Exploring Honesty
Re SARS
An illness, named SARS, appeared in Guangdong, China in November 2002. No cause was found, although a virus was suspected. It was theorized that the disease agent was “carried” by pangolins, a mammal native to Asia; it was further theorized that the agent infected people at a “wet market” — an Asian market that sells live and dead wild and domestic animals for human consumption. To the West, the notion of eating a pangolin was beyond strange.
In spite of WHO declaring SARS a pandemic, the reality did not support that story.
Certainly it was the SARS illness which familarized the world with the idea of a virus causing a serious upper respiratory illness spread by wild animals. By the time that SARS2 emerged from Chinese statistics and the WHO declarations, the Western public was familiar with the concepts and predisposed to accept them.
In 2003 WHO declared it was conducting an ongoing search for the cause of SARS, believed to be an “animal reservoir” and with the idea of containing future outbreaks. [https://www.who.int/news/item/21-08-2003-joint-mission-on-sars-animal-reservoir-and-necessary-next-steps ]. No status has been reported on this action.
The Truth of SARS2
The WHO advised the world in early 2020 that there was a pandemic of upper respiratory infection caused by a virus named SARS-CoV-2. While the first cases were found in Wuhan, China the WHO did not know where the virus came from, but some people recalling the original SARS suspected a wet market and a carrier animal were involved. Extensive research did not substantiate this theory.
The US government relied on HHS agencies — CDC, FDA, and NIH — to inform and guide the public. It also relied on the military (DOD) to undertake vaccine development and distribution. HHS directors produced a story of a mode of infection and methods of protection. They posited what became known as the “lab leak theory” whereby the causal agent, a virus (of course), escaped from a lab where it had been created or modified; the virus had originally resided in bats, a tip of the hat to Dr. Shi Zheng Li, a female Chinese virologist with a fascination for bats. Certainly federal contractors had been employed to create a virus in the Wuhan Viral Laboratory and the NIH had an ongoing relationship with the Viral Lab of Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Dr. Zheng Li had visited there and discussed viral techniques with Baric.
A close examination of the facts of the story failed to substantiate a bat virus in Wuhan.
The year 2020 was spent awaiting a vaccine to protect the public. When the vaccine was finally ready for use, the public was endlessly assured that it was “safe and effective.” We have learned ever since that it is neither. It is likely that more people died of the vaccine than of COVID itself.
The essential weakness in the SARS2 virus story remains the lack of a true diagnostic test. Thus cases cannot be diagnosed and counted accurately While a test was produced in January 2020 (the so-called PCR test), it was not accurate, all statistics based on it are completely unreliable.