The Tests
The antibody test isn’t specific to SARS-CoV-2:
“A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html
A PCR test should never be used for medical diagnostic purposes. A PCR test looks for a specific genetic sequence and works by multiplying a DNA sample repeatedly until the sequence being looked for has been amplified enough to be detectable. There are some problems with this.
For one, the threshold for the number of cycles to be deemed “positive” is completely arbitrary. For example, you take a genetic sample, and amplify it (doubling all the DNA or RNA) 20 times. If you can now detect the sequence you’re looking for, you call it positive! Ok, but how do you determine where to set the threshold? What’s the actual difference between detecting the sequence you’re looking for on cycle 19 vs 21? What if a patient has a series of tests that look like this: day 1 cycle 15, day 2 cycle 23, day 3 cycle 19, day 4 cycle 21. Is she sick or not?
For two, the test doesn’t tell you how many viruses she has in her body, and “a clear link has been established between the amount of virus patients have in their system… and the severity of illness.” The PCR test only gives you a flat yes or no answer; either the sample was detected or it wasn’t. The results are medically meaningless, and not predictive of illness.
Right now ANY test that returns over whatever threshold they’re using goes in the count as a case. But you can have viral particles in your body for months after infection. For example, I currently have antibodies for tetanus, EBV, CMV, HepB, chickenpox, and many other infections. Some of the residual material from those pathogens is in my body right now and could test positive by PCR, yet I am sick with none of them. It’s ridiculous.
An article from the Bulgarian Pathology Association states:
“But looking closely at the facts, the conclusion is that these PCR tests are meaningless as a diagnostic tool to determine an alleged infection by a supposedly new virus called SARS-CoV-2.”
Furthermore that article reviews how the virus has never been properly isolated and purified. Meaning the RNA being tested for might not even be from a virus. I’m not going to go into that aspect any deeper here, it’s well covered in the article.
Why Test So Much?
Why are we testing so much? Why are we testing healthy people? This approach has never been taken before and it makes no sense. Why don’t we test the entire country for flu, strep, HIV, lyme, syphilis, tuberculosis, or hepatitis? They’re all deadly diseases that have been problems for decades. It’s not normal to mass test healthy people and this virus is much less dangerous than almost all the infections I just mentioned.
Testing shows you where the virus has been, not necessarily where it is now. To gauge whether or not someone is actually sick you have to look at the clinical picture, their symptoms. But they don’t do that in the stats, they just throw up a big number and say “look how many positive tests!” Well, that’s idiotic. Mass testing the healthy population to get asymptomatic positives keeps driving the numbers up and maintaining public fear. Media broadcasts talk about “spikes in cases” far more often than “spikes in people who are seriously ill.”
You could take that same approach with any number of infections to make the unwitting public afraid for no reason. For example, millions of people in the US have staph right now:
“An estimated 86.9 million persons (32.40% of the population) were colonized with S aureus.”
Imagine if we spent a year testing for staph. 100,000,000 cases! Lock yourselves in your basements, it’s the only way to be safe! There’s a big difference between carrying something, being exposed to something, and being sick because of something. We could do the same song and dance with epstein-barr, cytomegalovirus, and any other common pathogen.
It’s almost like they’ll be able to drum up a pandemic whenever they want to make 8 trillion dollars on a vaccine now; they just need to start testing.
False Positives
Perhaps most incredible of all, is the fact that “At least 160 antibody tests for Covid-19 entered the U.S. without prior FDA scrutiny.“ and “…allowed scores of coronavirus blood tests to hit the market without first providing proof that they worked.”
The FDA didn’t begin requiring review of the test kits until MAY. So who knows what percentage of tests done in March and April (when “the first wave” hit and was used to justify lockdowns, see Part 1) were completely fraudulent.
The president of Tanzania didn’t trust the tests, so he took samples from some random animals and substances and sent them in to be tested with fake human names and ages. The samples from the goat and pawpaw fruit came back “positive.” No, really:
Reuters
Full video of the president’s explanation with subtitles
The governor of Ohio got tested twice in one day. One test came back positive, the other negative. Sounds definitive to me, better forcibly quarantine him for 2 weeks.
The Clinical Criteria
The clinical diagnostic criteria are also vague and ambiguous, of course. Look at the WHO criteria.
So anyone who seems sick but doesn’t test positive, and anyone who isn’t sick but tests positive. Brilliant. Also anyone who has been in contact with a suspected case, or lives in an area with a high density of suspected cases. All these people are lumped into the “total cases” column.
It’s not just the WHO, either, look how ludicrously broad the CDC clinical symptoms are:
- Fever or chills
- Cough
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Fatigue
- Muscle or body aches
- Headache
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
Practically ANY illness could fall within those symptoms and could be diagnosed as Covid. You could have a stroke with headache and loss of smell and be diagnosed as Covid using those criteria. Or you could have some bad gas station sushi that results in vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and chills. Covid! Asthma attack? Covid! Fibromyalgia? Covid!
With these criteria, how could the case numbers NOT be artificially inflated?