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The UK Challenge Trial showed a large number of people who never became infected despite intentional exposure. We saw that in the couple on the Princess Cruise ship stunk in Japan in early times; the husband become ill, the wife did not despite being in confined quarters. Some hidden evidence from USN ships where some never become ill in a confined area. We conclude we do not share a com,on vulnerability.

Data from many SubStack writers now show that none of the mitigation steps did much to slow or stop the spread. Containment only works when you actually can contain the infected people; we lost containment early on and the lockdowns were pointless partial measures. But we already we aware that mitigation was unlikely to work.

The real obscenity was the engineered attack on the Great Barrington declaration which suggested trying to keep those at risk out of the the public. That mitigation effort actually had a chance to work had there been an attempt to try it.

I do hope there is a non-partisan assessment of all that was done. The politics seriously interfered with the response. I still see people knocking Trump's speculation about bleach when he was asking if some form of disinfectant might help. Of course, various disinfectants used as mouthwash may help stop virus replication early in the mouth and nose. The old remedies of salt water can really help.

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