The large number of Americans who were SICK with ILI SYMPTOMS in late 2019/early 2020 strongly suggests this virus had already infected tens of millions of Americans by the lockdown date.
I should note that many Covid writers and experts say that the absence of any “excess” all-cause deaths before mid-March 2020 “proves” there was no “early spread.”
However, I flip this narrative and say these people should check their assumptions. The main one being that widespread Covid leads to wide-spread death. I argue that the evidence of early spread shows that this virus was/is NOT a significant killer for the vast majority of the global population.
I’ll throw in one more piece of evidence from a study that is NOT anecdotal that I think supports my hypothesis. The Navy and CDC did an antibody study of crew members who were on the USS Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier, which left port in San Diego on January 17, 2020. As most will remember, this ship experienced a major outbreak.
From extrapolations, the antibody study results revealed that 60 percent of the crew of 4,850 sailors had been infected. That’s almost 3,000 crew members.
What’s noteworthy to me is that only one of these crew members died “from Covid,” and he was 41, one of the oldest people on the ship. In other words, the IFR for people under the age of 41 was 0.0000 percent. I also think evidence from this study strongly suggests this virus came on board that ship on January 17, 2020 - which would be before the first “confirmed” case in America.
I guess I can cite myself here. As noted in my article, in January 2020 I got very “sick” from “something.” I was bedridden for at least six days and was sick enough to go to the doctor which I rarely do. I got a flu test, which was “negative.”
An administrator friend who works at this medical clinic that serves 11 southeast Alabama counties later told me that my case was not atypical. The clinic was over-run by sick people in this time period and almost everyone was testing “negative” for the flu. The administrator told me, “We thought there must be something wrong with the flu tests.”
My symptoms were also not exactly like other cases of “flu” I had experienced in my life. For example, the cough was far more painful and intense. I’ve never experienced the “shortness of breath” I experienced in that week. Nor did I have the volume of phlegm I usually have with a bad cold or flu. I had terrible fatigue and my cough lingered for probably months. I also experienced an altered sense of taste, although I acknowledge this is common for many bugs.
Perhaps most convincing to me is that I never had Covid-like symptoms or tested positive with a PCR test after this January 2020 sickness. This suggests to me that I developed natural immunity to Covid.
Full disclosure, I should mention that I did later get an antibody test - four months after I was sick … and this test was “negative” for Covid antibodies. But as I have documented in other articles, I’m not sure I trust the results of the “authorized” antibody tests. I also know that in many people detectable levels of Covid antibodies can fade in two or three months. So even though I tested negative for antibodies, I still think I probably had Covid.
My wife is a high school teacher. I distinctly remember her coming home from school one day (about the same time I was so sick) and telling me that “half” of one of her classes (of 28 students) was out sick. Her school did not shut down like several nearby school districts did, but I suspect our school system came close to closing for “flu” (even though almost everyone was testing negative for influenza).
Your experience is not uncommon. A buddy of mine also got hammered by something in Jan of 2020. I picked it up from him but my experience wasn't nearly as severe as his, possibly due to my hitting it with high doses of vitamin C. I haven't been meaningfully sick since then...no covid shots and no tests either. Was it Covid in Jan 2020? Possibly. We now know that it was circulating for several months prior.
Also if your immune system can clear an infection without developing antibodies, it will go ahead and do exactly that. So an antibody test can tell you that you've had it, but it CAN'T tell you that you haven't.
I hadn't heard your last point. Interesting. Thanks.
All my critics say the early cases I have identified were probably "false positives" - all 165 of them. My reply is that "false negatives" are probably far more common than false positives.
My symptoms were eerily similar to yours--November 2019 for me & my husband. In a two week period I saw my primary doctor twice & went to a walk in once. Negative for flu but my symptoms seemed to worsen after a z pack & decongestant regime. The worst “flu” I ever had by far. The cough & shortness of breath was like nothing I had ever experienced before. Those both lingered for months. I used nebulizer treatments to give me some relief. Never used any type of nebulizer or inhaler prior to this! I also recall late fall 2019 into winter 2020--my children’s schools experienced high absentee numbers. Some days around that time there were only a handful of kids in a class.
In January 2020 I attended the funeral of the 42 year old sister of a high school friend. A mother of two young children & a school teacher. She had been “sick” with what the family was told was the flu. Her health quickly & seemingly inexplicably deteriorated within days. She was taken to the hospital when she complained about having difficulty breathing. When she didn’t improve, she was placed on a ventilator. I don’t believe the doctors or her family ever acknowledged this was probably a case of Covid
Thank you very much, Maggie. These are all very specific anecdotes/examples that reinforce or support my hypothesis. I'd bet that The 42-year-old's death was Covid. Tim McCain was about the same age and he came as close to death as someone can come in January 2020 ... from Covid. I've always thought, Tim did not die but there must be plenty of people who did die - and the death was just attributed to some other cause.
Re: The belief no “isolated novel coronavirus has ever been identified ...”
First, unlike some, I think this is a perfectly legitimate view and needs to be seriously considered. For purposes of this article, I am simply pointing out that many more Americans were “sick” for some reason in the “flu season” of 2019-2020 compared to previous flu seasons.
That is, if the novel coronavirus doesn’t explain this spike in people with ILI symptoms, something must explain this reality/fact.
So, it was either the flu virus (if people believe flu viruses make people sick) or toxins, pollution, food allegories or whatever.
I argue it probably can’t be the flu virus that by itself explains the large increase in people developing ILI symptoms because the vast majority of people who got a flu test tested negative. And the number of ILI cases was clearly much greater than in the previous 10 flu seasons.
Basically, per logic, something was causing this spike in ILI illnesses.
I happen to think the surplus number of “sick people” in these four or five months is probably explained by the novel coronavirus. But others disagree, which doesn’t bother me. Still, I would be very interested in hearing the “no virus” community posit what they think was causing this significant increase in sick or "symptomatic" people. Or: Maybe they disagree with my premise and don’t think more people became sick with Covid-like symptoms b/w November 2019 and early March 2020.
I would disagree with this position, based on the known evidence (some presented in this article), including mountains of "anecdotal" evidence and testimonies.
A friend had what he described as “the worst cold or weirdest flu” he ever had in November of 2019. His symptoms were classic covid. Another friend and I caught a bug in Laughlin in February of 2020. Neither of us is ever sick, but we were knocked flat for a week, again with classic covid symptoms. After being vaccinated and boosted, my wife and I both caught covid, verified by test, in June of 2022 on an “all-vaccinated” cruise to Alaska. And that was when I stopped being a calm, professional pharmacist urging people not to panic or live in fear and became instead an implacable enemy to vaccines and Big Pharma.
Many contrarians and skeptics like myself highlight the importance of “informed consent” as it regards the Covid “vaccines.”
In this article, I argue that billions of people were NOT “informed” of the true Infection Fatality Rate of this virus. Or at least they should have been given “information” that suggested that many millions of people had already contracted this virus - and had NOT died.
As I have pointed out in this and other articles, I believe evidence of early spread was probably intentionally concealed by at least some public health officials. The motivation for concealing this data would be that if it was revealed, there would be no strong argument for mandatory Covid vaccines. This evidence, if presented, might kill the entire justification for these new and rushed mRNA “vaccines.”
I attended a poorly planned meeting in the first week of January 2020, federal agency. It was mandatory so the new leadership team could count noses and say that they built cohesion. So the room was stupidly overcrowded. I was sick in two days, and it took me three months to fully recover. And I lost my senses of taste and smell, first time in my life. I know that I had Covid-19.
The most ill I have been in a quarter-century was for 2 weeks mid-January 2020. I was in bed for days, barely enough energy to get up to even eat or visit the restroom.
My girlfriend visited and noted I was hardly breathing, and talked me into an ER visit.
There, they had me suck oxygen for an hour or so, then informed me of discharge (this is a very busy inner-city ER).
I asked what ailed me. “Some weird virus,” was the answer. I asked again. Shoulder shrugs.
So that’s how my C19 case got listed. The hospital-visit data recording was atrocious before and throughout the pandemic.
I feel very strongly that I had C19. And, of course, because I developed natural immunity, never got it again ~ even as a ROOMMATE had it, and after 4 housemates had it.
I was laid flat on my back with some virus for two days once, around 1991. Couldn't move. Then it went away and I was 100% by the third day. My thought is there are bugs that go around. By the way, did you get a flu shot prior to your debilitating sickness? Just a thought.
No, flu shots for me! I've only gotten one in my lifetime (after the birth of my first child so I could make sure I didn't give the flu to her). I of course contracted a bad case of "flu" that year!
Ah HA, see my question above in comments that I made in response to one of your comments. You seem to have verified my thought Bill for both this comment and the aforementioned one.
Sorry for the delay, just saw this. Come to think if it, I think I did have a flu shot some time in late 2019. Records are 2500 miles away but I’ll look into it.
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Did covid take until the last week of February 2020 to get me because I don't get out much, or did my bodily vitamin D stores take until then to wear off? Wish I'd known about immediate use of ivermectin and high-dose vitamin C. (Symmetrel didn't touch it - it wasn't "flu".)
How did "many millions of Americans" already infected not even notice? What do all the "public health experts" (former drips under pressure) in America who somehow "missed" the early spread of Covid even matter? Being infected is unworthy of notice unless public health experts inform you of it?
If you had Covid symptoms in the last week of February 2020, this was still far earlier than this virus was supposed to be widely spreading in America or the world. The CDC says hardly anyone in America had been exposed to this virus by late February 2020.
If we believe these experts, everyone started to get exposed to this virus after the lockdowns (which were implemented in mid-March). This makes no "logical" sense to me (which you can probably tell from my articles).
Obviously the lockdowns worked. They caused most everyone (like me) previously infected to fully recover. Isn't there some adage about closing a barn door after the horse is already out? Why didn't the lockdown end 2 weeks later when the hospitals had had plenty of time to deal with the late-infected? Waiting for Veklury and over-pressurized ventilators to terminate them?
It would be helpful if it was possible to research how many of these sick people, starting around November 2019, got ill after receiving the flu shot. I have come to a somewhat firm conclusion that this is how I started my extended illness that went on for almost three years.
Another study I'd love to see would simply compare all the people who think they had early Covid (like myself) to all the people who did NOT have Covid-like symptoms pre March-2020. What this study would be seeking to find is evidence that the group who did have prior illnesses had significantly lower rates of future Covid. This would strongly suggest this cohort did develop natural immunity. Now how did this happen if the virus wasn't even circulating at this point in time?
Needless to say, I'm confident such a study will never be done.
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I saw data very early in 2020, February-ish, that showed very strong correlation to 2019 flu vax recipients. It was strong, compelling data, disappeared/ignored.
Then seeing the actual data of severe outbreaks of CV to a roughly six week near-perfect lag after vax pushes and extrapolate same timeline to 2019 influenza jab seasons.
Link CV pandemic to the 2019 flu jab - interestingly deployed roughly the same time as Event 201. If the timing matches CV outbreak and variants to time after jab campaigns.
Get the smoking gun on that evidence, you've cracked the case.
If you think 10s of millions just in the US were infected in 2019 & after Jan 2020, think of the 100s of millions world wide in that same period.... That’s what makes the GLOBAL LIES so egregious....
Exactly. People weren't just becoming sick with Covid symptoms only in America. My conclusion: The "true" Infection or Case Fatality Rate was very small, very similar to the flu for most people. The denominator of people who had already been infected was massively larger than what most people understand (IMO).
I keep pointing out we don't know the real number of cases because there were no tests to tell us. All we can go by is the "number of people who were sick" with Covid-like symptoms - And that's a huge number.
Hi Bill: I knew MANY in my orbit (family & friends in AZ & NM) including myself in late Jan-early Feb that got sick w/ a sort of mystery illness. Didn’t see a doc, just figured it was a particularly nasty bronchitis & came out of it a few weeks later A-ok.
The other thing about numbers tho is that the “testing” was bullshit, the miraculous change in the definition of a REAL “case” was bullshit, not counting someone as vax’d until 14 days post-jab was bullshit, & never being truthful in tracking the truly vax’d (from day 1 of their jab) w/ the truly unvax’d & how sick each group was including hospitalizations, etc was bullshit. Not having a true control group was bullshit. I don’t know how we will EVER truly know real numbers for any aspect
Thx Bill. Fully agree every part of this was & is. It’s really hard for most people to not just admit they were wrong but actually duped - & even more if they were A-holes about it to others.
Esp when they consider themselves to be SO virtuous & smart.
You saw Berenson’s blog today? that a former Karen-friend finally admitted he’d been right…even as she felt compelled to say he’d been kind of “asshole-ish” about it. Sheesh!
In a recent article, I brought up your point in trying to explain how The Current Thing becomes the Current Thing. One reason is people get to feel "more virtuous than thou." They must like that feeling.
O, they absolutely do. Lots of memes lately about the recently- Vax-departed sanctimoniously posting on social media about their jabs & boosters AND denigrating & vilifying we unvax’d as subhuman….
Per the evidence I've compiled, December 2019 and January 2020 were the months when this virus was spreading and people were becoming sick left and right. January was when myself and two children were sick ... and maybe 20 percent (?) of Troy, Alabama.
I point out the people who went to the doctor or emergency room with ILI symptoms. But one should also note that many people "ride it out" and never go to the doctor when they have these symptoms.
Count me as one of this cohort you're describing. I experienced a relatively severe yet atypical flu-like illness in early January 2020. (I think it was the first week of January 2020.) I was sick in bed for about a week, and then I experienced significant post-viral fatigue for weeks afterward.
Probably 50 percent. I've always ridden it out in the past when I got sick. But not this time. I distinctly remember how winded I was from the exertion of getting dressed and walking to my car when I finally went to the doctor to see what had made me so sick in January 2020. In my past bouts of presumed flu, I could walk a few steps without having to sit down and rest.
That is precisely what happened to me in January 2020 in Long Beach, Calif. (Which has a large port doing significant shipping business with China). Shortness of breath so fierce that it took tremendous focus and effort to visit a restroom only the next door over. So bad that a friend visited, then took me to the ER.
It’s why I question why our national health “professionals” didn’t take action until March that year. It was as if Fauci et al knew it was here, but just kept quiet and prayed. Cowardice from all involved.
I don't know how some public health officials couldn't have known that "early spread" was happening. The CDC and the state health agencies compile and publish weekly ILI reports that show this was happening (a lot more people "getting sick" that previous flu seasons). Fauci knew this. For some reason, they just never connected any common-sense dots.
Great research. I may have missed it in your article but didn't the PCR test come into use around the same time as flu cases plummeted (and by the way, cold cases also plummeted).
I am also curious about the elevated influenza cases in 2017-2018 which is an outlier. Any thoughts on the cause of that exceptional flu season? Was this genuinely influenza or maybe a run up to Covid Scamdemic?
Yes, Fred, the "flu cases" started to disappear at almost precisely the time PCR tests began to be widely administered (in mid to late March 2020). The PCR tests obviously (to me) massively inflated "Covid cases." Unanswered even to this day is why the flu suddenly vanished.
I don't have an informed opinion on the great flu outbreak of 2017-2018. Some contrarians HAVE posited this might have been early corona. I'd just note that if it was it spiked and disappeared rapidly (over about six weeks). In 2019-2020, "flu cases" or ILI cases remained far above the "baseline" for months.
You inspired me to think about the flu shots in the fall of 2019. Any chance they were tampered with and instigated some of the flu illness that peaked in January? I know it is another rabbit hole but in your research perhaps you came across something that connects the flu shots with the flu cases?
Several people have theorized there might be a connection between the flu shot of 2019-2020 and Covid. Was that year's flu shots somehow significantly different? I don't know, but this hypothesis deserves more scrutiny IMO. FWIW, myself and my two kids caught what i think was Covid and none of us had gotten the flu shot.
Fred, your comment reminds me of something my father told me a few years ago. He said that he'd gotten a flu "vaccine" once, a few years earlier, and that later that same year he suffered the worst case of flu he'd ever had in his entire life. He clearly made a connection between the two incidents, even though he was well into a long process of dementia which has been afflicting him for decades in various ways. Because of this, he vowed to never take any more flu "vaccines." Unfortunately, that experience did not translate into even the slightest skepticism about any of the covid propaganda. He appears to be completely incapable of critical thinking at this point, but this is true of everyone in my extended family, except for me.
Doubt the great flu outbreak of 2017-2018 was early corona, as I got it, and suffered pneumonia (I then found Symmetrel dealt with that flu after years of resistance), then in 2020 also got covid, which gave me choking bronchial spasms. Don't overlook virus exclusion, perhaps due to interferon.
Very interesting, to say the least. The fact deaths didn't spike until COVID was recognized, and patients began to be treated differently than before is a critical point we can only hope will be fully aired "someday". FWIW, my wife and son have stated since spring 2020 they believe they had COVID during the previous winter. I've heard others say the same.
I'm pretty sure I caught CV-19 in December of 2019. I never trusted their tests, so never once took one.
Hey, how about those numbers on normal flu season though huh? Seems Covid cured the regular flu completely that year. I don't trust ANY of their tests, so....
I came down with what I thought was bronchitis towards the end of december 2019. I remember saying it was the worst bout I ever had, and I tend to get bronchitis at least every two years so Im very familiar with the symptoms. I had a fever and sore throat at first which went away, that never happens for me when I get bronchitis, but then my lungs started getting that heaviness and congestion which prompted a doctor visit. It took two rounds of biaxin to knock it out and I was left with a croaky voice for several weeks after, another symptom that never happens with bronchitis. I thought I had caught it from my cousin who had been sick before me and he had been at the airport in memphis before he came down with it, so I believe this was going around before the lockdowns. I couldnt understand why they were saying to stay home until it got bad and then didnt want to give antibiotics. Ive had enough respiratory viruses in my life that Ive learned if I dont get to the doctor right away it escalates very quickly. Nothing made sense to me about them saying stay home.
Thank you. This is yet another testimonial from one of my readers which says they think they had Covid in 2019 - weeks before the first confirmed case in America. Also, you note your symptoms were NOT like previous illnesses you had experienced, which so many other people also report.
I should note that many Covid writers and experts say that the absence of any “excess” all-cause deaths before mid-March 2020 “proves” there was no “early spread.”
However, I flip this narrative and say these people should check their assumptions. The main one being that widespread Covid leads to wide-spread death. I argue that the evidence of early spread shows that this virus was/is NOT a significant killer for the vast majority of the global population.
I’ll throw in one more piece of evidence from a study that is NOT anecdotal that I think supports my hypothesis. The Navy and CDC did an antibody study of crew members who were on the USS Teddy Roosevelt aircraft carrier, which left port in San Diego on January 17, 2020. As most will remember, this ship experienced a major outbreak.
From extrapolations, the antibody study results revealed that 60 percent of the crew of 4,850 sailors had been infected. That’s almost 3,000 crew members.
What’s noteworthy to me is that only one of these crew members died “from Covid,” and he was 41, one of the oldest people on the ship. In other words, the IFR for people under the age of 41 was 0.0000 percent. I also think evidence from this study strongly suggests this virus came on board that ship on January 17, 2020 - which would be before the first “confirmed” case in America.
You should really take a look at this (if you haven't already done so):
https://sandrews.substack.com/p/were-charles-darwin-and-robert-edgar-232
Thanks for the link.
Re: Anecdotal personal evidence …
I guess I can cite myself here. As noted in my article, in January 2020 I got very “sick” from “something.” I was bedridden for at least six days and was sick enough to go to the doctor which I rarely do. I got a flu test, which was “negative.”
An administrator friend who works at this medical clinic that serves 11 southeast Alabama counties later told me that my case was not atypical. The clinic was over-run by sick people in this time period and almost everyone was testing “negative” for the flu. The administrator told me, “We thought there must be something wrong with the flu tests.”
My symptoms were also not exactly like other cases of “flu” I had experienced in my life. For example, the cough was far more painful and intense. I’ve never experienced the “shortness of breath” I experienced in that week. Nor did I have the volume of phlegm I usually have with a bad cold or flu. I had terrible fatigue and my cough lingered for probably months. I also experienced an altered sense of taste, although I acknowledge this is common for many bugs.
Perhaps most convincing to me is that I never had Covid-like symptoms or tested positive with a PCR test after this January 2020 sickness. This suggests to me that I developed natural immunity to Covid.
Full disclosure, I should mention that I did later get an antibody test - four months after I was sick … and this test was “negative” for Covid antibodies. But as I have documented in other articles, I’m not sure I trust the results of the “authorized” antibody tests. I also know that in many people detectable levels of Covid antibodies can fade in two or three months. So even though I tested negative for antibodies, I still think I probably had Covid.
One more anecdote on "school outbreaks" ….
My wife is a high school teacher. I distinctly remember her coming home from school one day (about the same time I was so sick) and telling me that “half” of one of her classes (of 28 students) was out sick. Her school did not shut down like several nearby school districts did, but I suspect our school system came close to closing for “flu” (even though almost everyone was testing negative for influenza).
Your experience is not uncommon. A buddy of mine also got hammered by something in Jan of 2020. I picked it up from him but my experience wasn't nearly as severe as his, possibly due to my hitting it with high doses of vitamin C. I haven't been meaningfully sick since then...no covid shots and no tests either. Was it Covid in Jan 2020? Possibly. We now know that it was circulating for several months prior.
Also if your immune system can clear an infection without developing antibodies, it will go ahead and do exactly that. So an antibody test can tell you that you've had it, but it CAN'T tell you that you haven't.
I hadn't heard your last point. Interesting. Thanks.
All my critics say the early cases I have identified were probably "false positives" - all 165 of them. My reply is that "false negatives" are probably far more common than false positives.
My symptoms were eerily similar to yours--November 2019 for me & my husband. In a two week period I saw my primary doctor twice & went to a walk in once. Negative for flu but my symptoms seemed to worsen after a z pack & decongestant regime. The worst “flu” I ever had by far. The cough & shortness of breath was like nothing I had ever experienced before. Those both lingered for months. I used nebulizer treatments to give me some relief. Never used any type of nebulizer or inhaler prior to this! I also recall late fall 2019 into winter 2020--my children’s schools experienced high absentee numbers. Some days around that time there were only a handful of kids in a class.
In January 2020 I attended the funeral of the 42 year old sister of a high school friend. A mother of two young children & a school teacher. She had been “sick” with what the family was told was the flu. Her health quickly & seemingly inexplicably deteriorated within days. She was taken to the hospital when she complained about having difficulty breathing. When she didn’t improve, she was placed on a ventilator. I don’t believe the doctors or her family ever acknowledged this was probably a case of Covid
Thank you very much, Maggie. These are all very specific anecdotes/examples that reinforce or support my hypothesis. I'd bet that The 42-year-old's death was Covid. Tim McCain was about the same age and he came as close to death as someone can come in January 2020 ... from Covid. I've always thought, Tim did not die but there must be plenty of people who did die - and the death was just attributed to some other cause.
Re: The belief no “isolated novel coronavirus has ever been identified ...”
First, unlike some, I think this is a perfectly legitimate view and needs to be seriously considered. For purposes of this article, I am simply pointing out that many more Americans were “sick” for some reason in the “flu season” of 2019-2020 compared to previous flu seasons.
That is, if the novel coronavirus doesn’t explain this spike in people with ILI symptoms, something must explain this reality/fact.
So, it was either the flu virus (if people believe flu viruses make people sick) or toxins, pollution, food allegories or whatever.
I argue it probably can’t be the flu virus that by itself explains the large increase in people developing ILI symptoms because the vast majority of people who got a flu test tested negative. And the number of ILI cases was clearly much greater than in the previous 10 flu seasons.
Basically, per logic, something was causing this spike in ILI illnesses.
I happen to think the surplus number of “sick people” in these four or five months is probably explained by the novel coronavirus. But others disagree, which doesn’t bother me. Still, I would be very interested in hearing the “no virus” community posit what they think was causing this significant increase in sick or "symptomatic" people. Or: Maybe they disagree with my premise and don’t think more people became sick with Covid-like symptoms b/w November 2019 and early March 2020.
I would disagree with this position, based on the known evidence (some presented in this article), including mountains of "anecdotal" evidence and testimonies.
Obviously it was anticipation of 5G years before it was actually installed. :)
A friend had what he described as “the worst cold or weirdest flu” he ever had in November of 2019. His symptoms were classic covid. Another friend and I caught a bug in Laughlin in February of 2020. Neither of us is ever sick, but we were knocked flat for a week, again with classic covid symptoms. After being vaccinated and boosted, my wife and I both caught covid, verified by test, in June of 2022 on an “all-vaccinated” cruise to Alaska. And that was when I stopped being a calm, professional pharmacist urging people not to panic or live in fear and became instead an implacable enemy to vaccines and Big Pharma.
Many contrarians and skeptics like myself highlight the importance of “informed consent” as it regards the Covid “vaccines.”
In this article, I argue that billions of people were NOT “informed” of the true Infection Fatality Rate of this virus. Or at least they should have been given “information” that suggested that many millions of people had already contracted this virus - and had NOT died.
As I have pointed out in this and other articles, I believe evidence of early spread was probably intentionally concealed by at least some public health officials. The motivation for concealing this data would be that if it was revealed, there would be no strong argument for mandatory Covid vaccines. This evidence, if presented, might kill the entire justification for these new and rushed mRNA “vaccines.”
I attended a poorly planned meeting in the first week of January 2020, federal agency. It was mandatory so the new leadership team could count noses and say that they built cohesion. So the room was stupidly overcrowded. I was sick in two days, and it took me three months to fully recover. And I lost my senses of taste and smell, first time in my life. I know that I had Covid-19.
The most ill I have been in a quarter-century was for 2 weeks mid-January 2020. I was in bed for days, barely enough energy to get up to even eat or visit the restroom.
My girlfriend visited and noted I was hardly breathing, and talked me into an ER visit.
There, they had me suck oxygen for an hour or so, then informed me of discharge (this is a very busy inner-city ER).
I asked what ailed me. “Some weird virus,” was the answer. I asked again. Shoulder shrugs.
So that’s how my C19 case got listed. The hospital-visit data recording was atrocious before and throughout the pandemic.
I feel very strongly that I had C19. And, of course, because I developed natural immunity, never got it again ~ even as a ROOMMATE had it, and after 4 housemates had it.
I was laid flat on my back with some virus for two days once, around 1991. Couldn't move. Then it went away and I was 100% by the third day. My thought is there are bugs that go around. By the way, did you get a flu shot prior to your debilitating sickness? Just a thought.
No, flu shots for me! I've only gotten one in my lifetime (after the birth of my first child so I could make sure I didn't give the flu to her). I of course contracted a bad case of "flu" that year!
Ah HA, see my question above in comments that I made in response to one of your comments. You seem to have verified my thought Bill for both this comment and the aforementioned one.
Sorry for the delay, just saw this. Come to think if it, I think I did have a flu shot some time in late 2019. Records are 2500 miles away but I’ll look into it.
2019 or 2020 or both? Thanks!
Flu shot only in 2019. I guarantee that happened, new doctor. But I moved to Hawaii and did not have any vaxxes in 2020.
Did covid take until the last week of February 2020 to get me because I don't get out much, or did my bodily vitamin D stores take until then to wear off? Wish I'd known about immediate use of ivermectin and high-dose vitamin C. (Symmetrel didn't touch it - it wasn't "flu".)
How did "many millions of Americans" already infected not even notice? What do all the "public health experts" (former drips under pressure) in America who somehow "missed" the early spread of Covid even matter? Being infected is unworthy of notice unless public health experts inform you of it?
If you had Covid symptoms in the last week of February 2020, this was still far earlier than this virus was supposed to be widely spreading in America or the world. The CDC says hardly anyone in America had been exposed to this virus by late February 2020.
If we believe these experts, everyone started to get exposed to this virus after the lockdowns (which were implemented in mid-March). This makes no "logical" sense to me (which you can probably tell from my articles).
Obviously the lockdowns worked. They caused most everyone (like me) previously infected to fully recover. Isn't there some adage about closing a barn door after the horse is already out? Why didn't the lockdown end 2 weeks later when the hospitals had had plenty of time to deal with the late-infected? Waiting for Veklury and over-pressurized ventilators to terminate them?
It would be helpful if it was possible to research how many of these sick people, starting around November 2019, got ill after receiving the flu shot. I have come to a somewhat firm conclusion that this is how I started my extended illness that went on for almost three years.
Great work Bill Rice. I admire your tenacity.
Another study I'd love to see would simply compare all the people who think they had early Covid (like myself) to all the people who did NOT have Covid-like symptoms pre March-2020. What this study would be seeking to find is evidence that the group who did have prior illnesses had significantly lower rates of future Covid. This would strongly suggest this cohort did develop natural immunity. Now how did this happen if the virus wasn't even circulating at this point in time?
Needless to say, I'm confident such a study will never be done.
I saw data very early in 2020, February-ish, that showed very strong correlation to 2019 flu vax recipients. It was strong, compelling data, disappeared/ignored.
Then seeing the actual data of severe outbreaks of CV to a roughly six week near-perfect lag after vax pushes and extrapolate same timeline to 2019 influenza jab seasons.
Link CV pandemic to the 2019 flu jab - interestingly deployed roughly the same time as Event 201. If the timing matches CV outbreak and variants to time after jab campaigns.
Get the smoking gun on that evidence, you've cracked the case.
PS a great way to spread it to others who did not get a flu shot via the shedding mechanism.
If you think 10s of millions just in the US were infected in 2019 & after Jan 2020, think of the 100s of millions world wide in that same period.... That’s what makes the GLOBAL LIES so egregious....
Exactly. People weren't just becoming sick with Covid symptoms only in America. My conclusion: The "true" Infection or Case Fatality Rate was very small, very similar to the flu for most people. The denominator of people who had already been infected was massively larger than what most people understand (IMO).
I keep pointing out we don't know the real number of cases because there were no tests to tell us. All we can go by is the "number of people who were sick" with Covid-like symptoms - And that's a huge number.
Hi Bill: I knew MANY in my orbit (family & friends in AZ & NM) including myself in late Jan-early Feb that got sick w/ a sort of mystery illness. Didn’t see a doc, just figured it was a particularly nasty bronchitis & came out of it a few weeks later A-ok.
The other thing about numbers tho is that the “testing” was bullshit, the miraculous change in the definition of a REAL “case” was bullshit, not counting someone as vax’d until 14 days post-jab was bullshit, & never being truthful in tracking the truly vax’d (from day 1 of their jab) w/ the truly unvax’d & how sick each group was including hospitalizations, etc was bullshit. Not having a true control group was bullshit. I don’t know how we will EVER truly know real numbers for any aspect
Well said, Cindi. Basically, every part of this was BS. That's the truth few Americans can handle.
Thx Bill. Fully agree every part of this was & is. It’s really hard for most people to not just admit they were wrong but actually duped - & even more if they were A-holes about it to others.
Esp when they consider themselves to be SO virtuous & smart.
You saw Berenson’s blog today? that a former Karen-friend finally admitted he’d been right…even as she felt compelled to say he’d been kind of “asshole-ish” about it. Sheesh!
In a recent article, I brought up your point in trying to explain how The Current Thing becomes the Current Thing. One reason is people get to feel "more virtuous than thou." They must like that feeling.
O, they absolutely do. Lots of memes lately about the recently- Vax-departed sanctimoniously posting on social media about their jabs & boosters AND denigrating & vilifying we unvax’d as subhuman….
Count me as one who was seriously ill in December 2019. It actually hit really hard in January 2020 as well!
Per the evidence I've compiled, December 2019 and January 2020 were the months when this virus was spreading and people were becoming sick left and right. January was when myself and two children were sick ... and maybe 20 percent (?) of Troy, Alabama.
I point out the people who went to the doctor or emergency room with ILI symptoms. But one should also note that many people "ride it out" and never go to the doctor when they have these symptoms.
Count me as one of this cohort you're describing. I experienced a relatively severe yet atypical flu-like illness in early January 2020. (I think it was the first week of January 2020.) I was sick in bed for about a week, and then I experienced significant post-viral fatigue for weeks afterward.
I wonder, do you think 50% "ride it out" ?
Probably 50 percent. I've always ridden it out in the past when I got sick. But not this time. I distinctly remember how winded I was from the exertion of getting dressed and walking to my car when I finally went to the doctor to see what had made me so sick in January 2020. In my past bouts of presumed flu, I could walk a few steps without having to sit down and rest.
That is precisely what happened to me in January 2020 in Long Beach, Calif. (Which has a large port doing significant shipping business with China). Shortness of breath so fierce that it took tremendous focus and effort to visit a restroom only the next door over. So bad that a friend visited, then took me to the ER.
It’s why I question why our national health “professionals” didn’t take action until March that year. It was as if Fauci et al knew it was here, but just kept quiet and prayed. Cowardice from all involved.
I don't know how some public health officials couldn't have known that "early spread" was happening. The CDC and the state health agencies compile and publish weekly ILI reports that show this was happening (a lot more people "getting sick" that previous flu seasons). Fauci knew this. For some reason, they just never connected any common-sense dots.
What is that reason?
Great research. I may have missed it in your article but didn't the PCR test come into use around the same time as flu cases plummeted (and by the way, cold cases also plummeted).
I am also curious about the elevated influenza cases in 2017-2018 which is an outlier. Any thoughts on the cause of that exceptional flu season? Was this genuinely influenza or maybe a run up to Covid Scamdemic?
Yes, Fred, the "flu cases" started to disappear at almost precisely the time PCR tests began to be widely administered (in mid to late March 2020). The PCR tests obviously (to me) massively inflated "Covid cases." Unanswered even to this day is why the flu suddenly vanished.
I don't have an informed opinion on the great flu outbreak of 2017-2018. Some contrarians HAVE posited this might have been early corona. I'd just note that if it was it spiked and disappeared rapidly (over about six weeks). In 2019-2020, "flu cases" or ILI cases remained far above the "baseline" for months.
You inspired me to think about the flu shots in the fall of 2019. Any chance they were tampered with and instigated some of the flu illness that peaked in January? I know it is another rabbit hole but in your research perhaps you came across something that connects the flu shots with the flu cases?
Several people have theorized there might be a connection between the flu shot of 2019-2020 and Covid. Was that year's flu shots somehow significantly different? I don't know, but this hypothesis deserves more scrutiny IMO. FWIW, myself and my two kids caught what i think was Covid and none of us had gotten the flu shot.
Fred, your comment reminds me of something my father told me a few years ago. He said that he'd gotten a flu "vaccine" once, a few years earlier, and that later that same year he suffered the worst case of flu he'd ever had in his entire life. He clearly made a connection between the two incidents, even though he was well into a long process of dementia which has been afflicting him for decades in various ways. Because of this, he vowed to never take any more flu "vaccines." Unfortunately, that experience did not translate into even the slightest skepticism about any of the covid propaganda. He appears to be completely incapable of critical thinking at this point, but this is true of everyone in my extended family, except for me.
Doubt the great flu outbreak of 2017-2018 was early corona, as I got it, and suffered pneumonia (I then found Symmetrel dealt with that flu after years of resistance), then in 2020 also got covid, which gave me choking bronchial spasms. Don't overlook virus exclusion, perhaps due to interferon.
Very interesting, to say the least. The fact deaths didn't spike until COVID was recognized, and patients began to be treated differently than before is a critical point we can only hope will be fully aired "someday". FWIW, my wife and son have stated since spring 2020 they believe they had COVID during the previous winter. I've heard others say the same.
I'm pretty sure I caught CV-19 in December of 2019. I never trusted their tests, so never once took one.
Hey, how about those numbers on normal flu season though huh? Seems Covid cured the regular flu completely that year. I don't trust ANY of their tests, so....
Virus was never isolated. Never. And the pcr tests are bogus. Period.
I came down with what I thought was bronchitis towards the end of december 2019. I remember saying it was the worst bout I ever had, and I tend to get bronchitis at least every two years so Im very familiar with the symptoms. I had a fever and sore throat at first which went away, that never happens for me when I get bronchitis, but then my lungs started getting that heaviness and congestion which prompted a doctor visit. It took two rounds of biaxin to knock it out and I was left with a croaky voice for several weeks after, another symptom that never happens with bronchitis. I thought I had caught it from my cousin who had been sick before me and he had been at the airport in memphis before he came down with it, so I believe this was going around before the lockdowns. I couldnt understand why they were saying to stay home until it got bad and then didnt want to give antibiotics. Ive had enough respiratory viruses in my life that Ive learned if I dont get to the doctor right away it escalates very quickly. Nothing made sense to me about them saying stay home.
Thank you. This is yet another testimonial from one of my readers which says they think they had Covid in 2019 - weeks before the first confirmed case in America. Also, you note your symptoms were NOT like previous illnesses you had experienced, which so many other people also report.