Following
on from my previous post on Coronavirus conspiracy theories, today’s post
features three further refutations by the Greek doctor. (Any translation
malfunctions are down to me!)
The
other day, masked-up and be-gloved, I was travelling on the city-service bus when
a fellow-passenger urged me not to be afraid. His reason: ‘It’s all a game, a
trick by the powers that be. There never was an illness!’ When I asked why, then, he was wearing a
mask, he replied that his daughter, a pharmacist, insisted he wear it and had
advised him never to visit a hospital for any reason as they don’t adequately
disinfect these places. So …… confusion!
:O Is there a viral danger or not??!! :O Well, my response is that I am capable
of protecting myself, thus the masks and gloves. But it’s other people and
their thinking I’m afraid of!
Quite a
few young people were not wearing a mask on the bus. Their reasons were:
- I forgot it
- It inconveniences me to wear one
- I’m not sick!
- You can wear two instead.
There is no reasoning to be had there!
Anyway,
on to the refutations.
Myth no. 4: Deaths
associated with other causes are attributed to the Covid-19.
The Coronovirus is not like the flu - it hits many systems of our
organism. Above all, it has been shown to be associated with thickening of the
blood, increased danger of blood clots and thus can cause strokes, difficulty
in breathing, pulmonary embolisms and multiple organ failure. Consequently, it
is right to attribute all of these conditions to the virus as cause of death.
This is the globally accepted practice in terms of measuring the death toll
from specific, highly infectious diseases because the viral presence always
increases the mortality rate for individual illnesses. In addition, the cause
of death of people with pre-existing conditions, can clearly be attributed to
the virus. If, for example, a heart patient becomes sick, his heart-function is
affected by the virus and he consequently dies, then that is clearly caused by
the virus since, without the viral presence, he wouldn’t have lost his life. As
for young people who have died, it has been recorded that around 80% of them
are obese, yet one cannot say that the cause of death is obesity!
Finally, this same
practice is in operation globally in recording cause of death from the flu and
from the HIV virus. In that way, the Covid-19 deaths are not being
underestimated. In some countries, however, this practice is deliberately not
being followed, to present fewer deaths and to show better results in dealing
with the pandemic.
Myth no. 5 The Coronovirus was known in the past; it has been brought to
the foreground
now for other reasons.
To argue this, they
bring in the famous Dettol label which has been around for many years and
claims that that antiseptic is effective against Coronoviruses. Coronoviruses,
then, have been known since 1960 and the previous great epidemics of Coronoviruses
were those of SARS-CoV and MERS CoV, while there are four more known such
viruses with milder symptoms. This pandemic is caused by a new member of the
Coronovirius family, SARS-CoV-2, which began to spread to man at the end of
2019.
Myth no. 6 : This is a global conspiracy aimed at restricting our
personal freedoms, to vaccinate us, etc.
I’m
tired of seeing countless conspiracy theories being circulated on the internet.
If there is a global conspiracy, then I have never seen such a badly organized
one. Where the leaders of every country feel ambivalent as to how to respond,
where they say one thing and then say another, when one country doesn’t take
any measures and another enforces quarantine.
Two things are evident:
1. The pandemic caught
the people of the USA and the UK unawares, ill-prepared and forced to
improvise. The countries of E Asia, having significant experience of large
epidemics in the past, did much better.
2) The chief concern
of leaders is not to keep us penned in, but to bring us back as quickly as
possible to normal life, so as to restore the economy without too much damage.
Now how can that be compatible with a global conspiracy of keeping us
closed in and restricting our freedoms? I cannot grasp that!
As for the vaccination, many writers say that there are already vaccines
ready, which will change our DNA, they will radiate us with 5G and they will
insert an electronic chip in us. Now it is well known that Bill Gates has,
through his charitable foundation, donated 40 billion dollars over the past few
years. Yet now the representative of the ‘bad’ Bill Gates has one main
objective: to implant an electronic chip into Soula from Petralona! (Which
roughly translates as Senga from Springburn or
Maisie from Craigmillar!)
None of that deserves a response or comment. I
will only say that, thanks to the stupidity of those opposed to vaccination,
diseases which had disappeared are making their appearance once more, and there
have been hundreds of thousands of deaths thanks to those people. Of the
thousands of deaths annually from the flu, 80%-90% could have been avoided had
there been vaccination.
So there you have it!
The most wide-spread one is the global conspiracy theory. But I do have to
share the ‘worst’ one I’ve heard so far:
The virus is a Chinese lab product, specially designed to attack the DNA
of Muslims.
That completely confounds logic, science and is
outrageously racist.
While preparing this post, I raised
the question: what is the difference between the terms illness and disease?
Though they are often synonymous in use, a distinction can be made. This is one
response I rather liked:
An illness is the sense
of being unwell, out of sorts. It’s what takes you off to the doctor’s. And when
you leave the surgery it is with a disease – a clinically classified set of
symptoms.
Stay
safe and symptom-free! :)
