I would go much further than that. He is extremely well qualified, and one of many voices it is reasonable to listen to on the science of virology. No doubt he has much to contribute too on the practical societal and political responses to any endemic or pandemic outbreak.XFool wrote: P.S. I am suggesting that I expect Sir Jeremy Farrar would know far, far more than I ever will about all this kind of thing and that, with that in mind, you might like to ask him to explain to you what the total significance and implication is of the term "infectious" when speaking in the context of a disease caused by a mutating (because that is what they do) viral agent that has somehow (mysteriously?) spread to all human occupied parts of the world (Antarctica?). i.e. A global pandemic of a viral disease.
I suspect he might know. That is all.
However you say "that is all". Yet you have been pointing out that Covid is infectious over multiple posts and threads long before your introduction of him as a respected source. We all (I think as I haven't encountered anyone here arguing it isn't) believe that too. So given "that is all" can we now all agree it's infectious, and we don't need you to remind us, or reintroduce that fact again? Or is there actually some other argument you want to make, or an extension of the infectious state?