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“The anti-body tests they are running are crap, there are even serious epidemiologists saying they’re practically random, they don’t work.”

Yep.

There is a FReeper that likes to post feel-good stories to disguise the fact that he is a FluBro. Every so often he’ll try to slip in some FluBro propaganda. The reports about there being 40 to 50 times as many cases as we thought there were was one such. It was based on one study using a flawed antibody test that was only 90% accurate, but also gave positives for other corona viruses, many of which were mild and resulted in symptoms on par with the common cold (also a corona virus).

So everybody that took the test now thinks they had COVID-19 even if all they had was some other, lesser bug. Great. Wonder who that chaos will benefit.

The links to the study don’t work now. It has been taken down. Clearly it was terribly flawed. Some people will use any garbage they can to advance their agenda, no matter who they put at risk.

“There ARE NOT tons of people running around out there that have already had it and showed no symptoms.”

That’s right. We know the breakdown of case severities from the Diamond Princess where everybody was tested multiple times (or at least until they tested positive). The numbers from DP have been reported from other places, close enough to confirm the distribution. At this point, people trying to claim there is anything approaching herd immunity is verging on delusional. Given the number of confirmed cases there are, at most, 16-17 million infected, 3/4 of whom are still incubating. That’s on the no-mitigation curve, so with all the mitigation, and in spite of the FluBros, that number should really be much, much lower.

There is no herd of immunes.