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Perhaps Some Really Good News! 2nd Expert Asserts COVID-19 Losing Potency.
First from Reuters on May 30:
The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.
“In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,” said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s coronavirus contagion.
“The swabs that were performed over the last 10 days showed a viral load in quantitative terms that was absolutely infinitesimal compared to the ones carried out a month or two months ago,” he told RAI television.
Italy has the third highest death toll in the world from COVID-19, with 33,415 people dying since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21. It has the sixth highest global tally of cases at 233,019.
However new infections and fatalities have fallen steadily in May and the country is unwinding some of the most rigid lockdown restrictions introduced anywhere on the continent.
This morning from Zerohedge:
As if the world needed another reason to be bullish after Friday’s jobs number surprise, one doctor from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is doing his best to keep the rally going.
Dr. Donald Yealy, the chair of emergency medicine at UPMC, says that fewer people are testing positive for the virus and those who test positive don’t seem to be getting as sick.
“All signs that we have available right now show that this virus is less prevalent than it was weeks ago,” he said, according to PennLive. “Among people who test positive, the total amount of the virus the patient has is much less than in the earlier stages of the pandemic.”
He also said the proportion of those needing a ventilator has fallen. “We see all of this as evidence that COVID-19 cases are less severe than when this first started,” the doctor said.
What This Means
After the first report, Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity Blog, a man with a Ph.D. in Pathology, speculated that:
A. Since it is almost certain the COVID-19 came from a lab, then:
B. That the key human transmission element that made COVID-19 so infectious and deadly, the inserted four strings of amino acid proteins into the Spike glycoprotein (S) that are suspiciously unique to 2019-nCoV among Coronaviruses, are likely since they are inserted in a lab to be very unstable and highly likely to degrade over time.
C. What we may be seeing in the loss of potency of COVID-19 is the likely degradation of those inserted Spike glycoprotein inserts of COVID-19 that cause the infectiousness to man described in B.
If this degradation of the potency of COVID-19 proves to be true, this is incredibly game-changing great news!
It means quarantines can be ended without concern because COVID-19 will be much less infectious and that any new cases should be able to be effectively handled now with the HCQ/Zinc combination which has been proven to be very effective early in the infection process when the infection load is light, which this degradation of COVID-19 is causing.
Published in General
In other words, “Uh, oh guys! They’re onto us! The people are discovering that our terrifying predictions were transparently bogus. Quick, let’s come up with an explanation that will still allow us to justify the harsh, world-destroying lockdowns.”
Sort of kidding. Sort of.
I think this is both great and terrible news.
This instability causes a flash in the pan illness.
Perfect for a bio weapon. Lock your own people up safe for 3-6 months, but destroy your enemy with a giant dose.
Don’t think that is not in the minds of those who cooked it up the test run.
I thought this was the good news and as expected for a virus, then I saw that HCQ statement and now I don’t trust anything written (cuz MSM told me otherwise).
Viruses do tend to get weaker over time. This is usually how viruses evolved. The more deadly versions of the Corona Virus killed too quickly to spread as effectively as the most fatal forms of the virus. This has been clearly observed in epidemiology for decades if not a century or more.
Everyone knows rioting cures COVID . . .
Yep. Long-established science. But you wouldn’t know that to listen to the doomsayer “experts” who monopolize our media.
I think this is really interesting and plausible.
Are influenza viruses different? It seems like some strains keep returning.
Cases are increasing in Florida – 1200 from Saturday to Sunday – things are full tilt here – Vacation season going gangbusters – I don’t see social distancing or masks in the tourist areas, restaurants etc. People have let their guard down – now the protests –
Pride goes before a fall.