Why the Official Theory about COVID-19 Is Not Tenable
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cellular immunity, COVID-19 pandemic theory, epidemiology, falsifiability theory, IgG versus IgM, rt-PCR test, SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodiesAbstract
Notwithstanding the huge number of scientific papers published on COVID-19, there are still critically important aspects of the story that have not been sufficiently studied. The problems concern the definition, the diagnosis, and the tests used. They are all questionable. Even if they all were tacitly accepted as correct, the current mainstream theory remains untenable: it cannot explain what happened, i.e., the pandemic in the version presented, more or less, as a scientific consensus. The simple reason is that the virus named “SARS-CoV-2” — according to surveys conducted with the widely used test for its identification — was already widespread in pre-pandemic years all around the globe before its official “birth”, and no one even noticed it. I discovered ample proof of this fact.
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