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I have commented elsewhere that there is such a thing as post-viral syndrome, which may explain some of the so-called Long Covid. But even before reading this, I've thought that another explanation for this phenomenon is due to many researchers embracing it to the point of positively salivating at the thought of obtaining research funding for its study. I meant world-over, not specifically the US. They obsess about disease as well, so welcome its prevalence. But till this piece, I wasn't aware of the background you highlighted with these US agencies. There may already be cures for HIV that are inexpensive and without side effects, Pharma would no doubt try to suppress information about them.

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Indeed. Very true.

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Thought-provoking.

In the UK, in the early 1980's, there were ghoulish HIV "ads" on the television, and posters everywhere (of the kind we've seen a lot recently). Was this an early manifestation of the role that "behavioural science" plays in influencing us nowadays?

I knew at the time one person with HIV, probably acquired from needle-sharing. I still have a cardigan he gave me. Nowadays I know quite a few 80+ year-old gay men with HIV. Their energy puts me to shame. Mind you, they're on a daunting daily intake of pills.

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Well-said. While I believe that Long Covid is unfortunately all too real for some people, it is clearly exaggerated by orders of magnitude and is nowhere near as common as the zealots like to claim it is. And it pales in comparison to Long Lockdown and Long Jab Injury.

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Very astute observation, Steve! Enjoyed it writing as usually

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There is no 'long covid.' The vax is a destroyer of health in hundreds of known and admitted ways, and a ruiner of immunity. The inability of vaxxed people to fight the yearly cold-weather ailments (we call it "the flu") will be evident this year. They will blame 'a new variant of covid,' and, of course -- the un-vaxxed.

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Maybe a great way to knock down the absurd health excuse for human control, is to facilitate and engage in the the much needed respectful, open, and ample dialogue debate between the germ and contagion theory of dis~ease, and the terrain theory. Questioning is what real science is all about. Science is not static.

It may not be used as an excuse for imposition and control.

Even if one chooses to believe the “mainstream” pushed theory, just the debate, could help make the house of cards of the health system fall down.

Together with the deception, lies, corruption and pathological greed and control addiction.

And transformation may flourish.

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