COVID transmission routes

[Tim Lundeen]

For the past year, evidence published in scientific journals has supported only two modes of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, and neither one of them are prevented by the general public wearing masks.

ROUTE 1: FECES TO MOUTH

Despite what all of our public health agencies have claimed, one of the biggest giveaways that SARS-CoV-2 isn't actually spread through droplets or aerosolized saliva, like influenza, is the CDC's own Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report. There have only been 142 influenza hospitalizations in the entire 2020-2021 flu season, and there has been one, single, pediatric influenza death. The CDC would like for you to suspend disbelief when they explain that Americans' mask-wearing and constant scolding each other into staying at home has defeated influenza for the year, while on the other hand reprimanding Americans for SARS-CoV-2 positive PCR tests and berating us for not wearing masks or staying home.

This paradox makes more sense when you understand that the primary mode of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is fecal-oral. This means SARS-CoV-2 is spread from the feces of an infected person to the unsuspecting mouth of someone who isn't. This occurs through handling food, drinks, dishes, or silverware with unwashed hands, or, less commonly, through droplets that are aerosolized via powerful flushing in lidless toilets.

There isn't one legitimate SARS-CoV-2 "super-spreader" event in the literature that does not involve food or drink. From the "singing is dangerous" Washington State choir that was served cookies and oranges, to the event in a Chinese restaurant blamed on air flow, to the college bar in Michigan, people were consuming food or drinks prepared by someone else.

The same reasoning applies to the outbreaks amongst migrant farm workers. Often, workers don't have access to indoor plumbing, nor soap or water, and often defecate in the fields. Our media blames bagged lettuce e. coli outbreaks on birds flying overhead rather than mention an American Journal of Public Health poll that found 15% of surveyed farm workers admitted to doing their business in the fields, 36% reported that a toilet was not provided at their job site, and 29% said there was nowhere to wash their hands.

Remember the two Missouri Great Clips hairstylists, both of whom were symptomatic with COVID, but they cut hair for 139 clients anyway? The CDC publicly credited their silly cotton masks for them not sickening a single person, but failed to discuss an important fact that is likely the real reason why no one else got sick: 60 of their clients were female and wouldn't have had their hair simply dampened with a spray bottle before cutting it.

Every time the stylists washed a client's hair, they were washing their own hands with shampoo, which is effectively soap, and which easily breaks the lipid membrane layer of SARS-CoV-2, rendering it harmless.

Scientific evidence tells us that the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to the ACE-2 receptors of the epithelial cells in small intestine--which are far more numerous than those in the lungs, and the expression of these receptors is far higher in the elderly than younger people.

Once bound in the small intestine, the virus replicates. Public health has long known that there is a strong presence of SARS-CoV-2 in feces, and as far back as March 5, 2020, a town in the Netherlands was able to predict a COVID-19 outbreak ahead of time by testing sewage waters.

In fact, fecal samples of hospitalized patients not only show the presence of high amounts of SARS-CoV-2 in feces more often than not, but researchers were able to isolate the virus from feces and culture it in a cell line. This has never been accomplished with samples taken from the air in hospital rooms, hospital beds, the pillowcases of known infected people in the high viral shedding phase, masks, or ordinary throat swabs.

COVID: the two modes of transmission

 

[Elderflower j58]

Scientists find no traces of Covid-19 on buses, Tubes and stations​

12 February 2021 Lottie Kilraine 0 Comments

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By Julia Gregory, local democracy reporter
No traces of Covid-19 have been found on London’s underground stations, Tubes and buses by scientists investigating the virus.
Experts from Imperial College are taking swabs at ticket machines, barriers, escalators at Tube stations and vertical grab poles and other hotspots passengers might touch on board trains.
Since they started testing in October last year, every sample has come back negative for the virus.
They are also taking samples from the air to see if there are traces of the virus.
The researchers from Imperial College’s environmental research group and the Barclay Laboratory are also taking samples on buses at depots to test for Covid.
But they have not found any since the monthly tests started in October.
More tests are due later this month.
Dr David Green, head of Imperial’s aerosol science team, said: “In the same way that a swab is used to take a Covid-19 test in the nose and throat, we just use a flocked swab to detect viruses on surfaces such as handrails.”
The research follows an ongoing investigation looking at bacteria and fungi found on underground networks which involves scientists from cities with subway systems like Boston, Paris, Sydney and Shanghai taking swabs and air samples.
Dr Green said it was a similar process to look for the genetic sequences from Covid.
Scientists have taken samples at a range of stations, including Waterloo and Euston and Paddington bus station.
Typically they will test two Tube stations, a Tube train, a bus depot and a bus journey as they take a trip on the transport network. They spend an hour at each station swabbing surfaces which people might touch.
The samples are rushed to the Barclay lab at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington the same day for tests.
A Transport for London spokesman explained how it works. “The process that is used is swabs are taken of heavily touched areas like ticket barriers, stop buttons on buses, rails and handles on Tube trains and escalator handrails, and a machine that draws in around 300 litres of air per minute to test for any airborne traces. None of the tests have returned any positive results throughout the testing.”
And the experts are using the data to understand as much as possible about the virus.
TfL is doing extensive cleaning and has boosted that several times through the pandemic.
It includes

• Using hospital-grade cleaning substances to kill viruses and bacteria on contact, and protect for up to 30 days.
• More frequent cleaning of key interchanges – including during the day.
• ‘Touch point’ areas on buses, such as poles and doors, wiped down with a strong disinfectant daily.

Experts are also looking at whether the virus doesn’t pass through touch as much as initially thought.
The transport network has also seen a massive drop in passenger numbers with a very high compliance rate on people wearing face masks.
There were 88.9m bus journeys between November 15 and December 12 last year, nearly half the number of trips the same time in 2019.
And just 32.1m journeys were made by Tube, compared with 117.5m at the same time in 2019, according to TfL.
During lockdown people are urged to avoid unnecessary travel so the network is mainly used by key workers who cannot work from home.

Related​

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/no-evidence-of-coronavirus-on-tube-imperial-college-study-finds/

 

[boris]

The main route of transmission remains the screen:

 

[Beastmode]

The highest transmission route is through the media.

 

[Peatness]

The highest transmission route is through the media.

It’s now June and this statement has been proven to be true

 

[Beastmode]

It’s now June and this statement has been proven to be true

I would've posted the same thing at the beginning of this whole pandemic. Utter nonsense!