The statement
“This virus was termed a new virus, and Covid-19 was termed a new disease. But in fact neither the virus is really new, nor is the disease really new, because the Corona viruses have been with us since man … since the beginning of mankind. These are viruses that co-exist with us, and so every year, and every few months, a virus will change a little bit, because they mutate all the time. They have to mutate, otherwise they can’t keep on (you know) going back and forth between you and me and animals and whatever you want. So it’s a completely normal thing that these viruses which are the most successful viruses in the world – together with the flu viruses, by the way – because they manage to keep the host alive. They don’t kill the host. They don’t want to kill us. They want to come and visit me, and then they want to go and visit the next guy (you know). And in order to be able to do this they change very little, all the time, so that when they come back next year they come and visit me again. Otherwise my immune system would not allow their entry at all. You see this is something that people don’t really understand. So when we started reading up to see what’s going on we realised that no-one knew about this.”
The source
Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, former head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany); and co-author of Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnpnBYgGARE )
My take on it
If you relied on the mainstream media you would struggle to take in what Dr Bhakdi is saying.
Which is precisely what he has been motivated to say it, and to write about it.
Most of us have heard something about gut health, and about ‘good’ and ‘bad bacteria’. But if you relied on the mainstream media you would probably not know that each of us also has over 300 trillion viruses on board, broadly categorised into six groups and 22 Families, of which Corona viruses are one. Those viruses are collectively called our virome. It would be fair to say that this field of scientific endeavour is in its infancy, as to characterisation, and behaviour, and function, and in its understanding of the virome’s dynamic interaction with our own cells and with the other fellow travellers in this walking zoo of ours – bacteria, fungi, archaea, exosomes and other extra-cellular vesicles – our human biome.
However you choose to explain it, we are indeed ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’.
Professor Bhakdi is a subject matter expert. His knowledge is in conflict with mainstream health policy and medical practice in this matter.
As always, you have your choice of experts. You get to choose who you believe, and what you believe.
I believe there is a case for a T-shirt that says
I am positive
I have Corona virus.
And on the back?
Free hug.