What is Covid-19? Is it really different than the flu? Mike Stone of ViroLIEgy breaks it down...

Mike Stone of ViroLIEgy breaks it down...

by Mike Stone

Stop me if you've heard this one before. You are in a conversation with someone and the topic of “Covid-19” comes up. You explain that “Covid-19” is nothing more than a new label for the same symptoms of disease that is seen every single year. The idea that there is a new disease was bolstered by a powerful pharmaceutical fear campaign, media hype, and fraudulent PCR testing. There is nothing new under the sun. The other person responds back saying that they know that “Covid-19” is real. They either state that they had “Covid” themselves or that they know someone else who had “it.” They claim that the symptoms were intense and unlike anything that anyone has ever experienced before. Thus, “Covid-19” is a new disease.

These types of responses are all too common as there is this prevailing belief amongst the population that, in spite of the lack of evidence to support this contention, there are new and specific symptoms that define “Covid-19” as a new disease. For instance, many believe that an acute loss of smell and taste is a new feature that is specific to “Covid.” A media frenzy promoting this as a new sign of the disease became ingrained in the collective consciousness when reports of positive patients experiencing these symptoms began circulating in March 2020. Originally, common indicators such as a fever, cough, and shortness of breath were the main warning signs that we were supposed to look out for if anyone feared that they had “Covid.” However, in late April 2020, the CDC added six more symptoms under the “Covid” umbrella as mass testing began to roll out. These included chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell. In a clever case of subliminal messaging, the word new was often put in front of “loss of taste and smell” as a way to implant the idea that this occurence was previously unheard of.

If symptoms were compared between “Covid” and other respiratory diseases, such as the flu, the loss of smell and taste was listed as common to “Covid” with a bright green checkmark, while it was the only symptom listed as uncommon to the flu with a big red X.

Stories circulated across the mainstream media stating that the loss of smell and taste were significant and were an early warning sign of “Covid.” Once the CDC listed them amongst the known symptoms, this “confirmed” anecdontal reports from March 2020 that the loss of smell and taste meant that people were otherwise asymptomatic “virus-producing” machines walking around and “infecting” others. In fact, one could be presumed positive for “Covid” based solely upon this phenomenon:

CDC confirms six coronavirus symptoms showing up in patients over and over

“The additions confirm what patients and doctors have been reporting anecdotally for weeks. In particular, the loss of taste or smell has been known to appear in patients since at least mid-March when a British group of ear, nose and throat doctors published a statement amid growing concern that it could be an early sign someone is infected but otherwise asymptomatic.

A study of European covid-19 patients found that between 85.6 percent and 88 percent of patients “reported olfactory and gustatory dysfunctions, respectively.” In an Iranian study, 76 percent of covid-19 patients who reported a loss of smell said it had a sudden onset. In many of the cases, anosmia, as it’s called, appeared before other symptoms.

“It scared the hell out of me,” said Vallery Lomas, a 34-year-old champion baker, who feared she would never get her senses of smell and taste back. “I could smell nothing for probably five days.”

Lomas was presumed positive for covid-19 in the midst of writing a cookbook. Smell and taste are intertwined, so some people who think they have lost both senses may have lost only their sense of smell.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/27/six-new-coronavirus-symptoms/

These early reports highlighting lesser known symptoms led people to the belief that there are specific telltale features of a new disease called “Covid-19.” However, is this true, or is it merely media hype? Is the loss of smell and taste really a new and/or specific feature that can identify “Covid” from other respiratory diseases? Are there any other defining signs or symptoms that sets “Covid” apart from the rest of the crowd? Is it even possible for “Covid” to be diagnosed clinically based upon symptoms alone? Are there any laboratory or histopathological findings that distinguishes “Covid” as a new disease? Is “Covid” technically even a “new” disease, or is it simply a rebranding of the same symptoms under a new umbrella term?

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Kenny Palurintano is a voluntaryist author, activist, vegan chef, nomad and sage.  He wanders the planet with a backpack and a decade-old laptop running Windows 7, and barely smart phone, making an outsized impact in every place he lands.  His knowledge spans anarchist thought to crypto to hip hop to health.  He facilitates events that combine spiritual improvement and the leading artists of the liberty movement.   He creates community and brings the vibe from the Rainbow Gathering to the White Rose. He can be found on Odysee at https://odysee.com/@palurintano:d and will be at the Greater Reset in Morelia, Mexico in January with Etienne, Derrick Broze, Ramiro Ramani, and more! The Art of Liberty Foundation is pleased to offer a collection of his writings in the Government-Scam.com/Store

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