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Some readers might notice that I don't opine on the trillion-dollar question: Where and WHEN (and how) did this virus first originate ... and then begin to "spread?" I don't know the answer. All I know is that the authorized narrative that says this virus began to spread in late December from Wuhan doesn't pass the logic or common-sense test. The first link in my article is a piece written by Jeffrey Tucker of The Brownstone Institute. Jeffrey presents compelling evidence that the virus was already spreading in Wuhan by September 2019 - several weeks before the start of the World Military Games in mid-October in Wuhan. This would explain why so many athletes at those games got sick while at the games (another story that's apparently off limits to the press). This scenario probably WOULD allow enough time for this virus to be spread to America and other countries by October. However, if the virus was already spreading widely in Wuhan and China in September, it's strange that we had this high-profile "outbreak" in the same city beginning at the end of December. That's more than 3 months after the virus was probably spreading.

Still, the "Wuhan outbreak" of late December 2019 was enough to get the ball rolling. Unanswered though is why this ball wasn't set in motion in September?

I know this: We'll never find the real answer to the origination question if we can't even investigate people who were sick in November or December 2019. And apparently we can't do this.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Brian Eriksen, Las Vegas, NV went to the hospital ER in Dec. 2019, if memory is correct on Christmas Eve, sent home, then later returned to ER, never to go home again. Short version pneumonia, ventilator, collapsed lung, couldn’t breath and joined Jesus in heaven about six weeks later. Great guy, had a heart of gold. The “Doctors” didn’t have a clue and most don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground, they only know what the AMA and Pharmas tell them to say.

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See my upcoming story summarizing all the emails and Reader Comments I've received in the past 24 hours from people who think they or a family member had Covid before January 2020. I'm already struck by the anecdotes that mention Las Vegas as a possible source of these infections and illnesses.

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

FOX NEWS Published June 24, 2021 10:06am EDT

Rep. Gallagher calls for probe into 2019 Wuhan Military Games and athletes who got sick

Lawmaker says China has been 'gaslighting' with help from American media

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I was sick on November 16 through December 5ish, 2019. Have doctor visits to prove it. Doctors could not figure out what was going on. Almost hospitalized. I had just returned from Israel. And flew into Newark NJ. Had people from Wuhan on my flights to Israel and back. Never been so sick in my life. Was the worse experience

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Indeed, we know it was spreading a LOT earlier than the official timeline suggests. It seems to "slow burn" for a while before briefly exploding exponentially and then crashing on it's own. That is probably because it is, as Eugyppius suggests, an "attendant-borne" pathogen, or at least the nastier pre-Omicron strains were, which has different dynamics than the more-contagious but milder Omicron, which spreads more like the common cold. Attendant-borne pathogens need to be triggered somehow before they explode, and any sort of panic or mass testing, let alone lockdown, anywhere in the world, seems to do the trick rather elegantly.

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Author

In my story I mention that I emailed the New York Times via the paper's "news tip" link and suggested that someone with the paper try to contact "Shane" (the possible first known Covid case in the world). I didn't get a reply the two times I did this many months ago. After this story was first published by The Daily Sceptic and The Brownstone Institute, I tried again. This time I provided a link to this story.

Again, crickets.

This is far from the only news organization that has ignored my emails asking someone to contact me and read information or stories I have provided. The Palm Beach Post and Seattle Times did excellent journalism on this topic in early May 2020. I thought for sure these reporters and editors would be interested in my stories that corroborate their own reports, but I was wrong. The impression I get is that someone sent them a memo to drop this line of inquiry.

For months, I thought a reporter for The Wall Street Journal was going to follow up on my story on Tim and Brandie McCain, the Alabama couple who definitely had Covid in December 2019. Brandie McCain has now tested positive for antibodies at least THREE times. Her husband Tim had a very severe case and nearly died (He was in the ICU for 24 days.) This means Tim has copious medical records that show he had all the clinical markers of a severe case (he also tested positive for antibodies). But a WSJ story never appeared and the reporter I corresponded with for so long no longer responds to my emails. (I even sent her hard copies of some of Tim's medical records and she did finally interview Brandie McCain. Both she and Brandie told me the interview went "great.")

What should I make of the disinterest in this story from .... truth-seeking "watch-dog" journalists?

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Collierville, Tennessee a suburb of Memphis, closed schools due to flu in December 2019. This has never happened. I had November 2019, thought I was going to die from the cough and breathlessness. Every DR office in country should be required to send all records from fall of 2019 to comb through symptoms etc.

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Thank you for mention school closings. Per my research, a huge number of school systems in America closed schools in either December 2019 or January 2020 for "flu" outbreaks. In a future story, I'll summarize these stories. Most of these articles describe the closings as being due to "influenza," but a few of the more carefully-worded articles mention a "flu-like" virus and even acknowledge that many people out sick tested negative for flu. So this is more "evidence" of early spread IMO. I'll make a note to myself to look into Collierville, TN.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Make of it that you're headed in the right direction and also that there is more to all of this than meets the eye. What you and others are doing is what I'm calling "reverse engineering", you have the end result but you're trying to figure out how you got there.

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I like that SK. That's exactly what we are trying to do!

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All anecdotes about possible early spread are appreciated. Here's one I copied and pasted from the Comment Section of The Citizen Free Press:

"I had it in November of 2019. My boss at the time was Chinese American. His mother lived in China and was suffering through cancer. He visited her 5 times that year and in October, upon return he was sick as a dog. Several of us in the office got sick as well. After being sick for a week I saw a doctor and they tested me for flu, checked out my chest, I had double pneumonia and not the flu but ‘some new virus that’s going around ‘. It took weeks to recover and months to get my lungs back into 5 mile running shape. I’m pretty sure I was ground zero for my local city, I went to a local Waffle House soon after I felt better. That Waffle House was the spot of the first outbreak announced in our area.

His mother who had cancer lived in Wuhan."

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I know this is an anecdote but I'm puzzled by a "novel" virus that only several in the office were sickened by. Any thoughts?

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Author

For some reason, everybody doesn't get it. Or some get mild or asymptomatic cases? I think I had it in early January 2020 and both my kids had much-milder cases at the same time. However, my wife, who I slept next to every night, didn't get sick.

Conversely, many months later she did get Covid (although she had been vaccinated). Again, I was sleeping next to her every night and I didn't get it. Nor did our two kids. This might be evidence that we did/do have natural immunity?

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Review the results of the Diamond Princess studies, the quarantined cruise ship of Jan/Feb 2020. About 80% of the people on board tested negative for Covid. Average age of crew, 38, passengers 68. That was a place with no social distancing, masking, or obsessive hand washing, and common ventilation, exercise, entertainment, and dining areas.

It was clear to me once these initial reports were released that this was no where near as dangerous as the governments and pharmaceuticals were making it out to be.

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The Diamond Princess example is important and I'll mention it in future articles. So too is the outbreak on the USS Teddy Roosevelt, which I think traces to sailors who brought the virus onto the ship when it left port from San Diego on January 17, 2020. This was three days before the alleged first case in America (January 20, 2020).

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I wish I knew. Alternatively, consider other paradigms. If you have time, a many weeks walk through "What really makes you ill", by Lester and Parker is one approach. Anther is the concept of morphic resonance by Rupert Sheldrake. In the end, it's possible that there are many mechanisms at play.

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Welcome Citizen Free Press readers! I’d already copied and pasted hundreds of claims (usually from Reader Comment sections) of people who think they had Covid before February 2020. Now that the Citizen Free Press gave my research project this free advertising, I’m receiving scores of new testimonials. My view is that the “first wave” of Covid was completely missed by our alleged “experts.” (FWIW, I am almost certain I had it in early January 2020).

I’m saving these emails and comments all will follow up if necessary.

I hope you will consider subscribing to my new Substack Newsletter (subscriptions are free unless you want to make a donation). I have several other stories I will be publishing on my “early spread” hypothesis. Most of these will cover areas the mainstream press has refused to investigate. Needless to say, I think this is a very big story that’s yet to be told.

Bill Rice, Jr.

Troy, Alabama

https://billricejr.substack.com

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Author

In this Comment thread, SK asks a good question: Why doesn't everyone who is a close contact of an infected person get Covid?

In a future article, I'm going to do a major (and original) piece on the saga of The U.S.S. Teddy Roosevelt outbreak (in Mach-April 2020, although - Bill's Big Scoop/Exclusive! - I'm convinced this outbreak had begun when that ship left port on Jan. 17, 2020 - before the first "confirmed" case had been reported in America).

The Navy and the CDC did do a smallish antibody study of crew members (they tested about 400 crew members for antibodies where I would have tested all 4,800). The results were still eye-opening, revealing that 59 percent of those tested had antibody evidence of prior infection. This was a huge jump from the numbers provided by the PCR swab tests. Still, one might have thought that in the confined quarters of a ship that was obviously experiencing a major outbreak that 100 percent of the crew would have been infected.

One crew member died. But this crew member was in his mid-40s and he was the only fatality in a major outbreak. So even in the worst possible spread conditions only 1-in-4,800 died from this disease. Very few were hospitalized.

There's lots of interesting observations I gleaned from the Roosevelt antibody study. This is the type original journalism I hope will encourage a few people to take advantage of the "paid" subscriber option!

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Here’s another provocative Reader Comment from The Citizen Free Press:

"I know an Air Force officer who was an athlete at the (World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019) and he brought the virus back to his family. The wife who also is an athlete suffered two strokes as a result. I believe it was swirling around long before 2020.”

I left a comment asking this person to contact me so maybe I could contact this officer. I’ve seen very few interviews in the mainstream press with any of the hundreds of athletes at these Games who apparently got sick. If anyone reading this knows someone who might have been at those Games, please ask them if they might contact me. I’ll of course not publish anything unless they are comfortable with this and I can ensure anonymity.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-Wis) might have info on Military. He tried to get Biden to "investigate" the Oct 2019 World Military Games athletes, many came home from Wuhan with "severe flu symptoms"

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Thanks!

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

When you are ignored by the likes of the NYT it is verification that you are getting dangerously close to the truth.

I believe the virus swept through prior to 2020. We are fed lie upon lie...why not fuck with the timeline too?

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Your last sentence makes an important point, and one I agree with 100 percent. Of course, the "timeline" is preposterous ... and of course the narrative they intentionally created is false. I've watched enough "Dateline" episodes to know that any investigation begins with a timeline of known events. I've always believed officials were lying about every important element of the Covid narrative. But the lies actually began before the start date of the "official" pandemic. The start date isn't just wrong, it's way wrong.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Everything about this mess is wrong. EVERYTHING!

I'm still struggling with just how deep and vast the corruption runs...

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I was amazed to find out that 60% of the FDA’s Human Drug Testing Panel’s (or whatever it’s called) funding comes from the pharmaceutical companies. It’s been this way since the late 90s.

All the cronyism and nepotism we see in other branches of government, like oil or green power executives sitting in the Dept of Energy then going back to their companies, former CBP/ICE officials joining corporate alien detention companies, corporate mining officials running the Federal Minerals Management Service…We now discover that exists in the healthcare branches of government as well.

It’s all one big untrustworthy mess.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Corruption has been normalized...

I see it everywhere now.

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That's really the point I'm trying to make with my writings on this topic. Why are we trusting these officials and authorities?

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I trust nothing at this point...

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Think Reagan. Trust, but in this case, it's nearly impossible to verify.

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That quote comes to my mind often!

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Sorry but that is not Regean's quote, I know he said it but it is an old Russian adage.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

And other strange things, like the seasonal flu completely disappearing in 2020!

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More on that topic to come in Future Substack Articles. Don't trust the CDC's flu estimates.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories, but it’s amazing to me how little curiosity there is outside the ‘science’. I expect it of mainstream reporters who never leave their belief bubble, but health care officials should be always curious and questioning. That’s how real science moves.

Maybe the bureaucracy of corporate and government health care and pharmaceutical incentives have killed it at the root.

Thanks for publishing the results of your curiosity.

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Greg, I think just like you, although I might flip your construct. I expect government officials to lie or cover-up important truths. But what's stunned me is how about 100 percent of the "watchdog" press allows them to get away with this. This is supposed to be a profession full of skeptics.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Work for UPS . Lots of us go sick 2019 . Rummers about shipping containers . Remember it as a funky ass flu bug . No jab for me

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

This is a very important story that could be "seismic" if the masses ever got the full truth. For that reason, I'm pretty confident we never will ... but keep plugging away.

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

My 25 year old son lives in Kirkland, WA not far from the nursing home that had some of the first west coast Covid cases. He became quite sick in January of 2020. He came home from work and stayed home sleeping for three days (which is a lot for him - he usually never gets sick and recovers quickly). I was worried and made him call me regularly to make sure he was ok. He recovered and we thought nothing of it (Trump hadn't even closed the boarders to China yet). In hindsight his symptoms matched Covid. Although he has not had an antibody test he has remained healthy for the past two years without having contracted any form of Covid or taken any precautions. The interesting point is that his entire office was also out sick around the same time. It is quite possible that a lot of people in the Seattle area had Covid in late 2019 and early 2020.

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Author

Thanks for sharing that anecdote. I bet your son did have Covid so this is an important anecdote. My story references the one CDC study of "archived" Red Cross blood. This study found that 2 percent of blood donors from Dec. 13-16 2019 (taken from blood banks somewhere in Washington, Oregon and California) tested positive for antibodies. Two percent! Anyone can extrapolate 2 percent to the national or regional population. Furthermore, this is probably an undercount of people who had been infected as blood donors are disproportionately older and retired. So this "random sample" would be skewed by more older people (who are not coming into contact with as many younger people). Also, you are not supposed to give blood if you have recently been sick. This also leads me to think if these people had been infected it would have been weeks before they gave blood. Of course, some of the donors might have had mild or asymptomatic cases. We don't know. The CDC never questioned these people about any illnesses they may have suffered in the weeks or months before they donated blood. I don't know why "virus sleuths" couldn't have done this. In the France antibody study linked in my story, officials DID go back and question the antibody-positive donors from that study.

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I work in Seattle and in Mid November 2019 my boss came to work 3 hours late dripping with sweat and asking what time it was. He developed a horrible cough and soon our whole office was sick including myself. He tested negative for both pneumonia and the flu. I had gone to the doctor about 5 times and did test positive for strep throat but no flu. I literally said during that month I was sick that it felt like a bioweapon attack.

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Or Seattle was used to test out something, helping to move along a narrative to lock down areas and transition toward a warp speed "vaccine".

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Author

Seattle and Washington state are very interesting case studies. Lewis Kamb (?) of The Seattle Times actually wrote several excellent articles about early spread in that area (Sonomish?) County. One of his stories was about two people who were sick in December and both had positive antibody tests. The unique thing about these two cases is that local and state officials actually talked to these people and investigated these claims. The local health official even said there was no doubt the virus was spreading before January 2020. This statement flies in the face of the CDC's statement that the virus didn't begin to spread in America until January 2020. The local officials even admitted that there could be many more "early cases" confirmed by antibody tests. Alas, they said they didn't have the time or manpower to investigate these claims as their focus was on new cases. Even with all this, these officials never "confirmed" these two cases that the Seattle Times wrote about. So the first "confirmed" case in America is still officially January 20, 2020 - from a man who had returned from Wuhan of course.

The question of what is required to "confirm" a case is a topic for a future article. There's contradictions galore.

Lastly, the antibody tests that were used with the two sick people from December were administered by The University of Washington and are said to be the "gold standard" ELISA (?) assay. So these weren't any "junk" tests.

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Something I've been mulling over is the nature of the testing. I'm thinking that antigenically speaking, there's a commonality among respiratory infections (viruses) that's being tested for, therefore answering why so many had "covid", and the antibody tests are just confirming you've been exposed to something. Again, I'm just trying to figure out what's been done.

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

lots of people have told me of covid-like stuff from 2019 (oct-dec) but nobody of sound mind would admit this officially nor would anyone get involved. other evidence? our local hospital was slammed all december 2019

I hope Bill appreciates that the better part of valor is usually speedy retreat into oblivion.

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Arn, where do you live? The hospital being "slammed" in December 2019 really grabs my attention. I'm trying to find more data that might show hospital census numbers in December 2019 through Feb. 2020. If anyone has some good sources/links for such data, please contact me.

... Trust me. I have noticed that investigations into this topic are kind of taboo.

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Oct 3, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

central california.

children's hospital in madera

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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I live in AL and my friend and I believe we had it in Nov 2019. She was bedridden for a week, me four days. Sick but only took extra Vit C, our usual remedy for viruses. We never caught it again.

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I'm in Troy and we had a big outbreak of "something" in December 2019 and January 2020. I was sick in January and so were my two children. I'm hearing more "November" cases than I was expecting.

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BTW, what city do you live in in Alabama?

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Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

My husband and I both had covid in late November 2019 after a week vacation in Las Vegas. A large portion of Vegas visitors are from China. And on our plane ride back to Milwaukee, there were a lot of people coughing. Neither of us went to the doctor because we just thought it was flu. Covid was not a thing yet. But as the symptoms started to come up I realized I had almost all of them, including the weird ones like pinkeye. I still don’t have 100% of my sense of smell back. I have not been vaccinated and have not been reinfected.

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I've now gotten a ton of emails and your post - a disparate number mention Las Vegas. I'm going to have to put on my investigative journalist hat and look into what was going on or happening in Vegas. Thanks for this anecdote.

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I swear my sister had it May/June of 2019. First off she never gets sick and she was deathly sick with a terrible cough. She finally went to the doctor and it wasn't influenza A or B so they just called it a severe upper respiratory infection and told her to go home and rest up. Another friend ended up in the hospital in October with pneumonia and even her doctor said it was likely covid.

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Oct 3, 2022·edited Oct 3, 2022Author

Did your sister ever get "official" Covid any time in 2020 or 2021? Where does she live?

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Sep 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Worth noting: Time mag story of "early flu season" in California and an "atypical strain" - published beginning of December, 2019.

https://time.com/5746409/early-flu-season-2019-2020/

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I had saved that, but I've save so many stories I forget what I've saved that's important. The flu season of 2019-2020 was being called one of the most "severe" and "widespread" in years ... and today, the CDC says it was one of the mildest as far as total cases. Something is way off and wrong. I'll be writing more about this in the future.

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Dec 7, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I was in Seaside, California near the Monterey Peninsula in November 2019 from the 4th to the 10th. I played in 2 golf tournaments at Blackhorse and Bayonet and then met my brothers on the 8, 9 & 10 at Pebble Beach.

When I returned home to Chicago I had the worst flu I’ve ever had in 65 years. A horrible cough, lost my sense of smell and taste, weird achy joints but the thing that made me take notice that this was different was how out of breath I was walking up a short flight of stairs.

Really strange for me because I’m a workout nut, still at my college weight with a nurse for a wife who makes me eat healthy.

After covid became known I realized I had every symptom except no chest pain or fullness.

The cough lasted so long I was afraid I would infect all my relatives during Thanksgiving week. It actually continued two weeks into December and the brother that I roomed with at Pebble Beach came down with it too and had very similar symptoms.

I was healthy again by January of 2020 and was flu free until this past June 2022.

I got some sort of flu variant and it presented quite differently. Super painful two day migraine which didn’t respond to the migraine medication I have a prescription for. Near non-stop diarrhea and simultaneous vomiting. With a bad cough and serious nasal congestion. Fortunately my wife had ordered Ivermectin and I took a 5 day course and recovered pretty rapidly.

Since then I have been very well but have had lingering weird transient pain in my neck, back, lower legs and most recently an inflammation in my right hip bursa.

I had none of these issues pre-covid.

After reading your Substack and the comments therein I thought I should post my California covid story.

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Thanks for sharing this personal anecdote, Rock. I actually think, based on all my research, that Northern California was where one of the first big outbreaks occurred. If you read my piece on three November case studies, you note the anecdote of "Shane" from Marin, County, California, who says he was very sick in the "fall" of 2019 "far earlier" than any other case he'd heard of. Shane reports that he later got TWO positive antibody tests and he was never sick after that bout.

You also went years without getting "official" Covid after your November illness, which suggests to me that you had some kind of natural immunity, at least to the early versions of this virus.

I also got sick in early January 2020 (as did my two children). We've never had Covid since so that suggests I also had "early" Covid. That's why I quickly got interested in investigating early spread. I hope you continue to read my Substack. I've written a ton on "early spread" already, but I have more to come. One of my next big pieces will document how many Americans had a flu-type illness before official Covid. IMO this evidence tells us when the "first wave" of this virus actually began to spread across the country. It began in November 2019 if not October or September.

If this had been known by the public, everything would have changed. I'm convinced officials are covering up early spread.

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