In 2022 Does Masking, Isolation, And Vaccination Really Reduce Your Risk Of Covid-19 Infection?
This is what you're not being told
At this point, there is not much that can be done to meaningfully reduce the risk of covid infection. So, all those still holding their breath while lowering masks, N95ing at restaurants, isolating based on CO2 monitors, and vaccinating, need to understand this. All roads lead to a mild case of covid for most.
Let us examine the first cohort of people who feel they can control Mother Nature, breath holders. For instance, some feel holding their breath while temporarily unmasking, averts a run with the virus. Of course, that logic fails amid speaking human beings because communicating propels the virus into nasal passages despite breath holding. Thus, infection results. All things considered, acting in such a manor remains a fools errand and does not reduce the risk of contracting covid. Said differently, magical thinking is just that, magical.
Moving on, this next group of people carry around CO2 monitors. Why? You see, if CO2 concentrations increase, it means X amount of people in a confined area are effectively raising CO2 levels.
Essentially, CO2 is an indicator of exhalation. Therefore, more exhalation indicates a rise in local CO2, and thus an increase in the likelihood of more airborne virus (that’s the theory). Proponents of this non-scientific intervention leave the room, and isolate during peak CO2 levels. No surprise, there are no randomized controlled trials to support this amid a pandemic. On the other hand, if a randomized controlled trial did exist, it would likely expose CO2 monitoring to avert covid infection as useless. Surprised?
To explain one more time with different words, CO2 monitoring leads to self-isolation, and together they are ineffective at reducing the risk of covid infection as the virus will find everyone and confer mostly mild symptomatic disease.
Of course, there are those who religiously enter restaurants with N95s complimenting their faces. They wait to be seated before taking off their masks because Omicron does not infect them at the table.
Do not forget, drinks are a necessity which means bathroom trips are likely in order. As you already predicted, the mask is again on the patrons face as they make their way to the John. All that as if the previous 30 minutes of loud banter did not expose them to Omicron. Oh, the hubris.
Now, let us explore the efficacy of mRNA vaccination in 2022 during Omicron. Two important points come to mind. One, nation-wide immunity is peaked at ~90%. Two, new bivalent boosters have no clear randomized data appropriately supporting their effectiveness in the US population during the current climate.
First, immunity is sky high. Essentially, most people at this point are naturally immune, vaccinated, or both. For that reason alone, updated boosters are not rationally justified. Adding to the previous sentence, providing an already immune individual an unnecessary medical intervention increases the risk of adverse outcomes from that intervention. Remember, First, do no harm.
Understand this. The “data” supporting BA 4/5 boosters are poor for 2 major reasons. First, they are based on a non-diverse, and small cohort of individuals who do not accurately reflect the billions living on this continent. Second, immunogenicity metrics show bivalent mRNA boosters elicit a neutralizing antibody response, but in 8-10 mice, not humans.
It is clear people are very confused about how to mitigate their risk of covid. That because of poor public health messaging which requires a revamp.
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