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Flu can cause loss of smell and taste. It can also cause fast heartbeat if there is also a fever and lack of appetite (I've gotten tachycardia with every sickness for yrs), chronic fatigue syndrome post virus is a well known thing for decades. And of course Flu can cause difficulty breathing if there is pneumonia underlying it. Basically he was right flu and cold cause all COVID symptoms.
Every virologist does control experiments by necessity though. Because to figure out the titre of your viral stock, you perform a TCID50 assay or similar, where you do a serial dilution of the viral stock and infect wells of cells with progressively more dilute virus. At a certain dilution, there will be no more cytopathic effect and that allows you to determine the titre of your original stock. If cells were just dying due to media components, you wouldn't see this progressive reduction in CPE with dilution.
I imagine that sometimes you need to administer a virus in a more direct way to a non-native host. The model organism might simply be lacking the pathway that the virus normally uses for dissemination in it's natural host. In the case of some of the viruses I use, I have to microinject these into insects instead of putting it in a meal because the midgut presents a barrier for the virus. However, once infected, it can then pass the virus vertically and sometimes horizontally too.
Okay, so let's pretend it's a flu.
Because literally every case of the flu is different, regardless of cause, and not everyone gets the same symptoms or severity of symptoms every time. This is basic 101 stuff that a 5th grader would know back in 2019, and previous.
Aside from a zinc deficiency, it seems that most loss of taste and/or smell is caused by a physical impairment within the nose, whether that be a pinched/severed nerve, a blockage, inflammation, or such. If there is indeed a rise in the rate of loss of taste or smell, I would think all the behaviors that could cause nasal damage or impairment should be looked at. You know, things like heavy mask usage, jamming foreign objects up your nose (for the PCR test), and heavier use (and inhalation) of toxic cleaning chemicals. The first two were very rare in 2019 and before, and have become very common in mid 2020 and beyond.
I mean, if you strike the words "extremely atypical," yes, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SAYING SINCE JANUARY 2020. To the point of "It's just the flu, bro" became a meme. But it is just a common cold, 100% of symptoms overlap with the common cold, and corona viruses are thought to be common cold viruses (or at least were, until they decided to run a sham pandemic). I got the most severe case of cold/flu I personally had in my adult life about 5 years ago. You were just lucky enough to have it when the COVID propaganda campaign was running.
Loss of taste or smell? I don't know about you, but 50% of the population seems really common to me.
Welp, welcome to the "Covid Denier" club then! This is the exact logic we use, so if you apply it objectively, you have to come to the same conclusion about COVID.
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I mean, I've pretty much addressed all your other points several times in much detail. But, I will also address this one.
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I think a lot of people have damaged their sense of smell from using fragrances.
In 1981 I was in High School, and I contracted a bad 'flu'. Out of school for 2 or 3 days. Symptoms were slight fever, shortness of breath, tongue turned green, and tired. I went back to school and my tiredness was noticeable to me only for about another week. Also my tongue turned purple the next 10 days, and then I lost most of my sense of taste. My tongue peeled, for lack of a better description, and I was then tasting food only a little. With the only exception of Sour! I could Not eat my most favourite salad dressing at the time which was 'Catalina' tomato something based zippy really. Super duper sting-ee on my tongue. So, after about 10 months I could taste food normally, and after about a year and a half I could eat my old Catalina salad dressing. (By then I moved on the Ranch dressing....). So, yes, it is possible to have loss of taste. The other tongue symptoms were real and disconcerting to me at first, but my mom did not think it was enough of a thing to go to the doctors.
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Proof of Symptom Synchronicity: In 1994 during a normal Spring in Juneau, AK, I was treating Acu clients M-F. For about 2 weeks I had people come in with the exact same complaint. As in 8 clients. People of both sexes (only 2 in those days) and of ages 18 -80 years old. Pain underneath and medially adjacent to the shoulder blade. Very tight and painful. Most folks were right-handed, and some of these pains were on the left. Pain showed up abruptly out of nowhere. As if it was a Bad Spirit moving through town and trying to find a hideout in people's rhomboid muscles. ??? Were these people all at the same orgy? I did not ask. Hmmmmm.
Likely referred pain from a common event, worth checking the news during that time. German New Medicine gets into this type of stuff. Also TCM can present some answers as to meridians and "invisible" causes.
No common events - like volleyball or basketball 24hour round the clock competitions. Yes, they have them up there in the winter. Huge age range, 20-85 years old, and no other commonality except the location and the weather. Some folks are mostly inside folks, not skiers. And yes, I am keenly aware of the TCM descriptions (not answers) of the possibilities of EPIs. Evil Pernicious Influences. Evil 'wind' if you will. There does not have to be an 'answer' or cause to be found to appease my rational mind, it is just phenomenon. Stuff happens.
I was more so referring to a global event. A mass stressor, or conflict. For example 9/11 (regardless of theories) was a event felt by many and where they hold that stress and conflict may show in their aches and pains, and people may hold it in similar areas, like those areas that coincide with fear of attack, or the dissolution of safety.
Wrong, it's not "just a flu". It's an incredibly bad "flu".
This is interesting, but irrelevant. I mostly didn't even have loss of smell/taste, I had other symptoms. The fact that this all coincided with other sick people I saw IRL and the official COVID pandemic means that this is not "just a flu"
Yes, and I didn't "go" anywhere, they were rapid tests. I've taken a couple while feeling normal, a few while feeling slightly off-kilter, and one when feeling VERY bad (extreme tachycardia in the 120bpm range). That time, it came back positive (as did all my family members, who had similar symptoms).
My vitamin D status was fine (I know from bloodwork), and avoiding people has nothing to do with getting sunlight. I do tons of yard work, gardening, etc.
Yes. In March 2020 my life had been the same for the last 8 months.
Why so defensive? I'm not allowed to draw conclusions about causation based on the utmost simple logic now? Snowflake-tier.
You have the right to use any sort of “simple logic” even when it is completely flawed.Nobody wants to stop you. You are free to do as you please.
Cool, can you explain how they were "destroyed"?
