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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

This article highlights how our "trusted public health officials" won't investigate early spread. But it should also be noted that they won't investigate anything that debunks any of the official Covid narrative ... lies. For example, they won't investigate possible vaccine-caused deaths or serious injuries.

So their modus operandi continues.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

My readers should know that I’ve never stopped trying to get some mainstream news organization to launch their own investigations into early spread. I’ve lost count of the number of emails I’ve sent to journalists and editors at these news organizations, giving them reams of evidence that supports this hypothesis.

Only one reporter replied and that anecdote from my own life is worth mentioning here.

Betsy McKay is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Betsy and I exchanged many emails after my original feature story on the McCains’ likely early case was belatedly published by UncoverDC.com.

At least initially, Betsy seemed very interested in the topic. She finally even interviewed Brandie McCain. Both Betsy (in an email) and Brandie reported that the interview went “great.” I later mailed Betsy hard copies of 45 pages of Tim McCain’s early medical records. The clinical and lab data in these records all support my view that Tim did have a severe case of Covid-19 (for example, his D-Dimer levels were through the roof).

Alas, the Wall Street Journal has never published any story on the McCains nor run any story on all the other evidence I’ve compiled proving that early spread in fact happened. Betsy also no longer responds to my emails.

In other stories, I have noted the case of “Shane” of Marin County, California. In the Reader Comments after an April 2020 Times article on Covid symptoms, Shane reported that he thinks he had Covid in the “fall” of 2019. Furthermore, he reported that he had received not one but two positive antibody tests. He even names the labs where he got these positive results.

I have emailed the NY Times at least four times asking if one of their reporters can contact Shane and follow—up on his startling claim (Shane would have been the first known or confirmed Covid patient in the entire world). Furthermore, The NY Times must have Shane’s contact info as only paid subscribers can comment in their Reader Comment section.

So the New York Times also refuses to investigate credible claims of early spread.

The question is WHY won’t these “news” organizations do such investigations? Has someone from our government told them to drop such investigations, or do their editors and reporters simply know intuitively which stories they cannot investigate?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

In my second Substack article, I listed the reasons I was "champing at the bit" to start this newsletter. One of may main reasons was to expose how "awful" our "watchdog" press really is. I've long believed these journalists and news organizations are captured and, as mentioned, are a big part of the problem. They could and should expose sorry public officials and instead choose to protect these people and organizations.

As you can see with this piece, I'm not just making vague charges; I am providing specific examples from my own career as a freelance journalist.

In my opinion, these "journalists" have to be exposed and purged if the public is ever going to learn that most of our accepted narratives are, in fact, bogus. We need to know who is creating and then protecting all these false or dubious narratives.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Regarding my feature story on Tim and Brandie McCain, Here are the "many newsworthy” features I thought all editors would be very interested in publishing. As I mention, I’d thought wrong.

* Husband and wife have both tested positive for antibodies

* First symptoms emerged in mid-December – 2 weeks before Wuhan outbreak

* Tim McCain, who almost died, would have been first CV-19 fatality in world

* Story has received no national attention

* Couple – possible “Patients Zero” in U.S. – has yet to be contacted by health officials

* Wife never left hospital, saw first-hand the ‘nightmare’ critical COVID patients endure

* Hospital staffers who treated McCain will not comment on his case

* Director of nursing previously expressed opinion Tim McCain ‘definitely” had COVID-19

* Couple believes lessons from husband’s case could have saved lives

* Medical bill exceeds $2 million

* ECMO machine credited with saving husband’s life; possibly first case in world

* Medical records support COVID-19 diagnosis

Here’s the link if you want to read the full story (and sidebar):

https://uncoverdc.wpengine.com/2020/06/25/an-alabama-man-nearly-died-from-covid-19-the-first-week-in-january/

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Dawn K's avatar

My mother and two ladies I work with were quite sick in November/December 2019. We wondered if they may have had Covid. Unfortunately, one of the ladies took the clot shot and booster and now seems to always have a cold🤨

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Your mother and her co-workers are not alone. In the below-linked article, I summarized about 150 responses I received from other people who think they had Covid in 2019. And this is just the people who contacted me after The Citizen Free Press picked up one of my "early spread" articles.

Before that, I had saved hundreds of other comments from people who think the same thing.

My question: Are ALL of these people wrong?

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/i-asked-for-early-spread-anecdotes

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

“At least some public health officials and infectious disease experts have no interest in performing serious inquiries into likely early cases – probably because they know such investigations, if legitimate, would almost certainly prove that this virus was indeed spreading in many people much earlier than they’ve publicly acknowledged.” To this i would add, “The truth about when SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in the U.S. threatens the narrative about how deadly the disease is, and how effective lockdowns and mitigations were.”

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thank you for that, Jessica. Exactly. Early (wide) spread would mean the real IFR is microscopic. There was no reason for 95 percent of the population to ever be afraid of this virus. They couldn't let that "message" get out.

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Lisa Liberty's avatar

I find this very interesting. In January of 2020 I traveled to Peru. This was just before the news of a virus broke in the US. There were traveling Asians in Peru, in fact, we sat across from an Asian couple on a train. They both wore masks but removed them once they were seated. I discussed the mask wearing with my traveling friend and she suggested Asians tend to wear them due to smog/pollution. I didn’t spot pollution on the train and certainly not in the mountainous areas of Peru. This was a data point that stayed in my mind because I found it somewhat troubling. Coming home at various airports we began to see many Asians wearing masks and there were already rumors of an illness spreading in China. I recall wondering why they were traveling if they could possibly be spreading such illness. When we arrived in the states the US news was just starting to discuss a mysterious virus in China. Of course I immediately became concerned about our trip where I had been in contact with Asian’s wearing masks, did I bring the illness to the states? It turns out I did not experience any symptoms and I haven’t had illness now for the past two years. My husband and I are not vaccinated. In the spring of 2020 I quickly began the zinc, D3 and an antiviral supplement program which has not only kept me virus free but we’ve been free of ANY illness.

Your story is very important and I’m hoping will be sought after once we expose this criminal aspect of the virus and how the medical arena and media helped to cover it up.

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Denise's avatar

The Seattle flu study was finding cases, but told that was not part of their study. This was in the Seattle times. A Seattle friend was very sick and hospitalized in December 2019 with neither flu A or B; when she was discharged, she was told she was contagious (but no named disease) and should quarantine. As time went on, she wondered if she may have had covid. No one that she contacted several times (her docs, health insurance company) responded in anyway to affirm, acknowledge, discuss or deny.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Hmm. Good anecdote that supports my hypothesis. Thanks for sharing this, Denise.

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Carrie Rice's avatar

I’m glad you shared this.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks, honey. You were there in those weeks after I had written my first big and important story ... that nobody would publish. When I said this story was going to put me on the map as some freelance journalist, I didn't know what the heck I was talking about. I was quickly educated.

I am happy I now have a Substack site and can "try again."

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Joe Skwara's avatar

Bill I think you are spot on with your research and there is one primary place that will take your insights and pose them as a legitimate question. You have to get your research to Tucker Carlson. I pretty much guarantee he would run this because he has already talked about Covid starting earlier than we were told and your work will give him more ammo. I wish I knew the names of his producers but I know Fox News has a tip line. If you are able to get a producers name I may be able to get a cell phone number through people I know.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Joe, that would be fantastic. I have sent my stories to that tip line and Fox (and scores of other mainstream media news organizations, including the Epoch Times, which has done a good bit of contrarian Covid stories). None of them have responded to my outreach efforts. If you figure out how to get to Tucker's producers, please let me know because I think you are right - he might be the one mainstream media figure who is interested in this.

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Joe Skwara's avatar

His name is Justin Wells and he can be found on Linked In and Twitter. If he doesn’t reply to you I will try as well. He’s Tuckers Exec Producer

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Joe Skwara's avatar

I will see if I can do some sleuthing

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Neil Pryke's avatar

Over Here, every time I see Schwab's face, I think he must get a daily dose of Botox in those pendulous turkey-jowls. Miserable as sin! I'd like to see something make smirking Gates and Trudeau smile the other sides of their faces! Rant Over Here!

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alwayscurious's avatar

The fourth estate has clearly demonstrated these past few years what side they're on, not with truth or the people. It is refreshing to witness your passion for truth, and it bodes well for our future that there are others as well. My go to for many years was the Wall Street Journal and they have shown their true colors in this new covid era. Too bad.

I heard of this site on Tucker Carlson's show several times, so I decided to check it out. So glad I did. Substack has great reporting and is a great community. Amazing how truth is controversial now, but only because it doesn't serve the bad guys.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thank you, always curious. Substack is the silver lining of the last three years IMO. That's where real journalism is being practiced today.

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Lisa Liberty's avatar

In addition to Tucker Carlson, you may want to try Fox Nation producers. They have some very edgy (raw truth) stories on that show, including Tucker. Tucker may not wish to present your findings on Fox News but your research may be well suited for Fox Nation. I’d love to see you get an actual sit down interview. If not Tucker, maybe another journalist on the show.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Good point. I've also taken note of the documentary-type investigations that Tucker is producing for that site. It seems to me he is further branding himself as a producer that will do more "edgy" or contrarian investigative journalism. If for some reason, the "Powers that Be" succeeded in getting Tucker kicked off Fox (which they must be trying to do), I think Tucker knows that most of his audience would follow him to his own website, where he is doing segments that aren't suitable for the news network proper. I think this actually gives him "leverage" to stay at Fox News, but he might be planning for a scenario where he leaves and has to go it alone?

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Lisa Liberty's avatar

Yes, Tucker is smart, he’s getting set up elsewhere which is more than Glenn Beck was able to do when Fox dumped him. If Fox News were to lose Tucker Carlson, they would be hurting. Hannity and/or Laura Ingram can’t bring the viewership like Tucker.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I agree. Tucker has the best ratings by far. I've Long been stuck by the fact his No.1-rated primetime news talk show doesn't have any major corporate advertisers. Every big company that advertises has effectively boycotted his show. Typically, huge ratings create major demand for advertising. Tucker's show is happy to have the My Pillow man as its main advertiser.

This said, Fox News makes most of its income from fees it charges cable and satellite companies for airing their network. That's why Tucker is so important. People want Fox News and they want Tucker. So Tucker is still very important although his show doesn't pull in the advertising revenue one would expect from a show that routinely has 4 million viewers.

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Victoria's avatar

I wish I had seen your article when it was initially published, as I would have told you that I was seeing cases of a “mystery virus” beginning in either mid or late October, 2019 here in the Upper Peninsula of MI. It started with a trickle and escalated to about 6-10 patients a week. At first I was testing all of them for influenza A/B but found zero cases. Then I added RSV and again found nothing, hence my diagnoses of “mystery virus”. (Of course I couldn’t call it that in the official medical record because there is no corresponding ICD code, so I settled for the more generic “acute viral upper respiratory infection” or “acute viral lower respiratory infection”, depending on the symptoms). Knowing that it was some kind of respiratory disease, I decided to treat it like all the rest of them (I have used amantadine for years when treating influenza, and I generally add oral or inhaled steroids, ibuprofen and/or Tylenol, and an antibiotic for signs of superimposed bacterial infection. Oh, and chicken soup. Don’t laugh...it works.) Amazingly, none of my patients died, or were even admitted to the hospital.

I knew that it was only a matter of time and sure enough in the last week of January, 2020 I woke up with all of the symptoms. I felt like death warmed over for a few days, then just as suddenly as it started, it was gone. Later that week was the first press conference that I can recall announcing the presence of the “Chinese virus”. I suspected that I (and many of my patients) had had COVID-19 in the fall and early winter and later was able to confirm that I had antibodies (and that was in December of 2020, 11 months after I was I’ll.

Interestingly enough, we didn’t see people dying from COVID in great numbers until the WHO came out with their early “practice guidelines” including foregoing early treatment, avoiding use of steroids and early intubation with aggressive use of mechanical ventilation, all of which I suspect contributed to hundreds of thousands of completely preventable deaths. Which elevated fear of this relatively benign virus and drove demand for the “vaccine”.

Evil plot, but ingenious in it’s simplicity. It boggles the mind to think how many people must have been aware of it, at least to some extent.

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Patricia P Tursi,PhD's avatar

This was very interesting. In early Decemer of 2019, I was walking under heavy chemtrails and believe I contacted Covid 19. Until I read this, I had not heard of other early reports. I have experienced other government originated disease. I was married to a baseball exec who invited me to travel with him to Africa. We lived down the street from CDC, so he arranged for me to have my overseas shots there. Recently, I called CDC and tried to track what I had received and they told me I was mistaken because they had never administered vaccinations. Since then, I have struggled with other disease symptoms which physicians couldn't quite diagnose, but was similar to Lymes. (Read the book Bitten.) Early December, 2019, I was walking from a Dolllar General Store to a health food store. There were heavy chemtrails. Suddenly, I could barely walk. I dont use allopathic medicine and don't use vaccines and am rarely ill, but

I experienced a respirator illness and a cytokine storm with a lot of phlegm and was very ill. I since figured that it was Covid. I, and others, have suspected that my ex worked with the government. I had one boy who, as an infant, almost died from an unidentifiable illness and another with an enlarged spleen due to unknown origins. It ruptured and he almost died For decades, the US has been involved with bioweapins. Vaccines are the perfect vehicle for experimentation. Patricia P Tursi, Springfield, Missouri

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