COVID19 2021 Overview: Nine important facts, with sources
Thuletide
Apr 10, 2021

Total narrative collapse inbound
Stolen from this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1380737571278495745

• COVID killed by sunlight
• No direct evidence of airborne spread
• Surface spread very rare
• Asymptomatic spread low

• Masks ineffective
• Lockdowns don’t work
• Herd immunity real
• Miniscule risk to children
• Survival rate 99.97%+

[snip]

1. “When researchers at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center exposed SARS-CoV-2 in simulated saliva to artificial sunlight (equivalent to a sunny day), 90% of viruses were inactivated within seven minutes.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2020/06/29/light-coronavirus/

2. “There is absolutely no evidence that this disease is airborne”…
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/absolutely-no-evidence-that-covid-19-is-airborne-b-c-health-official-says-1.4964156

3. “[The CDC] just released a new scientific brief that says your risk of contracting COVID-19 from a surface is about 1 in 10,000. That means, on average, you have a 0.01% chance of actually picking up the virus from, say, touching a counter.”
https://news.yahoo.com/risk-getting-covid-19-surface-194600830.html

4. “[A] meta-analysis of 54 studies with 77,758 total participants… found that secondary attack rates were higher for symptomatic people than asymptomatic people — an 18% rate for symptomatic people and a 0.7% rate for asymptomatic people.”
https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/12/31/asymptomatic-covid-spread-unlikely-but-possible-according-to-study/

5. “We did not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza transmission, either when worn by infected persons (source control) or by persons in the general community.”
Analysis of COVID mask data.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article