Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
COVID-19 May Have Been Dormant Globally, Long Before China
GICexpat
The novel coronavirus has taken the world by storm and in unpredictable ways, affecting some severely and gravely while leaving nothing but a short-lived headache for others. Although there are still aspects of this virus that remain unknown, there is growing evidence that COVID-19 may have been lying dormant across the world until emerging under favorable environmental conditions, rather than originating in China, an expert from Oxford University believes.
Dr. Tom Jefferson, an expert from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University, has pointed to a string of recent discoveries of the virus’s presence around the world before it emerged in Asia to reveal its true origin as a global organism that was waiting for favorable conditions to finally emerge.
Based on such conditions, viruses can disappear as quickly as they emerge. “Where did SARS 1 go?” asked Jefferson. “It kind of just disappeared. It’s important to think about these things and start researching the ecology of viruses, understand how they originate, and how they mutate.”
He went on to add, “I think COVID-19 was already here — here meaning everywhere, not just in China. It’s very possible that it was a dormant virus that was eventually awaken by specific environmental conditions. The explanation could only be that these agents don’t come or go anywhere. They are always here and something ignites them, maybe human density or environmental conditions, and this is what we should look for.”
Back in early February, one COVID-19 case was found in the Falkland Islands, a remote South Atlantic archipelago on the Patagonian shelf, southeast of Argentina, which was traced back to a cruise ship sailing from South Georgia to Buenos Aires. Only on Day 8, when they had already begun sailing towards the Weddell Sea near Antartica, was the case identified. “Where did that case infection come from?” Jefferson asked. “Could it have been in the pre-cooked food that had been defrosted, thereby activating the dormant virus?”
“Strange things like this happened with Spanish Flu. In 1918, around 30 per cent of the population of Western Samoa died of Spanish Flu and they hadn’t had any communication with the outside world.”
According to a recent report on the digital publication ‘Science Focus’, traces of COVID-19 have been found in sewage samples from Spain, Italy and Brazil which pre-date its discovery in China.
A preprint study, which has not been peer reviewed yet, claims to have found the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in a Barcelona sewage sample from March 12, 2019. The Italian National Institute of Health also announced in June that sewage water from Milan and Turin showed coronavirus traces dating back to December 18, long before the country's first confirmed cases.
COVID-19 May Have Been Dormant Globally, Long Befo... (
show quote)
Please remember the numbers. USA as the example.
Approximate numbers to make the math easy to follow.
350 Million People in USA.
3.5 million cases of Covid 19. That is 1 % of the population.
150,000 deaths with 45% over 65 and with certain pre existing health conditions.
Deaths are 4.2% of diagnosed. Or .00043% of total population.
There are at least ten diseases that dwarf these numbers. Realistic common sense would say why shut down and destroy the means for 99% of the population to survive?