Ep. 107 - If Asymptomatic People Don’t Spread Covid, What Are We All Doing This For?

The Vaccine Conversation with Melissa and Dr. Bob

Immunity Education Group

Health & Fitness

4.5 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The justification for social distancing, mask wearing, and shutting down our global economy was largely based on the fear that asymptomatic people will easily spread Covid. Early studies fanned these fears and created a whole world of people willing to “do their part” by staying home to stay safe, to shun social contact, and to shame those who don’t comply. But this research was flawed, and new studies show such spread is very rare and contributes very little to the pandemic. http://bit.ly/vaxconv

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0:00.0	When you open the door, for somebody else.
0:13.8	So welcome everyone to the Vaccine Conversation Podcast with Melissa and Doctor to keep up.
0:21.2	And it's a good thing we have a doctor in the house.
0:23.1	And a man, thank goodness.
0:24.1	I know right.
0:25.1	God forbid women have opinions here.
0:26.8	We think we have a man to keep everything in check.
0:28.8	Well, we have medical stuff to talk about today.
0:31.3	So we're going to use big words like asymptomatic.
0:35.1	Ooh, big words like government.
0:38.4	Yeah, well, that's a good thing.
0:41.4	Big words like they're lying to us.
0:45.3	I feel like it's been a while, but I guess it has.
0:47.7	It's been a couple of weeks since we last podcasted.
0:50.1	It's been a while, but for them, it hasn't been that long.
0:52.2	And we're going to keep this moving and trucking along just as if it's been,
0:55.5	we've been in your living room every week at least, trying to get something.
0:58.4	Yeah.
0:59.4	So the reason we're doing this episode, obviously, we've talked about this on some of our coronavirus
1:04.3	episodes before, but there was a little controversy on this.
1:10.6	And I remember you texted me one time saying, well, I found this South Korean study that
1:16.0	talks about asymptomatic transmission and what percentage it is and whatever.
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