The Great Sleight of Hand—Increasingly information is surfacing about the origins of the pandemic.

Gain of function work on bat coronaviruses at Wuhan stretches back to its opening in 2014.

Wuhan benefitted from collaboration with French, Canadian, and US government-funded institutions and scientists.

The overt aim was to research bat viruses with a view to developing vaccines and cures for future pandemics.

By 2017 Wuhan had announced it had located deadly viruses.

Simultaneously the US Beijing embassy was becoming suspicious about safety at the lab and was alarmed about the nature of the research being undertaken.

Washington ignored their warnings. US and Chinese scientists were pressing for more funding to ‘extend’ work towards the creation of novel viruses to be tested on humanised mice.

Due to the secrecy surrounding the lab and suspicions about military involvement, we will probably never know exactly what happened at Wuhan.

We do know however that the virus was circulating much much earlier than December 2019 and certainly did not originate at the Wuhan wild food market.

The strong response to control the pandemic from China and the initially weak and belated response in Western democracies has been discussed at length.

The rapid advent of vaccines is now hailed as the success story of the pandemic, a harbinger of even better medical technology to come.

This is The Great Sleight of Hand

There are some hard truths of health that have been brushed under the carpet so that we will all uncritically welcome an era of genetic medicine beyond the understanding of all but a small elite, and controlled by corporations seeking pharmaceutical gold mines.

The vast majority of people recover from Covid naturally.

What is it about their life style, their physiology, and their diet that enables them to be healthy is not being researched.

Meanwhile, for the last ten years, the life expectancy of Americans has been steadily declining while the incidence of chronic illness is growing.

For millions of years, the human race has evolved in a symbiotic natural relationship with the plant and animal kingdom.

In essence, the DNA of plants has nourished and guarded the DNA and health of humans. Now food sources are debased and medicine itself has become the leading cause of death.

Thus we stand on the threshold of a brave new world where humans can create illnesses and then sell cures for them—the ultimate prescription for wealth generation.

The current debate whether to vaccinate or not is there to distract us. Of course we should do everything to stay healthy based on the best information we have, but quietly our health is being taken beyond our control as novel technology starts to dominate our food sources and our health systems.

The very people who likely created the pandemic are parading themselves as heroes and calling for increased funding of genetic research whose risks out pace all other risks.

At smaller time and distance scales genetic functions are self interacting, they are not linear, changes here affect functions there and there and there.

We should move on from the subtle ways the pandemic debate is being framed and limited to a small number of choices and controversies.

The first lesson of the Covid pandemic is to close the pandoras box of genetic manipulation before we become a prisoner in the hands of genetic technologists who are babies playing at God.

The second lesson is to strengthen the traditional natural roots of health in lifestyle, diet, and behaviour.

Increasingly some of the social media conversations about vaccines have drifted away from the science into the realm of magic bullet philosophy.

Yes, Covid vaccines will reduce the severity of the disease and their risks are statistically small, and therefore having them is a wise choice, but they do little to stop transmission and the effective protection they offer wanes very quickly.

These last pose a serious problem for the course of the pandemic. As the vaccines allow transmission, the vaccinated population (along with the unvaccinated population) remains a breeding ground for new variants.

In the case of the vaccinated, continuing transmission automatically selects for vaccine immune variants. This is a rapidly ticking time bomb.

As a result, vaccination is NOT a stand alone solution.

Covid particularly affects those with weak immune systems (although not exclusively), it progresses by driving the inflammatory, autoimmune response of the body into hyperdrive.

The association of inflammation with modern human diseases (e.g. obesity, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, cancer, arthritis, asthma, and now Covid) remains an unsolved mystery of current biology and medicine.

Inflammation is by far the number one cause of death and its incidence is growing rapidly.

If we are to beat Covid, as a minimum, vaccination has to be paired with effective treatments.

More importantly, research has to be undertaken to understand why some people get very sick with Covid and others do not. 86% of people will get Covid relatively mildly.

Their resilience is not random, what is it about their diet, lifestyle, and physiology that is protecting them?

What is it about our environment that is exacerbating inflammation?

Little is being done to research and understand the healthy escapees.

If a big effort is not made in this direction, we are in for a continuing surprises and big challenges as Covid evolves its strategies to exploit our number one vulnerability.

So yes the vaccine helps, but it is not an end game.

The potential pitfalls of Covid are still being vastly underestimated by governments, ‘back to normal’ policies predicated on the ‘security’ of a vaccinated population are not based on science.