Posted on 09/19/2020 7:54:37 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In the months since the COVID-19 panic began health authorities around the world have told the public to “get tested” to help track the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, as fear and hysteria subside, the scientific community and public at large are calling into question the efficacy of the test used to determine a patients status...The most common test is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) lab test. This incredibly sensitive technique was developed by Berkeley scientist Kary Mullis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. The test is designed to detect the presence of a virus by amplifying the virus’ genetic material so it can be detected by scientists. The test is viewed as the gold standard, however, it is not without problems.
The PCR test uses chemicals to amplify the virus’s genetic material and then each sample goes through a number of cycles until a virus is recovered. This “cycle threshold” has become a key component in the debate around the efficacy of the PCR test.
Dr. Persse says that when the labs report numbers of COVID-19 cases to the City of Houston they only offer a binary option of “yes” for positive or “no” for negative. “But, in reality, it comes in what is called cycle-thresholds. It’s an inverse relationship, so the higher the number the less virus there was in the initial sample,” Persse explained. “Some labs will report out to 40 cycle-thresholds, and if they get a positive at 40 – which means there is a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of virus there – that gets reported to us as positive and we don’t know any different.”
Persse noted that the key question is, at what value is someone considered still infectious?...
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Daughter wears a gauze mask that had TYRANNY embroidered on it.
To drive up the numbers to scare the public more! Easier to control..Looks like it’s not working on Trump Supporters!
“Love your homepage quote. I’ve really liked Dalrymple, yet hadn’t seen that one. Cool ‘Cat”
Thanks. Some Freeper, I forget who, posted it and I stole it.
Our 15 Days to Flatten the (Hospital) Curver is now nearing Day 170.
TeeSpring has a T shirt saying this.
Well we have even surpassed the absurd. We are in the surreal zone now.
Agree.
Surreal, indeed.
Time to just go about our normal business.
Crazy.
The great dystopian novels need to be “Common Core”.
What’s sad is that one clerk was over 40 and the other was about 65 and seemed to have been raised in an upper middle class home. This was a fru fru store.
In other words: We have no idea what the data are telling us, so stay afraid.
Bears repeating
In other words: We have no idea what the data are telling us, so stay afraid
Thanks for those links, ‘Cat. Much appreciated. Up for another day of dystopic, disturbed, dysfunctional, deranged, disunited, diseased, etc., etc.
If the Dems and their media allies were more interested in the health of Americans than they are in defeating Trump, we would be in a much better place as to Covid. .... and so many other important things.
“Why Are Health Officials Demanding The Public Be Tested?”
The demands will end in around 40 days. It’s just another way to create chaos that can be blamed on Trump before the election.
I write "Maske Macht Frei...!" on mine...
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