I'm way, WAY behind in this thread because I've had to do some emergency "swamp work", but also because I've had to deal with many "petty tyrants". I'll catch up, but first I want to post this:
I was very recently engaged in an exchange on the forums of a prominent liberty activist website with the site owner, a widely published author whose work I greatly admire (as well as most of his reasoned positions), about the corona virus. We seemed to come to a crossroads on one central issue: I believe (as most members here) that the numbers of infected and dead are being manipulated in order to hide the true numbers that have been exposed to the virus but did not show symptoms; and the numbers of dead are being inflated by labeling anyone who died that tested positive for the disease died *because* of COVID-19, even when other factors may have played a more direct role, such as pre-existing conditions and advanced age.
His position is that the true numbers of dead are *greater* than being reported, as he believes that many deaths in nursing homes due to COVID-19 have not been counted; and also that reported flu deaths are even higher, not lower, because people are going in to be tested. He also says that some weeks the corona virus killed *twenty times more people than the flu*, and that he believes it is at least three times more deadly.
(Does anyone here know where he could be getting this information? I can't find it anywhere, and he didn't say where he got it from.)
Anyway: I tried to reason with him by giving him links to articles on SOTT.net about the dodgy numbers, but he wasn't buying any of it without seeing true numbers and data and PROOF that doctors are rigging data, and all that he is hearing are opinions and not FACTS. I then looked up a few articles that did, indeed, show some of this but I didn't bother to even try approaching him with any of it because it has become apparent to me that his mind is made up on this issue.
But while doing the research trying to buttress my arguments, I came across something that I can only describe as a sort of "Eureka!" moment. And it came when reading this article on SOTT.net:
The Corona Simulation Machine: Why the Inventor of The "Corona Test" Would Have Warned Us Not To Use It To Detect A Virus "Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own...
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In that article, the author (Celia Farber) relates her interactions and conversations with the founder of the PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) method that is being used to "confirm" cases of COVID-19. This passage in particular caught my eye:
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"PCR played a central role in the HIV war (a war you don't know about, that lasted 22 years, between Globalist post-modern HIV scientists and classical scientists.) The latter lost the war. Unless you count being correct as winning. The relentless violence finally silenced the opposition, and it seemed nobody would ever learn who these scientists were, or why they fought this thing so adamantly and passionately."
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Then the author relates the following information, eventually mentioning a noted current protagonist, Dr. Tony Fauci, in an outtake from an article she published in 1994:
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Mullis, like his friend and colleague Dr. Peter Duesberg, does not believe that AIDS is caused by the retrovirus HIV. He is a long-standing member of the Group for the Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, the 500-member protest organization pushing for a re-examination of the cause of AIDS.
One of Duesberg's strongest arguments in the debate has been that the HIV virus is barely detectable in people who suffer from AIDS. Ironically, when PCR was applied to HIV research, around 1989, researchers claimed to have put this complaint to rest. Using the new technology, they were suddenly able to see viral particles in the quantities they couldn't see before. Scientific articles poured forth stating that HIV was now 100 times more prevalent than was previously thought. But Mullis himself was unimpressed. "PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV," he told Spin in 1992, "and some of those people came down with symptoms of AIDS. But that doesn't begin even to answer the question, 'Does HIV cause it?'"
Mullis then went on to echo one of Duesberg's most controversial claims. "Human beings are full of retroviruses," he said, "We don't know if it is hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands. We've only recently started to look for them. But they've never killed anybody before. People have always survived retroviruses."
Mullis challenged the popular wisdom that the disease-causing mechanisms of HIV are simply too "mysterious" to comprehend. "The mystery of that damn virus," he said at the time, "has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. You take any other virus, and you spend $2 billion, and you can make up some great mysteries about it too."
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When ABC's Nightline approached Mullis about participating in a documentary on himself, he instead urged them to focus their attention on the HIV debate.
"That's a much more important story," he told the producers, who up to that point had never acknowledged the controversy. In the end, Nightline ran a two-part series, the first on Kary Mullis, the second on the HIV debate. Mullis was hired by ABC for a two-week period, to act as their scientific consultant and direct them to sources.
The show was superb, and represented a historic turning point, possibly even the end of the seven-year media blackout on the HIV debate. But it still didn't fulfill Mullis' ultimate fantasy. "What ABC needs to do," says Mullis, "is talk to [Chairman of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony] Fauci and [Dr. Robert] Gallo [one of the discoverers of HIV] and show that they're assholes, which I could do in ten minutes."
But I point out, Gallo will refuse to discuss the HIV debate, just as he's always done.
"I know he will," Mullis shoots back, anger rising in his voice. "But you know what? I would be willing to chase the little bastard from his car to his office and say, 'This is Kary Mullis trying to ask you a goddamn simple question,' and let the cameras follow. If people think I'm a crazy person, that's okay. But here's a Nobel Prize-winner trying to ask a simple question from those who spent $22 billion and killed 100,000 people.
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As a biologist, I had no idea prior to reading this information that there had been a group that challenged to re-examine the cause of AIDS, and that a potential misuse of the PCR test itself (which was used to confirm the presence of AIDS in patients) was the main target of their ire. And all of this happened long ago, not long after the discovery of PCR.
Later in the article, there are these nuggets regarding HIV and PCR:
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"In HIV, the death spell (code) came to people in the form of two antibody tests called ELISA and Western Blot, initially. Not PCR tests — they came later, to measure "viral load," and were specifically not to be used for diagnosing HIV. Rather, to stress people out about their "surrogate markers," said to represent where they stood in their battle against HIV. (Did people really need to be in a "battle" against HIV? This was the trillion-dollar question.)
In any case, those tests were not built on a "gold standard" which means purification of an actual virus. Purification means the pathogen has been separated from all else. HIV co-discoverer and Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier famously told journalist Djamel Tahi in an interview: "I repeat, we did not purify."
HIV was never "separated from everything else." It was and is a laboratory artifact, a set of lab-tortured antigens around which a "test" was built — a test which shattered countless millions of lives, because people watched TV and believed what they were told. They didn't get a chance to hear what Kary Mullis or dozens of other real scientists had to say about the supposedly deadly retrovirus, HIV.
Nothing was proven before it was asserted. This became the norm, paving the way for the situation we are in now. Global viral communism. We all dreaded this would happen, but we never dreamed they would choose a cold virus. A Corona virus.
In the early 1990's, PCR, (Polymerase Chain Reaction) came into popular use, and Kary Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize for it in 1993. PCR, simply put, is a thermal cycling method used to make up to billions of copies of a specific DNA sample, making it large enough to study. As it correctly says on PCR's Wikipedia page, PCR is an "...indispensable technique" with a "broad variety" of applications, "...including biomedical research and criminal forensics." [Italics mine.] The page goes on to say, to my dismay, that one of the applications of PCR is "...for the diagnosis of infectious diseases."
PCR is a needle in a haystack technology that can be extremely misleading in "the diagnosis of infectious diseases." The first conflict between this revolutionary technology and human life happened on the battlefield of AIDS, and Mullis himself came to the front line arguing against PCR as diagnostic tool. In 1987, esteemed Berkeley cancer virologist Peter Duesberg had doomed his funding and "career" by issuing a broadside in a paper published in Cancer Research to the growing and promiscuous assertions made for cancer viruses, including at least one he stood to gain a Nobel Prize for had he not diffused its significance himself.
His main argument was that the Gallo/Montagnier fusion "virus" that came to be called 'HIV' was (like all viruses in its class) barely capable of infecting cells. It infected so few cells that Duesberg likened the pathogenic model to thinking you can conquer China by killing 3 soldiers a day. There was simply not enough "there-there" in the form of cell death. "It's a pussycat," he said. He even said he wouldn't mind being injected with it. (though not if it came from Gallo's lab.)
With PCR's rise, the HIV Industrial Complex weaponized it to assert that now they could see HIV more abundantly, hence their maligned foe Peter Duesberg was toast. And it was Kary Mullis, himself an HIV dissenter, who rose to Duesberg's defense and said, "No he isn't."
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So in other words, summarizing the above: the PCR test was "weaponized" in order to detect particles of HIV that lead to many false-positive tests for many people, destroying their lives, because it was a test designed to find something that may not have existed in the form that they said it was - and that is, a retrovirus that as of today has never been confirmed to actually be the causative agent of HIV!
That blew my mind. And what blew it even further open is the fact that one of the main people behind the AIDS/HIV hypothesis was Dr. Tony Fauci - the same Dr. Fauci who is, today, promoting the use of the PCR test to determine the numbers of infections caused by COVID-19.
This same Dr. Fauci was given billions of dollars to develop his methods, along with Dr. Robert Gallo, one of the supposed "discoverers" of HIV. And they used the PCR test not only to strengthen their arguments, but also to develop PCR into a weapon to use for the diagnosis of infectious diseases, when it NEVER should be used for that purpose.
The nature of the test itself requires many cycles of amplification of small bits of DNA into amounts large enough to register for quantification, which could produce an ENORMOUS number of false-positive results simply because the primers used to amplify the "target" DNA could instead share some homology with random pieces of DNA in a sample; and that could result in THAT piece of NON-HIV/COVID-19 DNA being amplified in place of the DNA sample being targeted, thus resulting in a false-positive result. And this is more and more likely to occur the more amplification "cycles" that are used. Plus: the numbers of cycles used for any test are not standardized, and thus vary from lab-to-lab - and often even *within* labs.
And since these procedures were developed very early in the history and application of the PCR test, and entered into the public record by such "renowned" government-approved and lavishly funded scientists such as the esteemed Drs. Fauci and Gallo, the use of PCR became a "standard methodology" adopted by the medical community without question - especially after all of these doctor's works were approved by "peer-reviewed" scientists for publication in scentific journals (I could write a whole article on the topic of "peer review" - but I won't do so now because my blood pressure is already too high) - while those who fought these people, like the inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis - a Nobel Prize winner even (well, for what that's worth, anyway) - were ignored and even ostracized from the scientific community.
So here we stand today, deep in the depths if the COVID-19 hysteria, and the very same flawed PCR test that was developed and used to diagnose HIV fraudulently is being used to "confirm" cases of COVID-19...and all of this work is being done by doctors who have bought into the mythology without question, because "it's just how it's done".
But it's not their fault. It's what they have been taught to do. And the system was perverted in order to accomplish this, and thus enable the use of the PCR test as a weapon for our current enslavement.