leorn wrote:Barcs wrote:leorn wrote:I service a well respected doctor with my business. I politely asked if he wanted me to wear a mask several months back. I had covid over Thanksgiving. He said no. He elaborated: " It came out in the medical journal this month that same household asymptomatic carriers pose a 0.7% risk of spread within the household." He also mentioned people were getting fired for having the wrong opinions on the topic, so he had to be careful who he shares with.
So yes there is a risk and as of say 3 months ago it was 0.7%. I expect the NBA to hold out CP3 for a while because perception and actual risk can be different and as a business the safe route is to appease both. Also 0.7% could be reasonable to deem too much risk.
Do you have a link to this journal article?
I googled and there's nothing like that there. This is a guy who is not political and a longtime client. I get that it's hard to trust without sources, but anymore I trust people I actually know over what I can find on the internet/news. The facts I can actually verify prove the news or other traditional sources wrong so commonly I have lost all faith. I guess I'm trusting the medical journal in this case. It does jive with my personal experience that I can actually verify albeit not very scientific.
I get that nobody here knows me which makes it hard. I don't care enough to go find the Journal etc. Lots of consequences there that make it tricky and more time than I care to invest.
I take at face value your description of the scientific article, but it is just one article and generally we can't accept as a given that the risk of CP3 transmitting the virus to others is only .7%.
I do actually think a vaccinated and asymptomatic individual is much less likely to spread the virus to others, but it's hard to quantitate that within the context of an NBA athlete going about practice, meeting, and games- is that riskier than the average family member as mentioned in that article? What if he is infected with the new Delta variant which is more contagious, what is the number then? If the risk could be quantitated at .7%, as you say even then there's still the question of what is an acceptable risk level.
I think all in all, I think there is still enough uncertainty at this point that any player who tests positive for COVID should be held out until they sufficient confirmation via negative tests. I imagine in Paul's case it won't take too long.
