Colds, flu and Covid are mainly spread through the air and not by sharing cups and getting close to one another, World Health Organisation experts have suggested in a new report. The Mail has the story.
New guidance by a coalition of nearly 50 doctors overturned the commonly believed idea that infected droplets transferred from hard surfaces and skin are the cause of respiratory viruses like colds and flu.
The decision settled a Covid-era debate about whether some viruses like Covid spread mostly through inhaling infected air, or from contaminated surfaces.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, experts in virology welcomed the conclusion that surfaces are not as vital as previously thought, which they say should have been confirmed early on in the pandemic.
Dr. Don Milton, an expert on respiratory viruses and co-author of the new WHO guidance, told DailyMail.com: “We know that for gastrointestinal infections [hand washing and being careful touching surfaces like cups] are going to be important.
“How important they are for respiratory viruses, I think is probably a lot less.”
The WHO guidance applied to all pathogens that cause lung infections, including Covid, influenza and rhinovirus.
The report did not include non-respiratory infections, such as GI infections like norovirus, which can be spread via germs on the hands.
Until late 2020, the WHO had only considered a few infections as airborne, such as tuberculosis and measles. Most of them were classified as “droplet transmission”.
Covid was classified the same way at first. That messaging prompted millions of people in early 2020 to disinfect every surface, including groceries and mail. This even drove a shortage of cleaning supplies at the time.
But evidence grew that Covid could be transmitted via aerosolised particles. Suspended particles can remain in the air for hours, casting a pathogenic cloud over an infected person that follows him wherever he goes.
Worth reading in full.
So what was the point of social distancing, keeping 2m apart and erecting billions of Perspex barriers then? Not to mention face masks, which only block larger droplets and are useless against airborne pathogens. And does it mean the WHO won’t recommend such nonsense in a future ‘pandemic’? We’ll believe it when we see it.
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I get the sense that collectively the fact that this virus may indeed have been formed in a lab was dawning on Farrar, Fauci and co. through the early weeks of 2020. But that then a collective panic set in as they began to realise what this meant for their reputations and that of the (clearly dangerous and not in fact in the public interest) work they had been doing for may years – bearing in mind that many of the working practices appear to have been dubious in the least.
Thus there quickly emerged a collective will to suppress the lab-leak theory.
But my suspicion is that scientists in the Wuhan Lab had known about the leak since August 2019, and that they had told their American handlers about it back then. Of course, only a very, very select few people would have known about this through the rest of 2019 and into 2020. But as the virus became centre stage in the early weeks of 2020, and especially by February, they realised the lab-leak theory would have to be suppressed. Of course, it didn’t take much to induce Farrar, Fauci and co. to go along with this.
But, as Will says, the instigators of the cover-up – that is those who first started pushing for it – remain, for the time being, anonymous. Doubtless more will be revealed in time, and thus we’ll edge slowly further towards the truth.
I disagree. This article misses an essential point that is key to Fauci’s entire career. The man is an utter snake and knew exactly what was going on at the lab, who was funding it and what that meant but he is a pure political animal, an exceptionally good politician in the sense of being a great deceiver. What people perhaps don’t appreciate is there are at any time more people in government against the agenda of people like Fauci than it might feel to us after the event.
IMO his initial attitude to this was confected for the members of the meeting where he was fully aware the consensus originally was against natural origin and he was fully aware that consensus had scientific merit and that he would have to give the impression of wining people round to natural origin on it;s merits. He was also aware, more than those in that meeting, what the bombshell implications of the real story were. So the guy is talking with his colleagues assuring them he is onside and in agreement. So attuned are his political instincts he knows absolutely how to avoid tipping a future historical evidence trail definitely one way or another on such matters. But he couldn’t change the evidence of what his colleagues were saying and getting committed to meeting minutes.
Instead, IMO it will have been private personal chats and words in the ear.
“Perhaps it’s not such a good idea we present this as a lab leak, think about how that will bounce back on us.”
That kind of thing.
Sure Farrar was thoroughly in the mix. But once there was traction on that shift in direction, it was Fauci who had the resources and influence to ensnare others into writing a piece they didn’t believe in. And once that is achieved the political Co-conspirator trap is sprung. And Fauci the clever snake isn’t the one caught in it. The one caught in it is, ironically, the least politically aware, and probably the one by nature wanted to be most honest but who wasn’t resolute enough in staying true to what he really thought. The one who made the mistake of committing to stating it was most likely a lab leak even after having written a draft of the zoonotic spillover paper contradicting this belief; Kristian Andersen. Fauci is far too clever a political operator to have become ensnared in that way. Instead, IMO he is masterful at leading others to that position.
IMO this article is therefore falling completely for Fauci’s Machiavellian plotting. He has a long, long career of operating this way, always the same man has been at the centre of pharma scandal and controversy. Never implicating himself.
He’s so good at playing the political game, in a morbid way he is quite admirable. A true modern day Machiavelli.
Agree. This was 20 years in the planning. mRNA patents go back to 2000. Fauci knew and was part of the planning. CDC is a Pharma firm, so of course he was involved with all of it. He promised in 2017 a scamdemic before the next election. The Rona fascism was a DoD-CIA project and the NIIAD and CDC along with Pharma were the distribution channels. This is why VAERS, death and injury from the stabs were ignored.
Fraudci just splashed out $12 mn to buy an estate with cash along the Potomac. Need more evidence for corruption? He was rewarded for his 20 years of scamdemic planning and propaganda during the Rona fascism.
I think your hypothesis may well be plausible – that Fauci was in on the secret much earlier than Will’s article implies. But I haven’t read the original documentation so hesitate to make any assertive statements.
I wonder what Will’s thoughts on this might be?
But I remain of the opinion that a very select few (and probably not including Fauci – why would he need to know?) knew about the lab leak as far back as August 2019.
I was a little in a rush writing this this morning, so didn’t say all I wanted to. There is also the evidence of Francis Collins (an ex CDC Director, virologist, and firm believer there was a lab leak) that Fauci ensured there were “9 million reasons” for one of the zoonotic spillover paper authors to “change his mind.” Again this isn’t direct evidence because such awards are made by a committee. A committee where Fauci is the most important member and the one no one wants to cross. Then there are all the emails he has written referring to the work at the lab (which he was aware of). Then there was his pretence, at his press conference, that he had just stumbled across the zoonotic spillover paper because a colleague had sent it to him. The psychology of this makes it clear he knew exactly what he was doing and that it was downright deception and we know the motive for that deception. And then there was the continual lying about Gain of Function work being done at the lab – all qualified by him with a politician attempt to change definitions.
Yes, you are making good points and this is a most important debate.
Clearly, as you say, Fauci is an absolute snake, and there’s no depths he wouldn’t sink to in pursuit of his own interests. And it’s difficult to believe that he hadn’t suspected a lab leak from the official start in late December 2019. (Is there any evidence he knew of SARS-COV-II before this?)
As far as Will’s article goes – Who ordered the lab leak cover-up? – Fauci may well have played a major role, and certainly did from a few days into February. To me what Will appears to be teasing out is that the cover-up goes much deeper than might first appear, and that it was initiated from deeper than Fauci. Like your hypothesis, I find this too plausible. I think we need more evidence, and preferably direct rather than circumstantial evidence.
As of now I think we’re all still groping in the dark.
I suspect they didn’t know which virus had got out at first and whether it was one or many, which is why I wonder if the lockdowns were over more than just COVID-19. COVID-19 is a good cover if they thought that something worse might be out there. China’s extraordinarily brutal lockdowns and reports of screams being heard in funeral crematoria makes one wonder… How far would guilty men go to cover for their sins? In light of the last three years, we know they’d happily imprison the population of the world. So ‘what else could have escaped from the Wuhan lab?’ is worth considering.
Interesting.. but my concern is that this is simply a distraction. The scandal is not where the alleged virus came from, because this controversy bolsters the notion that there was an existential threat to civilisation that required unprecedented measures, including the loss of civil liberties. The scandal is that governments across the world acted almost in unison to become despotic and tyrannical. Who was managing this? I’d like to see those emails a lot more.
I have to agree with you, CG. Looking for real culprits and their real agenda is being sidelined by all these other rabbit holes. It’s a case of ‘hey look over there!’ when you’re uncovering the tentacles of some other power that was directing all of this in lock-step. I would say that governments worldwide ‘fell in unison’. Some governments didn’t and their leaders met untimely ends as a result.
This is another official narrative to perpetuate the myth of another ‘deadly dangerous viral pandemic’ sweeping the globe.
From all the research I’ve been doing I’ve come to the conclusion that virology is a sham, that viruses as a transmissible dangerous pathogens are a lie designed to keep big pharma in profit & that what is tested as ‘proof’ of the existence of viruses is nothing more than the body clearing out material which is toxic to the body. A cold, a runny nose, influenza symptoms are the body’s means of healing & cleaning.
Viruses do not exist.
One you wrap your head around that one – it’s taken me about 9 months – then the whole official narrative, the pharma push, the WHO’s fearmongering narrative falls apart completely.
The existence of a virus is the means to terrify the populace into compliance.
As viruses don’t exist, there is no reason to be fearful of them, hence the heavy censoring of those who have questioned that viruses are a thing.
Always ask “Cui bono?” – with the virus narrative still being promoted as a lab leak, the only folk to profit will be those who have a stake in the pharma profits.
I’m up for believing that, and wouldn’t put anything beneath the pharmaceutical industry; I can also see how easy it would have been / is for Rockefeller types to buy universities and create orthodoxies that everyone coming through the system is required to adopt. I’m sure Bill Gates is in the process of creating many of these orthodoxies right now. The fact remains though that so many people are so profoundly unaware of even the most basic facts about what’s just happened that trying to convince them that viruses don’t exist is a bridge too far. The many crimes committed in the name of that virus, real or not, are what needs to be exposed I think..
This goes all the way back to Pasteur & the development of germ theory at the expense of terrain theory, which was then heavily pushed by Rockefeller to support his pharma industry.
I agree that it would explode the minds of anyone who has fallen hook, line & sinker for the lies – I’ve been a sceptic for the past 3 years & this was really challenging to get my head round. What really nailed it for me was work by Beverly Rubik about the effects of radiation on the physiology of the human body & how those physiological effects have been hijacked to create the false narrative using useless PCR testing to create the scamdemic. I’ve just been joining up a lot of dots which on their own were interesting, but once connected reveal the sheer extent of the lies, fraud & propaganda to perpetuate the money making & capture of the narrative by these evil parasitic class.
Link to a presentation by Beverly Rubik: https://rumble.com/v30y8oi-adverse-health-effects-of-wireless-communication-radiation-by-berverly-rubi.html
Apologies, I’m not actually fully aware of the details of terrain theory. But if viruses don’t exist then by what mechanisms do we ‘catch’ diseases? Why do certain diseases come in clusters in a population, and clearly appear to be transmitted from one person to another?
Those very points are what makes it so difficult to get your head around this. We don’t transmit flu or covid to one another. The symptoms of a cold or flu are due to the body clearing toxins out of the cells. We are constantly bombarded with toxins in the air, water, food & when these accumulate in the body, disease occurs. When they reach a critical mass, a healing crisis occurs. These symptoms are the healing process.
We’re exposed to EMF as a group, we’re exposed to fear porn as a group, we’re exposed to cold weather as a group etc & stress also affects how the body responds to external toxins. It can appear that there is a wave of infection going through a community when in fact it is a wave of stress, or temperature or an increase in EMF impacting on a community to which we each respond individually.
If you want to dig deeper & get your head around this look at the work of Sam Bailey (though she is a bit of a no virus fundamentalist), Alec Zeck who is more understanding of how difficult it is for folk to wrap their head around it & the work of Arthur Firstenberg on EMF (he’s totally bought into Net Zero so ignore that bit! but you can’t be right all of the time).
You can learn about their work in presentations on this Rumble site: https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Ok thanks, can’t say I’m convinced though. If a cold or flu is the body clearing out toxins (which in a sense even with the viral theory I suppose it is) then why is it someone brings a cold into the house and everyone goes down one by one? Why should there be a short lag in them each reaching a critical mass of toxins? Don’t the observed phenomena strongly suggest – to the point of proving – something being passed from one person to another? And why shouldn’t that something be a virus?
I do believe, however, that our relationships with viruses are a lot more complicated that is often presented or generally understood.
I strongly advise you to do your own research, seek out as broad a range of information as possible & come to your own conclusion. I don’t have the knowledge to give detailed answers to your questions – which are all reasonable given the history of everything we’ve been taught about viruses. One reason for folk going down with a cold one after the other has been proposed as being expecting to become ill if they’ve been around folk who have symptoms ie the psychological aspect of ill health a bit like a placebo effect.
The interesting bit about the going down one by one is that in studies where healthy folk have been purposely exposed to bodily fluids ie snot, saliva, lung mucous from an ill person the symptoms have not occurred in those test subjects, which removes that mode of transmission.
Enjoy researching ‘cos it’s very interesting & challenges one’s belief system.
Thank you for posting this. I agree that the virus argument is full of holes.
Have you seen this? (18) Prather Point Interview – by Sasha Latypova (substack.com)
Why does no one go to prison for white collar crime?
They own the judiciary and the prisons I guess.
So, in summary, bad guys did bad things. ‘Usual suspects’ were heavily involved: Farrar, Fauci, Ghebreyesus, WHO, Big Pharma. Who’d have thunk it?
I want people tried and sentenced!
To a long drop on the end of a short rope.
Squeamish downvoter? Mass murderers? After a trial. Really?
I am surprised that Putin hasn’t been blamed. He gets fingered for most of the ills in the West by the Yanks. Failing that it must be Trump.
We have our answer in the first sentence of this piece
“Who instigated the cover-up”
“WHO to look into it in an impartial way.”
The words “who” and “impartial” in the same sentence! Now there’s a side splitter!
“But a glance at the NAS teleconference invite list below indicates he [Jeremy Farrar] doesn’t appear to have been involved (unless he was blind copied).”
The invite list has over 50% of the names blacked-out. Couldn’t one of them have been Farrar?
It’s the email addresses which have been redacted.
Thanks, that makes Will’s comment make sense to me now.
Rand Paul gets the go ahead to prosecute Fauci & next day his office burns down !! How Queer
Just a cock up. An honest mistake. A coincidence.
Very interesting read and comment thread gives me hope that those guilty will eventually be exposed.
I watched Rand Paul question Fauci (probably on you tube ? Now) about gain of function. Fauci’s manipulative strategies in his choice of language reply was plain to see and hear. He definitely has something to hide which may well be the end of him, as he plays in a very dangerous geo political group of people. Hence the lengths he goes to so he can avoid his masters? wrath. WHO and their cabal comrade IMO.
I have read the snake analogy hear; More accurate description is a ‘pit of vipers’.
The cover-up goes much deeper than the Wuhan Lab leak. The origins of Covid SARS 2 were American scientists developing a virological weapon for the American Military. Only when it got too close and dangerous was it exported to China. The original scientific developers had no idea how far it would spread once it was possibly deliberately leaked in China.