I tend to agree with you WillNewcomb, I also regard Gao Fu's statements and many other so called experts or specialists on the subject as misleading and dangerous.
For what it's worth, I am of the mind variants are in the act of mutating and therefore changing all the time making this virus unpredictable and therefore dangerous.
I think its smart to be wary of a virus that has been mutating and changing here and there for five years straight now...When it comes to how much we actually know about covid, I tend to side with Isaac Newton in that "what we know is drop, and what we don't know is an ocean" I think it pays to be humble about viruses that are still around hurting people. There's also long term repercussions of covid such as "long covid" not addressed by Gao Fu
I feel covid, its potential dangers and long term health implications are totally underestimated and ignored for the most part by Gao Fu in his statements and that he acts rather insensitive or and in a state of denial to the subject. I personally think fear and aversion to disease is useful to society and it is not a detriment to society to be alarmed or show great concern over insidious viruses.
With the exception of "Data Report" and his Virus Update Show on You Tube, I personally feel a lot of people and public figures that speak in public about covid tend to downplay covid's impact and propensity to be a pestilence whereas I think covid can genuinely play a role in contributing to the downfall of society . Covid has an impact on the immunity system and that's as serious as anything. I definitely take covid much more serious than many of the public officials, public figures, the common person, and the masses do.
Thanks for allowing me to comment.
As usual I look forward to WillNewcomb's next China Report
