Look who signed on to Texas’ attempt No room for skepticism with COVID-19

It appears that Rep. Doug LaMalfa is one of the 106 Republican representatives who signed in support of the Texas move to overturn the 2020 election. Would you just look at that? Um. Um. Um. Just look at that.

— Michael Bertsch, Chico

The 1975 Nobel Laureate in medicine was Howard Temin. He reminded researchers that whenever experimental fi ndings were challenged, an ironclad rule of science was to treat the questioner seriously.

That scientific strength — along with dissent, skepticism and second opinions — has been ignored during COVID19.

Where is cellular or viral proof that some novel coronavirus ever caused death? Why is it vaguely labeled a “morbidity” co-factor?

COVID-19 complications and deaths are presumptively attributed to a virus that’s never been isolated AND purified according to standard virology protocols.

In early December, Butte County Public Health announced 12 new hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 “complications.”

Asked to provide the specific nature of those complications, they refused, claiming “privacy” concerns made that information unavailable to the public.

There are immense differences between the careful clinical diagnosis of a patient’s symptoms, compared to test results from an irregular and inconsistent nasal swab.

Meanwhile, seniors over age 65 died from the same causes in 2020 as 2019, at comparable rates. When test results are routinely mislabeled “cases,” those numbers skyrocket whenever more tests are administered.

The facts- optional behavior restrictions from Fauci, Biden, Newsom, and Cuomo suggest we must destroy our way of life to save it from some elusive virus!

Given its capacity for selfcorrection, American democracy will survive this plague that isn’t.

But don’t expect the flipflopping COVID-19 orthodoxy, at home or abroad, to ever admit, “we made a mistake.”

They’ll only murmur, “it’s more complicated than we thought.”

— Charles Geshekter, Chico