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LM: Exactly. And that is what is being rolled out. I think the media are  actually developed symptoms. It is not that they
            really hyping this, yet the tests being used don’t tell us what we are be-  are asymptomatic, but that their immune system
            ing told that they tell us. Now the media are pushing new antibody tests  just took care of it. They were capable of fight-
            that hopefully will tell us what we want to know, which is who has been  ing it off and don’t have any issue with it. I have
            exposed and developed antibodies and therefore isn’t susceptible anymore.  read that 99 percent of the people who actually
            Yet even those antibody tests are not black and white, and there is a reason  get it and have symptoms actually respond fine
            for that. Because we know from tetanus and other pathogens that someone  without any kind of medical intervention. I am
            can have sky-high antibodies and not be immune, or have no antibodies  not downplaying those people who are suscep-
            and be immune. In the case of measles vaccines, we know that 10 percent  tible and become ill or have died, but it is only
            of people who get vaccinated are what we call “non-responders.” They  a very tiny minority, especially those who have
            never mount an antibody response. Now that doesn’t mean that their body  a comorbidity or who are elderly. I am simply
            is not immune to it, it just means that they don’t have what some scientists  questioning whether or not the reaction to this
            have decided is the key criterion to look at in the blood to see whether  has been commensurate with the risk. I don’t
            someone is immune. That is not necessarily immunity—because you  believe that is the case.
            can have no antibodies and still be immune. The subject of immunity is
            much more complex than what the media are suggesting.         HG: Even Fauci’s numbers have gone down. At
                                                                          first, wasn’t he saying millions of Americans
            HG: If I am understanding you correctly, I may have had the coronavirus  would get sick? And now he is saying thousands.
            already and didn’t know it; I was asymptomatic because my immune  He has modified his predictions, but yet there
            system was strong. Should I be staying home because I might pass it on  is this talk about “flattening the curve” and
            to someone, or is that a fallacy?                             extending the lockdown and social distancing.


            LM: I believe this idea that millions of people are asymptomatic is a fal-  LM: Let’s talk about “flattening the curve.”
            lacy. I think that what has actually happened is that their body has been  What we now know from Britain and California
            exposed to the virus, recognized it, dealt with it, and it is not a problem.  is that this is more contagious than we expected,
            So, I think that this is another way that they are frightening people. I  meaning that more people have been exposed
            think that some of the health authorities are not being straightforward  to it, and it is less deadly than expected. From
            with people. The fact that Britain is now saying that half the population  the early numbers, they were saying 8 and 10
            may have been exposed but they are not all sick proves that.  percent case fatality rate, and then they said 3
                                                                          to 4 percent from China. Dr. Fauci has written
            HG: I heard Dr. Anthony Fauci say that if enough people got infected  in the New England Journal of Medicine that
            with it, we would have herd immunity. But he said we don’t want that.   the true case fatality rate is probably closer to
                                                                          0.1 percent, which is nothing more serious than
            LM: Dr. Fauci did say that. I think it is a very telling remark. He and  a flu. The question is, why is he saying that in
            his sponsors (the main one being Bill Gates) don’t want many people to  private in the medical field, yet he is spreading
            have had it and develop herd immunity naturally. Why do you think that  fear in the public domain? I think that is a really
            would be? Because they want to mass vaccinate everybody; they both  important question that people need to ponder.
            have said, “no mass gatherings until mass vaccination.” To me, it is one     Second, we need to understand that the
            of the reasons they have pushed so hard on a lockdown. They don’t want  people who are driving and controlling the
            people who are not susceptible to get it, be exposed to it and develop  narrative in the media often have a horse in the
            antibodies—there would be no market for their vaccine.        race. If you look at the first major models that
                                                                          came out, they were released from Imperial
            HG: What you are saying is challenging most of our understanding about  College London, and this is the model that says
            why there is a lockdown. Most of our information is telling us we are on  over two million Americans and five hundred
            lockdown to safeguard the public health and to flatten the curve.  thousand British could die. That information
                                                                          was spread all over the media. Imperial Col-
            LM: I think “flattening the curve” is the absolute wrong thing to do.  lege takes money from the Gates Foundation.
            There are many scientists and doctors who are coming out saying that.  The man who wrote the model, Neil Ferguson,
            The reason for that is based on what I talked about with respect to Britain  walked it back several weeks later saying, “Well
            and California. Millions more people have been exposed but have not  actually, I don’t think it is going to be that bad.”

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