I appreciate that you are writing this in the technical terms with which you are accustomed to. I do not share your scientific background and wish I had a lay person's translation. Would you consider providing a conclusion that would be easier to understand? You could present it at the end or beginning of your posts. Thank you for your ideas and know how.
Another thought. With this mechanism the claimed escape dates from the Wuhan lab would be even more dubious, at least the dates I read of. My reasoning being that I had a severe flu in the last weeks of November/first Weeks of December 2019. So bad that even though I was recovering and travelled with my family to a family Christmas dinner I didn't go to the residential home my uncle is in because I feared passing on such a bad flu. It was an unusual flu in hindsight. Not only in terms of the 'depth' and 'extent' of coughing; I was bed-ridden for over a week and still coughed intermittently for some time afterwards. BUT in that after the Christmas party only one other individual became ill, also an older male. (I wasn't so selfish that I hadn't confirmed whether my presence or absence from the meal would be preferred, and being it was before COVID was even heard of, everyone said 'come'.)
When COVID came along I immediately told my virologist son - "It was COVID - perfect symptomatically in every way." I refused the vaccine because both my son and I wanted to try and prove if it was COVID so I waited for an anti-body test. A test eventually came along and I volunteered for it. The Testers were sceptical over my claims but surprised when the antibody profile was that of a COVID resistant individual and no vaccine profile (I presume they had baselines for the various possibilities, though none were ever shown to me except my own.)
They were also sceptical that following my bout of COVID I had been surprisingly healthy ever since, and so I doubted at my age (late 60's) I'd have had a non-symptomatic variety. This 'healthy' period has continued except for a second bout of COVID virtually 2 years to the day after the first bout. The second time I hardly coughed and simply felt permanently sleepy so went to bed for 5 days then recovered. I cannot emphasise how 'well' I have been in terms of colds/flu or any type of respiratory infections. Something that has appeared very odd in my mind, unless perhaps there is something related to COVID truly 'out-competing' other viruses and so I've not been exposed to as many as there would normally have been. I wait to see if the 2 year cycle is still in existence as this November will be 2 years since my second dose of COVID and 4 years since my first.
One final point. Though my original refusal of the vaccines were because I wanted to be able to prove I had COVID earlier than it was claimed to have appeared. It didn't take very long for me to be glad of the excuse as I slowly came to realise what an mRNA vaccine does and I had no intention of taking part in the greatest vaccine trial in history. Not all my family were of the same mind, and curiously, or perhaps not, the vaccinated have had COVID as many times as me after their vaccinations, and I've never caught it when they had it. Or at least not symptomatically.
My apologies. This was my first reading of your substack and that 'mystery' was one of the ones my son (now an ex-virologist as he just got so fed up with the 'appliance of science' during the Covid pandemic he gave up and changed career) was one of a number of curious flu/viral outbreaks that he was discussing with me some time ago that suggested we didn't have the method of infection etc all sussed as claimed officially.
I appreciate that you are writing this in the technical terms with which you are accustomed to. I do not share your scientific background and wish I had a lay person's translation. Would you consider providing a conclusion that would be easier to understand? You could present it at the end or beginning of your posts. Thank you for your ideas and know how.
Thank you for writing this...I've had to read it a few times to try to get my head around it. Please continue.
Another thought. With this mechanism the claimed escape dates from the Wuhan lab would be even more dubious, at least the dates I read of. My reasoning being that I had a severe flu in the last weeks of November/first Weeks of December 2019. So bad that even though I was recovering and travelled with my family to a family Christmas dinner I didn't go to the residential home my uncle is in because I feared passing on such a bad flu. It was an unusual flu in hindsight. Not only in terms of the 'depth' and 'extent' of coughing; I was bed-ridden for over a week and still coughed intermittently for some time afterwards. BUT in that after the Christmas party only one other individual became ill, also an older male. (I wasn't so selfish that I hadn't confirmed whether my presence or absence from the meal would be preferred, and being it was before COVID was even heard of, everyone said 'come'.)
When COVID came along I immediately told my virologist son - "It was COVID - perfect symptomatically in every way." I refused the vaccine because both my son and I wanted to try and prove if it was COVID so I waited for an anti-body test. A test eventually came along and I volunteered for it. The Testers were sceptical over my claims but surprised when the antibody profile was that of a COVID resistant individual and no vaccine profile (I presume they had baselines for the various possibilities, though none were ever shown to me except my own.)
They were also sceptical that following my bout of COVID I had been surprisingly healthy ever since, and so I doubted at my age (late 60's) I'd have had a non-symptomatic variety. This 'healthy' period has continued except for a second bout of COVID virtually 2 years to the day after the first bout. The second time I hardly coughed and simply felt permanently sleepy so went to bed for 5 days then recovered. I cannot emphasise how 'well' I have been in terms of colds/flu or any type of respiratory infections. Something that has appeared very odd in my mind, unless perhaps there is something related to COVID truly 'out-competing' other viruses and so I've not been exposed to as many as there would normally have been. I wait to see if the 2 year cycle is still in existence as this November will be 2 years since my second dose of COVID and 4 years since my first.
One final point. Though my original refusal of the vaccines were because I wanted to be able to prove I had COVID earlier than it was claimed to have appeared. It didn't take very long for me to be glad of the excuse as I slowly came to realise what an mRNA vaccine does and I had no intention of taking part in the greatest vaccine trial in history. Not all my family were of the same mind, and curiously, or perhaps not, the vaccinated have had COVID as many times as me after their vaccinations, and I've never caught it when they had it. Or at least not symptomatically.
This would explain this little mystery would it not?
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/surprise-over-covid-19-cases-onboard-fishing-vessel-after-35-days-at-sea.phtml
I believe that I quoted this strange case plus others in one of the sections of my initial articles.
My apologies. This was my first reading of your substack and that 'mystery' was one of the ones my son (now an ex-virologist as he just got so fed up with the 'appliance of science' during the Covid pandemic he gave up and changed career) was one of a number of curious flu/viral outbreaks that he was discussing with me some time ago that suggested we didn't have the method of infection etc all sussed as claimed officially.