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One of the truisms in computer work is “garbage in, garbage out.” In plain English, if the numbers you put into a calculation are wrong, nothing else matters. All you’re going to get is garbage that doesn’t mean anything. COVID is no exception. In the middle of the noise about the “COVID-19 Pandemic,” some real scientific questions are left hanging. In fact, there are so many that we’ll have to leave a lot of them for another time. So, before you declare me insane, please look up the articles in the links. If you’re going to throw golf shoes, 12-wide, please.
Let’s start with a bit of history that’s been hidden from our inquiring minds. We first learned the genome of the “novel coronavirus” in February of this year. Supposedly a Chinese group isolated it from lung fluid suctioned from sick patients. They deduced that the virus probably began in bats. It was noted to be remarkably similar to SARS-CoV, the virus thought to cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. That led the World Health Organization to formally name it “SARS-CoV-2.”
All would be well and good, but there’s a small fly in this ointment. In July of 2006, fourteen years ago, a virology lab two provinces removed from Wuhan published a paper about a viral RNA engineering task. This group used “SARS-CoV-2” as one of its raw materials. Since we know the Chinese Communist Party is not exactly honest, we have to consider the possibility that they knew the genome in 2006 and just told us now.
As the pandemic progressed, a panicked press and academia blindly demanded more testing for COVID-19. President Trump obliged by pushing the FDA to scrap useless regulations and approve more tests. But… A test is not a test is not a test. It turns out there was no need for millions of tests.
“COVID tests” are being used like weather reports to tell you if it’s safe to go outside. But that’s a criminal misuse of testing. There are only two valid uses for testing among the general public. The first is to consider changing your treatment if you’re sick. The other is epidemiologic surveillance, such as “track and trace” or population prevalence measurements. Trying to determine if you have the bug is not a proper use of the test. In fact, the Nobel Prize winning inventor of the process said that RT-qPCR is inappropriate to detect a viral infection.
In this “gold standard” test, RNA in a sample is doubled a number of times to make it detectable. Unfortunately, there are no standards for this “standard” test. You read that right. Labs can run any number of cycles they think is good. This “cycle quantification” (CQ) value commonly varies between 35 and 45, which is a huge problem. A CQ of 35 says that you need 1024 times as much RNA to be positive as a CQ of 45. But, the MIQE guidelines for RT-qPCR say “Cq values higher than 40 are suspect because of the implied low efficiency and generally should not be reported.” If you use a CQ of 50, you may find that everyone is “positive.”
Scientific guidance gets even more difficult, because RT-qPCR tests are “only 30 to 50 percent accurate.” In March, as the testing furor became loud, Dr. Sin Hang Lee told Dr. Fauci that many RT-qPCR tests “are generating many false positive results and are not sensitive enough to detect some real positive cases.” This led a German journal to examine the data, suggesting that as many as 70% of all “positives” are false positives. It’s entirely possible that none of these tests are even looking for COVID-19, since the true gold standard test, virus isolation, hasn’t been done.
And it gets worse. Orlando TV station Fox35 uncovered the fact that for a while, every lab in Florida was reporting a COVID-positive rate of 100%. Once this fraud was exposed, the real number of positives was corrected, with about 10% being the typical rate. This raises a very real question. Why would any lab want to report an incorrect result? Enter the Law of Subsidy.
“Every time you subsidize something, you get more of it, and it gets more expensive.”
The CARES Act created subsidies for hospitals that “code” admissions as “COVID-19.” So if you come in with appendicitis, they will swab you for COVID, send the swab to a lab that runs that RT-qPCR test with a high CQ number to have a higher chance of recording a “positive” result. That’s good for the hospital, because every patient who tests “positive” gives them an extra $13,000. If you come in with chest pain and end up with a coronary bypass, that “positive” test will give the hospital an extra $39,000, because you were on a ventilator in the ICU as you woke up from anesthesia. Cha-ching! (I anesthetized about 3,000 open heart surgery patients…)
We subsidized hospitals for taking care of COVID patients, so they’ve found a way to make almost everyone a COVID patient. Should we be surprised? They even strong-arm doctors to make sure that they write down the magic word. It’s a common, everyday word.
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What about Anthony Fauci, that guy who plays a doctor on TV? The COVID epidemic gave him his fifteen minutes of fame. If it were to go away, he’d have to go hide in his lab again. So he has a major incentive to hype the virus. And the CDC gave him the perfect avenue to make this happen. We’re all familiar with the motorcycle accident victim who got listed as a COVID death. We can brush that off as an outlier. But there’s something more sinister going on.
The Florida House of Representatives reported on the proper use of death certificates. Certificates should identify a chain of events in which the final cause of death is listed first with contributing causes below it. In such a sequence, if a patient died of aspiration pneumonia, that comes first, with Parkinson’s Disease, congestive heart failure, and whatever else below it. Pneumonia would be the proper cause of death for analytical purposes.
But in April of 2020, just as the pandemic was getting hot, the CDC issued new guidelines that turned this on its head. A “positive” COVID test could now be a cause of death, even if it wasn’t a major part of the sequence. Up to forty-five percent of “COVID deaths” in Florida weren’t. That means that the 220,000 number for the country is really about 121,000. Not insignificant, but definitely much less reason to keep various political figures in front of microphones demanding that we wear masks that even the CDC says don’t work.
Now we have a new “casedemic.” Lots of people are testing positive, some are going to the hospital, and it’s time to put America back into the deep freeze! It’s actually time to get real.
A lot of people probably died as a consequence of COVID-19. But we can’t prove it. No one has bothered to do a virus isolation or prove Koch’s Postulates. We think it causes the disease, but we don’t know. The primary test we have is notoriously unreliable, with up to 90% of “positives” carrying so little virus that it’s simply an “incidental finding.” And these are the new “cases.”
Properly understood, a case is someone who is actually ill. If they show characteristic signs, and the test “positive” at a low CQ, then they have a case of COVID. Not before.
We are being bombarded with panic porn by people who know better. The test is horribly unreliable. The death certificates have been manipulated to elevate the count, making people like Fauci seem relevant and giving Joe Biden a campaign boost. The subsidies in the CARES Act magnify these assaults on reality.
COVID-19 appears to be a bad bug. But it’s nowhere as bad as the Quixotic Quislings of Quarantine want it to be. At present, they make Goebbels look like a piker, since he was only able to control Germany. We have to restore rationality to our public discourse and reject the panic porn we’re being fed.
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