It's been a year
A year of 2 weeks to flatten the curve, a year of blind obedience to arbitrary rules, a year of irrational hysteria, a year of censoring dissent - and perhaps most importantly of all, a year of science, data & statistics that contradict the official narrative at every turn.
It's time to lose the lunacy. This is part 1, where we'll cover two important pillars - how it's said to be "novel", and the issue of so-called "asymptomatic spread".
Let us dissect the narrative.
Novel Coronavirus
Since early 2020, we've heard repeated ad nauseam, things like:
It's not the flu!
No one is immune!
The "novelty" of this particular corona virus has been criminally overstated, and here's why.
It has long been well established in medical literature that more than 200 viruses, including influenza, corona and many others, play a part in colds, flus and respiratory illness in general. The potential for severe complications and long-lasting effects, particularly in the aged & vulnerable, is a widely documented feature of viral respiratory illness - it has never been a unique feature of this particular corona virus.
Corona viruses are all similar enough that if your immune system has seen one, it's seen them all. This idea is borne out by studies demonstrating T-cell response to this corona virus in individuals that were exposed to other corona viruses as far back as 17 years ago.
Asymptomatic Spread
The idea of asymptomatic spread, in direct contradiction of the idea of a deadly virus, is used to justify shutting down society and disregarding fundamental human rights and freedoms at scale. But does it have any merit?
Such official public health figures as Dr. Fauci, and even the World Health Organization have said that asymptomatic spread never drives outbreaks and is very rare. Indeed, many studies have actually demonstrated a lack of evidence for asymptomatic spread, to the point of statistical insignificance. Here are two of note:
Study of >10 million people: only 0.3% asymptomatic spread
Meta-analysis of 54 studies and 77k people: only 0.7%, even in "high-risk" settings (inside households)
Healthy people going about normal life have simply never been spreading disease. Period.