"The sheer capriciousness of the “Flu” led Hope Simpson to conclude that it was not an infectious syndrome, or rather, the viruses that lay dormant everywhere were activated and not passed on."
When I lived in Alberta, Canada, the locals would describe a "warm winter" (not far below zero centigrade - rather than the usual minus 25) as a "black" winter because it would coincide with their elderly dying from pneumonia.
I think of viruses a bit like dormant plant seeds scattered about, waiting to somehow come into contact with a potential host cell. This fits with the theory that respiratory vital transmission is mostly from surface to surface. The only proven way to interrupt this process is regular conscientious handwashing.
Could it also be a reactivation of sorts? The dormant plant seeds are scattered about the host and some sort of challenge to the immune system causes an inflammatory response that leads to symptomatic reactivation?
A novel virus must spread somehow if it's to become ubiquitous and endemic, but there's obviously a difference between "spread" and "infect". Whatever the mechanism, the virus must simply bounce off some people like water off a duck's back.
I've long wondered how and why it was that humans lost the ability to drink dirty water. I suppose it was probably around the time we learned to cook food, and lost our ability to eat carrion, too.
This is possibly a bit cryptic. What I'm driving at is this.
Other species - your dog, for example - can drink from puddles that would give us cholera. It seems clear that as a species we have become susceptible to microbe toxins that once we were not.
I wonder how this happens, and whether an artefact is that some people are simply not susceptible to a specific novel virus, and therefore develop neither symptoms nor antibodies when exposed to it.
I think Tanya Lewis bitterly regrets writing this. Her editor was sacked anyway - see the story on Paul Thacker’s Misinformation Chronicle.
We call this publication "Unscientific American" and have warned readers of the nonsense they peddle (and the odd personal attack, of course)
https://open.substack.com/pub/trusttheevidence/p/scientific-american-and-masks?r=1lcx51&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web.
Best wishes, Tom
Is this the TTE rebuttal of the ‘no virus’ theory?
When researching that theory I came across this Scientific American article from 2020
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-persistent-covid-19-myths-and-why-people-believe-them/
I can’t decide whether to give them 0 or 0.5 out of 8 for that one.
10/10 for disinfo mind. Lol
"The sheer capriciousness of the “Flu” led Hope Simpson to conclude that it was not an infectious syndrome, or rather, the viruses that lay dormant everywhere were activated and not passed on."
When I lived in Alberta, Canada, the locals would describe a "warm winter" (not far below zero centigrade - rather than the usual minus 25) as a "black" winter because it would coincide with their elderly dying from pneumonia.
I think of viruses a bit like dormant plant seeds scattered about, waiting to somehow come into contact with a potential host cell. This fits with the theory that respiratory vital transmission is mostly from surface to surface. The only proven way to interrupt this process is regular conscientious handwashing.
Could it also be a reactivation of sorts? The dormant plant seeds are scattered about the host and some sort of challenge to the immune system causes an inflammatory response that leads to symptomatic reactivation?
I worry I will get too informed to do any modelling whatsoever. Hard blow for me to take as my toby jug modelling days are over too.
Fabulous article! Thank you.
A novel virus must spread somehow if it's to become ubiquitous and endemic, but there's obviously a difference between "spread" and "infect". Whatever the mechanism, the virus must simply bounce off some people like water off a duck's back.
I've long wondered how and why it was that humans lost the ability to drink dirty water. I suppose it was probably around the time we learned to cook food, and lost our ability to eat carrion, too.
This is possibly a bit cryptic. What I'm driving at is this.
Other species - your dog, for example - can drink from puddles that would give us cholera. It seems clear that as a species we have become susceptible to microbe toxins that once we were not.
I wonder how this happens, and whether an artefact is that some people are simply not susceptible to a specific novel virus, and therefore develop neither symptoms nor antibodies when exposed to it.