How the NFL is playing through COVID-19, and in the process, exposing the 'casedemic'

The Dossier ^ | September 29, 2020 | Jordan Schachtel

[EdnaMode]

How is it that the NFL has been able to keep its jet-setting roster of thousands of athletes, coaches, and staff largely COVID-free, while religiously testing these employees for COVID-19, while the rest of America registers some 40,000 new reported “cases” each day?

Hint: It has nothing to do with masks, Andy Reid’s face shields, or some type of collective, incredibly responsible human behavior exhibited by men in their twenties and thirties.

The NFL has set a science-based standard for COVID-19 testing, one that our schools, universities, local governments, and other institutions with sufficient resources can learn a lot from. At the same time, the league has unintentionally added evidence to the reality of a massive, ongoing false positive “casedemic” in the United States.

The NFL is keeping its players on the field by quietly sticking to the science (and I suspect other major sports are following a similar protocol). No, not “THE SCIENCE!” espoused by hysterical government bureaucrats and pandemic panic salesmen on television. Real science. The kind of science that is defined through experiments, observation, and experience.

Before we get there, here’s the reality about COVID-19 testing in the United States and around the world:

The vast majority of COVID-19 tests don’t work, in the sense that they don’t accurately determine anything. That is because most PCR tests (which is the vast majority testing method in the United States and abroad) are calibrated with way too much sensitivity (known as having too high of a cycle threshold), and they identify an astonishingly high number of false positives.

[Truthoverpower]

Screw this stupid bug. Who cares ?

[doragsda]

I was looking at the CDC reports yesterday on ILI (influenza like illnesses - flu data). they are showing about 1 case of flu per state per week. That’s ridiculous. It’s late November; we’re two months into flu season. There should be thousands of cases every week.

I think any respiratory illness with fever, regardless of cause, is being logged as Covid.

I think any death from a respiratory illness is being logged as a Covid death.

I do think Covid is serious enough to warrant precautions for at-risk persons, but this is just out and out fraud.

[Truthoverpower]

Aaaaah yes !!! 🏈 FOOTBALL WEATHER !!!

[Lysandru]

I work as a defense contractor adjacent to The Swamp. I support a Government Customer that thinks of itself as a world-class engineering enterprise whose Director is an actual PhD—and it is just as prone to the panic-driven narratives as most government entities.

[Dr. Ursus]

Football lives don’t matter!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Excellent, informative post.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The vast majority of COVID-19 tests don’t work, in the sense that they don’t accurately determine anything. That is because most PCR tests (which is the vast majority testing method in the United States and abroad) are calibrated with way too much sensitivity (known as having too high of a cycle threshold), and they identify an astonishingly high number of false positives.

Don’t take it from me, a widespread investigation conducted by The New York Times last month found that up to “90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus,” meaning, most people who have been told that they have COVID-19 don’t really have COVID-19.

It just makes sense that if a test works by magnifying its own sensitivity in stages until it’s probably of a “positive” result becomes high, the significant metric it outputs is just how many stages it took to get a "positive.”

And it wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that asymptomatic cases aren’t contagious cases (not that I’ve got a basis for asserting that - after all, this is the internet).😆