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[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Why is everyone so lazy?

if you read one of the histological papers that I posted in the /s/coronavirus sub, then you'd be able to read the methodology. At no point do they test with PCR, and the Electron Microscope views of the virus particles complete with spikes is a dead give away, especially when antibody tag-stained.

instead of sitting comfy in ignorance, upskill. The actual science is good, it is only the media / government presentation / use of that science which is a pile of steaming turds

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

We're talking about the covid-19 virus specifically, not corona viruses in general. Those have been around a very long time and aren't very relevant to the last year's drama. But as you say, whether or not a specific corona virus has been specifically separated and identified as covid-19 is a completely different topic, not to mention the larger question of whether it should be considered a significant concern.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

ah, well, yes, pretty impossible to determine if it is covid-19's virus, or another coronavirus just by looking at it. Still, death with a concomitant coronavirus CNS infection can't be ignored. Someone still died with a viral brain infection...

[–]whistlepig 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

but that isn't uncommon. As I mentioned in another comment, often when people start to die their immunity system fails and they get infected by most everything that happens to be around.

Not to mention the fact that corona viruses have been very common for at least as long as we have been aware of them

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the neuroinvasiveness certainly isn't common. quite unusual for them to win