False Positive Covid Tests Will Extend Unjustified Lockdowns, Fauci Admits ‘Miniscule’ Accuracy

[Andrew W]

https://thehighwire.com/false-positive-covid-tests-will-extend-unjustified-lockdowns-fauci-admits-miniscule-accuracy/


Whether you live in the USA or most of Europe, one thing remains true:
Covid-19 testing regimes are being aggressively pushed onto populations.

Masked populations in some countries have been told (again) they cannot
leave their homes. Economies and personal lives remain stunted and
manipulated by government edicts. The ticket to a ‘new normal’ freedom has
been dangled: A PCR Covid test.

In February, according to NPR, an internal review at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Covid tests could be wrong 33% of the
time – but CDC sent them out across the country anyway.

But that’s not the whole story of the CDC’s issues with quality control.
Timothy Stenzel, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office
of InVitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, visited the CDC’s
respiratory disease lab and found sloppy lab protocols.

Months latter, Stenzel’s own agency was disgraced as they approved tests for
Emergency Use Authorization without even the most basic vetting. The FDA’s
policy required only that companies attest their product was valid and
labeled as unapproved. The result was a flood of 170 tests—many from China,
which only complicated the problem.

That’s bad, but here’s the real story. The ‘mainstream’ narrative was
allowed to change on August 29th, when the NY Times published Your
Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.

The article touched on ideas that, up until then, were only considered to be
spread by ‘conspiracy theorists’ peddling censorable ‘misinformation.’ The
issues: false positives and no way of determining the amount of virus in
someone’s body. The test provides little if any sense of how contagious a
person may be. If they even have the virus to begin with!

The polymerase chain reaction (or PCR test), amplifies viral RNA using
multiple cycles to produce a detectable amount. The cycle threshold (CT)
value is the number of cycles necessary to spot the virus. The false
positives come down to a question of testing cycles.

From the NY Times: “Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37…The C.D.C.’s
own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live
virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state
labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share
them with contact-tracing organizations.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci recently echoed the previous findings, long-reported by
the independent media and other lone voices. Despite open knowledge of false
positives from high testing cycles, Dr. Fauci made the unfathomable claim
that it’s now “Sorta evolving into a bit of a standard.” Why is he now
openly admitting what has been known for years?

Fauci added, “If you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more that the chances of
it being replication competent are miniscule.” Got that, minuscule. Fauci
didn’t stop there. “You almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold
cycle. So I think if someone does come in with a 37…38, even 36, ya gotta
say, ya know, it’s just dead nucleotides. Period.”

After hearing Fauci, the next logical question for populations being held
under lock and key is: What cycle thresholds are being run on the current
Covid tests?

Investigative journalist Jon Rappoport writes, “What Fauci failed to say on
the video is: the FDA, which authorizes the test for public use, recommends
the test should be run up to 40 cycles. Not 35. Therefore, all labs in the
US that follow the FDA guideline are knowingly or unknowingly participating
in fraud.”

The NY Times investigation confirmed that officials at the Wadsworth Center,
New York’s state lab identified positive tests based on a threshold of 40
cycles. Likewise in Massachusetts, “from 85 to 90 percent of people who
tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed
negative if the threshold were 30 cycles,” writes the NY Times.

This is not just an American phenomenon. In August in the U.K., Tom
Jefferson, Carl Heneghan and others at the Centre for Evidence Based
Medicine asked Are you infectious if you have a positive PCR test result for
COVID-19?

The team cited several studies and concluded, “limited data of variable
quality that PCR results per se are unlikely to predict viral culture from
human samples….The relation with infectiousness is unclear and more data are
needed on this. If this is not understood, PCR results may lead to
restrictions for large groups of people who do not present an infection
risk.”

On two separate occasions, Jefferson and Heneghan attempted to warn UK Prime
Minister Boris Johnson against the lockdown strategy. They called for a
national program of testing quality control to ensure accurate, precise and
consistent results, among other common sense ideas. The two had said they
searched in vain for evidence that the tests in use in the UK have been
independently validated. They further called for transparency around data
showing how sensitive the laboratory processes have been.

In the UK, the reality of false positives is urgent. Johnson and his gaggle
of tone deaf officials are rolling out mandatory testing for all residents
of four towns and counting. The DailyMail reports, “around 1,000 soldiers
will be deployed” to force more than 100,000 people to get tested. Those who
have questioned the move are being banned from social media.

After looking at the mass testing proposal in Liverpool, Bristol public
health consultant Angela Raffle told The Guardian, “Experience with
screening tells us that if you embark on a screening programme without
having carefully evaluated it first, without a proper quality-assured
pathway, without certainty of test performance in field settings, without
full information for participants, and without the means to ensure that the
intervention needed for those with positive results does indeed take place,
the result is an expensive mess that does more harm than good,”

With mortality rates well below anything seen at the height of the ‘first
wave,’ mass testing programs are sure to artificially inflate [false] cases.
This will give the government its much-needed excuse to continue the
unscientific, harmful and inhuman lockdown treatments of their populations.
Expect multilevel revolt in the weeks…or maybe even days…as civil
disobedience escalates.

[M I Wakefield]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:26:52 +1100, "Andrew W"
<spam_a...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
>https://thehighwire.com/false-positive-covid-tests-will-extend-unjustified-lockdowns-fauci-admits-miniscule-accuracy/

For the last week, the US has averaged four times as many cases every
day as Australia has had during the course of the pandemic. The US is
closing in on ten times as many deaths as Australia has had cases.

So, Fuckwit, maybe you should do what fuckwits do, and fuck right off,
you fucking fuckwit.