Lies, manipulation and crimes on a global scale: Dr Mike Yeadon explains the last 18 months

Dr Mike Yeadon, former CSO and VP, Allergy and Respiratory Research Head with Pfizer Global R&D, spoke to Del Bigtree on The Highwire this week to talk about the lies that have perpetuated this Covid-19 pandemic.

Taken from The Highwire, Ep.219: In Harm's Way

8 Big Lies:

1. This is a dangerous virus and nothing has been as bad since the 1918 Spanish Flu.

"How dangerous is this virus? A little bit more than the average seasonal flu. I would say it's not worse than bad seasonal influenzas, but worse than the average - and yet that's not the impression you're given."

"We are given to understand that this is a terrifying virus and I've just told you that the best epidemiologist in the world (John Ioannidis) has assessed the situation and said 'It's a little worse than typical flu - it's in the range of flu."

2. There are no treatments.

"There are some really good treatments for this infection. As a drug discoverer, it makes me very angry that good treatments, that are well evidenced, have been hidden from us and sick people have been deprived of excellent, safe therapy, in order to continue people's fear."

"Hydroxycholoroquine, used early in infection, can reduce viral replication; at any stage in the disease you could use ivermectin and it clearly reduces inflammation in the lungs; if you do get inflammation, then good old inhaled steriods - inhaled budesonide is excellent for reducing inflammation. Had these drugs been made available, then, honesty, I think we'd have been through this in a couple of months."

3. The PCR test can diagnose infection.

"It's good at detecting things - a piece of DNA or RNA - but I could see they were being sneaky in the UK. They refused to disclose how many cycles they were using, they refused to use an internal standard and they claimed they didn't have samples of the virus. And by the summer I was absolutely certain they were over-amplifying it and not using internal standards."

About this time last year...[a group of researchers] had tested hundreds of people who'd had SARS-CoV-2 and found that when you got a positive test beyond about 25 cycles, it became more and more difficult to be able to infect some cells in a culture dish. In other words, there wasn't enough live virus there to deliberately infect a culture dish. So for me, I drew a line and thought if you're over about 25 cycles - if it takes more than that to show some snippets of this virus - then there's not enough virus there to make you infectious at all. In the UK, I think they were using 39 cycles and I've heard over 40. Each cycle doubles the amount of material in the test and so they were multiplying by - I did the maths - I think it was a trillion-fold. And so, if you run very high cycles in PCR, you can end up with a 'false positive'."

"What [the test] doesn't do is tell you that the person's clinically ill and it doesn't tell you that they're infectious - and isn't that what we want to know?!"

4. Asymptomatic transmission is a threat.

"The thing that really triggered me in the middle of the year was when I was told that people without symptoms can be a respiratory viral threat - a respiratory health threat to other people. I knew that wasn't true - this is my area, I've worked in pulmonary disease for 32 years."

"In order to be a good source of infection, you need to have a lot of virus in your airway. If you only have a little bit of virus, you really can't breathe it on people - the chance that you're going to infect someone else is very low. Here's the critical point: people with lots of virus in their airways will have symptoms, no question. That's because the virus is attacking the lining cells of your lungs - it's infected you - and your body doesn't like that, you will feel that. But the other thing is your immune system will be attacking the hell out of the virus and you'll feel that too. That means people without symptoms can't have much virus and that means they can't infect other people."

"One big study followed hundreds of people who were PCR positive and divided them into two groups/ There were PCR positive with symptoms and they found they infected another household member about 18% of the time. People who were PCR positive but had no symptoms, less than 1% of them managed to infect another household member (according to the faulty PCR test!) - this is someone you're intimate with, you live with them."

"I don't think people without symptoms can infect anybody, not at all. But every day for the last 18 months, we've been told by lying adverts that 1 in 3 of us have got the virus and we're spreading it without knowing - it's just an utter lie."

"You can find Dr Tony Fauci and even a senior WHO physician have both said that it's never an asymptomatic person that drives an epidemic - "the driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person". And then they've changed their tune and they've spent the last 15 months lying to absolutely everybody."

5. You need to wear a mask to help prevent you infecting other people.

"You cannot possibly be infecting others if you're perfectly well, so it's clearly not appropriate and definitely harmful [to wear a mask]. One of the things that's harmful is when you look around and you detect that other people are wearing masks, what does your hind-brain, your 'lizard' brain tell you? Hazard, risk, threat, frightening. So, basically, it amps up people's fear and I think that's been the main reason - to make people frightened - and it fits with the other lies that they've been telling you."

6. Lockdowns reduce the spread of the virus.

"I realised probably in about May last year that lockdown couldn't work. It's not to do with the number of human contacts, it's the number of infectious contacts. Ask yourself: who goes outside, who goes to work, to the store, to the gas station, walking on the sidewalk? Generally, people who feel pretty fit and well. People who've got a serious respiratory virus like influenza or Covid-19, you don't generally go out? Why? Because you're ill, people with symptoms are ill and they feel unwell, they're not wandering around for you to encounter."

"That means not very many infection encounters occur in the community. So when you close businesses and tell people to stay at home, of course it doesn't make any difference to transmission, because that wasn't where it was occurring. It can't be occurring there because you would have to be wandering into someone who's really sick."

"For hundreds of thousands of years, as we've developed, we've realised that a respiratory viral threat is really quite a serious thing and I think what they helps you do, is when you're walking on a sidewalk or along a corridor, you scan somebody and you check whether they look physically well or not. And if they don't, you immediately have a flag come up and you think 'this person could infect me' and what you do is you give them two metres without even thinking about it. People who are good at infecting you are ill and if they did stagger out, you would generally spot them and give them a wide berth. So, statistically, I think the number of times infection occurred in the general community was so low as to be irrelevant."

"I believe 90% plus of the transmission happened in institutions. By the way, that's what happened with SARS-1 in 2003 - it's a disease of institutions. That's what happened with MURS in 2012. So I believe SARS-CoV-2 is largely a disease of institutions."

7. This is a 'novel' virus, so nobody will have any immunity.

"It's about 80% similar to SARS (2003) and maybe 60% similar to common cold-causing coronaviruses. I figured a lot of people would have been exposed to one or other of those. Immunology is my strongest suit in this game and I knew that meant lots of people would have prior immunity."

"[In 2020] some clever person went and found some people who'd been exposed to SARS in 2003 and they asked 'will you volunteer to donate some blood because we want to find out, do you have immunity and if so, what kind?' And they found that every single one of the people who'd survived that virus 17 years earlier - every single one of them had striking T-cell immunity to SARS, which is probably going to be lifelong. But they didn't just give the donor cells SARS, they also gave them cultures from sick people with SARS-CoV-2 and every single one of them also recognised SARS-CoV-2. These two viruses differ by about 22% and human immunity easily bridges that gap."

8. Variants will escape immunity.

"Every time the virus replicates, it makes a copy of itself in your cells and every now and then it makes a typographical error. And if that virus is then used to infect someone else, and you sequence it and it's slightly different from the original, we call that a variant. That's all it is, a typo."

"I've looked it up and no-one has contradicted me...If you find the variant that's most different from the Wuhan strain, it's 0.3% different - in other words, 99.7% similar. If the human immune system can recognise viruses that are 20% different, there's no chance whatsoever that a variant can escape human immunity."

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Read Mike's paper, 'The PCR False Positive Pseudo-Epidemic', published in November 2020.

More information on asymptomatic transmission.