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Great food for thought.

I had strange symptoms in January 2020: first vomiting, then a week later, hit with all the symptoms you list. This was before covid hit the news and I remember telling people this "flu" was unlike any other I'd had. It felt like a poisoning--I was completely immobilized. And scared--though I have never been one to freak out over illnesses.

It makes complete sense that they could not (yet) create an actual virus that would rise to the level of a pandemic, and so poisoning through ag would work just as well--and could spread pretty evenly across regions. And yet covid never spread like the flu---it seemed to hit certain places hard and some not at all.

What people are testing positive for now is likely the flu that mysteriously disappeared in 2020. Or do the PCR tests have a mechanism for cadmium presence? How can none of those "experiments" be headline news? This crap has been going on for decades. It's I who has just woken up to it.

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NYC with 70% positivity, but hardly a case yet in the Midwest...but just one would start the rapid spread, right? Something is off. It's hard to demonstrate without a smoking gun, but something is off.

Further, this should tell us what we need to pay attention to with respect to Chaos Agents. If there is something this large going on, it takes a team to organize the purshing of attention into dead ends, bruise egos, break connections, and build inorganic new media that looks organic in order to control it all.

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That's exactly how it seemed to happen. The change in media was palpable to me.

I remember sitting in LA wondering how NY could be so sick and we had nothing here until June, give or take. I didn't analyze it but it struck me as odd. And nowhere was hit as hard as NY. And Italy.

Also, could be why some people just couldn't "beat" it. They got so sick (poisoned?) that no treatment helped and they died. Even so, there were not too many of those.

Cadmium/heavy metals could easily be detected (if tested) in a corpse, no?

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I think about how this could happen. If a tanker truck with “Mosquito Control” emblazoned on the side was spraying mist while driving down the street, or some dudes with uniforms that have “HVAC” on them were pumping something from a tank into the ventilation of the subway, would anyone stop them and challenge them for credentials? Would anyone make them prove their authority for what they are doing?

It’s going to take vigilance and courage from normal people.

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If they would inject us with poisons and bioweapons, what would stop them doing this? For those who were conspiracy minded after 9-11, there was a plethora of experimental tech on display then.

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Sounds interesting.. Like what?

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A friend called me last summer shocked that his recent heavy metals test showed off the charts levels of cadmium. Just one data point but I wasn't surprised to read your post. I'm planting cilantro this weekend.

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Jul 19, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I assume you've already seen this since the reference is from the cadmium wiki pg, but it is interesting:

"An experiment during the early 1960s involving the spraying of cadmium over Norwich was declassified in 2005 by the UK government."

Referenced article:

The effects of cadmium spraying over a city in the 1960s are to be investigated after claims that it was linked with cancer of the oesophagus.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4507036.stm

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I had not seen that. Thank you.

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Is it odd that this has now been removed from the cadmium wiki? No reference to the UK tests at all.

Below is another article regarding the cadmium spraying.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience

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Keep asking questions like this and you may end up taking a second look at what "polio" is.

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Go ahead and stake your claim?

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I have no grounds to state a claim, however, I do have reasons to question the official story about polio. What the truth is will likely remain obscure.

The theory states that polio is not a virus causing a disease, but poisoning from lead and arsenic products used in wallpaper and pesticides.

There are books on this, The Moth and the Iron Lung is one, widely dismissed because it was not written by an "expert in the field".

As the saying goes, candlemakers would never invent the lightbulb, though they are experts on light production.

Here is a quick primer: https://oppositespectrums.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/coming-up-whats-so-wrong-with-the-cdc/

You may dismiss these concepts because they come from the "no virus" camp which I know you reject.

And that is fine. I have questions not answers, I can not for sure say either way.

But the questions raised are valid, or should at least be countered or addressed.

For instance, the simple fact a virus can not be viewed in the wild, like a bacteria can, or a fungus, or a parasite, makes me suspicious.

I'm not a doctor but that makes me go hmmmm. You can not swab a herpes blister, place that sample under an electron microscope, and view a herpes virus.

That sample has to go through several steps of adulteration [edit, posted to soon] before you can find any virus.

Why isn't polio the same? The body's reaction to poisoning? In the same way a virus sample is treated?

Happy to engage, I know you dismiss a lot if this, but you have an open mind.

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I do hope you understand that by raising the possibility that cadmium poisoning could be a cause of "covid19", that you are opening a big door.

Because if that could be so, so could polio. So could the "isolation" of a virus.

Let me ask you this... Does it make any sense to you that what can not be seen can then be identified?

How does that work? That is the basic question surrounding virology. How do you know what you are seeing is what you can not see in the wild?

Do you recall the high priests before the Reformation? The only pnes who could decipher the word of God?

What has convinced you this paradigm has not evolved and adapted to other spheres?

Would not the publics deference to Fauci et al parallel a pre-Reformation deference to a Priest acting as conduit between the word of God and you?

Why do you know viruses exist?

Because you have been told that they do.

But if the root cause is poison, in one form or the other, how do you differentiate?

The impossibility is accepting the con. The real con.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6c/16/d2/6c16d294f30a363db53f513e62abf789.jpg

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What do you think is the cause of a common cold? I've noticed mine always always start with a sore throat. I've wondered if people who catch the flu are always vaccinated for flu first? I've never had the flu in my life and also never had a flu shot. Or possibly it's sometimes food poisoning. Which is just bacterial overload? I don't have strong opinions either way about viruses, just curious.

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I think the first step is to take the side of the defense.

Germ theory is on trial. You are the defense lawyer.

The case you have to make is create reasonable doubt in the jury's minds that Germ didn't do it.

I have seen enough to create that reasonable doubt.

That doesn't mean you have to name the killer.

But poisons seem like a good path to follow.

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"I think the first step is to spend hundreds of hours playing a game that you will be asked to play a second, third, and fourth time while having abuse hurled at you."

Did that once, thanks.

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Maybe you didn't do it the right way?

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Very interesting. I read a long tweet thread about polio being simply a lesion on the spinal cord which was originally known to have multiple causes, including poisoning from arsenic and lead, from the widespread use of pesticides containing them. Mind blowing https://twitter.com/forrestmaready/status/1005127713848463361?t=Ek8Wg8-gSikbDtUXUwMU6g&s=19

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There's a chapter in "Turtles All the Way Down" that discusses this. They think it could have been caused by toxicity from the lead/arsenic pesticides, as well as DDT. Those things cause the same symptoms. Then they outline how this theory explains many of the "mysterious" of the polio outbreaks that the viral explaination does not.

A few examples:

-Outbreaks were more prevalent in rural areas than densly populated

-Outbreaks were prevalent in summer months rather than colder

-Outbreaks were much more prevalent in 1st world nations, leading early researchers to believe it was caused by being "too clean

-Animals were often observed to experience paralysis at the same time as people.

-1st world vs 3rd world discrepency flip-flopped

-No good evidence that polio is actually contagious.

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Interesting.

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And here is why:

You have used several rhetorical devices here that are really beneath the intellect you exhibit otherwise.

First off, you have taken a "victim" position, "I tried to talk to someone about this and they were abusive." This is so wrong on so many levels. Is that really the extent of your research? Sadly it is, and yet you pontificate on the possibility "as if" you have done enough homework to counter. Which you haven't.

Which makes you unreliable. Do you approach your research this way? Accusations towards people from the shadow of not done the work?

You present yourself as the kind of guy who would read the available literature out there and make a decision for yourself, not rely on the words of a South African cartoonist and how he treated you. It doesn't add up with the person you present yourself as.

If you distill the logic down of your argument, it comes down to this, "a guy was mean to me and my wife makes viral clones." That is your anti-Terrain Theory case. Surely, someone of your capabilities can do better. And the fact that you didn't makes you highly suspect to me. You are not what you present yourself as.

Secondly, you immediately attack me for not using my real name. Why? Not everyone wants to be publicly known. Some people are narcissists and like to, other people are professionals and have to, and other people are neither.

This is another rhetorical device used to avoid the subject, a subject you have clearly done no homework on, are not capable of mustering a defense against, shown by you resorting to rhetorical tactics rather than real conversation.

And that wasn't even the point of my initial comment. You took it here, all I said was you may not like this because it comes from the Terrain crowd, but since *you* are doing what they have done, why not bring it up?

Thirdly, I don't spam your sub with this. The only reason I brought it up is because you are doing exactly what happened when Polio was shown to not be a viral agent. Exact same thing.

So, why are you bugging out? Accusing me of being a psyop? Which is another rhetorical trick, just accuse someone of something while avoiding a subject you are clearly unschooled in.

The response you have shown is telling. Are you are a chaos agent, a misinformation agent? A closeted Marxist who resorts to ultra liberal rhetorical tactics to avoid conversation? Are you placed within the health movement to cause confusion and dissent?

Rounding the Earth is a good name for your sub, and I am embarrassed I was tricked by you.

All you do here is talk in circles.

You take known information from other researchers and repackage it through your "models" to give it an accent, but you are not adding anything new.

In fact, you may be purposefully confusing the dialougue.

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"You present yourself as the kind of guy who would read the available literature out there and make a decision for yourself"

I present myself only as somebody who does his best to learn where he thinks it fits his best priorities. Am I not like anyone else?

"econdly, you immediately attack me for not using my real name."

No, I did not.

"If you distill the logic down of your argument, it comes down to this, "a guy was mean to me and my wife makes viral clones." That is your anti-Terrain Theory case."

I never made an anti-Terrain theory case, nor argued it that way.

"First off, you have taken a "victim" position"

That I have to handle posts like this so often that level strawmans at me IS a little tiring.

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This is you:

"If you're going to keep hammering the point, you should (1) drop the pseudonym, (2) show that you're willing to engage with them about their behavior, (3) put together a good guide laying out the arguments (all I've seen are hapharzard time wasters). Otherwise, you run the risk of appearing as a psyop time waster, which is where I have to currently categorize you."

See that? Drop the pseudonym? That was your source response.

And then you said you didn't do it.

You are bogus. Get me off this list.

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Go slander someone else. Get me off your list.

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You didn't know that?

I am unsubscribing. Unfortunately, I bought a year sub. Have a nice cheeseburger on me.

Edit: for some reason it won't allow me to. Can you get me off of your subscriber list? I do not want to be associated with you.

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You're unsubscribing because there is a book that I haven't read? Or that I'm not an expert in toxic metal poisoning [yet]? And you don't want to be associated with me?

Okay.

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Yes, I do not want people to check my subscriber list and see you on it, so please get me off of it. I explained above why. You are an unreliable source and thinker and I do not want to be linked to you.

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That was what came to my mind at the mention of Polio as well, I read Turtles a while ago and that chapter in particular was quite curious. In any case, it's a book I recommend for anyone.

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Jul 19, 2023·edited Jul 19, 2023

Lots of heavy metal poisonings have those symptoms. Aerosolizing cadmium then getting enough of it suspended in the air long enough in high enough concentrations to sicken large quantities of people in short order seems implausible. Getting it into the drinking water has greater possibilities. Personally, I’m sticking to the targeted release of enriched viral clones theory. Certainly if I were trying to create a panic I’d release them in the areas of highest population density first. NYC subway? Perfect. Maybe someone should ask Dr Charles Lieber to fill us in. This just in: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GaD8qEWJglY&feature=sharec

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I’m an NYC resident, and was also sick in Jan 2020 with some kind of intense gastrointestinal attack that lasted about a week, with violent vomiting. In mid Feb 2020, both my partner and I felt like we were both on the verge of getting sick (cold? flu?) for about 1 week and then it mysteriously passed. Then on March 4, 2020, I woke up with the most crushing burning chest pain, unlike anything I have ever felt before or since, and I am well acquainted with asthma and pneumonia, having had numerous bouts of each, particularly having experienced serious bouts of pneumonia as a child and young adult.

When you say “NYC with 70% positivity”, where is this coming from? I recall that there was no “testing” available for many months, nothing was available: no testing, no early treatment, etc. I phoned my now former allopathic doctor about a week in, and he would or could not help, offered nothing at all.

I did not recover until July 2020. Lingering intense chest pain, breathlessness, dizziness, lost a lot of weight. No fever, though. It was all really weird. What on earth was done to us….

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A family member was very sick in January of 2020, for nearly a month, and lost almost 30 pounds. This person is very robust and rarely sick.

It is frustrating that we can't get definitive answers about all of this but I really appreciate all the research and thinking that Matthew and others have put into it. Whatever "covid" is seems likely to have multiple vectors of attack, cadmium poisoning being one of the possibles. Dr. Jessica Rose says the shot injury symptoms mimic gadolinium poisoning, and Dr. Ana Mihalcea has reported gadolinium in the shots (could this also be a factor in covid itself?). And the more well known claims by Dr. Ardis that synthetic venoms can both cause covid symptoms and issues people have with the shots.

Of course the strong possibility that EMF has something to do with it, from 5G and other G's, either as primary cause or amplifying one of the other causes. Also the ENP (Engineered Nano Particles) that are in the shots and might also have been engineered and released to cause covid.

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How would it explain people still getting covid here and there? is it possible cadmium would be in vaccines

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Do you mean test positive or get sick? The tests are next to meaningless. Getting sick with certain symptoms, as this article explores, can be from many causes.

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Hi Stu, Mathew is a good example. He just had a very bad case of Covid and still has trouble with his hearing. I agree with you about the testing.

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How does one test for cadmium? In the air? bloodwork? surfaces?

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I think heavy metals are tested for in your hair. I would imagine running an air filter and then sending the filter for testing would check for it in air. Swabs for surfaces.

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Mathew, an excellent, well-thought out idea. Queens was one of the boroughs hit the hardest besides the Bronx.....what about this borough. Would it be sprayed and disappear. And be sprayed again? How long would it last in subway after one spray?

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When you consider other schemes that have been pulled, it's hard to dismiss any theory. Cadium also can cause loss of smell/taste. Which is something I had never heard of before in virus, but was used as a common bench mark to differentiate covid-19 from other illnesses.

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Poisoning would have to be very prolific to mimic an infectious agent. Not saying it couldn’t be done but I have trouble imagining how in a broad sense it could be accomplished effectively.

Case in point, in my situation and many others the covid vector first appeared in one of our school kids. They bring symptoms home and just like a bad cold they spread it to other family members. I’ve witnessed this.

Not sure an environmental toxin can be so clever it follows the staggered pattern of infectious hierarchy as it gets passed along person to person. Same reason I don’t buy the 5G hypothesis.

In my little corner of the world whatever Covid is behaves exactly like a person to person contagion.

Now, that is not to say the bio agent wasn’t seeded into the population somehow and our warm moist bodies became carriers. Sure. That follows logic.

PCR needlessly keeping the panic running long after the threat runs its course and fizzles out.

Logic also dictates that influenza and pneumonia did not simply disappear but were dismissed after a positive PCR result.

Kary Mullis said PCR will find Covid, but that doesn’t mean Covid is what’s making the patient sick. That’s why it’s a shitty dx tool.

Nonetheless, they immediately plugged you into remdesivir. Then you’ll actually die of bacterial pneumonia and get logged as a Covid death. Lots of malfeasance to unpack.

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