The point is that the coronavirus has not been around long enough for in-depth study, and should it prove to be merely a “passenger” virus, secondary to an underlying bacterial or mycobacterial cause, such a microbe, perhaps similar to the Beijing strain of mycobacteria isolated in Milan prior to its COVID-19 outbreak, would then assume the mantel of the true “underlying condition” and not the virus.
Today, although tuberculosis is still a global pandemic, it is still treatable, but only if looked for and considered. What is the cause of the present Pandemic/Epidemic? Most are 98% certain that it is a virus. But until we are 100% certain, which we are not, we still need to keep a differential diagnosis open as to the possibility that we are dealing with a “passenger” virus with a deadly underlying cause. To do otherwise, would be a disservice to many.
Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer
Secondary effects? How do you know that Covid-19 is not just a passenger virus, and that the true cause of the outbreak is not TB? What proof have governments offered to their citizens, other than stating it so, that it is a virus and not mycobacterium that is to blame for this epidemy?
Here is a mainstream paper which does show that the spanish flu of 1918-1919 was caused by TB, and not a virus:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740912/Your approach was tried back in 1918-1919: they said it was a virus, they came up with an antiviral vaccine, and things got much worse.
For those who want to know the truth, here it is:
https://www.academia.edu/35088077/The_Great_Influenza_Pandemic_What_Really_Happened_in_1918Hansen's disease is also caused by mycobacterium, thus the explanation provided by Dr. Broxmeyer stands correct.
One cannot use BCG against a virus, by definition.
The argument using the "immune system" does not work with Hansen's disease.
"In nature there is a phenomena which happens probably millions of times a day in which one colony of bacteria or mycobacteria sends out its viral phages (bacteriophages or mycobacteriophages) that live inside it to kill another colony of the same type of organism......a sort of natural lysogeny. The bacterialviruses called phages are the most plentiful viruses on earth. But they are species specific in that they only attack like species. The Mycobacterium bovis in BCG are closely related to and in fact part of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Therefore, the phages inside BCG have the potential to destroy TB and other related mycobacteria.
The destruction of TB bacilli in the body is in and of itself “bolstering the immune system”, as there is no other microbe known to man that is quite as immunosuppressive.
And that is exactly how BCG works ̶ not against "a virus" and not through “training” or “bolstering” the immune system, but by BCG (Mycobacterium bovis) shooting off phages to kill closely related mycobacteria or mycobacterial colonization, latent or active, in the system. Since phages are species specific, they are often used for diagnostic purposes. So just the mere successful use of dilute mycobacteria (BCG) with its mycobacteriophages is evidence in itself that the target, the coronavirus, is not of a spontaneous occurrence, but a mycobacterial generated disease."
Certainly it cannot be a virus, since scientists want to use BCG to cure the outbreak.
We are dealing with an extremely serious situation, with huge repercusions for the economy, the finances, the society in general.
Let us heed Dr. Broxmeyer's words:
What is the cause of the present Pandemic/Epidemic? Most are 98% certain that it is a virus. But until we are 100% certain, which we are not, we still need to keep a differential diagnosis open as to the possibility that we are dealing with a “passenger” virus with a deadly underlying cause. To do otherwise, would be a disservice to many.