Interactive model showing effectiveness of airport screenings to catch Covid-19

Post by yokaze » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 3:41 AM UTC

jtdev wrote: post #9

ComputerGuru wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s easy to sit in an armchair and claim you’ve found the moral and ethical solution, but there are moral, ethical, and logistical ramifications to instituting a two-week quarantine on all overseas travelers including loss of life . Are you also going to quarantine every pilot and flight attendant for two weeks each time they land, given their close proximity to possibly infected passengers? What is the point of a q…

Point of any measures would be to slow the spread of COVID19 and reduce the likelihood of an overwhelming wave of infections that cripples the health system, resulting in greater loss of life than otherwise would occur and unrelated mortality due to said impact on health system. Even some simple recommendations from leadership (CDC) would be encouraging to see, but we keep being fed a “nothing to see here, no need to…

Post by swsieber » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 4:21 AM UTC

tunesmith wrote: post #15

ck2 wrote: post #8

I thought with this virus you can be be infected but not show symptoms for many days? Hence when HHS sent untrained staff with zero protection to meet all the infected people and then they returned all over the country afterwards on commercial flights, they essentially screwed the entire USA in one easy step, practically malicious idiocrasy.

People hear this statement and think it means that anyone that is exposed and catches the virus is able to infect anyone else, just the same as if they were completely symptomatic. But it doesn't mean it is as likely. People with symptoms are more contagious, people without symptoms are less contagious. One simple reason why is that people without symptoms tend to cough and sneeze less.

Post by craftinator » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 5:34 AM UTC

swsieber wrote: post #24

tunesmith wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People hear this statement and think it means that anyone that is exposed and catches the virus is able to infect anyone else, just the same as if they were completely symptomatic. But it doesn't mean it is as likely. People with symptoms are more contagious, people without symptoms are less contagious. One simple reason why is that people without symptoms tend to cough and sneeze less.

IIRC there was a study done showing symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers had the same virus load. So while you simple reason is correct, there's not much else if I understand things correctly (please correct if wrong.)

Post by s1artibartfast » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 6:19 AM UTC

swsieber wrote: post #24

tunesmith wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People hear this statement and think it means that anyone that is exposed and catches the virus is able to infect anyone else, just the same as if they were completely symptomatic. But it doesn't mean it is as likely. People with symptoms are more contagious, people without symptoms are less contagious. One simple reason why is that people without symptoms tend to cough and sneeze less.

IIRC there was a study done showing symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers had the same virus load. So while you simple reason is correct, there's not much else if I understand things correctly (please correct if wrong.)

Post by sschueller » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 9:08 AM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #8

I thought with this virus you can be be infected but not show symptoms for many days? Hence when HHS sent untrained staff with zero protection to meet all the infected people and then they returned all over the country afterwards on commercial flights, they essentially screwed the entire USA in one easy step, practically malicious idiocrasy.