Remember back in the beginning when they were honest enough to tell us that 60-70% of people had natural immunity? Remember how only around 20-odd percent of people on that Princess Cruise ship got sick after spending days in that floating petrie dish?

(The original article was published in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche (World Week) on June 10th [2020]. The author, Beda M Stadler is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus.)

I could slap myself, because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic. I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologist and epidemiologist. I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus.

Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel. Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus. Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.

Full piece here: Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong