The WHO and CDC and Fauci and everyone have said that asomptomatic spread is not the main disease vector. Its basic fucking science. Virus infects a a person, they get all boogery n shit, and they cough, sneeze, whatever and it spreads... if you aren't showing or having any symptoms as a healthy person its difficult to spread something... the shit travels on droplets (from symptomatic inflammation and swelling of cells) not air molecules.
As for your second comment, I wholeheartedly disagree. This is a flu virus not the friggin nazis lol, and everywhere I go people are complying with all these ridiculous rules and its doing jack fucking shit to stop the spread. The whole "we need to lock down harder" idea is completely insane as doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Boogers don’t spread anything. It spreads most efficiently by aerosol spread. You can’t spread by boogers unless you sneeze directly into someone’s nose.
And although asymptomatic spread might not be a huge driver of infection, you’re not recognizing the difference between asymptomatic spread and PRE-symptomatic spread. People who are hacking up a lung usually stay home, and people who see someone hacking up a lung usually stay away. It’s the people who are 1-2 days from developing symptoms who are super dangerous in spreading this. Someone feels fine and goes to a party in an enclosed and/or maskless space, then 2 days later they have a fever. A week later, 10 people at that party test positive.
We don’t need to lock down harder. We need everyone to cooperate. The people who don’t are ruining it for the people who do.
EDIT: and no, this isn’t the Nazis. But wearing a mask is a lot less onerous than wintering at Bastogne.