How Did a Disease With no Symptoms Take Over the World?
We’re publishing an original essay today by a senior research scientist at a pharmaceutical company asking how managing an ‘asymptomatic disease’ became the main focus of Government policy in the U.K. and around the world, when the very concept of an ‘asymptomatic disease’ is nonsensical. Here’s an extract in which he tries to flesh out exactly why the concept makes so little sense.
First, let’s see why defining having a disease based purely on the presence of a pathogen is a flawed concept. This is best illustrated by reference to another virus, Epstein-Barr Virus or EBV. You’ll be forgiven if you’ve never heard of this virus, but it could be argued to be one of the most successful human pathogens because almost everyone is infected by it. Most people are infected early in life and if this happens then EBV takes up residence in your B-cells (the cells in your immune system responsible for making antibodies) where it quietly persists throughout your life. Every now and then the virus goes into active replication and makes copies of itself which get shed into your mouth, a process that you are blissfully unaware is happening. The problems with EBV generally occur if you don’t get infected early in life but avoid infection until you’re much older. Now when you get infected with EBV, you can develop a disease called infectious mononucleosis or, more commonly, glandular fever. This often happens in young adults when they become interested in close physical contact with members of the opposite (or same) sex… which is why glandular fever is sometimes referred to as “the kissing disease”.
Now let’s apply the new asymptomatic COVID-19 orthodoxy to EBV where we define having a disease purely through the presence of a viral genome. So, according to this definition, almost everyone in the U.K. (and the world) is suffering from a new disease, asymptomatic glandular fever, and if we were to do a large-scale mass screening campaign we’d discover that there were millions of ‘cases’ of asymptomatic glandular fever in the U.K. alone!
Of course, this is complete nonsense. We aren’t all ‘suffering’ from asymptomatic glandular fever. Glandular fever requires infection by EBV, but EBV infection does not necessarily lead to glandular fever. The same is true of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 and so the concept of asymptomatic COVID-19 as a disease is as ridiculous as that of asymptomatic glandular fever.
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I remain very pessimistic about the outlook, but it is becoming very noticeable that a certain amount of “back-covering” is emerging.
It’s clear that individuals involved in the “vaccination” programme are getting scared, especially now that the government is moving towards injecting children.
We have to keep pushing the idea of Nuremberg II; it definitely worries them, going down alongside Mengele and his cronies in the annals of history.
The problem is that, as the situation worsens (there’s no doubt that the “vaccines” are a public health disaster), those involved will double-down on what they are doing.
Interesting take. I came down with it in my twenties and went on to develop “Long Glandular Fever”, which lasted a few months.
I got it two weeks after having my tonsils out. I went into hospital for the tonsillectomy weighing 7st 2lb, came out weighing 6st 12lb.
Then I caught GF, which was like having ulcers where my tonsils used to be, and couldn’t eat anything for about two weeks more…
Yup. Took me months to get back to full strength after it too. At the time I had it I was in the best physical condition I have ever been in. Was out flat for 2 months before I even started to recover. Long COVID is just bollocks.
Glandular fever is well known for having long term effects. From the NHS website: ”This is well known for glandular fever. From the NHS website: How long glandular fever lastsYou should feel better within 2 to 3 weeks. Some people might feel extremely tired for months. Try to gradually increase your activity when your energy starts to come back. Glandular fever can cause your spleen to swell. For the first month, avoid heavy lifting and sports or activities that might increase your risk of falling, as this may damage your spleen. How to stop glandular fever spreadingGlandular fever is spread through spit, so you can get it through kissing or by sharing cups or cutlery. How long glandular fever lastsYou should feel better within 2 to 3 weeks. Some people might feel extremely tired for months. Try to gradually increase your activity when your energy starts to come back. Glandular fever can cause your spleen to swell. For the first month, avoid heavy lifting and sports or activities that might increase your risk of falling, as this may damage your spleen. How to stop glandular fever spreadingGlandular fever is spread through spit, so you can get it through kissing or… Read more »
Very well explained.
I also believe Mike Yeadon demolished the Asymptomatic argument when he pointed out – I paraphrase – if you haven’t got symptoms, you are not poorly and so cannot pass anything on.
The only time that probably isn’t true is in the couple of days before developing symptoms, i.e. pre-symptomatic. Otherwise, it’s highly unlikely you can spread a virus you have zero symptoms of.
Doesn’t stop the government scaring everyone with the “one in three people” b.s.
It makes for good dystopian sci fi stories though.
I have sent in complaints to Ofcom regarding the ad constantly on the radio stating ‘1 in 3 have no symptoms and are spreading it without knowing’. My complaint is that since there is no research proving asymptomatic spread the ad is misinforming the public.
Needless to say I’ve had no replies but I’ll keep at it.
Same here and, obviously, no reply.
We need to start testing for EBV
I’m sure the PCR test could be adapted to find EBV
Death from any cause within 28days of a positive EBV test recorded as an EBV death?
As Sid James said in Twelve Angry Men ‘Hang on a minute I’m on 7/6d a day doing this, we need to keep it going’
If we had tests for a multitude of other viruses I am certain we would find all sorts in circulation without symptoms that society knew nothing about. Until they started their sorry search everywhere for this current virus, mass population screening for a virus had never been done before. AND it should be stopped now!
If only this article could be distributed to everyone in government and its advisers. I am certain many advisers are very aware that asymptomatic illness is nonsense as outlined in the article but things have gone too far to roll back.
Until the government dismiss asymptomatic transmission then the poor terrified people will remain just that. There being terrified people has sad consequences not just for them but for the whole of society as their fear is currently dominating.
Agreed. This concept of asymptomatic transmission, blindly accepted, is the root of all the madness.
Dr John Lee agrees. See link above.
Renowned immunologist Prof. Bea Stadler was shortly supporting the AS story but retracted his support after a few weeks wondering and worrying what he has done and helped to create thereby.
… because it convinces people that they are worthless, dangerous bags of filth and so is everybody else.
Of course, some people are worthless, dangerous bags of filth. We all know who they are and it’s got nothing to do with viruses.
Well … perhaps not all.
It is the root of the plan more like
I should imagine the government and its advisors are already well aware of it but they are not going to backtrack now after all the investment in pushing the ‘we are all going to die’ narrative that they set out with and have maintained ever since.
Set up a Twitter account and post it to them
https://www.hartgroup.org/asymptomatic-spread/
Through fraud, as always.
Because it’s not about the virus. It’s about control. https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/caught-red-handed-cdc-changes-test-thresholds-virtually-eliminate-new-covid-cases-among Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx’d And following on from that (from America, but no doubt coming to us in the form of a vaccine app): https://www.zerohedge.com/political/total-tyranny-well-all-be-targeted-under-governments-new-precrime-program Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under The Government’s New Pre-Crime Program “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.” – James Bamford “In the same week that the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declared that police cannot carry out warrantless home invasions in order to seize guns under the pretext of their “community caretaking” duties, the Biden Administration announced its plans for a “precrime” crime prevention agency. This particular precrime division will fall under the Department of Homeland Security, the agency notorious for militarizing the police and SWAT teams; spying on activists, dissidents and veterans; stockpiling ammunition; distributing license plate readers; contracting to build detention camps; tracking cell-phones with Stingray devices; carrying out military drills and lockdowns in American cities; using the TSA as an advance guard; conducting virtual strip searches with full-body scanners; carrying out soft target checkpoints; directing government workers to spy on Americans; conducting widespread spying networks using fusion… Read more »
This is Minority Report
I am currently suffering from asymptomatic every disease in the medical encyclopaedia, except housemaid’s knee.
Yes I am riddled with asymptomatic diseases and so is everyone else. Thank heavens for masks and social distancing or we’d all be asymptomatically dead
An excellent analysis.
I have lived for several years with the need to assess illness and treatment – the balance of benefit and harm.
I really don’t need some short-trousered, flaky, scientifically illiterate vaccine salesman (i.e. Hancock) to give advice advice about what is good for me and what risk is all about.
Without acceptance of the RT-PCR test there is no asymptomatic problem.
It has to be destroyed.
Unfortunately that would signify the end of the PCR Gold Rush for vested interests, our best and most despicable people, so we can’t be having that. Better to keep the PCR testing going, using swabs which might very well create an epidemic of cancer. This is because the swabs, which have now been studied by an uber qualified Italian scientist, Professor Antonietta Gatti, have been confirmed to contain all manner of nano-particles, including silver, aluminum, titanium, and glass fibres, which will get lodged in the throat and nose and around the blood brain barrier, which they rub with the swabs, because Covid. So it makes sense to keep the PCR scam going, keep inserting these swabs into the noses of every traveller and hospital entrant and workers and of course every British child, twice a week, for the virus with no symptoms. Not only is this a MASSIVE money spinner, it also creates the illusion of an ongoing pandemic, so they can justify more and more terrorism, more and more measures, to keep everyone safe. Covid19 has an IFR of 0.15%, so why wouldn’t you jeopardise the health of all the children in the country? Why wouldn’t you create an… Read more »
same as HSV, cold sores and the like.
Why does Chris Whitty go along with the asymptomatic nonsense? Because he wants to have managing a pandemic on his CV.
Patrick Vallance? Ditto.
Boris Johnson? Because he’s a sociopath who is doing this for kicks and giggles.
Michael Gove? Because he wants to be PM when Boris loses steam.
Susan Mitchie? Communist wants central control.
Labour Party? Wants central control.
WHO? Massively corrupt and in bed with Bill Gates.
Matt Hancock? He’s thick but not thick enough not to enrich his sister and contacts.
Scientific community writing anonymous (though good)articles? Too afraid to say the Emperor has No Clothes.
Excellent article.
I find it incredible though that we have reached a situation in this country whereby to express an opposing opinion requires you to remain anonymous.
This is the sort of fear and oppression one would usually hear about behind the Iron Curtain in the the old Soviet Union … not in the United Kingdom.
Unfortunately (for us) the iron curtain and the Soviet Union are gone. That’s why western governments have had to find new bogeymen to scare us and keep us under control.
So playing kiss-chase in my pre-young adult life may have had a protective effect against ‘the kissing disease’?
What a brilliant summary of how inaccurate language has led to bad science and thence to the insane loop of testing, variants and doom-mongering we now find ourselves in. I suggest we all cut and paste and email this piece to our MPs and the entire cabinet, if only to show that some of us, at least, know the emperor has no clothes.
Fantastic piece, sums up this lunacy excellently.
The whole pandemic has been bedevilled by the loose use of terminology, which has served to confuse and frighten.
Covid-19 is a disease caused by over activity of the immune system set off by infection with SARS-CoV-2 vIrus (btw there are other viruses that do this). COVID-19 is never asymptomatic. Infection does not always progress to Covid-19.it is infection that may have no symptoms. Testing by PCR or lateral flow is for the infection. Testing for Covid-19 includes oxygen saturation and blood tests confirming serious immune disturbance.
the overall risk of death from infection is very low. The risk of death from developing Covid-19 is much higher. Conflating the terms is inaccurate, quite apart from positive tests not necessarily meaning infection. Certainly asymptomatic infection is not disease, but Covid-19 is.
A good article. The quote at the start (in the full version) by Tony Benn is apposite. The fact is that the whole affair bears the hallmarks of typical political campaigning, selective with the truth, and a degree of language ‘flexibility’, to be generous of it.
To me, the real scary thing about it is how easy it is to manipulate people linguistically. Maybe that’s obvious to those who have spent a lot of time in less peaceful parts of the world, but it’s a bit of an eye-opener for some of us.
The ‘adjustment’ of definitions from an opportunistic point of view in your trade is part of the problem as well. In particular, using the conventional ‘vaccination’ term rather than creating a new one that is more accurate for what is on offer. Might sound clever now to classify it as a ‘vaccine’, but it could undermine the ‘real’ thing further out.
If those who believe there is an entirely different agenda here to do with world order, and that the invisible virus was used to instill fear in people, so that they would do as they are told, is possible Catherine Austin Fitts (retired asst. director of HUD under George Bush, editor of the Solari report) and others offers a thorough explanation of this theory. It does not make for a pleasant read.
I agree with every word of this article. Sorry for not commenting earlier funny really I have been receiving Lockdown Sceptics since the start every email stored since April 2020. Countless times I’ve used details, facts and evidence on friends, family and people in normal discussion, all to no avail in a lot of times.
I can see why contributors like this researcher wants to remain anonymous, I know that when I speak out with alternative statements, whoa be told me.
As “Eric Blair” once said “In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
We Sceptics know this stuff at an instinctual, common-sense level, but it’s still nice seeing it voiced in a simple yet intelligent way. One still hopes it will leak outside of ‘Zion’ into the masses.