[Bob434]

Been posting this for a week now- they can’t tell if you have a variant or not, so all,these breathless claims of “alarming Increases in omicron cases” claims are apparently nonsense. Evidently say can’t tell if it’s flu or covid or a variant

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
– H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

[lightman]

The POS “test” gets positive reads on coffee and cola.

And the chicken littles go into a scratching frenzy.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease ping : USA, CDC admits current PCR tests can't tell the difference between Covid and the Flu
That's how we eliminated the flu last year !
PCR tests are shown to be unreliable to differentiate the difference

Bob434 :” Been posting this for a week now- they can’t tell if you have a variant or not, so all,these breathless claims of “alarming Increases in omicron cases” claims are apparently nonsense. Evidently say can’t tell if it’s flu or covid or a variant “

“After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the use of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus. “ "In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test “

[voicereason]

they can’t tell if you have a variant or not,

They can only tell through genomic testing, and the PCR test doesn't accomplish that.