Thread by @ProfDFrancis

Everyone who dies of Covid today, got it from

Suppose on average it takes 10 days from a person being infected, to that person passing it on to the next person in the chain.

Let's say we are about 500 days into the pandemic.

If I get it today, how many people long is that chain that led to me?

The mortality of Covid infection, without vaccination, is around half a percent.

Suppose the Covid I get today, kills me.

How many people in the chain of ~50 that let do me, on average, would you expect to have died from it?

So this ratio is about right.

For every person ending up in a wooden box thanks to Covid, there are about 50 of us who were essential to delivering their death.

We didn't know that poor guy, and didn't intend him any harm.

It was, literally, an accident.
100% unintended.

But still _caused by us_.

Of the 50 unwitting assassins in the chain that offed the poor guy, 25 didn't even get a temperature or a sniffle. They joined in the general laughter at covid precautions.

That is understandable. It is comical to walk around the streets wearing a mask and giving oncoming people a wide berth.

But it is not to protect us.

It is to protect the guy at the end of the chain, that gets bumped off.

The killing machine requires all its components to work correctly. If even ONE of the 50 had managed not to get infected, or not to pass it on, maybe I would have been saved.

So that is why we take drastic steps like Lockdown,

And less disruptive steps like mask-wearing (even though annoying and ridiculous), and social distancing (even though unsociable and irritating).

And least disruptive of all, the Jab.

So congrats to the USA government on reducing the number of killings unwittingly mediated by its employees.