Do Viruses Exist?
Dear Linda, my little brother keeps annoying me, he says that viruses don't exist but I know they do because all the fact-checkers say so and I've seen them in books. I'm getting so fed up with him, he emails me pictures of balls with spikes on and silly faces, and says that they're not real, they're just drawn with a computer and they're much too big to be swimming around in your arm. Please could you fact-check this? Droidgal.
Dear Droidgal, I am happy to answer your important fact-check request "Do viruses exist". You will be glad to know that both you and your brother are right, but unfortunately after reading this, you may begin to agree with your brother.
Yes, there are lots of pictures of viruses online. These pictures prove that viruses exist. We even found a virus in our town centre, just sitting there in the shopping precinct. Lots of people walking around it, who were giving it a wide berth, did look slightly ill.
As you know, people diagnosed with viruses are often ill, but some are not. People diagnosed with the virus known as Covid-19, aka SARS-CoV-2, are very often not ill at all. (However, such a disturbing diagnosis might make them feel out of sorts.)
Other people diagnosed with viruses can be very ill indeed. In fact, this is the usual situation. Measles, polio, flu... People can even die from flu.
But... not all doctors agree that being diagnosed with a virus means you HAVE a virus. No-one has ever ISOLATED a virus. Here is a video explaining what isolating a virus means. Basically if you can't isolate it, then it doesn't exist, and something else is making you ill.
So it seems that what the scientists are doing is mixing some mucus from a sick person, with cells from the kidneys of an African green monkey (don't ask me why the poor monkey has to be green). They starve these cells, add some poison, and watch the cells die. As they die, the cells develop a spiky exterior. If it has a spiky exterior, it must be a virus!
So, was it the deadly mucus that killed the monkey cells? Yes, of course! It couldn't possibly be the poison or the starving. Except that if you do the poisoning and starving without the mucus, you get the same result… Hmmm.
Science is SO amazing!
Of course you can also look at a sick person’s blood through a microscope and see little blobs emerging from the cells. Everyone knows that blobs don't emerge from your cells unless they are viruses.
There’s an exception of course. The blob might be an exosome.
Exosomes belong in our body. They help our cells communicate with each other, and they also help our immunity by activating T-cells. T-cells decline when you have AIDS, so if we mistake exosomes for something deadly and try to zap them, we might accidentally encourage the development of AIDS! That doesn't sound like a good idea at all, I'm sure you'll agree.
Exosomes may also play a role in removing debris and unwanted molecules from cells - a little like garbage chutes. So if we’re not well, we might produce more exosomes than usual. The rich virologists with large research grants are saying that these exosomes are huge accumulations of deadly viruses. The not so rich scientists with no research grants, are paying their own money to try to tell people that zapping these exosomes is dangerous. We are looking at a Star Wars battle in miniature!
We'll have to let the scientists fight it out. We wouldn't want to deprive the virologists of a living. But they'll probably be ok, because the world's governments all know that virology is garbage and is all about making us believe in vaccines which we don't need. But that's another story.
Meanwhile...
German scientist Dr Stefan Lanka offered 100,000 Euros to anyone who could prove that the measles virus exists. One scientist took him up on the challenge and tried to claim the prize. Dr Lanka said he hadn't proved it at all. The first court disagreed and ordered Dr Lanka to pay the prize. But the supreme court took a more scientifically rigorous view of what constituted proof, and sided with Dr Lanka. So in effect, the supreme court of Germany agreed that the measles virus does not exist.
More information
The Contagion Myth by Thomas S. Cowan MD, and Sally Fallon Morell. A very interesting book which answers the question of how people get diseases if they are not catching them from germs and viruses.
And finally… A longer video, with more doctors and scientists discussing the shortcomings of virology.
Of course, no matter how good the fact-checking, most people probably won’t believe any of this until they see it on “The News”. But at least, Droidgal, you can now show your little brother that you know more than he does 😀
Agree with everything you said. People won't believe it until they see it on TV - Richard Nixon.