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[00:00.000 --> 00:02.080]  I'm Dave Champion.
[00:02.080 --> 00:07.600]  Over the last 13 months there has been no shortage of government and media attempting
[00:07.600 --> 00:13.480]  to promote fear in the minds of the American people by promoting things which are patently
[00:13.480 --> 00:25.800]  false and in some cases absurd such as what I'm about to share with you.
[00:25.800 --> 00:30.160]  Here's a headline that appeared on WSB-TV in Atlanta.
[00:30.160 --> 00:37.160]  New study shows COVID-19 could hide in your brain and reactivate later.
[00:37.160 --> 00:39.600]  I'm sorry.
[00:39.600 --> 00:40.600]  It's so absurd.
[00:40.600 --> 00:41.600]  I love it.
[00:41.600 --> 00:42.600]  It could.
[00:42.600 --> 00:43.600]  I love it.
[00:43.600 --> 00:44.600]  May, might, could, possibly.
[00:44.600 --> 00:45.600]  All those types of terminology.
[00:45.600 --> 00:51.760]  The minute you hear that in any sort of scientific, alleged scientific presentation that it may
[00:51.760 --> 00:56.160]  or could or it might, yeah, you know what they're saying?
[00:56.160 --> 00:58.520]  They're saying, we don't know.
[00:58.520 --> 01:01.200]  The real problem case here isn't the television station.
[01:01.200 --> 01:06.940]  It is a doctor by the name of Mukesh Kumar, by the way, that's not a medical doctor.
[01:06.940 --> 01:11.400]  He works for Georgia State University as an associate professor of biology.
[01:11.400 --> 01:15.680]  Before I get into what Mukesh Kumar said, I want to let you know that when I did some
[01:15.680 --> 01:19.840]  research on this, I found out Mukesh Kumar is apparently a very common name.
[01:19.880 --> 01:26.040]  There are quite a number of medical doctors, PhDs, engineers and so forth all across the
[01:26.040 --> 01:27.160]  globe with that same name.
[01:27.160 --> 01:32.280]  So don't get confused between this Mukesh Kumar and all the others.
[01:32.280 --> 01:36.940]  This particular Mukesh Kumar, the one to which I'm referring, in which the article basically
[01:36.940 --> 01:42.580]  was framed out on everything that this particular individual had to say, he is the real problem.
[01:42.580 --> 01:44.480]  He is promoting fear.
[01:44.480 --> 01:49.000]  He is doing it using the fact that he has a PhD in biology, that he's an associate
[01:49.000 --> 01:53.360]  professor, to drive fear with complete and utter falsehoods.
[01:53.360 --> 01:57.360]  Let me give you an example by sharing something that Kumar said in the article.
[01:57.360 --> 02:02.520]  Kumar emphasized how crucial it is to wear a mask and cover your nose to protect from
[02:02.520 --> 02:07.960]  having the virus enter there and go directly into your brain.
[02:07.960 --> 02:15.080]  It's kind of really hard to know what to say about that level of fear mongering based on
[02:15.080 --> 02:18.960]  things that are physiologically absolutely not true.
[02:18.960 --> 02:25.040]  So your mouth, your throat, your nose, your sinuses, do you know what sort of direct access
[02:25.040 --> 02:31.760]  viruses or any other contagious bacteria have to your brain from any of those four things?
[02:31.760 --> 02:34.960]  If you said zero, you would be right.
[02:34.960 --> 02:40.260]  There is no way when something goes up your nose, unless maybe it's an ice pick, to get
[02:40.260 --> 02:42.880]  into your brain, okay?
[02:42.880 --> 02:48.560]  Viruses that go into your nose, into your sinuses, do not then go into your brain.
[02:48.560 --> 02:50.040]  There is no path there.
[02:50.040 --> 02:52.240]  It doesn't work like that.
[02:52.240 --> 02:54.840]  Can various pathogens get into the brain?
[02:54.840 --> 02:58.240]  Yes, they absolutely can, but they don't go this way.
[02:58.240 --> 03:01.720]  What happens is they enter your body by whatever means they enter your body, and then they
[03:01.720 --> 03:03.240]  get into the blood.
[03:03.240 --> 03:10.240]  And then through a very complex mechanism, which is exceedingly rare, they actually penetrate
[03:10.240 --> 03:15.080]  the blood-brain barrier and get into the brain and affect the cells there.
[03:15.080 --> 03:18.120]  The most common example of that known to the public is encephalitis.
[03:18.120 --> 03:22.080]  So is there any evidence that SARS-CoV-2 virus is in the brain?
[03:22.080 --> 03:24.600]  Well, yeah, there is some evidence of that.
[03:24.600 --> 03:29.480]  You're probably aware SARS-CoV-2 actually works off the ACE2 receptors on the cell,
[03:29.480 --> 03:31.320]  the exterior of the cell.
[03:31.320 --> 03:35.040]  That's how the SARS-CoV-2 links up with and gains access to cells.
[03:35.040 --> 03:41.680]  And there are ACE2 receptor cells on various exterior cell membranes of cells inside your
[03:41.680 --> 03:42.680]  brain.
[03:42.680 --> 03:43.680]  That was a mouthful.
[03:44.080 --> 03:48.800]  Current thinking is when you have SARS-CoV-2 inside you, for those people who lose their
[03:48.800 --> 03:53.880]  sense of smell and taste, it is presumed at this time that it's because of the impact
[03:53.880 --> 03:57.680]  in the area of the brain that controls the sense of smell and taste.
[03:57.680 --> 04:02.700]  In other words, your taste buds are working just fine, your olfactory sense is working
[04:02.700 --> 04:07.120]  just fine, until the signal gets to the part of the brain that interprets them, and that
[04:07.120 --> 04:10.200]  part is compromised by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
[04:10.200 --> 04:14.360]  On the rare occasions that viruses get into the brain, occasionally they will cause inflammation.
[04:14.360 --> 04:16.420]  Clearly, that's a bad thing.
[04:16.420 --> 04:20.920]  So is there any evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is causing inflammation in the brain?
[04:20.920 --> 04:22.200]  No, not at all.
[04:22.200 --> 04:28.280]  Also, as far as Kumar's claim that it's hiding in the brain and that it can reactivate
[04:28.280 --> 04:29.280]  later.
[04:29.280 --> 04:32.620]  I mean, I read some of his statements.
[04:32.620 --> 04:39.040]  He acts like viruses have a brain that they reason.
[04:39.040 --> 04:48.200]  He literally says, follow this, a virus is easy to detect in the lungs, it's not easy
[04:48.200 --> 04:55.900]  to detect in the brain, therefore the virus intentionally goes and hides in the brain.
[04:55.900 --> 05:01.680]  So according to Kumar, viruses in general, but the SARS-CoV-2 virus in particular, it
[05:01.680 --> 05:04.600]  knows that it can be spotted in the lungs.
[05:04.600 --> 05:09.960]  So it scurries up into the brain, where it then hides up in your brain.
[05:09.960 --> 05:16.280]  And then it's going to hang out there.
[05:16.280 --> 05:18.360]  It's going to reactivate later.
[05:18.360 --> 05:21.600]  So how much evidence is there that any of that is true?
[05:21.600 --> 05:24.040]  Yeah, that would be zero.
[05:24.040 --> 05:30.160]  This is the kind of thing that researchers have been doing ever more so over the last
[05:30.160 --> 05:31.160]  20 years.
[05:31.320 --> 05:35.600]  with these wild theories, because they know what's going to get headlines or names going
[05:35.600 --> 05:38.800]  to get out there, but there's absolutely zero science to it.
[05:38.800 --> 05:40.680]  They're just talking crap.
[05:40.680 --> 05:45.360]  Let me share with you another one of Kumar's golden quotes that appeared in the article.
[05:45.360 --> 05:50.920]  Even if you test negative, that doesn't necessarily mean that you have completely cleared the
[05:50.920 --> 05:51.920]  virus.
[05:51.920 --> 06:00.220]  Yeah, it does, because the way PCR tests work today, the standard setting for amplification
[06:00.220 --> 06:03.380]  cycle threshold is 43.
[06:03.380 --> 06:12.780]  We know, not speculative, we know for a scientific fact, that at 43 cycles of amplification,
[06:12.780 --> 06:21.540]  that PCR testing will pick up no longer viable fragments of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
[06:21.540 --> 06:23.640]  So what happens is you've got the virus, right?
[06:23.640 --> 06:26.940]  And when it is viable, viruses, there's a whole debate about whether viruses are alive
[06:26.940 --> 06:27.940]  or not.
[06:27.940 --> 06:32.260]  The consensus is they're not really alive in the sense that we define being alive, but
[06:32.260 --> 06:35.100]  they are, well, I phrase them as being viable and non-viable.
[06:35.100 --> 06:41.300]  So you have a viable virus, in this case, SARS-CoV-2 virus, and when the body attacks
[06:41.300 --> 06:43.900]  and defeats that virus, it becomes non-viable.
[06:43.900 --> 06:49.820]  When it becomes non-viable, it starts to disintegrate and fall apart into these little fragments
[06:49.820 --> 06:53.300]  that are in the blood until the body's macrophage function clears them out, or they're in the
[06:53.300 --> 06:57.580]  tissues and the blood, I should say, until the body's macrophage function clears them
[06:57.580 --> 06:59.620]  out and gets rid of them.
[06:59.620 --> 07:04.300]  We know for an absolute scientific fact that at 43 amplification cycles, which is pretty
[07:04.300 --> 07:13.220]  much what every lab in America is using, that these tests are picking up these little fragments,
[07:13.220 --> 07:18.140]  they're picking up the RNA of these little fragments, and people are testing positive.
[07:18.140 --> 07:26.860]  So there's no way at 43 cycles that any virus in anybody, well, you test negative, it doesn't
[07:26.940 --> 07:27.940]  mean you cleared the virus.
[07:27.940 --> 07:30.140]  Yeah, it does, Kumar.
[07:30.140 --> 07:34.260]  You might want to learn something about science before you start talking to the press.
[07:34.260 --> 07:41.700]  These comments by Kumar exemplify, in my mind, the problem with what's been going on for
[07:41.700 --> 07:49.100]  the last 13 months, where researchers, medical doctors, government health experts just say
[07:49.300 --> 07:58.220]  Whatever the hell they want to say, as long as its purpose is to make all of you fearful.
[07:58.220 --> 08:01.700]  That's exactly what Kumar is doing, this whole thing about it's important you wear a mask
[08:01.700 --> 08:06.180]  because otherwise it's going to go right into your brain.
[08:06.180 --> 08:08.700]  And that tells you what Kumar thinks of you.
[08:08.700 --> 08:12.500]  He thinks that you believe that.
[08:12.500 --> 08:17.060]  What I'd like to see is I'd like to see Kumar, I'd like to see his credentials removed.
[08:17.060 --> 08:23.820]  I'd like to see the University of Georgia remove him from his position because he has
[08:23.820 --> 08:30.500]  abdicated the kind of responsibility that being an associate professor of biology should
[08:30.500 --> 08:33.820]  put in place, especially when you start talking to a reporter.
[08:33.820 --> 08:36.820]  But this isn't about accuracy, facts, evidence.
[08:36.820 --> 08:37.980]  It's not about any of that.
[08:37.980 --> 08:39.820]  It's about scaring you.
[08:39.820 --> 08:44.300]  It's about saying something that's controversial so the press will report it.
[08:44.300 --> 08:48.700]  It's about continuing to drive more public fear.
[08:48.700 --> 08:56.620]  I guess the big question I have is what leads a person like Kumar to talk to a reporter
[08:56.620 --> 09:02.100]  and say you know what, I'm going to say a bunch of stuff that isn't scientifically factual.
[09:02.100 --> 09:06.140]  I know he's going to report it because it's going to sound so dramatic and it's going
[09:06.140 --> 09:11.380]  to drive fear and that's good.
[09:11.380 --> 09:14.420]  I really don't understand that way of thinking.