hi world. i don’t think if you read through my comments that i disagree at all with you. PCR like any medical, scientific method of measurement is subject to all types of error. and it has been abused to the maximum during the last two years by many bad actors especially at the CDC but all over the world.
my disagreement is with the post which characterizes PCR in general as a “scam.”
that’s utterly false. PCR is real, and has been use for many years in a variety research and medical lab settings, even in medical diagnosis when used as i have said in other comments with ransomnote.
i based this statement on facts alone. this is personal knowledge i have because i have the advantage of being related to a trained reference bench tech who also happens to be a medical informatics it professional for the hospital and medical school one of the best reference labs on the planet.
for example. fact: their home brew PCR test (developed in house because the CDC’s failed their vetting process miserably), with the virus sequenced by scientists at the medical school, was vetted and then used in the hospital in March/April of 2020 and later on the entire staff of the medical school and hospital. it eliminated about 9 out of ten respiratory cases as non-covid. that is a cold hard fact. it called positives in roughly 10 out 5000 front line medical personel when deployed as a screening test for them. again. fact. the practical usefulness of their PCR test proved out in the real world of medicine.
thus, it was very successful as an early stage diagnostic. those are facts, i can personally vouch for. this is for the consumption of interested readers. i don’t think i disagree with you at all about the misuse and overuse of PCR by bad actors in this sorry episode.
anyway. just wanted to respond to you, as a courtesy. think i made these same points already in the thread. as with ransomnote you have the last word if you want. my point is made. PCR is not a “scam.”
My point rests on the January 2020 RT-PCR test coded in Berlin, Germany, by Christian Drosten and supported by the so-called Corman-Drosten research, and created using Chinese data from before that time. That particular test was created a month before the EU adopted it as a standard, and two months before the pandemic was officially declared. Who designs a test for a pandemic before it is declared?
I agree with you that "it has been abused to the maximum during the last two years by many bad actors especially at the CDC but all over the world."