Posted on 11/13/2020 7:08:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk raised a rather important question on Twitter, saying he’d been tested four times for the Wuhan coronavirus. What mystified him was that two times it came back positive and two times it came back negative.
Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
This of course raises a lot of questions. Why? And how is that possible? What’s going on when you get results like that? Is he false positive or falsely negative? And are such results influencing other tests elsewhere, perhaps wrongly driving up the numbers of positives?
If it’s happening to me, it’s happening to others. I’m getting PCR tests from separate labs. Results will take about 24 hours.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
All good questions to ask, it would seem to me, both for him and for the rest of Americans.
But MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin didn’t think so. Indeed, he claimed that it was irresponsible of Musk to even ask the question.
Such an irresponsible tweet.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 13, 2020
Why? How can stating what factually happened to you and asking why be “irresponsible?”
Moreover, why wouldn’t someone allegedly involved in “journalism” want to know the answer to the question? Isn’t this the sort of thing that would actually peak the interest of a journalist to want to know more? It would seem so, but not so much for Griffin.
Mr. Griffin thinks it's irresponsible because @elonmusk tweeted about irregularities with his COVID tests today. Shouldn't a journalist want to know this and investigate? I do! I want to know why and how companies plan to fix it so people don't get confused. https://t.co/3Sp3vQcHfE
— 🦃 Thankful Ginger 🍁 (@mchastain81) November 13, 2020
NBC News producer not interested in potential problems with COVID tests. https://t.co/q0EFZ15tgJ
— Nathan Wurtzel (((Slight Return))) (@NathanWurtzel) November 13, 2020
A scientist sharing hard data from their personal experience is irresponsible?
That would only be the case if you were driving a narrative that required blind trust in the media and government who are both pushing a campaign of fear.
oh wait
— Alec Sears (@alec_sears) November 13, 2020
Of course you could test positive and have no symptoms. Most cases are mild and only a small percentage progress on to a more serious issue, generally with people who are already compromised by other health issues. The real measure of the harmful impact is the hospitalizations and deaths.
But it would be important to see if this was a problem because of the rapid test or if there was some other issue going on here and it would help people to have a fuller understanding of what was going on with the tests. The bottom line is sometimes you get false positives and negatives. It’s important to to know that and then follow up with a more sensitive test as Musk was doing. But asking why is the very opposite of “irresponsible.” Indeed, it’s the “scientific” thing to do.
Probably is indicative of the so called late (+). He likely had an (asymptomatic?) course in the last 45 - 90 days. However, given that CoVID is a LRI, this means that there is probably dead viral particle intermittently found and augmented on PCR for up to 90 days.
It makes sense if he had the infection in the last 30 - 45 days.
I’m positive I’m negative.
Journolistas are no longer even believing they are truth seekers. They werent in the first place but they sure believed it a lot.
Now they are just keepers, promoters and protectors of the libtard socialist worldview.
With that comment, sir, you have won the day!
So if I tested positive and did not want to go into lockdown I should just test again. Nice. No wonder the second “surge” is happening.
Covid test. AKA coin flip.
RE: I’m positive I’m negative.
Great title for a hit song. Paging Weird Al Yankovich....
So is this the test that is 41% accurate? You can get better accuracy with a coin flip.
Heads you're positive, tails you're negative.
And if it lands on the edge, Biden gets another million votes in Pennsylvania.
The good news is that Elon Musk’s COVID-19 tests, although not medically helpful, are useful in providing further evidence that Erwin Schrödinger’s ideas on quantum theory were correct...
I killed Schrödinger’s Cat with Chekhov’s Gun.
If half the tests are wrong....
doesn’t that mean that we should divide the number of positives by half to get a ‘truer’ number than what’s being reported in the last few weeks?
So, instead of 100,000 positives in a week, the number should be 50,000.
This is terrible. Two more cases to chalk up.
Or the test are bullshit, and being used to control the population. I say make hydroycloriquine over the counter with a Z pack. It would make the vaccine unnecessary.
Believe the science...unless it doesn’t fit our One World Government narrative.
MSNBC is journalism malpractice.
Whaddaya bet these false positive test kits were made in China?
Or 200,000. Take your pick.
Maybe he has COVID 9 1/2.
Why?
Because the liberals want us to trust an untrustworthy test so they can continue to lie to us and thus control us?
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