I am amazed that the flu was suppressed by the pre-Omicron SARS-2 variants. I remember when you first posted your observation of its suppression.
Soon thereafter my General Practitioner (Dr.) asked me why I didn't want the Covid vaxx. I resisted. Then he asked whether I wanted the Flu vaccine. I said "There is no flu." He smiled wryly, and responded, "You're right. There is no flu." He stopped bothering me about the Covid vaxx after that.
With all the mystery and suspicious facts that come to light don't you think Covid might occasionally (but deliberately) be mistakenly diagnosed/Tested be Flu? Same symptoms!!! 'LIABILITY' for DEADLY VAX makers would end the farce! Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed to live longer.
Mick.. The liability only exists in a functioning society. In our dysfunctioning one, those that would prosecute the deadly vaxx makers are also in on the game. There will be no justice, or repentance, I'm afraid.
Given time the vaccinated should see their own disease rates start to go nuts which will thin national populations and at some point the ones left functional will be the perpetrators and they who disobeyed. Course by then the masses will no longer favor the unvaccinated, and no doubt they've planned other events to sort out the sidelyers who don't want to be told how to live.
We all knew, thru the illegal lockdowns of Life Itself, that the handful of common cold viruses would have a tough time of it getting around, be suppressed, and unleash severe symptoms on millions who, in relative absence of natural reinnoculation, would afterward be prone to them. Without the immunological hindsight of that reinoculation we normally(unlocked down) enjoy the benefit of.
Did the Asian Countries have previous immunity? YES
Is Covid an Airborne Virus? YES
How can I prove it? Because if masks worked then they would not have blown up with Omicron almost 2 years later.
Is it clear why so many governments did not track Infection? YES
By not tracking infection they can and will continue the charade that “natural immunity” does not work.
Yes immunity from previous infection is long lasting and works against the lab leak version of Covid. We most likely were watching Korea not blowing up with Covid due to previous immunity and not because of mask use but BECAUSE they now all got Omicron 18 months later. If the mask worked against the earlier version then it should have worked in Japan against the later version.
Omicron showed up and many believe it was made in a lab as well. Omicron was a much more infectious version that was far less lethal and hit everyone in the globe.
Here is a great discussion about Omicron:
" Omicron is not normal. No immediate progenitors are known; its closest relatives are viruses last seen in early- to mid-2020. The orthodox explanation for this awkward fact, is that it has spent the last 18 months lurking “in a geography with poor genomic surveillance … or … in a chronically infected individual.” The simpler explanation is that it leaked from a laboratory."
We threw out 200 years of medical canon, infectious disease epidemiology, common sense, Nuremberg "we did this shit already, let's not do it again", and bog standard "my body, my choice" medical ethics.
With so many yrusses it's time to change our planets name from earth to planed Yruss .this place we live on is the only one totally infected . Astronomers claim that no life [[yrusses ] have ever been found outside of this planet we live on . Mars looks better all the time .
The irony is you can see how they did it by looking at the AMA's own published "encyclopedia of medicine". If you get the 1989 version and compare with the last printed version in 2003, you can see how coronaviruses went from being causers of the colds in 1989 to becoming a psychological infection in the 2003 edition where they removed specific virii genus and padded it with idiot claims about the "common cold". Theres a reason they don't publish hard copy anymore, gaslighting would be to expensive and there would be further record of their criminal idiocy.
the only epidemic in history where we quarantined people who were not sick; ironically, if they had not, it would have burned through and had herd immunity before the jab was ready
Check out the TV series Utopia, then you will understand. Nothing like a criminal action that looks like disease rates just increased naturally over a decade.
"the only epidemic in history where we quarantined people who were not sick", remember, we were all somehow silent carriers and spreaders according to the "science". We were all GUILTY of carrying actual germs, and BREATHING. And today we have vulnerable people, like my family member who has mental illness, who to this day is so traumatized he will not see anyone due to belief that he will make them sick. The damage these people have done is so deep.
Chris I believe that all the ones still masking are permanently brain damaged .All the staff in any establishment is almost 100% masked up and behind glass barricades .Outside not so much .but still a good number is now retarded when outside too .As for me I'm now permanently depressed ,living in an insane world from where there is no escape .
Yes with the right equipment and honest testing we will get to the bottom of this fake pandemic we have now .I can hardly wait to finally have a real scamtemic . If testing the nose and mouth did not work out ,we should try testing the other end ,and lower down ,the yruss coud be lurking there .
I always thought it was less invasive to do back door testing rather than give me a bloody nose. I asked if i could have that option. I mean seriously, to get a nose sample you have to ream me enough swab my brain? And now just a gentle spin? Friggin elitist games.
I'm not seeing anything beyond "percent positive" which doesn't tell me much on it's own, so my skeptic reason has the following questions:
How many total tests were being done before 2020? During the pandemic? Has it changed?
>One might argue that % positivity accounts for drops in testing but that only holds true with large enough sample sizes and a consistent testing net.
Have behaviors changed in who gets tested and why?
>If for example people stopped going to pediatricians when they are sick as long as they tested negative on their antigen tests, that would make these results of % positivity meaningless. Anecdotally our pediatrician has cut down to being open 4.5 days a week (every other Tuesday they were closed) to being open only 3 days a week (every Tue/Wed closed - naturally my kids only get sick now on Tuesday and Wednesday).
How far back does our Coronavirus sampling and tracking go?
>Since we only "discovered" Coronaviruses ~60 years ago and have only had the means to survey them a decade or two, we really don't know if these patterns are ordinary or extraordinary. It may be that there are dozens, hundreds, or thousands of coronaviruses (Ralph Baric says tens of millions) circulating and seeing them ebb and flow is natural and our arrogance that thinking a few years of trends means anything is no different than a climatist thinking having 100 years of data on a planet 4,000,000,000 years old is meaningful.
How confident are we that our Covid tests consistently distinguish between these various strains and cousins? At what point does the PCR or antigen test that could detect Alpha, and rule out it wasn't one of the "n" additional coronaviruses, fail to detect a descendant / variant of Alpha? At what point and with what odds our PCR or Antigen tests pick up another strain and think it was SARSCOV2 (there may be wonderful explanations on all of this that I am not versed in the science comprehend as no one has "Feynmaned" it for me yet by explaining in simple terms with replicative experiments showing their work).
It may be that in fact Omicron did squeeze out all other Coronaviruses due to viral competition. That seems reasonable enough of a theory, but would always love more data and to continue to weigh competing hypotheses.
I’m not totally sure about CDC data, but I can answer in detail about the german surveillance data, which show the same trend: These come from participating sentinel clinics, where a subset of patients presenting with ILI symptoms get swabbed, and these swabs are tested for all the common respiratory viruses. The results are then tabulated week-by-week throughout the flu season.
They like to present results as a % positive, because the number of swabs collected by the clinics varies massively from week to week, as you might imagine. On the other hand, the method is quasi-independent of patient behaviour. It’s the same surveillance methods that also showed the absence of the influenza.
As for coronavirus seasonal stability: All these viruses behave according to very stereotypical patterns, from season to season, for the years we have data. Coronavirus, RSV, hPnV peak around winter solstice, rhinoviruses in fall and spring on either side of that peak, influenza in February/March, like it’s trying to avoid the coronavirus etc. peak.
Thanks for the feedback on Germany. I wonder what % of those showing ILI symptoms getting swabbed get a conclusive match to a specific virus? 10%? 90%?
of 6,854 swabs sent in since week 35 of this year, RKI reports that 4,150 have tested positive for influenza, RSV, hMPV, PIV, rhinovirus, hCoV, or SARS-2.
So is it still PCR testing? have they renamed that test the Molecular Test yet like they did over here in texas? Its the same test, with same total shit results as enumerated by Kary Mullins before he was put down at the beginning of Faucies Fraud Pandemic. Its weird they bother renaming it, infers people started to understand so they pretended to swap it out with some other more accurate test, but its the same test process just a new name. Disobey!
Where I live in NC, no doctor would test for flu. If you didn’t test positive for cov, you were told to stay home. My MD still requires masks, screening and social distancing and if the appointments can be via telemedicine, that makes him happiest of all. I just cancelled my annual exam because of the restrictions.
This likely makes Covid, in terms of rate of growth from one unit with potential replicating potential, to high number of units with potential replicating potential, the most successful, and most rapidly successful, "organism" in history. (Organism in air quotes because viruses rely on other organisms to reproduce, but you get the drift).
This now needs to give pause for thought to the lockdowners and vaccinators. Maybe their lockdown delayed this point by a week or three. The vaccine, administered at short intervals to olds at risk, stops olds at risk getting this particular cause on their imminent death certificate, but does very little, for a very short period of time, to prevent total world domination by Covid.
OF course it will not give them pause for thought since they only care about advertising on twitter how many masks they are putting on their own children in a futile attempt to prevent something that is not only inevitable, but I am increasingly convinced is beneficial to young immune systems. Having just had my second encounter with this, at closer to 60 than 6, It's obviously better to get this when you are 6 than when you are 60.
I'd argue the rate of growth is the result of constant masking requirements. Everyone who obeyed breathing in all their own germs and spittle spewed into the mask and held close to the face for reinhalation. Nevermind the o2 reduction and co2 elevation while wearing the facemasks. Anyone who could get sick that obeyed the mandates, then did get sick. Its like people all forgot annual common sense in favor of deferring to this or that lackwit gov/med authority.
Where are the tests that have been vetted, standardized and pre-approved that show all these various viruses? It can't be the PCR test because that is not really a test for differentiating virus types or strains.
Why do they all have the same symptoms? If you perform a test, there should be some markers. Why can we not see these results and verify them against what the "medical experts" know to be the actual virus? Why is all of this virus nonsense kept in the dark? The next time you experience what you believe to be a virus attack, go to your doctor and ask him to tell you what virus you have and to somehow prove that opinion.
I would go myself but no longer trust the medial mafia to remove so much as a splinter, let alone chop, slice and dice me to just tell me I have a cold or flu which is nothing more than my body trying to do a detox and repair itself.
I agree. It's all fake. But never underestimate a capitalist with a product and a good idea about how to sell it. Government Expertologists are the easiest to sell to as it is never their money. They just tax you, take your money, buy some fake product and tell you that it is free. I've been selling diagnostics to these fools for a long time.and they never seem to run out of YOUR money. It's a beautiful business. Sorry to be blunt but who wouldn't do it if you were in my position. Somebody is going to swindle government out of YOUR money. It might as well be me.
Eugyppius, I went back to the 2011 paper by Ewald that you cited in that previous Substack, in the attempt to understand the mechanics of how a virus could be adapted for transmission by healthcare staff but not for transmission by a more general population. Ewald writes that, "the mortality of untreated human respiratory tract infections is positively correlated with the durability of their etiological agents."
Is it known for how long the early strains of SARS-CoV-2 would last (in the air, on surfaces) after being breathed out of an infected person's nose?
No variant of covid is specially adapted to be transmissible by healthcare staff. If that were doable, naturally or artificially, it has already been done. All you need to do is to produce something that will transmit between people working set shifts, all at the same time, who only get sick on weekends or on holiday (never during working days, and if they do go to work anyway) and are totally immune to any other crap that patients/own children give them.
It helps if the infectious agent is adapted to people who live off out-of-date vending machine sandwiches, chocolate bars, scavenged millk, and cold tea/coffee stolen from the wards (if your place of employment provides cold tea and coffee to patients).
The viruses are literally millennia ahead of us here.
Wouldn't it be useful if someone somewhere somehow did some actual proper research into why this is happening.
Do virus communicate with each other in the sense of - I've done my turn now you have a go? - or is it a product of the complexity of the immune system that makes it appear so?
IMHO we reached the limits of our understanding of the immune system a long time ago - no money in it you see.
Why do we bother anyway because the Great God of Immunotherapy aka control of your genes by our wonderful genetic engineers has arrived.
Absolutely no chance of one virus particle communicating with another. Virus activity is merely a random set of occurences amongst a vast number of individual entities. This is the beauty of virus propogation and mutation which has allowed them to be succesful "organisms" on our planet for a long time. As soon as organisms developed some kind of brain and hence method of communicating, sooner or later they organise themselves to extinction.
After paffeling about the yrusses for some time I understand now, they are much more intelligent than humans .they can convert to variants ,sub variants ,sub,sub variants and back again .We humans can only change from stupid to totally nuts .
I haven't had flu for many years. I remember when in the flu season there was rarely you see someone that is not sick and now I haven't seen anyone sniffing and coughing for long time
When did I say I've been infected (or not)? All I said was that I haven't gotten the flu (judging by symptoms) and the same I've observed for other people. All in support of eugyppius observation that flu has been kinda eradicated by the corona viruses
Just before Christmas 2021 the Deputy First Minister of my country, Northern Ireland, told us that Omicron was about to hit us "like a tonne of bricks" and that consequently we needed emergency legislation to bring in vaccine passports and face covering requirements without Assembly debate.
I guess she was half right, in that I think probably three quarters of my acquaintances got Omicron in the following six months. But in almost all cases known to me it was no different to a cold, and the official hospitalisation rate was pretty unremarkable even with mass infection.
It sure would be interesting to find out what the origins of Omicron were - if it wasn't a deliberate attempt at a live vaccine, it's surely divine providence in not only sweeping away variants that were dangerous to the already-frail, but making the containment-obsessives look absolutely ridiculous in their failure to prevent almost universal exposure/infection, despite all the home-working, two metre distancing, sanitising, contact aversion, hyperregulation, QR codes, contact tracing apps and masking up they threw at the virus.
This is beyond my scope of expertise, but people who have analyzed omicron's genetics say that omicron was not a natural mutation, that it had far too many mutations to have happened in a year without a lot of help. EthicalSkeptic estimated that omicron was a *predecessor* to the Wuhan strain, and although there's some disagreement as to the age and lineage, most of the mice crew agreed that omicron could not have happened in nature by itself, there were just too many changes. There is further speculation that white hats released omicron as an attempt to wipe out the more virulent strains that had been released. Even Gates mentioned it. There is something about the way he talks about omicron that implies it thwarted his plans.
Omicron was very unlikely to be a natural mutation because there were targeted changes from a previous known variant (that had basically died out) that amended the amino acid sequence that would be produced by the mutations.
Natural mutations follow a very random pattern (most are caused by misreading or proofreading errors in DNA copying) and you only see fixation of "coding" errors after a very long time. There are so-called "silent" mutations, usually in the last base pair of a three-base codon, which happen at random, theoretically at the same rate as the mutations that change the amino acid sequence of the but do not change the amino acid sequence of the coded protein. Since you expect these to occur at a predictable rate, but a lab scientist knowing (as we have for >60 years) which sets of base pairs code for a particular amino acid, would just take the underlying sequence and make changes to get the amino acid sequence of choice (maybe with some GC enrichment, beyond the scope of several substack articles let alone a comment), makes it extremely, flabbergatstingly unlikely that the RNA sequence change in Omicron was of natural origin.
Omicron was a (possibly unofficial) postdoc research project that escaped from a lab. In the same way Sars-Cov2 was probably, though we will never know for certain, a (semi unofficial) NIH research project that escaped from a lab.
Both creators of both viruses have burned their notebooks by now.
the evidence for Omicron lab origins is in my opinion even stronger than that for wild-type SARS-2, and yet the subject is studiously avoided everywhere. it’s very intriguing.
given the sheer volume of Corona-related lab research happening, it should surprise nobody of course
There were also serious questions raised about the spontaneous, natural occurrence of H1N1 swine flu in 2009. This virus suddenly appeared out of nowhere, despite pretty decent flu worldwide monitoring. It was a unusual combination of human, bird and swine strains and its natural occurrence was considered quite improbable at the time by a minority of reputable scientists. The official narrative was that some strange viral mixing was going on in pig farms which weren't being adequately monitored.
In my opinion, viral research without adequate oversight and safety procedures, is a big danger to mankind. And the current pandemic has done nothing to change this situation.
Dr. Hiroshi Arakawa (now Italy Institute-Of-Molecular-Oncology-Milan), a Japanese immunology and molecular biologist, said in 2021 Dec.
“By combining chemosynthesis and biosynthesis,
Even viruses and bacteria that do not exist in nature can be synthesized in modern times. Even if you don't have it at the moment, you may be able to make it in a month.
The N mutation alters the amino acid sequence and leaves less.
The S mutation is a mutation of a synonymous codon and tends to remain without changing the amino acid sequence, but the fact that there are almost no S mutations means that the virus has not undergone trial and error to survive. 』
Making a virus is a bored postdoc on a few weekends using leftover reagents no one bothers to count project. Postdocs spend their working lives engineering viruses (OK bacterium-infecting viruses, to do specific things, that will allegedly never infect any bacteria other than those in lab petri dishes).
Changing a few base pairs in covid is literally something a bored postdoc did as a dare.
You also need to realise the probability aspect of this - in terms of the absolutely insanely huge number of people with the knowledge, skills, and access to technology to do it. The world is full of hundreds of thousands of Vivs, with fading knowledge, and lost skills to do this (and no longer access to the kit to do it).
It is really very straightforward stuff. You can learn how to do it quickly, and a lot of people have.
I have seen drawings of two different phylogenetic trees for Omicron, and both of them showed it branched off the root *before* the original Wuhan strain emerged
sorry, forgot to turn comments on for everyone. fixed.
I am amazed that the flu was suppressed by the pre-Omicron SARS-2 variants. I remember when you first posted your observation of its suppression.
Soon thereafter my General Practitioner (Dr.) asked me why I didn't want the Covid vaxx. I resisted. Then he asked whether I wanted the Flu vaccine. I said "There is no flu." He smiled wryly, and responded, "You're right. There is no flu." He stopped bothering me about the Covid vaxx after that.
That was a win for me, and I thank you for it.
With all the mystery and suspicious facts that come to light don't you think Covid might occasionally (but deliberately) be mistakenly diagnosed/Tested be Flu? Same symptoms!!! 'LIABILITY' for DEADLY VAX makers would end the farce! Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed to live longer.
Mick.. The liability only exists in a functioning society. In our dysfunctioning one, those that would prosecute the deadly vaxx makers are also in on the game. There will be no justice, or repentance, I'm afraid.
Given time the vaccinated should see their own disease rates start to go nuts which will thin national populations and at some point the ones left functional will be the perpetrators and they who disobeyed. Course by then the masses will no longer favor the unvaccinated, and no doubt they've planned other events to sort out the sidelyers who don't want to be told how to live.
We must never give up our fight to educate them as to what is really happening - Mick from Hooe (UK).
We all knew, thru the illegal lockdowns of Life Itself, that the handful of common cold viruses would have a tough time of it getting around, be suppressed, and unleash severe symptoms on millions who, in relative absence of natural reinnoculation, would afterward be prone to them. Without the immunological hindsight of that reinoculation we normally(unlocked down) enjoy the benefit of.
So here we are a year later. Did masks work? NO.
Did the Asian Countries have previous immunity? YES
Is Covid an Airborne Virus? YES
How can I prove it? Because if masks worked then they would not have blown up with Omicron almost 2 years later.
Is it clear why so many governments did not track Infection? YES
By not tracking infection they can and will continue the charade that “natural immunity” does not work.
Yes immunity from previous infection is long lasting and works against the lab leak version of Covid. We most likely were watching Korea not blowing up with Covid due to previous immunity and not because of mask use but BECAUSE they now all got Omicron 18 months later. If the mask worked against the earlier version then it should have worked in Japan against the later version.
Omicron showed up and many believe it was made in a lab as well. Omicron was a much more infectious version that was far less lethal and hit everyone in the globe.
Here is a great discussion about Omicron:
" Omicron is not normal. No immediate progenitors are known; its closest relatives are viruses last seen in early- to mid-2020. The orthodox explanation for this awkward fact, is that it has spent the last 18 months lurking “in a geography with poor genomic surveillance … or … in a chronically infected individual.” The simpler explanation is that it leaked from a laboratory."
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/omicron-is-not-normal
Omicron was nature's way of telling the expertocracy they ignored the scientific method and to go fuck themselves for their hubris.
Mother Nature can be a Bitch (A lot like me).
Nah you're awesome Dr. Linda.
Although I don't think I've made you mad yet!...;)
Just wait for Father Universal Law to step in.
We literally did the exact opposite of what we should've done.
Threw out 200 years of medical canon.
Nobody thought of the obvious; viruses have flourished for 3.5 billion years on earth. Hominids struggled to survive for roughly 3 million years.
Hmmmm....wonder who's gonna "win". The arrogance is truly astonishing.
We threw out 200 years of medical canon, infectious disease epidemiology, common sense, Nuremberg "we did this shit already, let's not do it again", and bog standard "my body, my choice" medical ethics.
Yup. And morality, ethics, empathy and a clean conscience.
With so many yrusses it's time to change our planets name from earth to planed Yruss .this place we live on is the only one totally infected . Astronomers claim that no life [[yrusses ] have ever been found outside of this planet we live on . Mars looks better all the time .
Yrusses...outstanding!
The irony is you can see how they did it by looking at the AMA's own published "encyclopedia of medicine". If you get the 1989 version and compare with the last printed version in 2003, you can see how coronaviruses went from being causers of the colds in 1989 to becoming a psychological infection in the 2003 edition where they removed specific virii genus and padded it with idiot claims about the "common cold". Theres a reason they don't publish hard copy anymore, gaslighting would be to expensive and there would be further record of their criminal idiocy.
True. It's all become such a scam
Indeed, we tossed the hard-won wisdom of the ages out the window like so much garbage. And paid a heavy price for such hubris.
the only epidemic in history where we quarantined people who were not sick; ironically, if they had not, it would have burned through and had herd immunity before the jab was ready
Not ironic, intentional. All about selling the vaccines.
May be deeper than just money, although the love of it is the root...
Check out the TV series Utopia, then you will understand. Nothing like a criminal action that looks like disease rates just increased naturally over a decade.
The only time we've quarantined any healthy person is when the astronauts returned from the moon.
"the only epidemic in history where we quarantined people who were not sick", remember, we were all somehow silent carriers and spreaders according to the "science". We were all GUILTY of carrying actual germs, and BREATHING. And today we have vulnerable people, like my family member who has mental illness, who to this day is so traumatized he will not see anyone due to belief that he will make them sick. The damage these people have done is so deep.
Chris I believe that all the ones still masking are permanently brain damaged .All the staff in any establishment is almost 100% masked up and behind glass barricades .Outside not so much .but still a good number is now retarded when outside too .As for me I'm now permanently depressed ,living in an insane world from where there is no escape .
Most of us did not return from any moon ,but you can call earth the planet of loonatics anyway .
You mean from New Mexico?
Wait, are you saying that was real? 😳😄
Hahaha.
I feel like this post is bait for someone to say:
"The entire field of Virology is a Rockefellerian Hoax."
Mission accomplished:
The enitre field of virology IS a Rockefellerian Hoax.
“Rockefellerian” 😂
Is that better or worse than Rastafarian?
Definitely Rastafarian!......much better music!
This whole mess has never been a pandemic.
It's been an epidemic.........of testing.
And piss poor quality testing at that.
Yes with the right equipment and honest testing we will get to the bottom of this fake pandemic we have now .I can hardly wait to finally have a real scamtemic . If testing the nose and mouth did not work out ,we should try testing the other end ,and lower down ,the yruss coud be lurking there .
I always thought it was less invasive to do back door testing rather than give me a bloody nose. I asked if i could have that option. I mean seriously, to get a nose sample you have to ream me enough swab my brain? And now just a gentle spin? Friggin elitist games.
It's not the site.
It's the people running the tests.
Just like elections being about who counts the votes, not the voters.
I'm not seeing anything beyond "percent positive" which doesn't tell me much on it's own, so my skeptic reason has the following questions:
How many total tests were being done before 2020? During the pandemic? Has it changed?
>One might argue that % positivity accounts for drops in testing but that only holds true with large enough sample sizes and a consistent testing net.
Have behaviors changed in who gets tested and why?
>If for example people stopped going to pediatricians when they are sick as long as they tested negative on their antigen tests, that would make these results of % positivity meaningless. Anecdotally our pediatrician has cut down to being open 4.5 days a week (every other Tuesday they were closed) to being open only 3 days a week (every Tue/Wed closed - naturally my kids only get sick now on Tuesday and Wednesday).
How far back does our Coronavirus sampling and tracking go?
>Since we only "discovered" Coronaviruses ~60 years ago and have only had the means to survey them a decade or two, we really don't know if these patterns are ordinary or extraordinary. It may be that there are dozens, hundreds, or thousands of coronaviruses (Ralph Baric says tens of millions) circulating and seeing them ebb and flow is natural and our arrogance that thinking a few years of trends means anything is no different than a climatist thinking having 100 years of data on a planet 4,000,000,000 years old is meaningful.
How confident are we that our Covid tests consistently distinguish between these various strains and cousins? At what point does the PCR or antigen test that could detect Alpha, and rule out it wasn't one of the "n" additional coronaviruses, fail to detect a descendant / variant of Alpha? At what point and with what odds our PCR or Antigen tests pick up another strain and think it was SARSCOV2 (there may be wonderful explanations on all of this that I am not versed in the science comprehend as no one has "Feynmaned" it for me yet by explaining in simple terms with replicative experiments showing their work).
It may be that in fact Omicron did squeeze out all other Coronaviruses due to viral competition. That seems reasonable enough of a theory, but would always love more data and to continue to weigh competing hypotheses.
I’m not totally sure about CDC data, but I can answer in detail about the german surveillance data, which show the same trend: These come from participating sentinel clinics, where a subset of patients presenting with ILI symptoms get swabbed, and these swabs are tested for all the common respiratory viruses. The results are then tabulated week-by-week throughout the flu season.
They like to present results as a % positive, because the number of swabs collected by the clinics varies massively from week to week, as you might imagine. On the other hand, the method is quasi-independent of patient behaviour. It’s the same surveillance methods that also showed the absence of the influenza.
As for coronavirus seasonal stability: All these viruses behave according to very stereotypical patterns, from season to season, for the years we have data. Coronavirus, RSV, hPnV peak around winter solstice, rhinoviruses in fall and spring on either side of that peak, influenza in February/March, like it’s trying to avoid the coronavirus etc. peak.
Thanks for the feedback on Germany. I wonder what % of those showing ILI symptoms getting swabbed get a conclusive match to a specific virus? 10%? 90%?
of 6,854 swabs sent in since week 35 of this year, RKI reports that 4,150 have tested positive for influenza, RSV, hMPV, PIV, rhinovirus, hCoV, or SARS-2.
No doubt they cannot give any further breakdown of numbers. Because some fax machines ran out of paper.
So is it still PCR testing? have they renamed that test the Molecular Test yet like they did over here in texas? Its the same test, with same total shit results as enumerated by Kary Mullins before he was put down at the beginning of Faucies Fraud Pandemic. Its weird they bother renaming it, infers people started to understand so they pretended to swap it out with some other more accurate test, but its the same test process just a new name. Disobey!
Where I live in NC, no doctor would test for flu. If you didn’t test positive for cov, you were told to stay home. My MD still requires masks, screening and social distancing and if the appointments can be via telemedicine, that makes him happiest of all. I just cancelled my annual exam because of the restrictions.
your Dr is an innumerate dummy. Get a new one.
Good for you. I asked my doctor if i could see the warning label that came with the box the shot was in. Nope
... almost like they were using flu results and calling them covid results huh?
This likely makes Covid, in terms of rate of growth from one unit with potential replicating potential, to high number of units with potential replicating potential, the most successful, and most rapidly successful, "organism" in history. (Organism in air quotes because viruses rely on other organisms to reproduce, but you get the drift).
This now needs to give pause for thought to the lockdowners and vaccinators. Maybe their lockdown delayed this point by a week or three. The vaccine, administered at short intervals to olds at risk, stops olds at risk getting this particular cause on their imminent death certificate, but does very little, for a very short period of time, to prevent total world domination by Covid.
OF course it will not give them pause for thought since they only care about advertising on twitter how many masks they are putting on their own children in a futile attempt to prevent something that is not only inevitable, but I am increasingly convinced is beneficial to young immune systems. Having just had my second encounter with this, at closer to 60 than 6, It's obviously better to get this when you are 6 than when you are 60.
it’s definitely one of the most successful respiratory viruses, and the competition there is very stiff indeed.
I'd argue the rate of growth is the result of constant masking requirements. Everyone who obeyed breathing in all their own germs and spittle spewed into the mask and held close to the face for reinhalation. Nevermind the o2 reduction and co2 elevation while wearing the facemasks. Anyone who could get sick that obeyed the mandates, then did get sick. Its like people all forgot annual common sense in favor of deferring to this or that lackwit gov/med authority.
Where are the tests that have been vetted, standardized and pre-approved that show all these various viruses? It can't be the PCR test because that is not really a test for differentiating virus types or strains.
Why do they all have the same symptoms? If you perform a test, there should be some markers. Why can we not see these results and verify them against what the "medical experts" know to be the actual virus? Why is all of this virus nonsense kept in the dark? The next time you experience what you believe to be a virus attack, go to your doctor and ask him to tell you what virus you have and to somehow prove that opinion.
I would go myself but no longer trust the medial mafia to remove so much as a splinter, let alone chop, slice and dice me to just tell me I have a cold or flu which is nothing more than my body trying to do a detox and repair itself.
I agree. It's all fake. But never underestimate a capitalist with a product and a good idea about how to sell it. Government Expertologists are the easiest to sell to as it is never their money. They just tax you, take your money, buy some fake product and tell you that it is free. I've been selling diagnostics to these fools for a long time.and they never seem to run out of YOUR money. It's a beautiful business. Sorry to be blunt but who wouldn't do it if you were in my position. Somebody is going to swindle government out of YOUR money. It might as well be me.
Eugyppius, I went back to the 2011 paper by Ewald that you cited in that previous Substack, in the attempt to understand the mechanics of how a virus could be adapted for transmission by healthcare staff but not for transmission by a more general population. Ewald writes that, "the mortality of untreated human respiratory tract infections is positively correlated with the durability of their etiological agents."
Is it known for how long the early strains of SARS-CoV-2 would last (in the air, on surfaces) after being breathed out of an infected person's nose?
presumably not very long. enveloped viruses like SARS-2 appear to be somewhat fragile.
No variant of covid is specially adapted to be transmissible by healthcare staff. If that were doable, naturally or artificially, it has already been done. All you need to do is to produce something that will transmit between people working set shifts, all at the same time, who only get sick on weekends or on holiday (never during working days, and if they do go to work anyway) and are totally immune to any other crap that patients/own children give them.
It helps if the infectious agent is adapted to people who live off out-of-date vending machine sandwiches, chocolate bars, scavenged millk, and cold tea/coffee stolen from the wards (if your place of employment provides cold tea and coffee to patients).
The viruses are literally millennia ahead of us here.
Wouldn't it be useful if someone somewhere somehow did some actual proper research into why this is happening.
Do virus communicate with each other in the sense of - I've done my turn now you have a go? - or is it a product of the complexity of the immune system that makes it appear so?
IMHO we reached the limits of our understanding of the immune system a long time ago - no money in it you see.
Why do we bother anyway because the Great God of Immunotherapy aka control of your genes by our wonderful genetic engineers has arrived.
GATTACA for all.
Absolutely no chance of one virus particle communicating with another. Virus activity is merely a random set of occurences amongst a vast number of individual entities. This is the beauty of virus propogation and mutation which has allowed them to be succesful "organisms" on our planet for a long time. As soon as organisms developed some kind of brain and hence method of communicating, sooner or later they organise themselves to extinction.
After paffeling about the yrusses for some time I understand now, they are much more intelligent than humans .they can convert to variants ,sub variants ,sub,sub variants and back again .We humans can only change from stupid to totally nuts .
I haven't had flu for many years. I remember when in the flu season there was rarely you see someone that is not sick and now I haven't seen anyone sniffing and coughing for long time
People used to still go out when they were sick, but the last 2+ years have shamed them into staying home?
How do you know that? Flu, like Covid, is highly variable, symptoms range from next to nothing to severe disease and death.
I never had the proper "flu" but I must have been infected at some stage over the last 4 decades...
I know if I have or seen the symptoms. That's all I was comparing, I'm not a doctor to give diagnoses
Not to be a smart Alice, but how do you surmise you must've been infected if you never been sick? It's a guess
When did I say I've been infected (or not)? All I said was that I haven't gotten the flu (judging by symptoms) and the same I've observed for other people. All in support of eugyppius observation that flu has been kinda eradicated by the corona viruses
Could it be that the ones who used to do the sniffeling are now killed off by the Faussi venom before the can sniffle .?
Just before Christmas 2021 the Deputy First Minister of my country, Northern Ireland, told us that Omicron was about to hit us "like a tonne of bricks" and that consequently we needed emergency legislation to bring in vaccine passports and face covering requirements without Assembly debate.
I guess she was half right, in that I think probably three quarters of my acquaintances got Omicron in the following six months. But in almost all cases known to me it was no different to a cold, and the official hospitalisation rate was pretty unremarkable even with mass infection.
It sure would be interesting to find out what the origins of Omicron were - if it wasn't a deliberate attempt at a live vaccine, it's surely divine providence in not only sweeping away variants that were dangerous to the already-frail, but making the containment-obsessives look absolutely ridiculous in their failure to prevent almost universal exposure/infection, despite all the home-working, two metre distancing, sanitising, contact aversion, hyperregulation, QR codes, contact tracing apps and masking up they threw at the virus.
Yes I said that to friends too, omicron was a Christmas present
This is beyond my scope of expertise, but people who have analyzed omicron's genetics say that omicron was not a natural mutation, that it had far too many mutations to have happened in a year without a lot of help. EthicalSkeptic estimated that omicron was a *predecessor* to the Wuhan strain, and although there's some disagreement as to the age and lineage, most of the mice crew agreed that omicron could not have happened in nature by itself, there were just too many changes. There is further speculation that white hats released omicron as an attempt to wipe out the more virulent strains that had been released. Even Gates mentioned it. There is something about the way he talks about omicron that implies it thwarted his plans.
Omicron was very unlikely to be a natural mutation because there were targeted changes from a previous known variant (that had basically died out) that amended the amino acid sequence that would be produced by the mutations.
Natural mutations follow a very random pattern (most are caused by misreading or proofreading errors in DNA copying) and you only see fixation of "coding" errors after a very long time. There are so-called "silent" mutations, usually in the last base pair of a three-base codon, which happen at random, theoretically at the same rate as the mutations that change the amino acid sequence of the but do not change the amino acid sequence of the coded protein. Since you expect these to occur at a predictable rate, but a lab scientist knowing (as we have for >60 years) which sets of base pairs code for a particular amino acid, would just take the underlying sequence and make changes to get the amino acid sequence of choice (maybe with some GC enrichment, beyond the scope of several substack articles let alone a comment), makes it extremely, flabbergatstingly unlikely that the RNA sequence change in Omicron was of natural origin.
Omicron was a (possibly unofficial) postdoc research project that escaped from a lab. In the same way Sars-Cov2 was probably, though we will never know for certain, a (semi unofficial) NIH research project that escaped from a lab.
Both creators of both viruses have burned their notebooks by now.
the evidence for Omicron lab origins is in my opinion even stronger than that for wild-type SARS-2, and yet the subject is studiously avoided everywhere. it’s very intriguing.
given the sheer volume of Corona-related lab research happening, it should surprise nobody of course
There were also serious questions raised about the spontaneous, natural occurrence of H1N1 swine flu in 2009. This virus suddenly appeared out of nowhere, despite pretty decent flu worldwide monitoring. It was a unusual combination of human, bird and swine strains and its natural occurrence was considered quite improbable at the time by a minority of reputable scientists. The official narrative was that some strange viral mixing was going on in pig farms which weren't being adequately monitored.
In my opinion, viral research without adequate oversight and safety procedures, is a big danger to mankind. And the current pandemic has done nothing to change this situation.
Dr. Hiroshi Arakawa (now Italy Institute-Of-Molecular-Oncology-Milan), a Japanese immunology and molecular biologist, said in 2021 Dec.
“By combining chemosynthesis and biosynthesis,
Even viruses and bacteria that do not exist in nature can be synthesized in modern times. Even if you don't have it at the moment, you may be able to make it in a month.
The N mutation alters the amino acid sequence and leaves less.
The S mutation is a mutation of a synonymous codon and tends to remain without changing the amino acid sequence, but the fact that there are almost no S mutations means that the virus has not undergone trial and error to survive. 』
Making a virus is a bored postdoc on a few weekends using leftover reagents no one bothers to count project. Postdocs spend their working lives engineering viruses (OK bacterium-infecting viruses, to do specific things, that will allegedly never infect any bacteria other than those in lab petri dishes).
Changing a few base pairs in covid is literally something a bored postdoc did as a dare.
You also need to realise the probability aspect of this - in terms of the absolutely insanely huge number of people with the knowledge, skills, and access to technology to do it. The world is full of hundreds of thousands of Vivs, with fading knowledge, and lost skills to do this (and no longer access to the kit to do it).
It is really very straightforward stuff. You can learn how to do it quickly, and a lot of people have.
I have seen drawings of two different phylogenetic trees for Omicron, and both of them showed it branched off the root *before* the original Wuhan strain emerged
So, is OC43 really Omicron?
no, they’re different viruses. they just seem to have trouble co-existing, just like flu & pre-Omicron strains seemed to block each other.
Shouldn't somebody be studying how one virus that originates in China (COV) could cancel out another virus that originates in China (FLU)?
Is it possible to translate the key from the German chart? My translations must not be correct; they don’t match with your text. Thanks.
Well c'mon folks.
E put out a good piece.
Where's the comments?!...lol
Sorry E if I screwed up your post with my previous stupid comment!
ha! i had the comment settings wrong when i published, so a lot of people think comments are subscriber-only i expect.
I call it the Imacold variant.