Words and pictures about one thousand days of covering the PCR testing scam, the lockdowns and the claimed virus. But first, I have some thoughts about homeopathy and taking care of oneself.
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Article & photos by ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Additional research: Cindy Tice Ragusa
I DID NOT BEGIN MY COVERAGE OF ‘COVID’ as an investigative reporter. I began as a homeopath.
This month, I arrive at day 1,000 as an investigative editor and reporter covering the grief that we are told began in early 2020. Nearly 33 months ago, on March 3, 2020, I started a daily publication devoted to tracking the crisis, called Covid19 News(currently more popular than my horoscope column). The same day, I initiated a project of building a chronology backward in time, as far back as necessary to get to the origins of the situation.
And I understood that I would be investigating and unraveling the “covid” test, which is the very heart of the matter — the whole matter — of whatever was being claimed and whatever response society came up with.
But I did not start there. Because the crisis was presented as the potential for people to get sick (that’s what a pandemic is supposed to be), I responded by gathering the information and medications necessary to prevent and treat the disease that was being described — as well as possible, anyway, based on the sketchy descriptions.
I committed myself to helping anyone in my personal circle or community who was stricken, including in my small apartment if necessary, despite my considerable public responsibilities and the claim of a deadly, contagious disease.
In this spirit, we at Planet Waves in all its forms have devoted ourselves to being good neighbors and telling you exactly what we learn and what we think it means — even if some people did not (or do not) want to hear it.
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The Alleged Vile Conspiracy of Helping Others
As the weeks of the crisis moved on, I felt like I was one of the rare few freaks concerning myself with that seemingly odd detail — how to best take care of unwell people. Nowhere in the commercial media did I come across anyone else’s article about tending to the sick — for example, how to help your partner or children should they have taken ill.
I remain appalled by this fact. News websites should have been awash with articles about proper nutrition and hydration, getting rest, avoiding irritants, toxins and inflammatory agents, and other common sense suggestions for people who might need them. I was stunned that nobody brought up the problem of indoor air pollution while people were confined to their homes.
But there was none of it.
This fact alone demonstrates either that the health concern was abstract, known to be false, and/or that people were committed to surrendering their power (or heck, all three). From the standpoint of the media, it points to following the instructions coming from higher up, and potential foreknowledge that the vaccine would be the only acceptable topic of discussion and the only acceptable solution.
In social media, it was de rigueur to accuse anyone who dared to bring up helping people of conspiracy theorizing, and by extension, of harming or killing people.
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With Viruses, They Say There’s No Cure
Under the viral paradigm, there are no cures, which is why it’s so frightening to most people. But under that reality framework, there are preventives, such as not being susceptible. That used to be a word; it’s probably been cut out of the dictionary in my spare bedroom. Early on, mentioning the potential positive effects of elderberry, vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc and melatonin were on the level of publicly accusing the government of planning the 9/11 attacks the day they happened.
It was therefore jaw-dropping some months later to see Pres. Trump’s doctors, in an October 2020 press conference outside Walter Reed, say that their protocol for him included vitamins C, D, melatonin and zinc.
Rampant censorship did not begin with claims of a lab leak, of government planning, of a false flag event or the lack of a virus. Rather, they began with censorship of health-related matters — aided and abetted by an audience ready to crucify anyone who dared discuss what to actually do about the claimed problem of people getting sick.
The notion of taking care of yourself became some kind of public offense. It was common to hiss at people and insult them for not being doctors, and talking about care of disease — when doctors were not being meekly helpful. There was a massive public relations effort behind this, shoved at us 24 x 7 to no end on every channel and nearly every website.
In the end, I never treated anyone for “covid.” I only treated for anxiety. It is worth noting that all of the classical homeopathic remedies that address respiratory disease are also used to treat fear. So in this sense — as we saw — a claimed respiratory outbreak is also a pandemic of panic.
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My Early Coverage: Take Care of Yourself
However, the personal level of the situation was my first stop: the wellness issue in the face of a claimed public health threat. I wrote an article about why hand sanitizer is useless (and backfires), how to manage your household in a crisis, and why you need to know how to take care of yourself. I was also writing about the debilitating effects of panic. I collected and published my readers’ silver lining experiences of thelockdowns.
We were one of the few publications that refused to take a fear-based approach to the situation, which was interpreted by some as reckless.
A few months into the crisis, I won the prestigious 2020 Slay Granny Award for an article on how hippies at (and promoters of) the 1969 Woodstock Festival were not worried they might catch Hong Kong Flu (widely said to have killed 100,000 Americans by the day the festival started). Writing this article followed by the overblown reader response to it were awakening moments for me.
Before I describe my thousand days leading a “covid” investigative team, I want to say more about the medical angle, which I confronted directly. I am one of those people who prefers to manage my health independently of the seeming experts we call doctors. Only on rare occasions have I found them to be forthcoming or helpful. So where medical issues are concerned, I assume I have to figure it out myself.
Fortunately, I have developed a contact network of natural-health practitioners, homeopaths, chiropractors, herbalists, midwives, naturopathic doctors (NDs), witches, warlocks and the occasional MD, osteopath or chemist, that I can call up and ask questions of.
When I got my bearings on the reality of the claimed outbreak, I was shocked by the needless fuss that was being made; at the total overreaction, as if society was being prepared for the imminent onset of nuclear war. For what exactly? That calls for a review, doesn’t it?
A full portfolio of my investigative features related to the crisis is at the top of Covid19 News. You can also find the chronology there, and the latest news of the day.
Homeopathy and Spanish Flu
Any serious student of homeopathy knows that our predecessors handled “Spanish Flu” like any other illness. What exactly was “Spanish Flu”? Well, setting that now-open question aside, homeopaths could deal with it.
Since attending a European Commission press briefing in Brussels about the “Bird Flu” scare of 2006, I have kept on hand a diversity of homeopathic remedies specifically focused around respiratory disease. However, at the time of an outbreak, the senior homeopaths in the community know their role is to come up with what is called the genus epidemicus — the one remedy that solves the problem for everyone.
To this day, this has not been accomplished. The lack of a genus epidemicus was my first indication that there was another problem — a government and scientific problem of claiming a specific disease existed that could not be identified by highly observant homeopaths. Homeopathy is a symptom-based medical art, and seemingly irrelevant details about disease presentation are carefully considered.
It seemed patients were reporting many different inconsistent symptoms. That is not an epidemic or pandemic (which by definition means one consistent issue or set of issues common to a large population).
Further, in allopathic (conventinal medical) terms, “covid” fails as both a disease and a syndrome. There is no defined set of symptoms for doctors to follow. A “respiratory virus” is said to cause “covid toes” or a “mini stroke.” It can be diagnosed with or without any symptoms or any diagnostic test. Anyone can say they had it or have it no matter now meager the substantiation. When there are symptoms, they are the same as many other pre-existing diseases.
To qualify as a pandemic, by all prior definitions, something must be a new disease caused by a novel virus. None of these conditions have ever been met.
What we do have is a situation where a prior thing called “the flu” either mysteriously disappeared (which it did, statistically) and/or was reclassified into something else — as Tony Fauci promised us all on C-Span presentation three years ago in October 2019 — before the “pandemic.”
Fauci said that the flu is not scary enough to sell enough vaccines (and must be recast as something as bad as AIDS or cancer — listen to very short audio or hear full program where he and others announce the mRNA “universal flu vaccine” that soon became the “covid vaccine”).
Nutritional Health and Herbal Approaches
When the fuss started, one of the first places I went was to a kimchee farm about an hour from me, and came home with a gallon or two of the stuff. Kimchee, a form of fermented cabbage, is wholesome, tasty, versatile food that also builds gut biome — the core of natural immunity. In my mind, of all forms of probiotics, kimchee is king.
I was advised by my friend Gail Murphy, a midwife and master herbalist on Vashon Island, to acquire and use a mushroom product called Agarikon from Host Defense by the beloved Paul Stamets, Papa Smurf of Fungi. And I called Hahnemann Labs and made sure I had the remedies I might need on hand with sufficient supply to treat large numbers of people, should that have become necessary (and I acquired two extra basic remedy kits for good measure).
The pharmacist there told me that claimed viral pandemics always follow escalations of electrical technology.
Meanwhile, I was amazed at how many local practitioners of natural or holistic health had fallen for the panic (particularly in “health food stores,” and notably in Woodstock, New York, where the panic seemed to be the worst). They were wearing masks, social distancing, acting smug and eagerly awaiting a vaccine so everything could be “back to normal.”
Only one — a massage therapist in my area — sent out an email to her clients saying that health practitioners work with unwell people all the time, and this situation calls for the usual basic respiratory precautions, nothing more.
So if I seemed to have a bias in my coverage — and to many, I did — it was simply that I had no reason to succumb to fear or submit to the hype. At the time, to feel confident about handling any medical challenge seemed like buying into a grand conspiracy. But the possibility had not occurred to me that one might exist.
Beginning My Investigation: The “Covid Test”
On March 3, 2020 (which I count as my personal Day 1 on the job as a reporter), I concluded that the “covid” issue was not going away, and that is when I took up the matter as a journalist. From prior experience on similar stories, I knew to focus my quest for understanding on the “covid test.”
Every last claim being made about “covid” came back to the test — from the statistical data used to justify so-called mitigation measures, to persuading an individual that they were diagnosed with an infection. I recognized that the test was the choke-point through which every other claim had to pass, and was the issue that needed to be documented the most carefully.
You may be aware that my background is covering mass poisoning incidents, and lawsuits related to concealment of toxic products. I began my coverage of “covid” already knowing how to locate and contact trustworthy expert sources, how to interview them and how to understand scientific studies, concepts and documents. That was quite a head start on the story.
Here are some of the interviews that I conducted the first year, trying to get my bearings on what was happening.
I also knew that I would need a news chronology, so I commenced that (one of many in Planet Waves history; it’s a house specialty). And I knew I would need to track backwards in time to the origins of the situation, as far back as necessary, which I assumed to be in or around December 2019. I learned the art and power of the chronology from lawyers who brought lawsuits against companies like General Electric and Monsanto. Putting documents, quotes and events in order solves most of the riddles.
A thousand days later, we have documented the history from March 3, 2020 back to events directly related to “covid” in 2006 and far into the foggy ruins of time.
We logged many news events per week and then many per day studying 2019 and 2020. Reams of discussion went on behind the scenes. My editors and I participate in many different discussion groups populated by those whose life work this is.
I set out to learn exactly how the PCR “test” works, and studied its history back to the 1980s. This required understanding enough about several topics to be conversant, among them genetics, metagenomics, gene alignment, genetic sequencing, lab technique, cell culturing and most of all, going deep into exactly how the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) device works and does not work.
Invented in the 1980s, this thing rose to fame as the wholly irrelevant “viral load” test for HIV during the 1990s. The PCR scandal was a well-developed story. It was so well-developed that by the beginning of the “pandemic” in January 2020, the CDC had already published an extensive report about how it could create 100% false positives.
What Was Known at the Start of the Crisis
The revelation that the PCR could get 100% false positives was not some kind of footnote to history. It is not a rumor; it is known medical history. History is that thing that’s supposed to teach us what not to do.
In August 2007, the CDC devoted an entire issue of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) — its widely-read primary publication sent to public health officials, the medical industry and medical and science journalists everywhere — to the PCR problem, documenting three separate false pandemics caused by the PCR the prior year, and warning against reliance of the PCR in an outbreak.
I know. That is what I said. A young reporter on my team named Spencer Stevens came up with that fact, and received a handmade electric guitar for being MVP.
In a comment, the MMWR editors wrote: “Presumed false-positive PCR test results in persons with nonspecific clinical features, such as rhinorrhea [runny nose], sneezing, and sore throat, have raised concerns regarding the widespread application of PCR in an outbreak setting.”
Generic, nondescript symptoms. Use of PCR. Raised concerns.
They go on: “The outbreaks described in this report illustrate the limitations of relying solely on PCR assays to confirm pertussis. PCR is an important tool for diagnosing individual cases of pertussis in persons for whom a high index of suspicion exists and for whom timely treatment and PEP are essential. However, the positive predictive value can be lower if PCR is used as a screening tool without culture confirmation” during an outbreak.
Note, it was used by the government as a screening tool for “covid” — the very thing the government vehemently said it cannot do. And second note, there is no “culture confirmation” for a claimed virus. That’s it — what the PCR says, goes. That is what we experienced. The CDC warns of PCR-created false pandemics under precisely the conditions that we seem to have had one. During the “covid” crisis, this has been called the “casedemic” — the illusion of an outbreak created by the PCR; precisely to the syllable what CDC warned about.
CDC’s admission of the PCR false pandemic problem was corroborated by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where the biggest false outbreak occurred. And it was the topic of an extensive article in The New York Times, which confirmed the basic facts and attempted to explain what happened.
This is how asymptomatic people could be convinced they were sick. There was a test that got 100% false positives and nothing (except being healthy) to support any claim to the contrary.
There are two reporters without whose work I would not have had a foothold on this story: Celia Farber and Jon Rappoport.
Viral Transmission Theory Disproved in 1919
In the course of my work accounting for what, exactly, medical authorities knew on Jan. 1, 2020, one of the strangest things I learned related to the “Spanish Flu” — remembered in legend and lore as the most virulent disease ever — was that it wasn’t contagious. That we were facing another “Spanish Flu” was invoked many times during “covid,” and many were proud they were living through the next one.
My source for this seemingly absurd fact is the leading American public health doctor at the time, Milton J. Rosenau, MD, whose experimental results were confirmed several times over before being stashed into the back of the file cabinet (and thankfully, the library stacks and microfilm).
Said to be caused by the highly contagious H1N1 strain, the fact emerged during the outbreak that “Spanish Flu” was not transmissible from person to person. This was demonstrated in multiple experiments on the East and West coasts; not one case of disease could be conveyed from a sick person to a well person.
Accounting for these experiments in Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA), Vol. 73, No. 5, Aug. 2, 1919, Dr. Rosenau wrote, “We entered the [Spanish Flu] outbreak with a notion that we knew the cause of the disease, and were quite sure we knew how it was transmitted from person to person. Perhaps, if we have learned anything, it is that we are not quite sure what we know about the disease.”
In fact what they learned in multiple experiments is that whatever it was was not contagious. Whatever it was, was something else. Somehow medical history has omitted this fact — but it’s trackable right back to the laboratory and medical notes.
Viral Cause of 1918-1919 Deaths Disproved by Fauci in 2008
This discovery was followed up 89 years later by none other than Anthony Fauci, who determined that the presumed H1N1 “Spanish Flu” virus wasn’t what killed people.
Writing in the Oct. 1, 2008 edition of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Fauci said it was not really the “flu virus” that was the cause of death but rather bacterial pneumonia, allegedly combined with their phantom, non-transmissible “virus.”
“The postmortem samples we examined from people who died of influenza during 1918–1919 uniformly exhibited severe changes indicative of bacterial pneumonia,” Fauci and his coauthors wrote. They said the same thing was true in later (seeming) viral outbreaks in 1957-58 and 1968-69.
He concluded, “If severe pandemic influenza is largely a problem of viral-bacterial copathogenesis, pandemic planning needs to go beyond addressing the viral cause alone.” Despite the problems with the “viral cause,” the bacterial problem was never once addressed by Fauci or anyone in the course of the “covid” discussion.
Of course, to claim that there was “copathogenesis” or a dual cause is to confuse the matter, because the theorized virus and bacteria alike were shown not to be contagious, and there is no evidence that H1N1 was in any way a cause of disease — or that it even exists at all. It is a theoretical idea and a patsy for actual causes of illness. For example, those caused by toxins.
A shout out to the incomparable Cindy Tice Ragusa. Investigative reporting is only as good as the investigators. She is one of the greats.
Moral, Legal and Scientific Game Over
I have written and said much about the problems with the PCR as a valid test for viral infection. Even the CDC in its Emergency Use Authorization says it is not (seemingly in alignment with the false pandemic problem it reported). Yet to even claim that it tests for the mere presence of virus (much less for infection), there must be an original sample of virus to match against. There is not, no matter what a flock of bleating Substackers may claim.
We know this three ways. One is there is no certified reference material for “SARS-CoV-2.” Without CRM, there is no way to calibrate the test for what it is supposedly analyzing. There is no way to have a positive control to make sure it’s finding the right substance. If there is no CRM, then the thing does not exist in any legit scientific context. Yet we pretend that it does.
Second, all of the scientific papers that claim the existence of a virus use metagenomics (the construction of a hypothetical genetic code), not isolation or purification of actual virus. But without so much as a wink, they claim this as isolation and purification.
The strip of code being searched for and amplified by the PCR has never been shown to come from a virus, to match a virus, or to cause disease. Yet a PCR-positive is considered a “confirmed case” of infection and disease.
This is like a cop giving the driver of a Honda Accord a speeding ticket for doing 75,000 mph in a 30 mph zone when it’s parked outside the 7-Eleven.
They Say It Isn’t So (to Christine Massey)
Third, Christine Massey in the Toronto area leads a team that has queried 211 governments and institutions about whether they have a sample of SARS-CoV-2 taken from a human host. They all admit — unanimously — that they do not have such a sample.
You may say, “Oh, they must, that cannot be right.”
But that is what they say — the very institutions who are supposed to be in charge themselves admit this over and over, on many levels of their documentation. They did not have any sample of virus when they should have, at the start of the crisis; they do not today; they will not tomorrow.
The current obsession with “lab release” is merely a cloak for this basic truth. It’s the counter-narrative parachute that opened once proof of lack of virus became a verified point of discussion.
Let the Akashic Record reflect that there is a claim that a virus killed 6.6 million people and infected 636 million people, but no government can produce a sample or any record of a sample of the alleged pathogen — whether they think it was naturally formed or whether they say it leaked from a lab.
Further, if there is a “lab-created virus” loose, its genome will be in recorded or published somewhere no matter how confidential. The way to confirm lab release is to match the genome of “what is being found” with what already exists in the database. Only the U.S. and China need to do this, and in the intrest of peace and world security one imagines they might cooperate and settle the matter in an hour.
The claim of a deadly virus — which we all presumed was absolutely real — was used by the governments of the world, acting in unison, as an excuse to suspend the Constitution, shut most of the economy, move trillions of dollars around, lock 4.4 billion people into their homes, administer deadly drugs, place people in induced comas and then kill them with respirators, isolate nursing home patients from their families, ground the civilian air fleet, shut down public transportation, block access to government services and representatives, shut down the court system, and push 10 billion deadly “vaccines” into people’s bodies. At least one internment camp was created, in Australia (where bureaucrats were especially bonkers).
But nobody can produce any quantity of the virus, or any record of it. You may say you don’t believe this, but let’s change the frame. Just as a thought exercise, what if it’s true?
What if nobody can produce a paper saying that someone somewhere on Earth has a sample of the virus — not a hypothetical virus, not a tale about a virus, not a computer model of a virus, but the actual thing itself? May we please see the murder weapon?
I am grateful to the lawyers who have taught me how to understand fraud. They include Rexford Carr, David McCrea, Bill Snyder, Gerson Smoger, Paul Merrell, Steven R. Faber, Roberta Straub, William Schaap, Chris McGregor, Sharon Graff, and others. Thank you to Carol van Strum for enabling me in the mania known as document collecting.
We Have All Been Here Before
This may be a scientific and government scandal that is for most people far too big to comprehend. It may seem unprecedented; it is not. It is the way of business. But regarding “covid,” we are past the point where there is any excuse for denial, for pretending, or for trusting the “experts.”
The “experts” are lying. They are not misinformed or wrong. They are deceiving us and “the press” prints exactly what they say. The only hedge you have against any of this is to not be ignorant. People’s ignorance is always used against them.
Wherever you poke a stick one inch into “covid,” you hit bullshit. No claim of danger that was made by any government checks out. Others that seem to exist were vehemently denied.
None of the problems I have described have been acknowledged by any government or the corporate media. (The courts are finally starting to wake up.) Yet everything is out and documented; there are no secrets. You may think it’s true that “something killed all those people,” and if so, that’s easy to check out and equally shocking as all of what I’ve gone on about endlessly today.
To buy into this scam, at this stage, one must be truly committed.
This may seem like a situation where you get to choose your reality, because you can never really know what is true. No, that’s not so. For most, their reality is being chosen for them, which is a choice even if it seems to be made passively. The virus scam is not over. The “vaccination” campaign is not over. There is always a new one brewing, and seemingly limited (but, fortunately, growing) interest in getting to the bottom of the issues.
Your curiosity matters. It’s your superpower.
With love,
Eric F. Coppolino is a New York-based investigative reporter. He is the host of Planet Waves FM on Pacifica Radio, the author of What Happened: The Covid Chronology, and founder of Covid19 News. Please visit his Press Room.
Journalism Bio :: Eric Francis Coppolino
Eric Francis Coppolino is now his 40th year of exposing scientific fraud and corporate crime. He is a specialist in mass poisoning incidents and associated lawsuits. He also covers real estate fraud, medical fraud and public higher education.
He is the founder and editor of Covid19 News, and the author of the Covid Chronology, a day-by-day account of lockdowns and claimed pandemic back to 2006. He hosts Planet Waves FM on the Pacifica Network and has covered covid every day for the past 976 days.
He began his investigative career at age 19 (in 1983) as a student journalist exposing New York State’s plan to re-populate the contaminated Love Canal Neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY, where 750 homes and two elementary schools were built on and around 23,000 tons of chemical and nuclear waste.
His later investigations have focused on the manufactures of industrial toxins — PCBs, dioxins and herbicides focusing on GE, Monsanto, Westinghouse, the U.S. EPA, the FDA and the New York State Department of Health.
His investigative journalism has been published by Sierra Magazine, The Ecologist, The Village Voice, the Las Vegas Sun and many other newspapers and magazines. He has also written for the New York Daily News, the London Daily Mirror and Daily Mail; and The New York Times has done several articles about his journalistic efforts exposing toxins.
He is accredited by the International Federation of Journalists, the National Union of Journalists, and the Pacifica Network; and in the past has been accredited by the European Union (at the presidential level) and the New York State Capitol.