I was around droves of college students on a daily basis with extended close contact in an instructional setting. This included dozens of Chinese foreign exchange students and dozens of NYC students who attended the "elite" university were I worked.
They were often testing "positive" with "Covid" via mandatory weekly PCR testing but only getting mildly sick with the same symptoms they get every year while I never got sick.
I had been teaching at that University for 20 years and did so during three semesters of the phony "pandemic" (refused to wear a mask and other University "Covid" rules) until the vaxx mandate kicked in for staff- it kicked in earlier for students. Once the vaxx mandate kicked in I refused and was released. I could have received a religious exemption but also refused that and instead opted to fight the university- a lost cause.
I was around these students every single day- including weekends. How is it possible I never not sick during this time frame- not so much as a sniffle- given the story of "deadly virus" and "highly transmissible?"
In normal times the students routinely get sick mainly due to the fact that they eat crap, they rarely exercise, are sleep deprived, drink too much, stressed out, indoors all the time, electronics all the time, constant states of dehydration and so forth. That's not new. No need for PCR tests.
In fact during the PCR testing frenzy a large number of players from one of the sports teams all tested positive. It was a minor scandal at the school as it was discovered they held a big (illegal) party and they all got wasted then tested positive the next day for "Covid." The PCR was simply picking up on toxic "genetic" debris that their body was sloughing off- it's called a hangover.
Once the vaxx mandate kicked in the students were getting quite sick beyond the norm and directly from the shots. I know this as they would send me notices explaining their reason for being absent. It got to the point pretty quickly that they would be giving me a heads up they would likely be missing the upcoming class pre-injection, as they were all hearing about how sick people were getting from the injections.
It was a bizarre thing to see as they were all either coerced and threatened in multiple ways or they took it as a form of "duty" (almost like some ritual hazing)- most did not want to take the shots.
There is no such thing as Covid outside of propaganda.
"almost like some ritual hazing" - at my workplace extreme distress/illness post injection (esp #2) became something like a right of passage - and greeted with winks and nudges and congenial snickering. The Control Group (n=1) was, conversely, ritually shunned for well over year.
Wow; the depth of insanity of it all! Not to mention the supreme irony of the healthy shunned! In my case I've had to bite my tongue not to say something when my jabbed sisters were repeatedly sick afterwards and since.
Unlike you, I always point it out! Fortunately, only 3 of my family are boosted, the rest listened to my warnings early on. At this point, the 3 are starting to see the truth, as they are the only ones in the family who are repeatedly sick!
I totally get it! We each have to do what works for us and our circle of family and friends. It’s a good idea to maintain healthy relationships with family, especially, and we never know what tiny crack is opened just by doing so. I have one dear person in my life I have chosen that route with as well. We don’t discuss politics or Covid at all. I do talk to her about supplements, though, and herbal remedies for when she gets sick. They’ve helped her a lot, she just doesn’t know where the protocol comes from which is fine with me. I’m able to help her without upending her world view or offending her political views. Perhaps one day…
I have one friend in my life like that, too. But all bridges have been irreparably burned with my "old" friends from childhood. As you attest, blood is thicker than water so where there's life there's hope (two cliches in one sentence!).
In Borneo by #2-8 people were openly swapping their preferred home remedies & plans for dealing with the often debilitating side effects, even joking that they hope they don't die. Still breaks my heart & I'm one of the very few not injected & still to get sick with anything. also shunned for about 3yrs.
Brilliantly put, as usual. Sadly, those who have been trained only to believe what they are told and what they choose to believe will never get it. They have lost all ability to consider facts and think for themselves.
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie."
I give you credit for trying. To go out fishing, that is. For me the ocean waves are the only thing that relieves my land sickness. Great analogy and I would highly recommend 3 or 4 hours of 6-8 foot seas for the cringing covid URI survivors.
I applaud this PERFECT retort to the idiotically parroted phrase of your title. You and James Delingpole are the only writers I'm aware of who've addressed this (I have in comments but not an article) and you've nailed it. I'll try to retrieve the one by James and post a link here if I'm successful... it was quite a while back.
I found it, but it's archived so behind a paywall. But his title is "So You Think You Had a Novel, Bio-Engineered, Lab-Leaked Virus?" and it starts out "Tell me about your personal experiences of Covid 19. Actually, wait, don’t. I think I may have heard it already, about a million times before. You lost all sense of smell or taste - and just how weird was that? It floored you for days. It gave you a funny dry cough, the driness and tickliness of which was unprecedented in your entire coughing career…"
Don't tell anyone taste and smell are directly associated.
Loss of smell and taste as a distinguishing characteristic of “COVID 19?" That should have set off alarm bells right away to people that they were being conned.
Loss of taste and smell is as old as the hills. As far as the Covid Con I've always regarded the "loss of taste and smell" as part of the psyop right up there with "asymptomatic spread."
When they were able to get people to believe in this nonsense and repeat it I knew we were in big trouble.
I still marvel at the ease with which it was done.
A more mundane explanation:
People were spending immeasurably more time inside their homes with forced air heating and all the dust, mildew etc. that those types of heating systems spit out.
They were spending much more time in their homes on devices of one kind or another accruing more than the usual EMF overload while being immersed in a sensory overload roller coaster.
Their activities/workouts/skiing/bicycling/running and whatever other manner of exercise that they normally would do to "clear out" and/or strengthen their lungs/respiratory system was severely curtailed or eliminated.
Oh and they clogged up their noses with tons of shit rBGH laden cheese that they ingested as they drowned themselves in door dash pizza takeout bonanzas.
In fact, that WAS the dead give-away for me, as I had that (loss of taste & smell) every time I had flu as a child (which was often). OMG, puh-LEEZE! But they all just idiotically fell for it. Which is strange because surely they'd experienced it previously, as I had?
You’re exactly right! My first experience with “loss of sense of smell or taste” was with a bad cold about age 5 or 6, and my mother explained it apparently much more accurately than anyone today at the CDC. I have had many such symptoms repeatedly over my lifetime and couldn’t believe it when this was identified as a unique and characteristic finding with covid. At worst, a bad cold or ILI, it’s been an eye-opening experience as a physician to see so many colleagues fall for the scam.
I salute your standing alone outside the sheep farm of your colleagues, Dr. Fariss. Until this article of Jessica's, I thought I was the only one who'd ever noticed how thin was that particular lie.
It's not the "loss of smell and taste" purported Covid symptom that resonates with me ... it's the terrible, violent, painful (and lingering) cough that might be the big difference from traditional respiratory symptoms. Also, the acute shortness of breath and more-noticeable fatigue. I also didn't have many of the "cold" symptoms - like major congestion and excessive phlegm.
If one believes in the efficacy of the flu tests, myself and my two children tested negative for flu when we were sick in January 2020. Millions of people who had the same type symptoms also tested negative for flu (of course, I acknowledge most people who get a flu test, test negative).
Still, when I interviewed an administrator at our local big health clinic, she confirmed that their clinic had a massive spike in "sick" patients in December 2019 and January 2020. She also told me almost all of these people were testing negative for flu. "We thought there must be something wrong with the flu test," she told me.
This person has been an administrator at this clinic for 20 years. She knows that when there had been other big ILI outbreaks ... more people were testing positive for the flu. The key point: This "outbreak" was DIFFERENT.
Both of my sisters-in-law lost sense of smell with “Delta” and took months to recover it. They live in a small town and had not really changed their lifestyles over COVID and did not buy into the narrative.
That said I’ve heard that can happen with a number of viral infections and that B vitamins can help...
Delta did exist, as a cover story. It was the side effects of the jab relabeled as a new "strain".... So they can count the deaths and injuries as due to con-vid and used the excuse that new strains evade the quackzine...
Such a stupid thing that so many fell for, like your college post above.
Con-vid the best fake war simulation that lead to more people dying years after from the treatments lol.
Anyone who believes any of this Covid crap has to accept that they are willing to believe the story told to them by proven pathological liars who have running (and profiting from) these scams for years.
I used to get terribly carsick, starting when I was a baby. All through childhood I got sick as soon as I got in a car, before it went anywhere. It's interesting how the brain gets wired!
You missed an "I" .... a still lingering result of "Long Sea Sickness" ? ("...what if said....") - para. 8.
= =
To pile anecdotal on the anecdotal, I am pretty sure that no less an astute researcher than Katherine Watt has reported that she - maybe only - her family members had a "sickest I have ever been" experience late 2020. The claim was occasionally heard on "our" side as well. Can't think where I have seen it - there is some speculation that local release of poisoning agents might have been part of the Operation - e.g. the claimed "super-spreader" event at the motorcyclist rally in South Dakota late spring 2020. It is difficult to rule anything out. And MSM went on and on and on with that for months.
I had "the worst flu I've ever had" in the fall of 2018, and it also left me with a year of chronic fatigue and ME (exertion intolerance). It came a time of very high stress in my life. So. (as Jeff Childers would say)
I would tell you: “Don’t worry Jessica it was just a ‘virus’!”
“It was just a reactivation of the sea-sickness virus that lays dormant in your body.”
“There is no treatment, so go home and isolate yourself so ‘it’ doesn’t ‘spread’ to your grandma, but if you continue to feel sick head to the hospital so they can ‘treat’ you, and with any luck they will have a ‘vaccine’ ready in a couple of months”.
“Lucky you survived - it could have been much worse!”
Just joking.
I’m no longer falling for this invisible pathogen lie, what about you?
I am still stunned at what we went through, in the UK we were primed to fear each other we had posters of men and women planted everywhere telling us to look into his/her eyes and ask the "infected" "did we keep a safe distance from him?" or "tell her you never bend the rules" or look him in the eyes and "tell him it isn't real". Warped and oppressive, I will never forget. I could have ripped every single poster down, they were everywhere and it was vomit inducing. Sorry Jessica Hockett for reminding you of the traumatic event where you were the sickest you have ever been!
I love your insight and conviction. And I was the first in my circle to have asked if anyone would think there was a dangerous illness circulating if they turned off the news. And COVID is not even close to the sickest I’ve ever been in my life. However, at no time in my 50 years have I been sick with something that made everything, including steak, taste like burnt bananas. For weeks. That’s weird and novel. I don’t think there was a deadly virus, but I do believe there was a toxin of some sort sporadically released and amplified with hysteria.
Yes-late July/August. Got sick in Florida. 8 of 10 who went to a restaurant got sick, but not til after we returned to our respective states a few days later. Oh! And half my hair fell out a few months later. And my dad’s (a physician) and sister’s. And my sister’s daughter got vaginal ulcers. All novel…to us anyway.
Oh Jessica, forgive me for laughing...there is NOTHING WORSE than being seasick...you DO want to die.
Even though I grew up on the water, I KNOW what it is like...my worst time was on a cruise to Norway with my mother....and it wasn't even rough! I will never go on another cruise.
I love rough weather....about sail boat size, not motor boat. But the worst? When it is flat calm and you are slippng sideways in the sailboat.....if I am lucky, I can go to sleep before I throw up.
But I get the comparison...but my current suspicion is that we didn't ask the questions we should have...like how long has this been circulating? I think for over a year, and definitely peaked before March 2020....and we never bothered to find out which coronovirus was circulating...it could have been one of over 50 strains that ciruculate every year.
Many people I know were sick with non a non b flu so they thought.
It's weird - I never seem to get sick on any boat that serves champagne. :)
Agreed that the "how long was this newly-detected thing around?" is a key question. It's one the U.S. government could ask publicly; they certainly have enough samples of things that could be tested.
I think the obvious answer to why they DON'T do that is because they know what they'd find.
You left out the fourth word of the ‘But, what if...’ paragraph. ‘I’? ‘you’? ‘someone’? It’s important which word you meant to use here because it establishes where *that* narrative is coming from. And that is what this whole problem humanity is facing is about. Who is telling the story that makes us understand our world incorrectly? Do we end up filling in any blanks, or is someone or something else removing options for each of us to tell ourselves a different story?
"But, what if I said that there was something unique and unusual about the ocean waters that day? Or insisted the boat had a design that spiked the propensity of passengers to retch over the rails? Or argued that the captain must have been navigating in a negligent manner, or drunk, and needs his license taken away? All because I WAS THE SICKEST I’VE EVER BEEN AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE REALLY SICK TOO, DARN IT!"
The video shows the undulation much better, but the point remains that any claims I would make about specialness of the ocean that day simply because I was the sickest I've ever been would perhaps be understandable but still ridiculous.
I was around droves of college students on a daily basis with extended close contact in an instructional setting. This included dozens of Chinese foreign exchange students and dozens of NYC students who attended the "elite" university were I worked.
They were often testing "positive" with "Covid" via mandatory weekly PCR testing but only getting mildly sick with the same symptoms they get every year while I never got sick.
I had been teaching at that University for 20 years and did so during three semesters of the phony "pandemic" (refused to wear a mask and other University "Covid" rules) until the vaxx mandate kicked in for staff- it kicked in earlier for students. Once the vaxx mandate kicked in I refused and was released. I could have received a religious exemption but also refused that and instead opted to fight the university- a lost cause.
I was around these students every single day- including weekends. How is it possible I never not sick during this time frame- not so much as a sniffle- given the story of "deadly virus" and "highly transmissible?"
In normal times the students routinely get sick mainly due to the fact that they eat crap, they rarely exercise, are sleep deprived, drink too much, stressed out, indoors all the time, electronics all the time, constant states of dehydration and so forth. That's not new. No need for PCR tests.
In fact during the PCR testing frenzy a large number of players from one of the sports teams all tested positive. It was a minor scandal at the school as it was discovered they held a big (illegal) party and they all got wasted then tested positive the next day for "Covid." The PCR was simply picking up on toxic "genetic" debris that their body was sloughing off- it's called a hangover.
Once the vaxx mandate kicked in the students were getting quite sick beyond the norm and directly from the shots. I know this as they would send me notices explaining their reason for being absent. It got to the point pretty quickly that they would be giving me a heads up they would likely be missing the upcoming class pre-injection, as they were all hearing about how sick people were getting from the injections.
It was a bizarre thing to see as they were all either coerced and threatened in multiple ways or they took it as a form of "duty" (almost like some ritual hazing)- most did not want to take the shots.
There is no such thing as Covid outside of propaganda.
"almost like some ritual hazing" - at my workplace extreme distress/illness post injection (esp #2) became something like a right of passage - and greeted with winks and nudges and congenial snickering. The Control Group (n=1) was, conversely, ritually shunned for well over year.
Wow; the depth of insanity of it all! Not to mention the supreme irony of the healthy shunned! In my case I've had to bite my tongue not to say something when my jabbed sisters were repeatedly sick afterwards and since.
Unlike you, I always point it out! Fortunately, only 3 of my family are boosted, the rest listened to my warnings early on. At this point, the 3 are starting to see the truth, as they are the only ones in the family who are repeatedly sick!
I've decided to preserve whatever tenuous thread of communication I still have with my sisters, my only child, and my ex.
I totally get it! We each have to do what works for us and our circle of family and friends. It’s a good idea to maintain healthy relationships with family, especially, and we never know what tiny crack is opened just by doing so. I have one dear person in my life I have chosen that route with as well. We don’t discuss politics or Covid at all. I do talk to her about supplements, though, and herbal remedies for when she gets sick. They’ve helped her a lot, she just doesn’t know where the protocol comes from which is fine with me. I’m able to help her without upending her world view or offending her political views. Perhaps one day…
I have one friend in my life like that, too. But all bridges have been irreparably burned with my "old" friends from childhood. As you attest, blood is thicker than water so where there's life there's hope (two cliches in one sentence!).
Me too, both of them....its tough to respond because they want sympathy, while you want to yell at them for being idiots.
A gurgle in the back of my throat is about all I could muster up.
😒 ... I know what you mean!
In Borneo by #2-8 people were openly swapping their preferred home remedies & plans for dealing with the often debilitating side effects, even joking that they hope they don't die. Still breaks my heart & I'm one of the very few not injected & still to get sick with anything. also shunned for about 3yrs.
Amen and thank-you for saying it so well.
Brilliantly put, as usual. Sadly, those who have been trained only to believe what they are told and what they choose to believe will never get it. They have lost all ability to consider facts and think for themselves.
"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie."
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“with” or “of” rough seas
LOL!!! Perfect
I give you credit for trying. To go out fishing, that is. For me the ocean waves are the only thing that relieves my land sickness. Great analogy and I would highly recommend 3 or 4 hours of 6-8 foot seas for the cringing covid URI survivors.
hahaha!
Great advice, all around!
I applaud this PERFECT retort to the idiotically parroted phrase of your title. You and James Delingpole are the only writers I'm aware of who've addressed this (I have in comments but not an article) and you've nailed it. I'll try to retrieve the one by James and post a link here if I'm successful... it was quite a while back.
I found it, but it's archived so behind a paywall. But his title is "So You Think You Had a Novel, Bio-Engineered, Lab-Leaked Virus?" and it starts out "Tell me about your personal experiences of Covid 19. Actually, wait, don’t. I think I may have heard it already, about a million times before. You lost all sense of smell or taste - and just how weird was that? It floored you for days. It gave you a funny dry cough, the driness and tickliness of which was unprecedented in your entire coughing career…"
Don't tell anyone taste and smell are directly associated.
Loss of smell and taste as a distinguishing characteristic of “COVID 19?" That should have set off alarm bells right away to people that they were being conned.
Loss of taste and smell is as old as the hills. As far as the Covid Con I've always regarded the "loss of taste and smell" as part of the psyop right up there with "asymptomatic spread."
When they were able to get people to believe in this nonsense and repeat it I knew we were in big trouble.
I still marvel at the ease with which it was done.
A more mundane explanation:
People were spending immeasurably more time inside their homes with forced air heating and all the dust, mildew etc. that those types of heating systems spit out.
They were spending much more time in their homes on devices of one kind or another accruing more than the usual EMF overload while being immersed in a sensory overload roller coaster.
Their activities/workouts/skiing/bicycling/running and whatever other manner of exercise that they normally would do to "clear out" and/or strengthen their lungs/respiratory system was severely curtailed or eliminated.
Oh and they clogged up their noses with tons of shit rBGH laden cheese that they ingested as they drowned themselves in door dash pizza takeout bonanzas.
Etc.
In fact, that WAS the dead give-away for me, as I had that (loss of taste & smell) every time I had flu as a child (which was often). OMG, puh-LEEZE! But they all just idiotically fell for it. Which is strange because surely they'd experienced it previously, as I had?
You’re exactly right! My first experience with “loss of sense of smell or taste” was with a bad cold about age 5 or 6, and my mother explained it apparently much more accurately than anyone today at the CDC. I have had many such symptoms repeatedly over my lifetime and couldn’t believe it when this was identified as a unique and characteristic finding with covid. At worst, a bad cold or ILI, it’s been an eye-opening experience as a physician to see so many colleagues fall for the scam.
I salute your standing alone outside the sheep farm of your colleagues, Dr. Fariss. Until this article of Jessica's, I thought I was the only one who'd ever noticed how thin was that particular lie.
It's not the "loss of smell and taste" purported Covid symptom that resonates with me ... it's the terrible, violent, painful (and lingering) cough that might be the big difference from traditional respiratory symptoms. Also, the acute shortness of breath and more-noticeable fatigue. I also didn't have many of the "cold" symptoms - like major congestion and excessive phlegm.
If one believes in the efficacy of the flu tests, myself and my two children tested negative for flu when we were sick in January 2020. Millions of people who had the same type symptoms also tested negative for flu (of course, I acknowledge most people who get a flu test, test negative).
Still, when I interviewed an administrator at our local big health clinic, she confirmed that their clinic had a massive spike in "sick" patients in December 2019 and January 2020. She also told me almost all of these people were testing negative for flu. "We thought there must be something wrong with the flu test," she told me.
This person has been an administrator at this clinic for 20 years. She knows that when there had been other big ILI outbreaks ... more people were testing positive for the flu. The key point: This "outbreak" was DIFFERENT.
Both of my sisters-in-law lost sense of smell with “Delta” and took months to recover it. They live in a small town and had not really changed their lifestyles over COVID and did not buy into the narrative.
That said I’ve heard that can happen with a number of viral infections and that B vitamins can help...
Still it is a real phenomenon.
There is no such thing as "Delta."
There are countless possible reasons why your relatives could have "lost their sense of smell."
That they did not change their lifestyles does not mean the environment around them did not change.
"COVID" as a clinical condition is pure fiction- all of it.
Delta did exist, as a cover story. It was the side effects of the jab relabeled as a new "strain".... So they can count the deaths and injuries as due to con-vid and used the excuse that new strains evade the quackzine...
Such a stupid thing that so many fell for, like your college post above.
Con-vid the best fake war simulation that lead to more people dying years after from the treatments lol.
On the money.
Anyone who believes any of this Covid crap has to accept that they are willing to believe the story told to them by proven pathological liars who have running (and profiting from) these scams for years.
correct!
“Coughing career”. 😂
I love Delingpole!
The cause was probably the name of the boat: Diamond Princess. 😉😜 #ChangeMyMind
You know it wasn't the Diamond Princess, because there was no illness outbreak on the DP during the voyage. :)
https://x.com/Wood_House76/status/1633659235543179265?s=20
You should check to make sure the captain didn’t count you in its all cause mortality records.
Or submit it to insurance for a $10K bump up
Well if they did you should definitely get a big cut of it
You wrote: "I feel nauseous right now just thinking about that day."
Funny, I felt nauseous just reading about it, lol.
Power of suggestion, right?
My husband later said, “I started throwing up not even because I felt sick, but because everyone around me was throwing up.”
What happens when people read about sick people on social media and TV as the government tells you there’s a pandemic health emergency? :)
I used to get terribly carsick, starting when I was a baby. All through childhood I got sick as soon as I got in a car, before it went anywhere. It's interesting how the brain gets wired!
"3-hour excursion" made me think of Gilligan's Island right away.
There’s something of a dispute between my sisters and I about how long this excursion was.
I (the oldest) say 3 hours.
Middle sis says 6 hours.
Youngest sis says 4 hours.
You missed an "I" .... a still lingering result of "Long Sea Sickness" ? ("...what if said....") - para. 8.
= =
To pile anecdotal on the anecdotal, I am pretty sure that no less an astute researcher than Katherine Watt has reported that she - maybe only - her family members had a "sickest I have ever been" experience late 2020. The claim was occasionally heard on "our" side as well. Can't think where I have seen it - there is some speculation that local release of poisoning agents might have been part of the Operation - e.g. the claimed "super-spreader" event at the motorcyclist rally in South Dakota late spring 2020. It is difficult to rule anything out. And MSM went on and on and on with that for months.
Fixed, thank you. Yes, please chalk it up to Long Sea Sickness.
I haven't seen Katherine's account of her sickness so I can't speak to it. Was she hospitalized?
I guarantee that most people reading these words will have multiple "sickest I've ever been" experiences several more times in their lives. :)
"Long Sea Sickness"... love it!
I had "the worst flu I've ever had" in the fall of 2018, and it also left me with a year of chronic fatigue and ME (exertion intolerance). It came a time of very high stress in my life. So. (as Jeff Childers would say)
I would tell you: “Don’t worry Jessica it was just a ‘virus’!”
“It was just a reactivation of the sea-sickness virus that lays dormant in your body.”
“There is no treatment, so go home and isolate yourself so ‘it’ doesn’t ‘spread’ to your grandma, but if you continue to feel sick head to the hospital so they can ‘treat’ you, and with any luck they will have a ‘vaccine’ ready in a couple of months”.
“Lucky you survived - it could have been much worse!”
Just joking.
I’m no longer falling for this invisible pathogen lie, what about you?
I am still stunned at what we went through, in the UK we were primed to fear each other we had posters of men and women planted everywhere telling us to look into his/her eyes and ask the "infected" "did we keep a safe distance from him?" or "tell her you never bend the rules" or look him in the eyes and "tell him it isn't real". Warped and oppressive, I will never forget. I could have ripped every single poster down, they were everywhere and it was vomit inducing. Sorry Jessica Hockett for reminding you of the traumatic event where you were the sickest you have ever been!
I love your insight and conviction. And I was the first in my circle to have asked if anyone would think there was a dangerous illness circulating if they turned off the news. And COVID is not even close to the sickest I’ve ever been in my life. However, at no time in my 50 years have I been sick with something that made everything, including steak, taste like burnt bananas. For weeks. That’s weird and novel. I don’t think there was a deadly virus, but I do believe there was a toxin of some sort sporadically released and amplified with hysteria.
2021?
Yes-late July/August. Got sick in Florida. 8 of 10 who went to a restaurant got sick, but not til after we returned to our respective states a few days later. Oh! And half my hair fell out a few months later. And my dad’s (a physician) and sister’s. And my sister’s daughter got vaginal ulcers. All novel…to us anyway.
I have some theories about the “Delta” period, none of which involve a spreading CV. :)
This is good info. Thanks.
Eagerly awaiting your theory. Appreciate your work!
Oh Jessica, forgive me for laughing...there is NOTHING WORSE than being seasick...you DO want to die.
Even though I grew up on the water, I KNOW what it is like...my worst time was on a cruise to Norway with my mother....and it wasn't even rough! I will never go on another cruise.
I love rough weather....about sail boat size, not motor boat. But the worst? When it is flat calm and you are slippng sideways in the sailboat.....if I am lucky, I can go to sleep before I throw up.
But I get the comparison...but my current suspicion is that we didn't ask the questions we should have...like how long has this been circulating? I think for over a year, and definitely peaked before March 2020....and we never bothered to find out which coronovirus was circulating...it could have been one of over 50 strains that ciruculate every year.
Many people I know were sick with non a non b flu so they thought.
We didn't ask the right questions.
It's weird - I never seem to get sick on any boat that serves champagne. :)
Agreed that the "how long was this newly-detected thing around?" is a key question. It's one the U.S. government could ask publicly; they certainly have enough samples of things that could be tested.
I think the obvious answer to why they DON'T do that is because they know what they'd find.
You left out the fourth word of the ‘But, what if...’ paragraph. ‘I’? ‘you’? ‘someone’? It’s important which word you meant to use here because it establishes where *that* narrative is coming from. And that is what this whole problem humanity is facing is about. Who is telling the story that makes us understand our world incorrectly? Do we end up filling in any blanks, or is someone or something else removing options for each of us to tell ourselves a different story?
I'm not seeing a missing word. Help.
"But, what if I said that there was something unique and unusual about the ocean waters that day? Or insisted the boat had a design that spiked the propensity of passengers to retch over the rails? Or argued that the captain must have been navigating in a negligent manner, or drunk, and needs his license taken away? All because I WAS THE SICKEST I’VE EVER BEEN AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE REALLY SICK TOO, DARN IT!"
It was missing in the email version and you fixed it already. Sorry about that...
No worries! Another reader had alerted me. I appreciate editorial feedback on typos etc.
Looks flat calm to me. Not “snotty” at all. But I fish a lot. I have natural immunity to sea sickness. Next time you won’t catch it.
Yes, I included the picture on purpose :)
The video shows the undulation much better, but the point remains that any claims I would make about specialness of the ocean that day simply because I was the sickest I've ever been would perhaps be understandable but still ridiculous.