@jeffcliff @mar77i I believe they released something on us, but it’s definitively not what they’re saying it is. And they’re lying if they tell you they’ve isolated the virus.

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@arzachel @mar77i No they aren't. The virus is isolated anew every day. You are not following the actual trail of research on covid that is ongoing, if you are not aware of this.
@arzachel @mar77i Sorry, no. Wuhan strains are not the only ones being sequenced - every day they are isolated and sequenced all over the world.
@jeffcliff @arzachel You're making me very curious now. Where do you have that from, and can we corroborate this somehow?
@jeffcliff @arzachel @mar77i I didn't read the link, but I've repeatedly run into people that think that the PCR test for the virus is the only method of detecting the virus we have, and so it must have never been isolated. But there are several scientific papers about the virus having been isolated.
@arzachel @mar77i @jeffcliff this guy is handwaving, first he says you can't isolate then says that dna evidence must be fake because you can't isolate. we have its entire dna sequenced and studied for over a year now so he's just wrong.
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@Moon @mar77i @jeffcliff No, he’s saying that— just like with “pandemic” & “herd immunity”— the definition of “isolated” has been quietly altered. Anyway, take it up with him here: linkedin.com/posts/saeed-qures

@arzachel @mar77i @jeffcliff he is arguing that we can't have isolated the coronavirus because we've never isolated the reference coronavirus that they're being compared to. He is going beyond saying we haven't isolated COVID-19 and is saying we've never isolated any coronaviruses. He's apparently arguing that all virology is a hoax and not just COVID-19.
@hakui @arzachel @jeffcliff @mar77i I didn't think it ever applied to viruses but I can't speak further than that on the topic.
@jeffcliff @arzachel @mar77i cancer cells don't behave the same way as normal cells in an individual
@hakui @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i that's what other kinds of observation studies are for

But *at the very least* we know that all human bodies contain tumours and tumours are suceptible.
@jeffcliff @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i we also know that human bodies have an immune system that takes care of pathogens, which a bunch of cancer cells in a petri dish doesn't have
@hakui @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i that's like saying "all humans aren't lungs so therefor if something infects the lungs we shouldn't believe it's an infectious pathogen because we can't know what happens when it passes past the lungs"
@jeffcliff @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i back during the spanish flu they made a bunch of healthy people breathe in the exhaled air from patients. nobody caught anything
@jeffcliff @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i MJ Rosenau, "Experiments to Determine Mode of Spread of Influenza", Journal of the American Medical Association 73, no. 5: 311-313

@jeffcliff @hakui @arzachel @covid19 Exactly. Could we discuss the fact that this still, after all, might be little more than maybe not quite, but largely still seems like a common cold?

@mar77i @jeffcliff @arzachel @covid19 which might be due to a weakened immune system from stress, diet, or other factors
@hakui @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i Now it's fair to say that there's more than Koch needed to comfirm what it actually does in the presence of a healthy immune system - that's what observation studies are for. Studies that have been done, and replicated all over
@jeffcliff @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i infecting cancer cells by injecting stuff into them doesn't mean the same stuff would infect a person in real life
@hakui @arzachel @covid19 @mar77i They are human cells. If they exhibit ACE2 receptors, and the virus gets into all cells (human and non) by ACE2 and it gets into those cells by ACE2 then yeah, they would

@covid19 infects everything from whales to cats. If it infects HeLa (who *is* part of a living human being) it infects the rest of us.
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