I don’t believe viruses and illness is spread the way you think it is. I don’t believe in contagion theory. I shared spoons with, hugged, and kissed people who I knew had covid. I never got sick. I never stay away from people that are sick and never wear a mask. I hardly ever get sick. I’m going to share highlights from the most recent book I’m reading about viruses:

“It seems—as is the case in many walks of life—that people hold beliefs they cannot justify with supporting evidence or explain in sufficient detail.”

This quote is talking about the early research that was used to “settle the science” on contagion theory. The foundation of contagion theory is junk science.

“As Dr Walker stated in his critique of the emerging field of virology, ‘such assertions are full of pitfalls’. He was particularly critical of human experiments claiming to have demonstrated contagion because they failed to define what a cold was, or what constituted successful transmission of the disease. Also, he noted none of the studies used proper controls, which is problematic for several reasons. First, inoculating even inert substances into the nasal passages is known to cause cold and flu-like symptoms by irritating the mucous membranes. Second, the symptoms produced by inoculated filtrate could also reflect various inflammatory or allergic-type responses, so they were not necessarily proof of a viral infection. Third, the power of suggestion is large enough for participants receiving a saline placebo to develop a cold merely because they believe they have been inoculated with a filtrate. Finally, there are many other substances contained in the mucus secretions of sick people, any number of which could produce cold and flu-like symptoms. It is for these reasons, among others, that Dr Walker considered the results of human contagion studies allegedly demonstrating person-to-person transmission of the common cold to be unreliable.“

“For example, despite decades of intense research, epidemiologists cannot reliably predict the timing and severity of cold and flu outbreaks using virus-based models.”

“Their findings can be summarised into three main points;

Viruses do not cause disease. There is an absence of direct evidence demonstrating a cause-and-effect relationship between viruses and infectious diseases.

Viruses are not contagious. Few, if any, published scientific studies have unambiguously established sick-to-well transmission (i.e. contagion) of any infectious disease.

Viruses may not even exist. No published scientific studies have ever truly isolated a pure sample of a virus and then documented its characteristics.”

“The untapped power of the body and mind also relates to illness and wellness. A group of young men allergic to Japanese lacquer or ‘wax trees’ (which produces an effect similar to poison ivy) were touched on one arm with the leaves of a harmless plant but were told it was the wax tree. On the other arm, they were touched with the leaves of the wax tree but were told it was the harmless plant. Of the 13 participants, just two (13%) had an adverse skin reaction to the wax tree, whereas every single one developed contact dermatitis to the harmless plant. People have also been able to harness the power of their minds to protect themselves against harm after being injected with endotoxins (i.e. the fragments of bacterial cell walls) intravenously. They counteracted the harmful effects by learning how to activate their autonomic nervous system and influence their immune response. These are physiological systems that were once considered impossible to control voluntarily.”

Your belief in contagion theory makes you more likely to actually get sick when around others that are also sick.

“As this book will reiterate at various points, there is no convincing evidence published anywhere in the scientific literature demonstrating sick-to-well transmission of a respiratory illness under strictly controlled conditions. In fact, when researchers have performed these experiments, their attempts have almost always ended in complete failure. Despite this, epidemiological observations continue to treat pathogenic microbes as the only possible explanation for the apparent spread of disease amongst a group of people.”

“Just a few hundred years ago, scurvy was believed to be a communicable illness. After several months of navigating the high seas, sailors often fell ill with the same symptoms, one after the other. Their gums would begin to bleed, their teeth would fall out, and red and blue lesions would appear on their skin. Within weeks of the first case breaking out, the entire crew would succumb to the disease. Naval doctors considered scurvy’s pattern of spread to be proof of its contagiousness. This false belief proved extremely costly as more than two million sailors died from scurvy between 1500 and 1800. Had countless decades not been wasted perpetuating this incorrect line of thinking, the true cause may have been realised much sooner.”