In September 2020, I became one of the first U.K. doctors to speak out about damaging Covid policy. Since January 2021, I have co-chaired the multidisciplinary HART group, publishing evidence-based analysis on Covid issues in an attempt to educate the public.
In 2021 it became clear that it was very challenging to persuade people face-to-face that the Government had chosen a dangerous path with its Covid policies. If someone listened long enough to understand one crucial point, the conversation would end with them in cognitive dissonance, unable to reconcile their other beliefs with what they had just learned.
The obvious answer to requiring someone’s attention for a little longer was to write a book. The challenge was to write in a way that ensured no reader would feel angry or foolish. The result was, Expired – Covid the untold story, a book that tackles 12 key Covid myths related to virus spread, lockdowns, asymptomatic infections and the efficacy of masks. Each one is addressed from the starting point of what was the dominant belief system before showing where the arguments did not fit. Each of these beliefs is interspersed with chapters which investigate the psychology of our beliefs, why we believe what we believe, the impact of fear and what it takes to change our minds.
It is a readable book for a layperson and consequently it is not the maths book that many people expected me to write. Instead, it is a summary of what the evidence shows and leaves the details to be referenced elsewhere. It is rich with metaphors and analogies to ensure that even complex concepts are digestible. It also covers far more than just science and psychology. To fully understand the issues requires a history lesson, a bit of religion and plenty of understanding of human failing!
A central theme is the significantly overlooked role of aerosols in exhaled breath – a crucial factor in virus transmission. A comprehensive understanding of this sheds light on why lockdowns and other restrictions failed to yield expected results. However, the physicists specialising in aerosols, despite their expertise, were disregarded and silenced by the medical community, which was tenaciously holding on to a misinformed belief about aerosols that almost unbelievably centred on the wrong number being used in a textbook.
Complicating the matter, the medical community still held onto echoes of a 150 year-old debate between germ theory and miasma theory, causing physicians to dismiss the possibility that microorganisms could be airborne via aerosols, despite a substantial body of evidence supporting this.
The irony is that the proponents of germ theory, who had to fight fiercely for their views to be accepted, adopted some beliefs, specifically about close-contact transmission and asymptomatic transmission, which were not supported by empirical evidence. Because these ideas had been entrenched in medical education and textbooks, they were perceived as fact and seldom challenged.
I have always enjoyed reading non-fiction but was always in awe of how much work the authors must have put into their books. It turns out I was right about just how much work such a book takes! The meticulous research meant that I learnt a lot on the way too so I hope that even if some of the story is familiar to you, there will be plenty for you to learn too.
More than any of the above, Expired is a call to action to reinforce the ethical principles that have guided Western societies for centuries, highlighting the damage done by overriding them during the pandemic and the urgent need to restore them.
Now that the fear and panic era of Covid is finally dissipating it is time for a rational and calm reanalysis of events. The Covid Inquiry is years away from reporting on political decision-making and so far there is marked evidence of bias in the approach being taken. Expired makes sense of the real-world evidence and exposes how ‘The Science’ was based on flawed assumptions that led to devastating policy.
I thoroughly explored avoiding Amazon altogether and using independent publishers, warehousing and shipping but it was simply not economically viable. It is therefore available exclusively on Amazon. It is available as a paperback, on Kindle or as an audiobook (read by me). The reviews so far have been overwhelmingly positive and I would really appreciate your feedback too.
Dr. Clare Craig is a diagnostic pathologist and co-Chair of the HART group. She is the author of Expired – Covid the untold story.
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A huge thank you to you and to HART.
You provided the evidence to reassure so many of us that it was not us on this site that were the raving lunatics…..
Here’s an interesting study on virus transmission that would be impossible to conduct today.
The results are, to say the least, troubling.
https://www.iflscience.com/grim-experiments-on-prisoners-during-the-spanish-flu-pandemic-did-not-go-to-plan-59242
Exactly what I wrote below, downvoted by the uninformed. No proof is offered by Clare on her transmission theory. Emphasis on theory from 160 years ago. FFS.
Thank you.
I support Clare and HART but she is wrong about germ theory and airborne viral transmission. There is not a single study proving this. Nothing.
Show me evidence how the magic virus flies through the air like a bird and then infects me. Outside the host the virus dies. Simple as that. See Bechamp.
And it is still a theory they argue over – so where is the god damn science? Even Pasteur the quack admitted his theory was bullshit. The US military has done plenty of studies looking at contagion in a group between those ill with the flu and the healthy – all with a negative outcome.
https://advances.massgeneral.org/research-and-innovation/article.aspx?id=1228
You are giving away the fact you have not read the book.
It is packed full of evidence – and yes I do present the evidence that supports terrain theory too.
The point is more about what the evidence shows that cannot be true and yet was believed by those in positions of power.
Great title and full respect to the heroic Dr Craig, a source of insight and encouragement through the darkest days of deception.
We must trust our own eyes, not just with covidism but also climatism.
May you sell many copies!
God bless you and similar courageous medics.
Thank you for keeping me sane for the last three plus years.
At first I thought I was the only human being on the bloody planet who could see what was really going on.
We will win this. More people are waking up.
The mRNA jabs will be confined to the dustbin of history and with a bit of luck those who promoted them will face a similar fate (Hopefully a worse one).
If it were not for my lovely wife, I would have thought the same – that I was the only one. Stay sane, Sforzesca!
Wow.
Just suppose that the whole premise of pathogen /disease/illness/death was based upon an entirely false paradigm
Bechamp Rules.
Indeed. In May my huz was floored for a week with some flu-like lurgy. Fever, chills, bunged up etc, the lot. In fact, for 2 entire days he didn’t even come downstairs and only got up to go to the toilet. I still slept in the same bed but had the window open every night. Neither me nor kiddo got even a sniffle. She had a cold for a full week on a different occasion and neither me nor huz got anything. So it’s definitely not a given that just because you live with someone who’s ill with a virus you’re also going to get it. Interesting stuff…Not sure if it’s related but huz is the only one in the house who’s been jabbed with Moderna X2. Me, kiddo and the cat are most definitely non-GMOs.
So he does. Flying scary viruses simply don’t exist.
“I thoroughly explored avoiding Amazon altogether and using independent publishers, warehousing and shipping but it was simply not economically viable. “
In the real wold nothing of us is totally pure. It’s more important to keep getting the message out.
I’ve ordered one via A, potential delivery from 1/8 – so we’ll see!
Dear Doctor Craig (for you deserve the title, Doctor),
Thank you for everything you’ve done, are doing and I hope will do for a long time to come.
I notice you have not referred to this horrific period of human history as a “pandemic”. For you, more than many others, know that it was no such thing.
Godspeed.
Kind regards,
MAk.
Hope, strength and fortitude to those who think and judge for themselves.
Epidemics don’t grow exponentially as easily illustrated with a game of cards.
Whatever anyone thinks about Amazon, Audible is brilliant. You can listen while doing simple but time-consuming tasks such as washing dishes, tidying, resting, walking, etc I’ve ‘read’ ten times more books via Audible than I used to read before Audible, and I’ll certainly get this book, read by Claire Craig herself.
I’ve purchased it.
Doctor Craig, I would like to thank you for being the calm voice of common sense over the past 3 years. I suspect that your speaking out and going against the CV narrative has cost you a lot and shows great courage. I look forward to reading the books.
Well done, Claire, it is massive-when you attempt to tell the whole story-as you say the real world data/evidence is absolutely conclusive yet no one in authority admits to, or is accountable for the disastrous decisions. I held an ambition to write the story of the damage to children–the evidence just goes on and on–I stopped at 16000+ words.https://hughmccarthy.substack.com/p/these-people-are-still-in-power-they
Only read the first chapter but so far so good.
Thank you Dr Craig for your strength and fortitude you together with the likes of Toby Young and other sensible dissenting figures have (and I know this is becoming a cliche but it’s so true) kept me sane over the last three years or so.
Good luck with the book you deserve every success.
Thank you for all your scientific work!
The miracle of technology, purchased while sitting having breakfast in Cala Galdana
I’m afraid I refuse to use Amazon so I won’t be buying it. I’ll order it from the library or get a second-hand copy in due course.
Where do you draw the line with that attitude?
If the library is displaying the trans-promoting rainbow flag, are you still going to order it from the library?
Do you think your refusal to buy anything from Amazon will have much impact?
Before you might buy a second-hand copy in due course, would you check to make sure the book wasn’t originally purchased from Amazon? How about Waterstones, would that be okay?
You will probably be able to purchase it from a High Street bookshop. They do still actually exiist
(Hopefully they won’t order it from amazon….)
Hi
I have just ordered.
Are you able to do the same with Net Zero???