The article makes it clear he's not doubting the existence of the virus, he's doubting that it's the cause of the deaths and illnesses being attributed to it. Given how it's being massively overdiagnosed I would say he's correct.
The problem with the Koch postulates is this
The microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.
There will be lots of people that have dead coronavirus in their body, trace amounts of coronavirus insufficient to cause infection, or low amounts of virus consistent with asymptomatic infections that are basically impossible to detect.
A PCR will read these instances as positive, which is why it is stupid to equate a positive pcr test as a covid “case”. Hence the massive overdiagnosis.
Viral illness is more like a continuous curve than a binary yes/no state of “are you sick” . Which is why this Koch postulate is difficult to satisfy.
Its basically impossible to observe any virus infecting tissue in vivo. But I have read other studies where they cultured sars cov 2 from pcr positive patients. And obviously hundreds of labs have been sequencing the genomes of Sars Cov 2 variants. They are sequencing something. Something that seems to be in high abundance in people who all die of a similar disease. Something that was never sequences before the last 18 months— at least it wasnn’t in any of the public databases.
The problem is that they have cast their net waaaay too wide. The "similar disease" in this case is defined by symptoms so broad that it covers thousands of diseases and thousands of potential pathogens. If we applied their metric to the common cold then it would be the deadliest virus in history since:
Most people die with at least some symptoms associated with it (eg a runny nose)
Most people have it in their system when they die
But the death rate went up 20% in one year. That just does not happen.
I think they are overdiagnosing cases, or at least they have been prior to dropping the PCR amplification cycles down to 28. By 10 or 20%, maybe more. I do not think the death count has been exagerated.
Covid may have been overdiagnosed in a few deaths but in general the death count has been UNDERESTIMATED. It did not make me happy to come to this conclusion. Only about 75% of the excess deaths in the US were labeled as covid. I believe even more deaths from covid occured in nursing homes under lockdown and that these deaths were recategorized as something else plausible. The way (((nursing home))) financing is run in this country, nursing homes take the inheritance of residents after they die, whether they live a long time or not. They are incentivized to kill their residents. But not if they are found incompetent for spreading covid. I believe nursing homes hid about 150,000 deaths from covid while quarantining old people.
The US had half a million too many deaths over ~12 months and only 75% of them were explained as covid deaths. NO ONE has given any explanation for these deaths. They appear to be typical “old people” deaths. But cardiac deaths don’t suddenly surge by 100,000 in a year for no reason, you know?
I believe they have tricked us in to arguing that covid deaths were not that bad, in order to regain our freedom, while they were secretly killing off our elderly in nursing homes.
They have incentivized minimizing covid and we have gone along.
This is a debate that requires a little nuance. Covid is not that bad in younger and middle aged people and can be treated with antivirals. But its about 50x more lethal in the elderly, and I cant believe the callousness Ive seen from conservatives about those people dying in droves from this thing. It does not appear as if our side can be simultaneously anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine but still be seriously concerned about the several million old people that have been killed unnecessarily viciously by the medical establishment and government that caused this disease and exacerbated it. That just seems to be too complicated a position to have around here. I have gotten continuously pummeled on here for pointing out that old people are being killed.
Anyway sorry for the rant. If the death counts were normal I would say they are miscategorizing deaths. But how else can you explain such a massive uptick? And it would seem to be consistent with the fact that several old relatively healthy people that I know suddenly died of a flu that they are calling covid.
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