This was more of a dog and pony show for Biden to appease hyper Sinophobic Republicans pressuring him to ''punish China'' for ''unleashing the virus''.
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Humans are not the master of this planet.
Nobody said that and nobody is doing like that, so stop straw man tactic.
BTW, neither is virus the master of this planet.
Mother Nature is.
We don't need you to tell the obvious.
And it does appear Mother Nature shows humanity who is boss.
Mother Nature is only watching which one of her creations is going to win over the other, human or virus.
Don't use the word "Mother Nature" in the same way as God. Respecting Nature law is not a religion. Science is not a religion. Any animal (human included) will NOT stay idle in front of disasters, that is the Natural law. Natural law does NOT favor anybody (active or passive), it does not choose, it only reward the one who survived at last. Everything is up to one to act.
It's not the total volume of daily tests, but the positivity rate that determines under-counting of cases. Positivity rate is the proportion of all tests that comes back positive. A 5% positivity rate is considered 'TOO high'.
- A nation as large as China has only have 160 million total tests over 2 year period, and a less than 0.001% positivity rate because there is only 5000 prevalent cases over 2 year period and the disease is virtually non-existent right now.
- Compared to a nation as large as India with over 560 million total tests over a 2 year period, but has a 1.8% positivity rate because there is over 32 million prevalent cases over 2 year period and the virus is alive and thriving in India right now.
Yes, you are correct that during the incubation period, the virus can thrive and mutate before signs and symptoms appear, and can be contagious during this incubation phase (mean 6 days, range 2-14 days). So yea, that's a good point.
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Off topic since that is more about economics than Covid. Please take that somewhere else.
Considering most of the covid cases theses days (especially with the new variants) are asymptomatic (indeed, at least 60 percent of rhinovirus infection is asympomatic), you cannot assume the same rules apply to the first covid strain which does not exist. It's going to be very hard to catch
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Just a few days ago, NYT is claiming that China vaccine diplomacy is losing steam as the US is on the rise. Look like most Asian countries continue to order more Chinese vaccines.
None of these vaccines work anyway. Mother Nature trumps humans.
LOL OK bud.
Vaccines make it 29X less likely to be hospitalized compared to unvaccinated according to .
Looks like mama nature is losing.