The Highwire with Del Bigtree - AUTHORITIES WERE WRONG ABOUT ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD

Episode Date: June 12, 2022

The misplaced idea that asymptomatic Covid cases drove viral spread, was the cornerstone of public health authorities enacting draconian mandates and highly destructive lockdowns. Now, data from a new study covering 42 countries shows people with asymptomatic Covid infections are 68% less likely to pass the virus on, highlighting another failure of public health authorities.#AsymptomaticSpread #CovidMisinformation #Fauci #Birx #CDC #FDA #NIHBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

At the beginning of the pandemic, obviously we are seeing people, those crazy videos out of Wuhan of people falling over and we are hearing hospitals were overrun and we knew people in nursing homes that were having problems breathing. And these symptoms were obviously a big deal, symptomatic COVID. But all of a sudden, when that started to go down a little bit, we heard these, we heard these rumblings of this asymptomatic super spreader. This person is, you know, in the shadows. And you don't even know if this person's sick, but they be coughing over your kids in the classroom. so we've got to put the masks on the kids in the classroom. So here's some of those headlines from that time. This was CNN, March 19, 2020.

Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized. Here's another headline, January 7, 2021. People without symptoms spread virus in more than half of cases, CDC model finds. Again, CDC model. Boom, look at that. And just fear porn, as we call it, right? Fear it, fear. And this was the first we'd ever heard of it.

Let's make totally healthy people walking past you your enemy. And by doing that, then everyone's going to have to wear masks and lock themselves down because, God, we don't know where it's coming from. It's not the person actually sick. It's a person that's healthy jogging right past you on the street. What? And these headlines, this fear preceded a lot of the lockdown restrictions that were so hard to get removed, these masks on the kids in the school and everything.

So now we find this may not be the truth. This is the headline out of the Daily Mail. Where fears about asymptomatic COVID spread overblown, infected people without symptoms are two-thirds less likely to pass virus on study finds. And then it says in here, excuse me, a study of nearly 30,000 people has found asymptomatic carriers are about 68% less likely to pass the virus on than those who get sick. A new global study spanning 42 countries, including the U.S. and UK, found there were only responsible for as little as 14% of cases. There are estimates that the overall risk of passing the virus on to someone else is about two-thirds,

lower. Again, let's go back to the CDC. This was in 2020. Take a look at this headline. CDC now recommends all people exposed to COVID-19 get tested, reversing earlier controversial guidance. And it says in here, if you have been in close contact with an infected person and do not have symptoms, you need to test. The CDC said an update to its website Friday. And they said, due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission, this guidance further reinforces the need to test asymptomatic persons, including close contacts of the person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection, the CDC says.

So what happened there is they tested everybody and their contacts. Symptoms are not. And remember on the screens, when we were watching the corporate media, you had these rising cases just skyrocketing everywhere, cases going up everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. It's because of these false positives. because they wanted to test everyone like this. And it's finding out that that was never needed.

It was overblown. And that obviously led to a lot of these restrictions that perhaps never needed to happen in the first place. You know, it makes me think about just now as I'm thinking about. I talked about the headline. I led with the fact that we have higher infection rates now than last Memorial Day weekend. And I thought, you know, part of it has got to be testing, right?

How many people wanted to go on vacation this Memorial Day weekend and went and got tested? Whereas last year said, I can't go. anywhere. There's no way to travel. So why get tested at all? I mean, we could literally have just seen the Memorial Day weekend numbers go up because people finally recognized, hey, I'm being allowed to learn to live with it, which is what Del Big Tree was recommending two years ago. But now that's the case, let me get tested and see if I can, you know, leave the country even. So I wonder, I mean, you just think about all these things that affect the other things. And yet, you know,

we're sort of just getting dragged, you know, around as they say, the tail wagging the dog. Jeffrey, such great reporting. I mean, it's so wonderful to get good news amidst all of this truly a spectacular week that you're laying out there. So many successes and having to admit that apparently, you know, we're no longer crazy. We're no longer conspiracy theorists. It's no longer taboo to say, you know what? I'm not sure I trust this vaccine thing. Really? Neither do I.