It is indeed most courteous of you to wear masks to protect your fellow citizens in case you are asymptomatic and contagious.
Have you any knowledge or opinions about how LONG a person such as you might remain contagious in that scenario? Forever? Any thoughts?
Do you have any idea if and when I caught the virus? Would I, if asymptomatic?
Without that info, I cannot give you an answer.
With it, a couple of weeks.
I will get an antibody test at some point. I'm one of those who got really sick with the symptoms associated with SARS-COV-2. Back the first week of February. Two autopsies of tissue from people who died mysteriously tested positive for coronavirus. They died in early and mid February. Santa Clara county.
Guys from my union work up there a lot. I caught it from coworkers working sick.
I don't think it's likely, but it is possible. We get a couple of "things" a year that aren't "going around". Most likely contracted from a convention attendee.
So I think you're trying to make some point that I would only be contagious for a limited time so continuing to wear a mask would be pointless.
I think you're desperately trying to justify trump's non-response for weeks. Pretend that nothing could have been done so trump doing nothing didn't matter.
But we have examples of countries who followed outbreak SOP and are doing far better than we are.
We didn't follow it at all until the situation demanded mitigation. We never even attempted containment.
Now states are trying to do containment. While trump tells his minions to do nothing.
And we already see how that approach worked out.
Containment costs would have been in the billions, not trillions. Strong early efforts could have avoided complete shutdowns. We would be getting back to normal as countries who did are.
The only consolation here is trumps failure is written in the numbers. He will go down in history as a failed president, who choked when the chips were down.
There's nothing he or his can do about it and he'll live to see it.
Won't bring anybody back to life, but it's something.