Big news from the World Health Organization!

Joe Saunders reports in the Western Journal,

At a briefing Monday in Geneva, a top World Health Organization official said the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 from individuals who aren’t showing symptoms of illness is now considered “very rare.”

“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, told reporters in Geneva, according to CNBC.

“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she said. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.”

Considering it was largely the fear of the contagion being spread by carriers who were themselves asymptomatic behind the lockdowns that stifled the American economy – and economies around the world – that’s a huge shift in perspective.

It has even raised the question of whether the lockdowns were necessary in the first place.

And as numerous social media users pointed out, that would mean an entire regimen of measures that have become part of the American landscape in a few short months could be open to even greater questions than those raised by a series of lockdown protests around the country.

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