Some Things Can Not Be Seen So Easily
I don’t really want to be doing another debate on Virus existence. Its like arguing Religion, people believe what they want and can choose the facts they want, and that goes for both sides.
I said all I have to say here.
That said I had a bit of back and forth with Ray and he came back with a post I will reply to. Since I dont think most of my subscribers are that interested I wont email my post
As someone who grew up in a household with 6 siblings and 2 parents with 1 bathroom and 3 bedrooms I can assure you viruses exist. I watched all of us except my parents who already had chickenpox get it one by one during one outbreak in the 60’s, as well as the flu and various colds although not all of us were affected each time someone got sick with a flu or cold. A reason for that is every person on the planet, even family, have unique immune systems. There is no virus that will infect 100% of the population (some mild viruses like chicken pox come close) , some portion will always have natural immunity. This is natures way of ensuring no species with a highly evolved immune system will be exterminated by a novel virus
Taking a sample from patient and culturing it and collecting virus after centrifugation is virologists definition of isolate. Its all thats needed to perform other steps in fulfilling Rivers postulate. If you insist on a purified virus without culture as a definition of isolate you will never be satisfied that viruses exist. I cant help anyone who does insist. Viruses are nanoparticles, they only replicate in cells. They can only be seen in blood or tissue outside a cell if the viral load is extremely high, and even then there will be much debris and other particles in the specimen. Unlike bacteria, you cant grow more virus to see and experiment with without a culture.
Culturing virus is hard. Each virus requires a certain cell type and specific conditions in which to replicate. An infected specimen will be dominated by the virus that is of interest Thats why a specimen with multiple viruses (others may be present in very low numbers) will yield yield a culture dominated by one virus and after repeated culture only one virus will be present or at least it will predominate. Antibiotics prevent any bacteria from growing. Controls are used to ensure cells don’t die when the medium sans infected sample is introduced
Ultra Purification, which is being confused with isolation is is extremely expensive using chromatography and other methods and commercial samples are only available if there is a commercial need for the product such as for vaccine development or gene therapy. There is no such market for Sars-Cov-2 since the spike is too pathogenic for the virus to be used as gene therapy and mRNA products have eliminated the need for the purified virus
Todays sequencing is advanced enough that you don’t even need to culture the virus and you can sequence it from the specimen directly if you know most of its sequence already. This has been done many hundreds of thousands of times if not millions of times with sequences deposited in databases. For novel viruses you need to culture, which was done with Sars-Cov-2 by many different labs in many different countries and sequences shared and deposited.
As for the genome being patched together by computer, of course it is, because its beyond the ability of man to do, even relatively small genomes like viruses. It took us over 15 years to sequence the human genome using only Sanger Sequencing. Today we can do the same in days with NGS.
Bioinformatics is a fascinating topic. I have spent quite a lot of time trying to make sense of it myself and was in the process of trying to do a post to explain it so it looks less like magic. Had to put it down for awhile as I got distracted. Will try to put something together when I get time
Every country has scientists, including our self made enemies in China and Russia. Why have both fallen for a viral pandemic that does not exist? Why not use their knowledge that its a fake to make Western governments look like idiots. Maybe you want to argue that they use it for the same reason, to control their people, but China already has full control over their people. Not only control but full support by the vast majority (I lived there for awhile so know this first hand).
Furthermore, would the military waste so much time researching viruses and vaccines and jabbing their soldiers for something that does not exist. Generals are not dumb.
So thats all I got.
Carry on.