Is the coronavirus a big lie and are we detecting… exosomes instead? I was sent the link to a video making a bold claim and I want to show why it doesn’t make sense. THREAD! /1
I won’t link to the video itself to avoid giving it views. It currently has over 16,000 and is called “The Anatomy of Covid-19.” And on its surface, it can look very convincing. It’s been making the rounds in the group chat to which the person who tipped me off belongs. /2
The presenter is a medical doctor with a long list of credentials. He speaks calmly. He has many scientific references for his claims. There is no obvious reason not to trust him. /3 
There is however an important red flag right at the beginning. This one doctor tells us he “has a theory as to what is really going on.” This should put you on red alert and get you to ask Mr. Worf to raise the bullshit shields. Here’s why. /4
There is a popular trope of the lone genius scientist who revolutionizes his field. No one believes him but it turns out he was right. Neo-Galileo. This almost never happens. Science progresses in small steps, and lone contrarians are almost always wrong. /5
So when you hear a doctor say that “everything we thought we knew about X is wrong”, that he has a theory, that they don’t want you to know what it is, that no one can see this but him, be very, very, very skeptical. As Ackbar would say, “It’s a trap!” /6
His “theory” is that the coronavirus does not exist. Instead, our bodies are getting poisoned in some way (potentially through 5G wireless) and they are releasing exosomes (little vehicles made by our cells) and that’s what we detect. Here are the problems with this. /7
If this were true, what is suddenly causing these massive spikes in people getting sick, being hospitalized, and dying? And why did it start in Wuhan and very quickly, like a virus, spread to other countries through people flying in? The pattern we’re seeing doesn’t jive. /8
He also misquotes a colleague. He says Dr. James Hildreth has said, on the topic of HIV, that “the virus is fully an exosome in every sense of the word.” /9
His implication is that a former researcher at Johns Hopkins and HIV researcher is essentially saying HIV does not exist, that the disease is caused by exosomes. This is a deliberate misunderstanding of the original quote. /10
What Hildreth suggested is that HIV, a *real virus*, might hijack the exosomes in our body. You can read this here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… /11
It’s like saying that car thieves don’t exist, only stolen cars do, and when cops think they’re in pursuit of a car thief, they’re actually pursuing a car and the thief doesn’t exist. /12
Finally, the presenter claims that all those PCR tests labs are running to detect if people have the coronavirus or not are detecting something else, presumably our own exosomes. This is ridiculous. /13
We have sequenced over 160 samples of this coronavirus (meaning its entire genome, roughly 30,000 bases or “letters”). We know what proteins they code for. We have compared these genomes to other CoVs from humans and animals. /14
Here is just one of many papers looking at the genetic sequence of this virus. This entire sequence is not found in our human cells, and we should know: we have sequenced the human genome many times over. nature.com/articles/s4159… /15
So what is happening here?? It seems we have one credentialed professional with an unsubstantiated belief (that 5G wireless causes health problems) who is trying to make the data fit his theory. But that’s not how science works. /16
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is very real. COVID-19 is very real. It is not caused by 5G wireless. Beware of people on the Internet who “have a theory” that goes against what we know and who cherry-pick the evidence to fit their model. /TheEnd
... and what do I see in my inbox? It's MontrealHealthyGirl (now Britt from Wevolve), who also tells us that 5G causes COVID-19. She turns into a full-on conspiracy theorist later in the email, talking of bioweapons and world domination. Sigh.
