interfere. You do not need to call bullshit, because the error is understandable. It is a very dangerous error nevertheless.
To quote from the linked piece:
27 (56%) essentially asymptomatic, although symptoms subsequently developed in 24 of these residents (within a median of 4 days) and they were reclassified as presymptomatic.
Emphasis mine.
This is important.
I try to keep telling people close to me that about half of the transmissions occur before the person transmitting feels a single thing. I don’t know if I am contagious, and neither do you.
And right now, this week, people very close to me started questioning if we could not meet up, because they are starting to unravel. This is a choice which we need to be very careful about.
Personally, I can still live without seeing people who are close to me. It is taking a toll. But I have hope.
They, OTH, are right now loosing it. In many ways.
So, choices to make. And probabilities to account for.
(And humans are shit in accounting for probabilities.)
I spent a while in an isolation ward in January visiting my parents (who both got taken by ambulance to hospital with the flu) and found the gear really hard to wear. Glasses don’t help at all.
‘The biggest myth about Sweden is that life is going on as normal’
Life in Sweden is absolutely not going on as normal, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin told The Local as she warned the government was prepared to take stronger measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
