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The ironic thing is that much of this was common knowledge in February of last year. Wash your hands, don't touch your face, stay home if you're stick. Masks don't help, asymptomatics don't drive the spread, we must learn to live with covid because it's widespread already.

Then Joe Biden needed people to forget everything we knew, so they did. We're still paying for it a year later, but I'm afraid the real impact hasn't been felt yet.

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Head scratcher was how at the same time (Dec. 29, 2020) University of Florida claimed they had a study showing asymptomatic spread was a statistical zero (https://anti-empire.com/university-of-florida-researchers-find-no-asymptomatic-spread/) they got away with announcing they’d be testing the students bi-weekly (began Jan. 11, 2021). Typical irrational response. And I swear I saw a “HONK FOR DR. FAUCI” sign on a lawn yesterday. They’re lucky I didn’t drive over it. Maybe later today.

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Public health officials should be talking about "what contributes *significantly* to spread". Instead they moved to "what could possibly spread the virus" and then to "what has not yet been proven via long-term study not to spread the virus".

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Most excellent article. Appreciate it. Getting a lot of people telling me I am selfish and even a bad person because I don’t want to be vaccinated, even though I had covid, thanks to the asymptomatic spread myth and the trashing of natural immunity. Their thinking “Your being vaccinated protects me”. 😢

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I’m so glad I found you again. It’s nice to have a voice of reason against all the craziness

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Are you capable of writing an article that is NOT thought provoking. Brilliant!

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Holy cow.... what an article today. Thank you Mr. Gato.I've been working on a social network project for 2 years and it's been horrifying to see where social media has gone. The solution is in (slower, but faster) distributed human networks. Think: the flash traders of the late 00's adding latency into their trades, making the whole network faster.

My only wonder is what will happen to these provocateurs and information warfare soldiers afterward? I pray for a Nuremberg Trial for the covid era. Indeed, like the trials of then, many of the "crimes" weren't crimes. We will have to supersede common law - spiking us into a new age of decentralized law itself.

Love your writing. I would love to speak with you one day and share some thoughts.

A fan,

SomeplaceCommon

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Excellent work. Reposting on FB.

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Gato you miss the big picture. Don't u know ? How can you force the entire nation to vote by mail unless you convince them that going to a polling place could give them the virus. I wonder how many people who voted by "mail" went to the supermarket in November 2019. Most likely all of them. But they were manipulated into voting by mail. The writing is on the wall gato. The propaganda , um, i mean science is the least of our worries. I am more worried about who is behind this. What will they do next?

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A few months ago these notions struck me, too

It was and remains amazing to me how little was required mechanistically, and how little was needed to be accepted as true by the public, to set us on our present course:

Covid will kill untold millions

Asymptomatic spread is significant

Masks work in one direction, only protecting others.

That's it. Accept these as true and there now exists the justification to control behavior in any and all ways in the name of public health. It has an almost poetic, Haiku like simplicity. Seen more generally, this mechanism is used to expand agency (as a potential infector) to the entire population, children included, regardless of actual data. As you point out, creating the idea that asymptomatic (i.e. Healthy) people posed a risk to public health was this pandemic's greatest

magic trick. Without that cog, the machine ceases to function

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What Gato describes is the culmination and perversion of Lippmann's Public Opinion. Culmination because in Fauci we see the "specialized class" and the "persuader" combined into a single, perfect manufacturer of consent. Perversion because, as other commenters have pointed out, his incentive structure is completely arbitrary and chaotic.

And it's the same for the entire clerical class -- we have a nobility but no king, and no concept of a king. There is no accountability from above or below, and so our ruling class obeys feeding frenzy dynamics. If it feels like no one is in charge that's because, for better or worse, there isn't.

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Thank you, Mr. Gato. You're the reason I started a Gab account. At least we know that we have truth on our side, we didn't follow the panic, and that one day you and your followers will be vindicated. This is the biggest domestic public policy failure since at least the Great Society or the War on Drugs.

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I would love to know if the rate of *pre-symptomatic* spread differs from asymptomatic spread.

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Very interesting. But there is one thing I don't understand. If SAR for spouses is 37.8% and it is 17.8% for rest of family, how can the overall SAR be lower (16,6%)?

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Check out Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein discussing another highly cited asymptomatic paper at 28:00 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIH1HAAMFFo

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Great article. Lizard brain, appeals to authority, so many human flaws that drove this crazy bus off a cliff. One thing I would add is that I think most scientists would rather be famous than rich. Sometimes the latter follows the former, but not always. Fauci is 100% gunning for a Nobel Prize, because he thinks he got snubbed with HIV.

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