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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're suggesting that you can't have COVID-19 until you have symptoms?

So neither believe in the fact that the virus has to build up to a certain level before your immune systems responds noticeably. Nor do you believe in asymptomatic carriers?

None of that sounds right.

[–]zyxzevn[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Covid-19 are the disease with symptoms. Without symptoms you do not spread the disease due to low viral load, but you can spread the immunity.

The SARS-Cov2 virus can be everywhere, and you probably had it a several times. The immune system usually eats up any virus that tries to enter your body. Only under a heavy load it will bring in the big guns.

The symptoms are very similar to the flu and were mixed up a lot. The tests of Covid are really bad, with 95% to 100% false positives. Which makes most testing a waste of time anyway.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Covid-19 are the disease with symptoms.

Yeah, okay. Technically COVID-19 is the disease. But colloquially, you get a "COVID-19" test and people know what that means.

Without symptoms you do not spread the disease due to low viral load,

That's not true. There are many cases of asymptomatic people spreading the infection.

"Combined, these baseline assumptions imply that persons with infection who never develop symptoms may account for approximately 24% of all transmission." - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774707

but you can spread the immunity.

What?

The SARS-Cov2 virus can be everywhere, and you probably had it a several times.

I probably haven't.

The symptoms are very similar to the flu and were mixed up a lot.

Yes. For less serious cases.

The tests of Covid are really bad, with 95% to 100% false positives.

Nowhere near that high. PCR tests for SARS-Cov2 are most likely somewhere in the 0.8% to 4.0%, which is the interquartile range of the studies aggregated for this paper, looking at false postives in SARS-COV2 tests: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v1.full