Alex: Thank you very much for this tour de force. I agree that the creation of this virus was intentional, but the leak an accident. By the way, the virus did not kill a million Americans. A not insignificant number of the deaths were iatrogenic (ventilators, refusal of clearly effective early treatment, sending sick people back to nursing homes); a more significant number by four factors: 1. A PCR test not fit for purpose; 2. A change in the way death certificates attributed cause of death; 3. CMS monetarily incentivizing hospitals to attribute covid illness to as many patients os possible; and 4. Incentivizing hospitals with a 20% increase on the entire bill for using, to the exclusion of all other drugs, the very toxic (especially renal toxicity) and very expensive, Remdesivir. This is an enormous rabbit hole I'd be delighted to see you dive into, but perhaps the new Congress will do so in January (Not holding my breath, though, that Congress is capable of doing anything useful ).
I agree with this statement. And it's important too, because the response to the viral entity is far more harmful than the viral entity itself. The presence of RNA in mucus is not adequate evidence that an acute infection is harming that individual for a multitude of reasons, and these were deployed en masse globally with most locations incentivizing doctors financially to get positive results, usually by offering extra tax dollars for every covid patient. Granular observation of all cause mortality patters would cause you to see some disturbing things, I guarantee you. It also needs to be made very clear that this confounding in 2020 is nowhere near as intense as it is post 2020. For example, PCRs became more standardized and accurate. Lower cycle thresholds for positives began becoming more commonplace as well as did superior controls, lowering PCR inaccuracy. https://rumble.com/vz2sn7-podcast-episode-21-kevin-mckernan-on-pcr-tests-for-covid-diagnosis.html
The iatrogenic death burned through dry tinder mostly in 2020, and the age ACM gradient past that time has shifted. Now it's the young dying in large percentages, and coronaviruses don't kill the young. Also, Wuhan Hu 1 had circulated the planet and become less deadly all through 2020/2021, until omicron emerged. Cytotoxic T cell memory and innate immunity provide people the best protection from covid, which is why children are so unaffected, and the elderly so at risk. So, without dry tinder (elderly frail killed), a less deadly virus, lockdowns stopped, and life getting back on track, why is our all cause mortality equivalent or higher for so many locations? This "vaccination" campaign, when you look at the biological mechanisms they're employing, is terrifying. This tech can not be pushed. We also need to stop calling them vaccines, because they are transfection and transformation technologies. That is a more accurate definition. They're pretty much brute force producing evolutionarily irrelevant antibodies they can measure and point to, to push a product. It's not a correlate to actual protection, and they will admit that.
The fear of deadly pathogens and this research is what drives their ability to do this, and perpetuating the PCR lie helps. Everything else is spot on as hell though. All right I'll stop judging now, thank you for speaking up, and please look into the things I said later as well if possible
Bianon: Excellent points. What is most alarming to me is, what will the harvest be? If the mRNA jabs produce cardiac damage in every case, as the Swiss data shows (see Dr. Vinay Prasad on this paper), How much will it shorten people's lives? I say, a smart investment would be in the funeral industry.
People must stop ceding ground to fascists by reifying the Big Lie that “Covid” is a unique disease and that it is responsible for a global pandemic.
This has never had anything to do with what is nothing more than a computer-generated genome falsely attributed to a “novel pathogen.” It is a global conspiracy by the world’s transnational ruling class which was planned out and war-gamed at the WEF, the central bankers summit in Jackson Hole, and at Event 201.
It’s all right there for anyone to look up and see for themselves.
Yeah, didn't happen, mate. The POS troll is the one claiming that there was widespread medical mismanagement and fraud committed for financial gain. Fuck you.
I have examined the entirety of the US "Covid death" cases. One would have a hard time making the case that even a single one of these deaths is attributable to "Covid." What I am referencing here is the particulars of these deaths which are coded as U07.1 COVID-19. I have looked at all of them- all one million plus.
Even putting aside the massive fraud of PCR as the primary mechanism for assessing "Covid", even putting aside the massive fraud where health officials and hospitals labeled everything Covid even without any clinical diagnosis you still can't get around the fact that literally hundreds of thousands of deaths "attributed to Covid", in the US alone, were in fact point blank falsely attributed as such and manufactured through the various hospital protocols. Once you sift through all of this evidence the exact opposite conclusion that "Covid was deadly" is what you end up with.
Once this is established the notion of "lab leak", "gain of function" etc. is rendered irrelevant. Put simply there was no viral entity, organic or synthetic, that killed people it was (and is) mass slaughter by all manner of mechanisms that were intiated by human actors.
You also can't get around the fact that this supposedly "deadly virus" only killed the elderly with multiple comorbidites in that "first wave" but that's not actually what happened either, it was massive medical murder OF these people not death via some virus. The evidence for this is copious and irrefutable as is the mountainous amount of personal testimonies from individuals (who have the hospital records to prove this) who had their loved ones killed via these protocols- NOT COVID.
For but a few examples:
From the CDC’s Provisional Mortality Statistics Covid-19 database can be found here– 1,265 deaths in 2020-2021 occurring from falls from various structures coded as U07.1 (COVID-19); 17 drowning deaths all coded U07.1 (COVID-19); 99 suicides all coded U07.1 (COVID-19).
Such examples are not unique. An exhaustive examination of the CDC’s Provisional Mortality Statistics database reveals that finding a case where an individual died solely from "Covid" is the exception.
And let's not forget:
1) What the hospital protocols were and what they did;
2) What happened in the nursing homes in March/April 2020;
3) How the CDC/NHS etc. manufactured Covid deaths through fraudulent coding.
These three items expose the pandemic fraud for what it was and destroy the entirety of the Covid narrative. They also highlight the fact that there was mass murder that was intentionally orchestrated and intentionally utilized to create the illusion that there was a 'deadly' pandemic.
Why were 14,369 injury deaths listed in the Covid-19 death count? Why were 1,265 deaths due to falls listed in the Covid death toll? Why were drowning deaths included in the Covid death toll? Why were suicides included in the Covid death toll? For but a few examples.
99% of people falsely certified as having ‘died from covid’ actually died from their preexisting conditions being exacerbated by mass medical malpractice and ‘public health’ despotism, the other 1% simply died of old age.
From the CDC itself 7/16/21:
“Of the 540,667 hospitalized coronavirus patients included in the study, 80,174 died during the observation period (March 2020 to March 2021).
A whopping 99.1% of the patients who died had at least one pre-existing condition, with just 740 having no prior condition on record. Most patients who "died from COVID" had multiple pre-existing conditions, with just 2.6% suffering from only one condition, compared to 32.3% who had two to five preexisting conditions, 39.1% who had six to ten, and 25.1% who have more than ten pre-existing conditions.”
Translation: No one has ‘died from covid’ as “Covid” is nothing more than a fraudulent PCR result plus a nebulous clinical re-branding of cold, “flu” and many other disease conditions.
So are we still incorrectly attributing deaths to Covid? As of now, the average daily Covid body count stands at around 2,600 — which equals just under 1,000,000 annually. And if we're accurately counting now and follow your logic about *over counting Covid deaths,* that would mean we're in a much more dire situation presently than back in 2020 or even 2021.
Aaron: Yes, we are certainly in a more dire situation today that in 2020. In that year the majority of deaths attributed to covid were in the elderly and those in poor metabolic health; unfortunately, far too many were iatrogenic. Since the Spring of 2021 the excess deaths are primarily from the gene-therapy shot, and partly due to increased cancer diagnoses, as well as suicides and overdoses. Life insurance companies are reporting alarmingly large increases in deaths in the working age population (19-64). And the number of excess deaths is greater this year than last. Actuarial tables will have to be revised, or the industry will go belly up.
I would add a fifth key piece of evidence to the lab origin, the fact that SARS-CoV-2 Spike had the highest affinity for human ACE2 of all animal species tested, including bats [e.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34558627/]. There is no scenario of a recent zoonotic event that can account for this observation. I specify recent because of the 2012 miners in southwest China who were sick with a coronavirus for months: samples from them were sent to the WIV in Wuhan and it is possible Spike would have evolved to maximise interaction with human ACE2 during the long illness, but even in this scenario, the virus would be coming from the lab.
One really amazing outcome of the Covid era has been that I have been introduced to so many truly stellar intellects - Alex Washburne PhD possesses one of those intellects. Nothing more delightful to take into one's synapses than a scintillating conversation with a coherent mind! Thanks Alex!!!
I need to read this again more carefully but first read is edifying &from a high perspective- you make good sense. Submit this & Bruttel et al in an upper tier peer reviewed journal. The feedback you get will be incredibly valuable (just think of it) and it will fly somewhere. Best of luck.
Great work! I was looking for the definitive article and here it is. The fourth piece of evidence, "the restriction map of an infectious clone" is the icing on an already well made cake! Thank you Alex
Very impressive. And well written. I am neither a virologist nor an epidemiologist, but I have a strong background in medical research, and I appreciate the clarity you provided that helped me to understand the major arguments. The comments from others with a medical background are helpful too. I'm subscribing.
You wrote: "If we made a virus more capable of infecting people, it might reveal the essence of human-infective viruses and help us prepare vaccines before a pandemic ever happens." Are you aware of any cases where this has actually happened? Can you provide a reference? Thank you.
I am not. That passage was intended to provide the pre-COVID thinking & justifications provided for gain of function research. Personally, I have long believed that gain of function research is dangerous and, in virtually all cases I can imagine, not worth the risk. If researchers were to evolve today’s viruses to gain functions of enhanced transmissibility and/or virulence, the wildlife virus populations would continue to mutate and evolve such that we have no guarantee tomorrow’s virus populations will gain these functions by the same mutations. The short timescales of proposed (not actual) benefits of GoF research greatly undermine even the most generous estimates of their benefits, and the long-term costs of releasing a novel virus into human populations remains unchanged.
I am a fan of crime novels. Today, genetic fingerprinting with DNA studies has surpassed fingerprints in confusing the culprit. As a wink, the title of one of ROBIN COOK's latest novels which deals with genetic genealogy is called ORIGINE in the French translation. So I really appreciate the way you tell this story by comparing it to a police investigation where each lead must be explored and all the pieces of the puzzle assembled. I see lots of little post-it notes on the investigators' board that are being put together little by little. You discussed the motive, the circumstances, the weapon on which there are fingerprints and the hypothesis of an accident is indeed the most probable. What still seems uncertain to me is the date of the accident and possibly its place. Because how then to explain the positive Sars cov 2 serological studies from September and even positive pre-pandemic PCRs, particularly in Italy. “The first sample showing signs of SARS-CoV-2 RNA was from September 12, 2019, and the positive patient was also positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG and IgM). »
Molecular evidence for SARS-CoV-2 in samples collected from patients with morbilliform eruptions since late 2019 in Lombardy, northern Italy - ScienceDirect
This element alone should have raised doubts about the origin of the Wuhan market and led to exploring other avenues much earlier and perhaps not necessarily in Wuhan.
the world military games were held in wuhan in october 2019 (110 countries)…
By the way, it never gets mentioned, but it's clear that when Daszak & Co were branding the lab leak hypothesis a "conspiracy theory", they were (intentionally or not) conflating an accidental lab leak with an intentional one. While it's true that intentional lab leak was all the rage in the usual "conspiracy" circles at the time, it does not absolve them of this egregious conflation. They were obviously just too happy to have made it.
Allen: Well put. I largely agree with you, except for one point: I defer to Alex on this, as he, like many other scientists have shown ironclad proof that an engineered, pathogenic virus was created in U.S. and Canadian labs, and the WIV. It must have escaped from the WIV. No other explanation fits the facts. It did kill some people, but not very many, any more than influenza does in most years. The best realistic estimate I have seen for American deaths is 30,000. We don't know, and never will, what the true number is.. Our "public health" system is completely broken, through a combination of incompetence, political meddling, and commercial capture of the regulatory system. What breaks my heart, and makes me look forward with eagerness to the prosecution of these criminals responsible for this clown show, is what they've done to the children. They belong in the lowest rung of hell for targeting children with this medical experiment, with the denial of their educational opportunities, with the trauma of fear. I'm a political independent, but the current administration is the worst, most incompetent, and down right nasty that I've seem in my lifetime, and I can remember as far back as President Eisenhower. Tomorrow I'm voting against all incumbents, except for a few of the good judges. .
Addendum to my previous comment: Dr. Ioannidis has calculated the IFR of covid at a level roughly equivalent to a bad seasonal flu (somewhere around 0.12, as I recall). Bearing in mind that CDC typically reports 50,000-80,000 influenza deaths per year (the CDC is famous for manipulating data; I believe it was 2009 that they began conflating influenza and pneumonia data [INP]; most of the deaths actually were from pneumonia). Influenza deaths are typically 1-2,000 per year. If we accept the figure of 50,000-80,000, the reported one million deaths from covid are 15-20 times over-reported. God bless you, Alex, for the ethical imperative which drives your work as a scientist. We’ve been repeatedly lied to by people of limited intelligence and lacking in the decency we expect in our interpersonal relations and our political leadership. The Democrats have been primarily responsible for this over the past two years, but the Republicans are just as talented at stupidity. Such is human nature. Bless you for sharing your insights with a public oh so ready for truth.
Isn’t it curious that coincidence is causality if death occurs alongside a positive PCR but not if death occurs under unusual circumstances after having received the vaxxine?
Great article. Now apply your intelligence to understanding that Putin is not doing a bad thing in Ukraine. The totality of evidence suggests he is the good guy here.
Alex: Thank you very much for this tour de force. I agree that the creation of this virus was intentional, but the leak an accident. By the way, the virus did not kill a million Americans. A not insignificant number of the deaths were iatrogenic (ventilators, refusal of clearly effective early treatment, sending sick people back to nursing homes); a more significant number by four factors: 1. A PCR test not fit for purpose; 2. A change in the way death certificates attributed cause of death; 3. CMS monetarily incentivizing hospitals to attribute covid illness to as many patients os possible; and 4. Incentivizing hospitals with a 20% increase on the entire bill for using, to the exclusion of all other drugs, the very toxic (especially renal toxicity) and very expensive, Remdesivir. This is an enormous rabbit hole I'd be delighted to see you dive into, but perhaps the new Congress will do so in January (Not holding my breath, though, that Congress is capable of doing anything useful ).
I agree with this statement. And it's important too, because the response to the viral entity is far more harmful than the viral entity itself. The presence of RNA in mucus is not adequate evidence that an acute infection is harming that individual for a multitude of reasons, and these were deployed en masse globally with most locations incentivizing doctors financially to get positive results, usually by offering extra tax dollars for every covid patient. Granular observation of all cause mortality patters would cause you to see some disturbing things, I guarantee you. It also needs to be made very clear that this confounding in 2020 is nowhere near as intense as it is post 2020. For example, PCRs became more standardized and accurate. Lower cycle thresholds for positives began becoming more commonplace as well as did superior controls, lowering PCR inaccuracy. https://rumble.com/vz2sn7-podcast-episode-21-kevin-mckernan-on-pcr-tests-for-covid-diagnosis.html
The iatrogenic death burned through dry tinder mostly in 2020, and the age ACM gradient past that time has shifted. Now it's the young dying in large percentages, and coronaviruses don't kill the young. Also, Wuhan Hu 1 had circulated the planet and become less deadly all through 2020/2021, until omicron emerged. Cytotoxic T cell memory and innate immunity provide people the best protection from covid, which is why children are so unaffected, and the elderly so at risk. So, without dry tinder (elderly frail killed), a less deadly virus, lockdowns stopped, and life getting back on track, why is our all cause mortality equivalent or higher for so many locations? This "vaccination" campaign, when you look at the biological mechanisms they're employing, is terrifying. This tech can not be pushed. We also need to stop calling them vaccines, because they are transfection and transformation technologies. That is a more accurate definition. They're pretty much brute force producing evolutionarily irrelevant antibodies they can measure and point to, to push a product. It's not a correlate to actual protection, and they will admit that.
https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1547957109983043584
The fear of deadly pathogens and this research is what drives their ability to do this, and perpetuating the PCR lie helps. Everything else is spot on as hell though. All right I'll stop judging now, thank you for speaking up, and please look into the things I said later as well if possible
https://twitter.com/BioAnon_1vy_/status/1588130347736260614
Bianon: Excellent points. What is most alarming to me is, what will the harvest be? If the mRNA jabs produce cardiac damage in every case, as the Swiss data shows (see Dr. Vinay Prasad on this paper), How much will it shorten people's lives? I say, a smart investment would be in the funeral industry.
People must stop ceding ground to fascists by reifying the Big Lie that “Covid” is a unique disease and that it is responsible for a global pandemic.
This has never had anything to do with what is nothing more than a computer-generated genome falsely attributed to a “novel pathogen.” It is a global conspiracy by the world’s transnational ruling class which was planned out and war-gamed at the WEF, the central bankers summit in Jackson Hole, and at Event 201.
It’s all right there for anyone to look up and see for themselves.
I never got any money for COVID patients. Where can I collect this money from?
It's in the CARES act dude, I'm not arguing with your ass, STFU
I’m in Australia, there is no CARES act. Where’s my money?
Go read the fucking Australian laws and find it yourself you POS troll
Yeah, didn't happen, mate. The POS troll is the one claiming that there was widespread medical mismanagement and fraud committed for financial gain. Fuck you.
I have examined the entirety of the US "Covid death" cases. One would have a hard time making the case that even a single one of these deaths is attributable to "Covid." What I am referencing here is the particulars of these deaths which are coded as U07.1 COVID-19. I have looked at all of them- all one million plus.
Even putting aside the massive fraud of PCR as the primary mechanism for assessing "Covid", even putting aside the massive fraud where health officials and hospitals labeled everything Covid even without any clinical diagnosis you still can't get around the fact that literally hundreds of thousands of deaths "attributed to Covid", in the US alone, were in fact point blank falsely attributed as such and manufactured through the various hospital protocols. Once you sift through all of this evidence the exact opposite conclusion that "Covid was deadly" is what you end up with.
Once this is established the notion of "lab leak", "gain of function" etc. is rendered irrelevant. Put simply there was no viral entity, organic or synthetic, that killed people it was (and is) mass slaughter by all manner of mechanisms that were intiated by human actors.
You also can't get around the fact that this supposedly "deadly virus" only killed the elderly with multiple comorbidites in that "first wave" but that's not actually what happened either, it was massive medical murder OF these people not death via some virus. The evidence for this is copious and irrefutable as is the mountainous amount of personal testimonies from individuals (who have the hospital records to prove this) who had their loved ones killed via these protocols- NOT COVID.
For but a few examples:
From the CDC’s Provisional Mortality Statistics Covid-19 database can be found here– 1,265 deaths in 2020-2021 occurring from falls from various structures coded as U07.1 (COVID-19); 17 drowning deaths all coded U07.1 (COVID-19); 99 suicides all coded U07.1 (COVID-19).
Such examples are not unique. An exhaustive examination of the CDC’s Provisional Mortality Statistics database reveals that finding a case where an individual died solely from "Covid" is the exception.
And let's not forget:
1) What the hospital protocols were and what they did;
2) What happened in the nursing homes in March/April 2020;
3) How the CDC/NHS etc. manufactured Covid deaths through fraudulent coding.
These three items expose the pandemic fraud for what it was and destroy the entirety of the Covid narrative. They also highlight the fact that there was mass murder that was intentionally orchestrated and intentionally utilized to create the illusion that there was a 'deadly' pandemic.
Why were 14,369 injury deaths listed in the Covid-19 death count? Why were 1,265 deaths due to falls listed in the Covid death toll? Why were drowning deaths included in the Covid death toll? Why were suicides included in the Covid death toll? For but a few examples.
99% of people falsely certified as having ‘died from covid’ actually died from their preexisting conditions being exacerbated by mass medical malpractice and ‘public health’ despotism, the other 1% simply died of old age.
From the CDC itself 7/16/21:
“Of the 540,667 hospitalized coronavirus patients included in the study, 80,174 died during the observation period (March 2020 to March 2021).
A whopping 99.1% of the patients who died had at least one pre-existing condition, with just 740 having no prior condition on record. Most patients who "died from COVID" had multiple pre-existing conditions, with just 2.6% suffering from only one condition, compared to 32.3% who had two to five preexisting conditions, 39.1% who had six to ten, and 25.1% who have more than ten pre-existing conditions.”
Translation: No one has ‘died from covid’ as “Covid” is nothing more than a fraudulent PCR result plus a nebulous clinical re-branding of cold, “flu” and many other disease conditions.
So are we still incorrectly attributing deaths to Covid? As of now, the average daily Covid body count stands at around 2,600 — which equals just under 1,000,000 annually. And if we're accurately counting now and follow your logic about *over counting Covid deaths,* that would mean we're in a much more dire situation presently than back in 2020 or even 2021.
Aaron: Yes, we are certainly in a more dire situation today that in 2020. In that year the majority of deaths attributed to covid were in the elderly and those in poor metabolic health; unfortunately, far too many were iatrogenic. Since the Spring of 2021 the excess deaths are primarily from the gene-therapy shot, and partly due to increased cancer diagnoses, as well as suicides and overdoses. Life insurance companies are reporting alarmingly large increases in deaths in the working age population (19-64). And the number of excess deaths is greater this year than last. Actuarial tables will have to be revised, or the industry will go belly up.
The death industry is certainly doing well: https://investors.sci-corp.com/2022-11-01-SERVICE-CORPORATION-INTERNATIONAL-ANNOUNCES-THIRD-QUARTER-2022-FINANCIAL-RESULTS-AND-RAISES-2022-GUIDANCE
I would add a fifth key piece of evidence to the lab origin, the fact that SARS-CoV-2 Spike had the highest affinity for human ACE2 of all animal species tested, including bats [e.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34558627/]. There is no scenario of a recent zoonotic event that can account for this observation. I specify recent because of the 2012 miners in southwest China who were sick with a coronavirus for months: samples from them were sent to the WIV in Wuhan and it is possible Spike would have evolved to maximise interaction with human ACE2 during the long illness, but even in this scenario, the virus would be coming from the lab.
This is the best piece on the lab leak hypothesis I’ve seen- it should be widely shared and... published.
One really amazing outcome of the Covid era has been that I have been introduced to so many truly stellar intellects - Alex Washburne PhD possesses one of those intellects. Nothing more delightful to take into one's synapses than a scintillating conversation with a coherent mind! Thanks Alex!!!
Alex,
You are officially responsible for breaking Rumble. Our discussion has 170k in 18 hours, and now it takes a while to look any time you pull it up.
https://rumble.com/v1qtgvo-synthetic-fingerprint-of-sars-cov-2-round-table-w-alex-washburne-phd-and-ke.html
Rumble isn't ready for this level of virality. They'll have to update their pandemic preparedness.
This discussion was among scientists who agreed with each other on the lab leak? Or was there any pushback against Alex?
I need to read this again more carefully but first read is edifying &from a high perspective- you make good sense. Submit this & Bruttel et al in an upper tier peer reviewed journal. The feedback you get will be incredibly valuable (just think of it) and it will fly somewhere. Best of luck.
Great work! I was looking for the definitive article and here it is. The fourth piece of evidence, "the restriction map of an infectious clone" is the icing on an already well made cake! Thank you Alex
Very impressive. And well written. I am neither a virologist nor an epidemiologist, but I have a strong background in medical research, and I appreciate the clarity you provided that helped me to understand the major arguments. The comments from others with a medical background are helpful too. I'm subscribing.
Incredible piece of work. Thank you
You wrote: "If we made a virus more capable of infecting people, it might reveal the essence of human-infective viruses and help us prepare vaccines before a pandemic ever happens." Are you aware of any cases where this has actually happened? Can you provide a reference? Thank you.
I am not. That passage was intended to provide the pre-COVID thinking & justifications provided for gain of function research. Personally, I have long believed that gain of function research is dangerous and, in virtually all cases I can imagine, not worth the risk. If researchers were to evolve today’s viruses to gain functions of enhanced transmissibility and/or virulence, the wildlife virus populations would continue to mutate and evolve such that we have no guarantee tomorrow’s virus populations will gain these functions by the same mutations. The short timescales of proposed (not actual) benefits of GoF research greatly undermine even the most generous estimates of their benefits, and the long-term costs of releasing a novel virus into human populations remains unchanged.
I am a fan of crime novels. Today, genetic fingerprinting with DNA studies has surpassed fingerprints in confusing the culprit. As a wink, the title of one of ROBIN COOK's latest novels which deals with genetic genealogy is called ORIGINE in the French translation. So I really appreciate the way you tell this story by comparing it to a police investigation where each lead must be explored and all the pieces of the puzzle assembled. I see lots of little post-it notes on the investigators' board that are being put together little by little. You discussed the motive, the circumstances, the weapon on which there are fingerprints and the hypothesis of an accident is indeed the most probable. What still seems uncertain to me is the date of the accident and possibly its place. Because how then to explain the positive Sars cov 2 serological studies from September and even positive pre-pandemic PCRs, particularly in Italy. “The first sample showing signs of SARS-CoV-2 RNA was from September 12, 2019, and the positive patient was also positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG and IgM). »
Molecular evidence for SARS-CoV-2 in samples collected from patients with morbilliform eruptions since late 2019 in Lombardy, northern Italy - ScienceDirect
This element alone should have raised doubts about the origin of the Wuhan market and led to exploring other avenues much earlier and perhaps not necessarily in Wuhan.
the world military games were held in wuhan in october 2019 (110 countries)…
The best case and summary of Covid 19 origins I've read to date! Thank you!
Thank you for this great piece!
By the way, it never gets mentioned, but it's clear that when Daszak & Co were branding the lab leak hypothesis a "conspiracy theory", they were (intentionally or not) conflating an accidental lab leak with an intentional one. While it's true that intentional lab leak was all the rage in the usual "conspiracy" circles at the time, it does not absolve them of this egregious conflation. They were obviously just too happy to have made it.
Allen: Well put. I largely agree with you, except for one point: I defer to Alex on this, as he, like many other scientists have shown ironclad proof that an engineered, pathogenic virus was created in U.S. and Canadian labs, and the WIV. It must have escaped from the WIV. No other explanation fits the facts. It did kill some people, but not very many, any more than influenza does in most years. The best realistic estimate I have seen for American deaths is 30,000. We don't know, and never will, what the true number is.. Our "public health" system is completely broken, through a combination of incompetence, political meddling, and commercial capture of the regulatory system. What breaks my heart, and makes me look forward with eagerness to the prosecution of these criminals responsible for this clown show, is what they've done to the children. They belong in the lowest rung of hell for targeting children with this medical experiment, with the denial of their educational opportunities, with the trauma of fear. I'm a political independent, but the current administration is the worst, most incompetent, and down right nasty that I've seem in my lifetime, and I can remember as far back as President Eisenhower. Tomorrow I'm voting against all incumbents, except for a few of the good judges. .
Addendum to my previous comment: Dr. Ioannidis has calculated the IFR of covid at a level roughly equivalent to a bad seasonal flu (somewhere around 0.12, as I recall). Bearing in mind that CDC typically reports 50,000-80,000 influenza deaths per year (the CDC is famous for manipulating data; I believe it was 2009 that they began conflating influenza and pneumonia data [INP]; most of the deaths actually were from pneumonia). Influenza deaths are typically 1-2,000 per year. If we accept the figure of 50,000-80,000, the reported one million deaths from covid are 15-20 times over-reported. God bless you, Alex, for the ethical imperative which drives your work as a scientist. We’ve been repeatedly lied to by people of limited intelligence and lacking in the decency we expect in our interpersonal relations and our political leadership. The Democrats have been primarily responsible for this over the past two years, but the Republicans are just as talented at stupidity. Such is human nature. Bless you for sharing your insights with a public oh so ready for truth.
Isn’t it curious that coincidence is causality if death occurs alongside a positive PCR but not if death occurs under unusual circumstances after having received the vaxxine?
Great article. Now apply your intelligence to understanding that Putin is not doing a bad thing in Ukraine. The totality of evidence suggests he is the good guy here.