“Courageous Discourse” courageously covers … early spread!
I hope everyone clicks on the link to this article and maybe even watches the 45-minute podcast interview with myself.
Except for those who read my own Substack, the Brownstone Institute’s website and the website of The Daily Sceptic in the UK, hardly anyone in the world has been exposed to my copious research on “early spread.”
Well, that changed about two hours ago when Nicolas Hulscher of the Substack “Courage Discourse with Dr. Peter McCullough & John Leake” published a fantastic story and a 45-minute podcast interview with me.
Nicolas, who is an epidemiologist with Dr. McCullough’s organization, wrote the best “quick summary” of early spread I’ve seen yet.
In our podcast interview, Nicolas gave me plenty of time to make most of my most salient points.
For some reason, I can’t cross-post the Substack dispatch so I’ll just reproduce Nicolas’s story at my Substack.
To watch the podcast, click on this link …
To watch the interview, please click on this link. If you appreciate the story, please hit it with a … “like.”
The “Courageous Discourse” Substack has 130,000 subscribers (compared to my Substack which has 7,200). So the “reach” of this evidence and hypothesis has grown by a factor of about 18.
Thank you to Nicolas Hulscher and also to fellow “early spread” researcher Laura Mueller, who put me in contact with Nicolas.
Here’s the story proper …
The SARS-CoV-2 Early Spread Hypothesis
Sub-headline: Brownstone Institute Fellow Bill Rice Jr. Uncovers Evidence Suggesting the Virus Circulated Months Before the Official Wuhan Outbreak
Bill Rice Jr. is a freelance investigative journalist based in Troy, Alabama, and a Brownstone Institute fellow. He publishes a Substack newsletter where he explores all facets of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with other topics that challenge mainstream narratives.
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By Nicolas Hulscher
In this interview, we discuss Bill’s SARS-CoV-2 Early Spread Hypothesis:
Bill Rice’s Early Spread Hypothesis
Bill Rice argues that SARS-CoV-2 was spreading globally, including in the U.S., months before the official Wuhan outbreak (mid-December 2019).
He has identified hundreds of early cases in multiple U.S. states (as early as November 2019), with evidence from antibody tests and influenza-like illness (ILI) reports.
He suggests that the early spread contradicts the official narrative that SARS-CoV-2 originated in Wuhan in December 2019.
Evidence for Early Spread
Antibody Tests: Individuals who were sick in late 2019 later tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in early 2020.
A CDC-Red Cross study found antibodies in 2.04% of blood donors from December 2019.
ILI Data: Reports from the CDC showed a surge in influenza-like illness (ILI) in late 2019, far exceeding historical baselines.
School Closures & Outbreaks: Unusually high school closures and military ship outbreaks suggest an undiagnosed respiratory virus was already circulating.
Possible Origins and Cover-Up
U.S. Lab Origin? Rice is open to the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a U.S. biolab, such as Fort Detrick, Maryland, which was shut down in mid-2019 due to safety violations.
Wuhan Spread Earlier? He also considers that SARS-CoV-2 could have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology but was spreading long before December 2019.
Military Games Hypothesis: Athletes at the October 2019 Wuhan World Military Games reported symptoms later matching COVID-19, raising questions about early global transmission.
Pandemic Response Critique
Lockdowns and Vaccines Were Unnecessary: If SARS-CoV-2 was widespread and not causing excess deaths before March 2020, Rice argues that lockdowns and vaccines were based on a false premise.
Excess Mortality in April 2020: He attributes the spike in deaths to iatrogenic harm (medical mismanagement), including ventilators, remdesivir, and restricted early treatment, rather than SARS-CoV-2 itself.
Media and Government Silence
No Official Investigations: Despite antibody-positive cases, no CDC or NIH officials interviewed these early patients.
Media Suppression: Initial mainstream media reports (e.g., Seattle Times) covered early cases but later dropped the topic.
Narrative Control: Rice suggests that focusing solely on Wuhan’s wet market helped distract from the possibility of earlier spread or lab involvement.
*** (Thanks for sharing this if only because this topic has gotten so little attention.) ***
Early Spread Bibliography:
If you’re interested in reviewing the evidence supporting his hypothesis, please check out the following articles provided by Bill Rice:
Early spread evidence in one document.
ILI or “flu” was “widespread” and “severe” in almost all 50 states in the months before official Covid.
Documentation of record number of school closings pre-“official” Covid.
Sixty percent of sailors on the USS Roosevelt tested positive for antibodies in late April 2020 - several almost-certainly had Covid in January.
If “early spread” was covered up, this is how officials concealed this news from the public.
Why Bill is convinced ‘case zero’ did not come from Wuhan Wet Market or happen in December of November 2019.
Re-assessing spread of Covid-19 by Laura Mueller and Bill Rice, Jr.
Math extrapolations that debunk the “deadly virus” narrative.
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation
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Also, I should have mentioned in our podcast interview that the results of the CDC's "Red Cross Antibody Study" weren't published until Nov. 30, 2020 - 11 1/2 months AFTER the first tranche of donors had donated blood that was later tested for antibodies.
To this day, nobody in the public knows WHEN these vials of blood were tested for antibodies. I maintain it should not take 11 1/2 months to test 700 or so vials of blood for antibodies.
I think the results were intentionally concealed - and the testing intentionally delayed - to conceal evidence of early wide spread.
Samples of "archived" blood SHOULD and COULD have been tested BEFORE the lockdowns were ordered. For example, if President Trump knew in early March 2020 that at least 2 percent of the country had ALREADY been infected, would he have signed off on lockdowns to "stop" or "prevent" spread?
I don't think so.
And officials should have tested samples of blood from all states and regions of the U.S. For example, in the Deep South - where ILI percentages b/w November 2019 and early February 2020 were far more elevated than in previous flu seasons (except the season of 2017-2018 and only for the month of January that year).
I always look at things that should have happened but didn't. I call this the "dog that didn't bark" evidence.
All living things react to changes in electro-magnetic radiation.
Fifth generation telecommunications rolled out its infrastructure during the latter half of 2019 and switched on in sequence, with Wuhan leading the way. 10,000 new towers fired up 5G to service millions of new smart phones in time for the United Nations Military Games held in that city in October 2019.
The participants noticed that one country did not field a team - Great Britain. The Union Jack was missing from the event. During her bicycle race, Maatje Benassi collapsed breathless and was taken to hospital. Wuhan streets were strangely quiet. A city of 8 million?
The city of Tehran, in Iran trialled their installation of 5G. It triggered a wave of respiratory illnesses and was rapidly shut down. The news from Iran was so scant that most people never heard about it.
The town of Bergamo in Northern Italy soon followed suit and switched on their new 5G mobile phone services in a densely packed industrial area.
At the time, Wuhan was reporting large numbers of people arriving in hospitals suffering from breathing difficulties. As required by the W.H.O., a PCR recombined sequence of RNA was computer generated from a patient fluid sample and labelled as the spike protein of a ‘novel coronavirus’. The world was alerted to a pandemic in February of 2020.
Bergamo and the surrounding district was beginning to see alarming numbers of people attending hospital, struggling to breathe but by then, under orders from the W.H.O., the doctors were ordered to treat their patients with a protocol designed for a viral infection.
Read on: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-fifth-generation-weapon
When other places in Europe switched on their 5G telecommunications, there was a marked increase in breathless patients turning up at hospitals. London was next to experience 5G and the accompanying spike in hospitalisations. Then New York, with its very dense population registered a massive spike in illness and deaths. All this is verifiable and highly memorable. We were all paying close attention at the time, weren’t we?
One astute doctor, in Spain, was sufficiently alerted that he conducted a study and, by April of 2020, he had found that the outbreaks of illness and deaths were following EXACTLY the roll out of 5G both chronologically and geographically. The demarcation lines of which were remarkable, following borders between countries. Not something that a contagion might be expected to do.
IF THERE WAS NO 5G - THERE WAS NO ILLNESS!
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-fifth-generation-weapon