Link: No, You Did Not Get COVID-19 in the Fall of 2019

[sonia]

I just updated my previous post with this link, but I thought I should post it separately as well.

I had just linked cynthia1960's warning about the racist quoted in the previous post, and then I saw this detailed debunking: No, You Did Not Get COVID-19 in the Fall of 2019 by Jane C. Hu. Sorry to spread misinformation!

Turns out the earlier article quotes a right-wing racist who has the goal of misleading people into thinking they are already immune and we have herd immunity so that we can "open the economy" sooner. UGH.

Comments

[firecat]

Thanks for the update.

[sonia]

Yep! I guess it was a bad flu season AND a plague.

[rosefox]

Thank you for that. I did want to believe it! But I kept running up against "why weren't the hospitals flooded then".

[sonia]

Yeah, me too on both.

[sanguinity]

Thanks for the update!

I was more interested in the research project with all the antibody testing -- am I reading correctly that that was something that just got swept up into this guy's dreck? And was actually a legit bit of research, whatever it was?

[sonia]

The Slate piece does mention a legit study at Stanford, yes.

[runpunkrun]

Thanks for the update on this!

[sonia]

Yep! It's like a game of chutes & ladders, step on the wrong article and take a misinformation slide. Oops!