Continuing my "greatest COVID hits" articles. To read my introduction to this ongoing series, go here. To support my work and get value for value, order my Matrix collections here and subscribe to my substack here.
January 27, 2020
Most
people are accepting the news that the Chinese coronavirus is spreading
across China and the world. They don’t understand ground-level facts.
First
of all, in every so-called epidemic, diagnoses of patients are
eventually made by simple observation. The patient has typical flu
symptoms? Fever, cough, fatigue, weakness, respiratory problems? He
lives or works in an area where the epidemic has been reported? Boom,
tell the patient he has the epidemic disease. Obviously, this is
absurd. But it happens. And then you hear or read, “Today, three more
people were found to be infected with the virus in (insert name of
city).”
If
a patient is actually tested, before a diagnosis is made, the most
prevalent method is the antibody test. It’s fast. But there is a
problem---a major problem. A positive test means the patient’s immune
system has come in contact with the virus. Before 1984, this was
generally interpreted as a good sign for the patient: his immune system
responded well and defeated the virus. But then the science was turned
upside down. Suddenly, a positive test meant the patient had a
disease. Therefore, huge numbers of people were falsely told they were
in danger. During times of hysteria, they became “new cases” of some
purported epidemic. They were cited on the news to bolster the idea that
the “the virus was spreading.” One more point: antibody tests are known
to cross-react. This means: some irrelevant fact about the patient
makes the test falsely read “positive for a virus.” He drank wine the
night before the test. He has a cold. Etc.
In
very few cases, a patient might be tested with a method called PCR. In
simple terms, this test takes a tissue sample from the patient---a tiny,
tiny piece of something that might be a virus…but it’s much too small
to be observed and identified. To overcome this problem, the PCR test
amplifies that tiny fragment many, many times---like blowing up a
photograph. If the test overcomes several challenges and is done
correctly, researchers and doctors might be able to infer that the
patient has the virus. BUT the test would reveal nothing about HOW MUCH
of the virus he has. And why is that important? Because two or three
little particles of virus floating around in the patient’s body mean
nothing. In order to cause disease, there would have to be millions and
millions of a virus in the patient’s body. However, that obvious fact is
ignored. A patient with a positive PCR test is added to the list of
epidemic cases---and the news reports, “Today, four more infected people
were found in Alaska, leading experts to state the epidemic is
spreading unchecked across the world…”
As you can see, these major blunders and false interpretations will result in news about “the spreading epidemic.”
I
should also mention low-level security personnel, police, and soldiers,
in airports and other transportation centers, waving wands at people to
see if their temperature is elevated---signifying they might be
“carrying the virus.” These “tests” are about as reliable as randomly
pointing to a figure in a photo of a crowd and saying, “He was the one
who just robbed the bank, arrest him.”
Referring
to Wuhan, called the center of the epidemic in China, photos of people
jamming hospital waiting rooms are cited as “evidence” of the spreading
virus and epidemic. This is preposterous. Many of these people,
experiencing a few typical flu symptoms, have been brainwashed by public
announcements into believing they have the “epidemic virus.” And then,
Wuhan has highly dangerous levels of air pollution. Wuhan is notorious for polluting smog. Last
summer, thousands of people in the city showed up on the streets
protesting the air quality and a newly planned waste incinerator they
believed would cause even more harmful smog. This pollution causes lung
problems---cited as a symptom of the “coronavirus epidemic.”
Keep these issues in mind when people automatically claim “the virus and the epidemic are spreading.”
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(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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