"If the comments attributed here to Mike Yeadon are true then he is firmly in the "there is no SARS-COV-2 virus" camp - which means that all of you who had symptomatic COVID (symptoms of a viral illness with a positive COVID test - for which the same test was negative when you didn't have symptoms) were imagining it.
The people taking this approach, whilst correctly implying that fear of more viruses should not drive the population to accept and fund more
DURC (a moratorium on virology research is needed) , are also de facto suggesting that the minority of people who are at risk of post-viral pneumonia should not be treated with preventative therapy (because viruses don't exist therefore the disease cannot exist).
Most of the people behind this idea don't understand that treating the elderly and frail at risk of post-viral pneumonia is essential to prevent a high risk of mortality in those groups."
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-yeadon-comments-on-epidemic-of
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I’m currently not able to respond to this poor logic. I’ve applied to join the group solely to try to put them right. Though it’s embarrassingly weak logic.
1. I’ve never said people were not sick in 2020, or at any other time. If they think I have, I invite them to cite where I’ve done that.
2. I say again, you can be sick in, say, 2020 & it not be “covid”. There are no signs & symptoms that even it’s proponents agree are pathognomic for so called covid19. It’s classified as an “influenza-like illness”.
3. We even now do not know the cause of ILIs. Even those who believe in influenza viruses do not have an explanation for the assumed causative agent in the majority of such cases.
4. Transmission of symptoms from person to person in people with ILIs and common colds, both acute (rapid onset) respiratory illnesses, does not occur. I realise this runs counter to everything we’ve been told. But that’s what the extensive, published evidence is telling us. Thus, we need to recalibrate our understanding of what’s going on.
5. People do not experience ILIs very often. Perhaps a small handful through the entire life of an individual. This means it’s certain that quite a proportion of people experiencing an ILI will deem it their most severe case they’ve ever had. This is to be expected if you think it through. It cannot therefore be cited as evidence either that there’s a new pathogen or that there’s been a pandemic.
6. This is why there’s a subject called epidemiology. If there was a pandemic, we’d see it in the all causes mortality. It’s missing. Before a pandemic could be called, medical events must have preceded it. These events didn’t happen. All causes mortality did not increase until after WHO fraudulently called a pandemic. Simultaneously with that announcement, by prior arrangements, many governments ensured that medical treatment of sick people changed in important ways. In any previous time, if you were to review those changes, in hospitals, care homes & the community, you’d predict that avoidable deaths would increase. And they did. This, coupled with the meaningless PCR-based clinical diagnostic “test”, provided the deaths expected in a “pandemic”.
7. Of course I support early treatment of illnesses. If HCQ, IVM & corticosteroids have utility in certain illnesses, I defend physicians right to use their judgements. That is entirely different from individuals who have worked very hard for “early treatment of covid19”. Pushing early treatment at this juncture, knowing there wasn’t a new illness let alone a pandemic is achieving what the perpetrators want. The public convinced there was a fearful pandemic and afraid there’ll be another.