Is Covid-19 ARDS A Unique Disease Or Is It Just Bacterial Pneumonia As Suggested By Engler And Hockett?

It’s an ongoing and active area of discussion and there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ but I find the polarisation of views and the apparent reluctance to engage in constructive dialogue somewhat disconcerting, I must admit.

Martin Neil, Jessica Hockett, Jonathan Engler and Norman Fenton have co-authored an article published on the excellent Where Are The Numbers? Substack. Martin Neil is the main author of the analysis.

Whodunnit? {unabridged}

I posted what I thought was an entirely reasonable comment:

Which elicited a somewhat unreasonable response from a commenter:

A lot of bold and forthright assertions there and an implicit assumption that I am personally at fault for failing to ‘see right through’ the lies of the Covid Operation. Interestingly, that comment was liked by Jessica Hockett and Martin Neil. It was also responded to by Jonathan Engler:

I get the gist of that comment but it’s curiously semi-literate. Engler is a smart guy and can use English fluently. I just find that response ‘odd’. Maybe I’m just being overly sensitive. Anyway, I replied to Allen the Assertive as follows:

His reply, unsurprisingly, was that McCullough was plain wrong and he didn’t supply the source of the ‘debunking’ either:

That comment was liked by Hockett, so I presume that she shares the opinion that world-renowned cardiologist and champion of the vaccine injured, Dr Peter McCullough is ‘wrong’ about the unique clinical pathology of SARS-Covid-19 ARDS, as well as the authors of all the other ‘quack’ papers out there. That was it. No further constructive engagement either from the Substack authors or Allen the Assertive. I don’t find that encouraging. Meanwhile, Matthew Crawford has presented a more balanced view on the pneumonia Covid-19 issue here:

The COVID-As-Pneumonia Hypothesis

I don’t know for sure whether all cases of Covid-19 pneumonia/ARDS were indeed simply bacterial pneumonia/ARDS, wrongly diagnosed, but I do know there is a heck of a lot of clinical evidence and scientific analysis out there which suggests that Covid-19 pneumonia, where it occurred, did present as a unique pathology and that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was the main cause of that unique clinical pathology. I don’t know much beyond that because I’m not an expert, I just look closely at the evidence, but I find it disconcerting that those proposing a hypothesis suggesting that Covid-19 pneumonia was not unique, or even actually ‘a thing’ are so unwilling to engage constructively but will add likes to evidence-free assertions from random commenters on their discussion threads.