Kojak cracks the covid case

Apply detective methods to solve pandemic riddle

- SUZIE HALEWOOD

IF the cold case of prior pandemics landed on the desk of a detective like Kojak, he would first review all the evidence collected at the time.

He would instruct forensic teams to look at autopsy and toxicology reports and, if necessary, exhume bodies.

He would also look at aerial photography, cell tower data, paramedic reports and profiling analysis.

And he would bring in experts that could shed light on alternative theories as to what caused such apparent sickness that spread so rapidly. He would identify any suppressed or missing evidence.

Was it missing for a reason? Was there a conflict of interest? Were those who gained compromised, bribed, threatened or were they instigators of the events? If a pathogen is spread from person to person, there must be a patient zero who then passes their illness on to ten other people, and so on. But how did patient zero become ill? Not from another person, otherwise they wouldn't be patient zero.

Patient zero could have become ill from stress, or through exposure to multiple sources of toxins, whether in the air, water or food. Likewise, so could everybody else become ill from those same toxins. The person-toperson contagion theory has survived because it doesn't seem counterintuitive to surmise that people getting sick or showing similar symptoms of an apparent illness, in the same geographical location, 'caught' it from each other.

But they are also drinking from the same water supply, breathing the same air, predominantly using the same food sources and are exposed to the same radiation and toxins from industry, and common geographical stressors.