Stupid would be a better word for the article - and that's assuming the best. An infection test to sequence a genome that "no lab plans on making" - stupid concept. That's not the point of a test for infection and such a test could obviously not do an instant genome sequencing to tell you which mutation of the virus it is. Only samples that are then sent off to a lab to sequence get this treatment. That's just common sense regardless of how you feel about the public policy response to this virus...common sense that is completely discarded making rationale discussion virtually impossible.
This same individual has posted things claiming the virus itself doesn't exist and had never been sequenced, even though it has been sequenced probably millions of times by now by numerous labs in numerous different countries completely independently. The crazy conspiracies don't match from one thread to another...seemingly irrelevant that if one conspiracy was true the next one could not be - something cannot both be true and untrue at the same time...but that doesn't seem to matter. Just spreading misinformation / false narratives appears to be objective.
and Owen, too. Thank you. This is clear (and correct) information that is not fully understood on FR, aka chaos central.
The genetic sequence of an isolated coronavirus has never been done. Read summary of so-called studies below.
Below is list of studies and their answer to “do your electron microscopes show the purified (isolated) virus?
1. Sharon R. Levin, et al, Isolation and Rapid Sharing of the 2019 Coronavirus, The Medical Journal of Australia, June 2020, replying author: Jason A. Roberts
Reply: The material was not centrifuged, so was not purified to have a density band as such. Oct. 5, 2020
2. Lee Poon, Malik Pelrus, Emergence of a Novel Human Coronavirus Threatening Human Health, Nature Medicine, March 2020
Replying Author: Malik Pelfus
Reply: “The image is the virus budding from an infected cell. It is not the purified virus”
3. Myung Guk Han, et al, Identification of the coronavirus isolated from a patient in North Korea with COVID-19, Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, February 2020.
Replying Author: Myung Guk Han
Reply: “We could not estimate the degree of purification because we do not purify and concentrate the virus cultured in the cells”
4. Wan Beam Park, et al, Virus Isolation from the First Patient with SARS-COVID-2 in Korea, Journal of Korean Medical Science, Feb. 24, 2020.
Replying Author: Wan Beam Park
Reply: “We did not obtain an electron micrograph showing the degree of purification”
5. Na Zhu, et. al, A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, New England Journal of Medicine, Feb. 20, 2020.
Replying Author: Wenjie Tan
Reply: “(We show) an image of sedimented virus particles, not purified ones”.
Source: Claus Kohnlein, et. al., Virus Mania, 2021, p. 389.