Denis Rancourt: "There were epidemics in care homes forever, ever since we've documented, ever since we've had care homes. They happen spontaneously, and they happen as a result of highly stressful environmental conditions, and they don't have to spread. They just spontaneously happen to several people within the same care home, but there's no evidence that there is spread.
"So you can't find any evidence of spread, except there are some papers that convincingly show that tuberculosis probably spreads. […] I believe that it's possible that bacterial pneumonia can spread, especially TB, where it's, you know, there's been a lot of work and there's been a lot of concern about the spread.
"But there's way more frequent that it's simply spontaneous. […] There's a whole area of science that studies these spontaneous bacterial infections and they're transmission-less. They basically are induced by aspiration, that is, you take in a bit of fluid from your digestive system into your lungs and that's enough to destabilize the microbiome of bacteria within your lungs that you will develop pneumonia. So this happens irrespective. You can be in isolation and it'll happen to you.
"You can be very careful about isolating elderly people, do everything and wear masks and gloves and everything, and they will get pneumonia because they will have aspiration problems, especially since you've changed everything. And the probability of aspiration is increased if you obstruct the breathing. So a mask would probably work in that way, you see, and I mentioned that in my paper.
"So you don't want to obstruct the breathing and you don't want to disrupt people's lives and cause them a biological stress because aspiration becomes more frequent and spontaneous pneumonia follows, especially among the elderly.
"I have proposed that basically all the respiratory deaths, there was definitely an excess of respiratory deaths during covid, happened before vaccination and after vaccination, in that they are all consistent with the idea that they were self-infections induced by all the various forms that would cause biological stress."
Denis Rancourt, PhD with Ryan Cristian @ 33:43–37:00 (streamed 2024-12-27) https://rumble.com/v63gjdn-denis-rancourt-interview-the-covid-19-illusion-biological-stress-induced-ba.html?start=2023