What 'unusual illness' occurred in New York City in spring 2020 -- and could it have been caused by sprayed chemicals? | UPDATE: Reaction to Latypova in Feb 2024
Reaction to a hypothesis offered by Sasha Latypova
This [1953 Army] report provides the evidence that this [spraying] activity has been conducted for a long time, and that materials sprayed from airplanes in this way get into the office buildings and other buildings, especially into the higher floors. Therefore, my hypothesis that this is one of the methods that may have been used to “seed” some unusual illness and claim it is a novel SARS-Cov2 virus is viable, especially for cities with high-rise office and apartment buildings, like New York. Spraying is also pretty easily implemented on subways and has been used by the US Army, too.
I asked Latypova about her hypothesis via Substack Notes.
With this hypothesis, are you saying that it is your belief that New York City experienced “unusual illness” in spring 2020? If so, can you please provide the basis/es for this belief?
The ensuing dialogue can be read here. Previous exchanges earlier this year are documented here and here.
Latypova requested that I (re)state what I believe happened in New York. My response is drawn from the articles I’ve already written and captured below with links to other pieces, for the benefit of new readers and anyone else in need of a refresher:
The 27,000 excess deaths in NYC are unsubstantiated. The ACM daily curve and several related datasets show clear fraud signals. At minimum, the spike reflects a mix of democidal policy directives in healthcare and EMS. But I go further: I contend the curve itself is impossible and was engineered, which does not mean there wasn’t excess death in the timeframe.
The first priority is to verify that the event occurred as presented. Did the claimed number of people die on each day, in each reported setting —regardless of what their (hidden and not-subject-to FOI) death certificates say? All available evidence I’ve examined strongly suggests the answer is no. The toll is distorted, in timing, magnitude, or both. The most specious curve is the hospital curve.
The absence of expected stochasticity on the front end of both curves is, by itself, a giant red flag. Statisticians should be concerned about the possibility of manufactured death data being used to model, portend, and plan for impossible events. Everyone should care what portion of these deaths were real (ie, occurred on the days and in the places claimed), and how many were not.
Even large-scale iatrogenocide has limits; it’s not boundless. And without “on the ground” evidence to match the purported body management feat — and contemporaneous accounts that look and sounds a lot like a simulation (with real people/patients) — we’re left with strong reasons to believe that the curves are not genuine.
Latypova previously said that “chemical weapons were deliberately used in some key locations (like NYC)” and “symptoms of neurological poisoning…were reported widely”.1
Many analysts who reject the idea of a suddenly spreading, novel SARS-related virus transmitting from person-to-person or in the air in late 2019 or early 2020 have nonetheless offered explanations for data showing apparent increases in respiratory or influenza-like illness (ILI) in March and April — following local emergency decrees or the WHO’s pandemic declaration. They assume that an atypical, significantly above-normal epidemiological event occurred and requires explanation.
I don’t necessarily accept this premise, as I fail to see how the sudden rollout of indiscriminate PCR testing and the introduction or revision of coding schemes can be considered valid or reliable indicators of authentic epidemiological phenomena..2
Even so, Latypova goes beyond ILI to “unusual illness” and, based in part on an unclassified 1953 report "Behavior of Aerosol Clouds Within Cities," offers that aerial or subway spraying could have been used to “seed” illness (mis)attributed to SARS-CoV-2 in places like New York.
Evaluating the plausibility and “fit” of this hypothesis against official time-series data, records, images, and firsthand or secondhand accounts requires more detail about the symptoms of the alleged illness and, ideally, a proposed (even if speculative) timeline for its dispersal.
Should Sasha Latypova share more of her current thinking on the hypothesis, I can assess how well it aligns with the evidence I’ve gathered to date.
UPDATE: 10 August 2025
Adding the text of an email I sent to four people on 24 February 2024, reacting to Sasha Latypova’s comments on her article "After Talk on Narrative Control with Dr. Jane Ruby” for my reference, as well as what Latypova said of her own illness in 2022.
If I understand Sasha’s latest comments correctly, the NYC spring 2020 narrative she is pushing is this:
1. The U.S. military deployed a biochemical weapon in the NYC subway system via aerosols. This does nothing to account for nursing home patient deaths or deaths of patients who were already in the hospitals, nor is she not contending that deployment occurred inside those places. Is she implying the deployment of this thing created something spreadable/transmissible between people? I have said a few times that I think NYC “ran” a drill/plan that existed for chemical or bomb attacks and that “15 Days to Slow the Spread” formally activated the drill.
2. The NYC spike is consistent with the deployment of a biochemical weapon containing an unspecific agent. I agree the spike is not a spreading coronavirus and is unnatural. I also contend the daily all-cause death curve is a fraudulent/false presentation of what happened death-wise each day “on the ground”. But even if I’m wrong, the speed and magnitude of the hospital deaths could only happen with mass euthanasia playing a big part. Even then, it’s the handling of the bodies IRT that I doubt. If Sasha said something was deployed in hospitals, that would fit with the data.
3. People who arrived at NYC ERs in March/April were exhibiting poisoning symptoms. Is this her explanation for all the “young people were showing up at the hospital not being able to breathe” stories? So the COVID patients in Madison, Wisconsin were or were not victims of this same kind of deployment?
Dr Madjarrad [09:10] “From the first day that the sequences of the new viruses were published…” Is the plural a mistake?
[9:45] Mention of using a platform that’s in clinical trials for influenza - which he makes sure to say is “a different respiratory virus.” This is reiterated
There’s also mention of the speed of testing and that it’s currently slow.
Col Wendy begins speaking at 17:10. This seems to be the part Sasha is referencing. I notice she keeps saying “the virus” and says Ft. Detrick has received the virus. She defers to Talley and he actually mentions the movie Outbreak. Hahaha!
[20:42] reporter asks where the virus sample came from. Wendy: “The CDC.” Reporter asks for geographical area. Panel says Washington State. (So, Snohomish Man or Kirkland Nursing Home are possibilities)
[38:20] Reporter at asks about Ft Detrick safety issues and strains of the virus. I used to think something leaked from Detrick in May/June 2019. Hearing all of this now, Ft Detrick safety issues sounds like a planted narrative for a future limited hangout or distractions for “conspiracy theorists”.
The whole press conference is worth listening to as an example of how some of the ends of the debate spectra were set.
For example:
—Virus from China is “new” and spreading
—At least two waves expected
—Herd immunity/eventual seasonality
—Not the flu but we know a lot about flu
—Vaccine and testing needed.
—Mention of monoclonal antibodies
In a second email, as a "P.S., I said:
Sorry, one more thing from the video because it connects to my flu interest :)
In comments on the same article, Latypova spoke to her own illness, placing it in late 2022.
Write to Col Mat Hepburn and Col Wendy Sammons at Ft. Dietrich and ask them that question. I wasn't the one in charge of deployment. They did get it to my town by late 2022. They focused on NYC subways first. Deploying aerosols on subways is an age old bioweapon approach. [link to comment]
Mat Hepburn is now teaching at Georgetown, just like Fauci.
my town - yes, both I and my husband got ill with neurological poisoning symptoms immediately after going to a shopping mall. We did not eat or drink there. The symptoms were the same described by many other people and were not the flu.
Dennis Rancourt paper shows clear rapid short spike in NYC consistent with a deployment of agent. Deployment of bio chemical weapons by aerosols, specifically on subways is described in almost every bioweapons textbook dating back to 1960's. So why this is such a surprise and sore point for you, I have no idea.
As to what is "it", as I said, write to Col Wendy. She is on video on March 5, 2020 saying she was making "it".
Finally, when you arrive at ER with poisoning symptoms, nobody demands you produce exact chemical formula of "it", or otherwise you can't be treated because you are making up nonexistent pathogen. So puhleeze, stop this bullshit, ok. People were poisoned, not all, some but enough to make it quite distinct and diagnosable. [link to comment]
With New York especially, data discrepancies, agencies withholding public records, and researchers failing to respond to reasonable inquiries and requests also point to tampering and/or misrepresentation.
