CV and mad panic behaviour

[Thryleon]

Believing the virus is somehow benign because of the consequences of vigilance and swift action seems to be the exact wrong conclusion!

It's a deadly attitude to take into the public arena.

Thryleon, you've already publicly stated the precautions you take yourself having moved through quarantined areas, and you've not had COVID-19 which I presume given you work in health is confirmed by regular testing. You've also confirmed that not everyone you work with is so lucky, were they slack in their diligence?

Hopefully you don't get it, but if you do given your employment you are probably in a privileged position to be detected and treated early! The problem isn't the people who get detected early, or get symptoms and get tested early, the problem will be people who get infected, get symptoms and do nothing about it, typically the incapacitated or the dangerous deniers!

Why are the quarantine workers and their close associates different from yourself? I seriously suspect there are no longer any uniformed individuals in these positions.

What do the associates do for a living, are they aware of their housemate's employment?

How has the infected worker been trained regarding quarantine hygiene?

Perhaps they are just lucky, perhaps he is diligent at maintaining good hygiene, we hear the media reporting he is a model employee in this regard, maybe he used masks and anti-viral hand wash diligently, or perhaps they are just lucky and it's so far so good. Time will tell I suppose, but of course those close contacts are front of the line for detection and treatment now, and that is the real point of the story, the correct order of assessing events!

It's obviously not like a computer virus or a Harry Potter spell, you don't just get it with a click of a button or wave of a wand! Infections take time, disease and death follow infection building over time, weeks and months must pass before confidence can grow!

I've an associate in the UK who commutes daily past what was previously a moderately sized farming lot but is now been converted into a tented compound, a compound full of body bags pending burial, the morticians can't keep pace, he begs to differ about the benign nature of COVID-19. Can you give me a comparative virus that affects our type of city in that typical and very public way?

Paraphrasing will get you nowhere.

Neither will anecdotal evidence.

My post isn't aimed at making out covid is benign.  If the guard was so diligent at his processes he wouldn't have gotten infected in the first place, and once he did, its reasonable he would have spread it at least somewhere else.

Thats where this falls over.

You can try and change my argument to make it easier to attack but in this regards you've made a mistake.  You have stated you want evidence, then quote some anecdotal so and so told me from London its full of body bags.  Who cares?  They have a different poem over there and my anecdotal evidence from my brother is quite contrary to what you've stated.  Neither disproves the other and neither is relevant to the price of fish and our recent security guard.

Sometimes you should realise that acknowledging this possibility does nothing to belittle covid nor the pandemic but obviously this point is lost on you.

Too busy trying to be right.  Its a position thats hard to stay in 100% of the time.

I could be 100% wrong but I've raised some very valid criticisms and not one person can say to me that the criticisms are invalidated by so and so.

In fact only if he's a false positive would he have failed to transmit it, and if that's the case the recent threat will be gone in 48 hours.