Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Corona update for April 4. Brook Baldwin, a young woman who is an anchor at CNN, announced that she tested positive after experiencing mild symptoms: mild fever and some aches. But, she insists that she's all right; that it's very minor, and it sounds like it's already passing. She said that she has been practicing all the social distancing. "But, it got me anyway." Really? Are you sure? Maybe the test is bogus.

Senator Rand Paul is being pilloried because after being tested for Corona virus, he went to the Senate gym to lift weights and swim. If they think it's so terrible, maybe they should close the Senate gym and pool. But, they're missing the most important point, which is, that he isn't sick. If he's going to the gym and lifting weight and swimming, he's not sick. And to believe that he is sick and fighting a virus just because of that test, well, you are putting too much stock in that test. Me, I don't put any stock in it. The test does nothing but determine whether some RNA, of unknown origin, that presumably got taken taken out of you, got duplicated because of things that they did to it. And even if it does get duplicated, there's no proof that it came from the Covid-19 virus.

In Iceland, they are determined to test everyone in the country, and so far, among the positives, half of them aren't sick at all. Did I mention it was half? So, what do you think? That all of them are infected but asymptomatic? This is Iceland. Was there any traffic at all between Iceland and Wuhon? And if you think it came from others who got infected, note that the only way to Iceland is by plane, which means that that the airlines have passenger lists for all the flights to Iceland in January and February. If they have the means of contacting and testing every Icelander, then they have the means of contacting all those passengers and finding out if any of them were sick or tested positive for Corona. We're talking about winter, and there is probably very little tourist travel to Iceland in January and February. Plus, we've all known about this since January, and if a person was sick, he probably would get tested, and then he'd probably cancel his trip to Iceland. So, I'm thinking that what visitors they had probably were healthy. So now, we're back to assuming that asymptomatic carriers are infecting and creating more asymptomatic carriers, but that is a whole lot of asymptomatic carriers for a deadly virus. They're telling us that the flu has a fatality rate of just .1% but that for Corona virus, it's as high as 3%. That's 30x more lethal. And yet, the world is full of asymptomatic carriers. Maybe it's true what they say, that if something doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.

In the Italian village of Vo Eugenio, they tested all 3300 residents, and the majority of the positives were asymptomatic. So, how about questioning the validity of the test?

So, what are YOU going to do if you have been practicing social distancing, diligently, but then you get tested and found to be positive? Are you just going to say, "Damn! It got me!" like Brook? Or, since you know that it has an average incubation period of 5 days, are you going to think back about every contact you have made to figure who could have given it to you? And if the only contacts you have had, outside your family, are just that you've been going to Whole Foods to shop as needed, are you going to assume that one of the customers or the cashiers gave it to you? But, they weren't coughing or acting the least bit sick, were they? So, then what? Are you going to assume that one or more was an asymptomatic carrier? "Asymptomatic carrier" is the password to evade the reality that this test is bogus. Not saying that the ones who are sick aren't sick. Just saying that the test is horse shit.