Well, the OP has no idea who else the family members transmitted the virus to; he only talked about the family themselves. With an R-value of greater than 1 (which is practically everywhere right now) it is extremely likely they spawned cases in the community which then spawned other cases.
The bolded is what I'm speaking to. Psychologically it becomes a fallacy. Especially when you compare it to other people and say "well they got it because they weren't as cautious as us we haven't gotten it yet because we're more cautious than them". You see others get it and assume it's because they engaged in riskier behavior than you and you see your circle not get it and assume it's because you've engaged in less riskier behavior but these are not absolutes merely repeated observations where you expect the same continued response.
My experience is that of the opposite. I've known some very cautious people get it (more cautious than you describe) and very non-cautious (is that the way you'd say that IDK lol) people not get it. I could say then that the very non-cautious people are less likely to get it given their behavior (they haven't yet to their knowledge) and the non-cautious people are more likely to get it given their behavior but that's not how I view it.
Keep doing what you're doing for sure
Possible of course
but that's not considered a super spreader (such that has been used throughout this pandemic) as an individual unless they are contact traced to this particular family from a point in time. From what is usually described as a super spreader event would have been Thanksgiving had 1 person who infected the whole family at that event. Or a super spreader (as a person) infected a large number of people like that lawyer (I think that's what he was) really early on in the northeast. Any one of us can be considered potential super spreaders but we are generally not considered one unless we've been traced to infect a large or disproportionate amount of people and this is considering the infectious time period of a positive patient.
Remember what I posted a while ago in the 'Covid and Us'-thread? The viral post of a NL mother whose 18-year old son thought there was no harm in having a small party with 7 other friends. 7 out of 8 boys got infected, influencing the lives of 400 people (rough estimate). Every person in this story influenced about 50 people who had to be tested and quarantined.
Ordering takeout, and having packages delivered, is not proven to transmit covid (and I was one who wiped down everything we had delivered). We have had strangers in our home (washing machine, refrigerator and boiler broke, definitely things we couldn’t fix ourselves, washing machine and refrigerator needed to be replaced, the boiler took 2 plumbers 8 hours to fix). I haven’t been in a store since March.
This is true... the point being very few of us are in actual bubbles.... since almost all of us interact with others in this way....(some more or less than others) I thought about this.... our local Starbucks which always has a LONG line at the drive thru (not me thanks) was just closed for a quarantine and clean bc of covid. Now I know they're not keeping track of all the hundreds of customers daily- so no mention seems to be made of all those peop for the two weeks previous to the closing.... I know (we all know) there's a BIG venn diagram happening here,and that's just one example.
I understand you're not worried about the <1% death rate, but aren't you concerned about needlessly exposing the younger generation of your family to this virus? This C19 is characterized as SARS-CoV-2, meaning it may follow the pattern of its famous predecessor SARS-CoV-1. Have you, or any family members and friends, bothered to read about the long term problems that SARS-Cov-1 had caused on its afflicted population?
Has anyone here ever thought that if one is scared, one can go hide rather than make the other person go hide?
Why are you quoting my post? I know well enough to stay far away from anti-maskers and covid gatherers. My post is about whether or not the adults in the family fully understand the effects of SARS-CoV-2 before needlessly exposing their children to it.
)Because you were responding to someone who basically said they aren't scared and you replied basically trying to scare them.Why are you quoting my post? I know well enough to stay far away from anti-maskers and covid gatherers. My post is about whether or not the adults in the family fully understand the effects of SARS-CoV-2 before needlessly exposing their children to it.
