Here is a little more detail to my pointsRoyGBiv wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:09 am
I recall talking with some Chinese colleagues in December 2019. They related the situation in Wuhan at that time, and it was already ugly. They sent me PPE and I was among the first wearing N95 masks (never believed the trash about fabric masks... you want a conspiracy? How about that the government put out a knowingly false recommendation to use fabric masks, in order to conserve N95's for medical use when the supply was short at the beginning of the pandemic.. in early 2020). Bodies stacked awaiting cremation. I recall very clearly the similar news from Italy and Brazil when the outbreak took hold there...
COVID killed a ton of people... You can choose whatever conspiracy theory you want to believe, there are plenty of them that have some grounding in facts, but, especially in 2020, it was COVID killing all those people... it was COVID in their lungs, not some bad medical practice.
And from the first moment I heard that the outbreak origin was traced Wuhan and there was a lab there handling similar viruses, I knew it was a leak, not natural evolution from bats of pangolins..
People died from Covid but it isn't possible, given the way that the information was collected to tell if they died from the virus itself or from the unchecked immuno response to the virus. There is some pretty convincing information that suggests that a focus on trying to control that immuo response would have saved at least some of them. It seemed clear early on that the ventilator was a death sentence. Very few cam back from it. So why, then, was that used to such a great extent. The cytokine storm has been caused by other medical conditions and doctors have been able to minimize it. There is no discussion anywhere of that being attempted for Covid related illness and yet it was a factor.
So I maintain that if you take the supposedly all Covid death total and start subtracting out situations where patients clearly died with Covid but the COD was actually something else, subtract out the deaths caused by politicians deliberately putting some of the most vulnerable people in direct contact with Covid contamination and compare the almost totally missing deaths from the normal fle in that same period, the "ton" of deaths suddenly isn't quite as heavy. I was involved with several people who got infected and were able to get alternative treatments - monoclonal antibodies for example which the government shut down and those people got through with just minor symptoms. The disease was and is still a problem. But it was NOT the pandemic that it was made out to be in order to invoke the draconian mandates.