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Communist Quality Control: Beijing Sends 150,000 Wuhan Virus Testing Kits to Prague, 80% Fail
PJ Media ^ | 03/25/2020 | Stephen Green

Posted on 03/25/2020 11:38:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Communist thugs in charge of China have been trying to have it two ways on coronavirus: Playing the aggrieved victim of racism/biological-warfare/whatever, and acting like the international bigshot who, having solved the crisis at home, is now eager to help other nations around the world.

Beijing's antics are making everything worse everywhere, this time in the Czech Republic.

The Czech newspaper Irozhlas (I-Radio) reports that the bigshots in Beijing sent 150,000 coronavirus rapid testing kits to Czechia which return false results up to 80% of the time.

Forgive the rough Google Translate results, but I don't speak Czech:

"We checked them on Saturday at the University Hospital Ostrava, but unfortunately the error rate was quite high, so now we are waiting for the results of further testing across the country, they have never been tested positively because it works with antibodies," said Svrčinová.

She added that the tests showed false positive and false negative results. "We tested those who searched for a sampling site. Fortunately, we were so far-sighted that samples were immediately taken for the classic examination and that just proved the error rate of the tests," said Svrčinová. Even if tests are used in end-of-quarantine patients, hygienists will want to check their reliability first.

Jan Hamacek, the Czech Republic's deputy prime minister and interior minister said, "I don't think it's a scandalous revelation that it's not working," but it's difficult to see how he reached that conclusion, given the huge failure rate and that the bad tests return both false positive and false negatives.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; prague; qualitycontrol; testingkit
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1 posted on 03/25/2020 11:38:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow

What a bunch of inhumane &^()_)(()*&^rs


2 posted on 03/25/2020 11:39:38 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: SeekAndFind
RedState's Kira Davis wrote last week, "When this is all over we are f***ing done with China."

Seriously, no more messing around. No more cozying up to Chinese investors (I’m looking at you, Obama). No more handing over vital technology and information to the Chinese government (I’m looking at you, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton). No more back-end deals with Chinese security firms and tech providers (I’m looking at you, Joe Biden). No more Hollywood films made to please the Chinese investors (I’m looking at you, Matt Damon).

We let ourselves be lulled buy cheap goods and fancy smartphones. We are not to blame…who doesn’t want to pay less for more? However, we have all been a part of the equation in some way. We have looked the other way as China has been slowly encroaching on the markets and governments of the free West. We let ourselves believe that they could find their way to some kind of hybrid capitalism-communism miracle that would eventually infect their culture and turn them more toward the capitalist side.


3 posted on 03/25/2020 11:39:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

An interesting question would be whether these are the same kits the Chinese used themselves in assessing whether people were infected or cured? Of the crappy “for export” version.


4 posted on 03/25/2020 11:39:52 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

Placebo tests.


5 posted on 03/25/2020 11:41:27 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: SeekAndFind
because it works with antibodies,

Aha. These are not the usual tests for the virus presence that everyone is doing, this is potentially much more valuable -- but also much more complicated.

If these tests are debugged they will provide true picture of infections -- including those who had mild forms of the disease and no longer even have the virus.

6 posted on 03/25/2020 11:43:08 AM PDT by mvonfr
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yep...that would be the question to ask. Probably millions had a ‘plain regular flu’....when they had the Coronavirus. Might be interesting to ask who the developers were for the test, and if they are still alive today.


7 posted on 03/25/2020 11:44:14 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind
English Version
8 posted on 03/25/2020 11:52:23 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Pearls Before Swine

[An interesting question would be whether these are the same kits the Chinese used themselves in assessing whether people were infected or cured? Of the crappy “for export” version.]


The export version is always superior. Because export customers aren’t shy about complaints. Whereas the Chinese media won’t bite the hand that feeds them (whether private companies that run ads or state-owned enterprises that are pretty much divisions of the same company as the Party-owned media units). Now we know another reason the Chinese covid-19 numbers are so low.


9 posted on 03/25/2020 11:58:14 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Whoopy-sh*t criminal in crime kills parents and gives child cloths to wear to funeral...way to go CCP!


10 posted on 03/25/2020 12:00:58 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Chinese dumped their rejected test kits on the Czech’s as propaganda or perhaps sabotage

These kits give false Negatives - tell you that you are not infected when you actually are

Worse than no test at all - far more dangerous. If the Soviet Union had pulled this during the Cold War we would have called it an act of war

11 posted on 03/25/2020 12:13:41 PM PDT by rdcbn ( Referentiail)
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To: Zhang Fei

Here, the Czechs are “giftees” rather than “customers.”

Gift recipients don’t complain in the same manner that customers do. Customers need to be satisfied to get repeat orders.


12 posted on 03/25/2020 12:16:37 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Never Kill a Customer.”


13 posted on 03/25/2020 12:16:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rdcbn
Correction, thats predominantly false negatives . Left a word out, but an important one
14 posted on 03/25/2020 12:17:25 PM PDT by rdcbn ( Referentiail)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

[Gift recipients don’t complain in the same manner that customers do. Customers need to be satisfied to get repeat orders.]


Maybe in Africa, where you pay the recipients off or the officials sell the kits for cash. Not in Europe.


15 posted on 03/25/2020 12:18:27 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ahhhh, so now we know why the Chinese death toll is so low. 80% died of something else and went unreported.


16 posted on 03/25/2020 12:22:18 PM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

[Gift recipients don’t complain in the same manner that customers do. Customers need to be satisfied to get repeat orders.]


I read somewhere that the Chinese shipment to Italy was a purchase. This may be the same thing. There’s certainly nothing in the article to indicate this was a gift.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irozhlas.cz%2Fzpravy-domov%2Fostrava-rychlotesty-koronavirus_2003231414_sot


17 posted on 03/25/2020 12:24:17 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I interpreted “sends” to mean gift, which I agree isn’t necessarily indicative. “Sells” would have removed all doubt, as would have “buys from.”

There have been a number gifts associated with this virus, in particular gifts to the US of hydroxychloroquine from a couple of companies (Bayer and Teva...or maybe Mylan). So that is why I took “send” to involve gifting.


18 posted on 03/25/2020 12:56:21 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a special place in hell for all the chinks!


19 posted on 03/25/2020 3:23:39 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper

Never trust a commie. These one world globalistz are true knitwits and traitors to civilization.


20 posted on 03/25/2020 5:57:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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