Media and governments don’t want to hear that the most commonly used test for COVID-19 is a totally unreliable diagnostic tool.
Most people when asked about the risk of COVID-19 will say “it’s better to be safe than sorry” regarding masks, isolation, or any other draconian, scientifically unproven measures the government decides to implement.
Faulty modelling at the outset accompanying scare mongering from the ‘experts’ (who are notoriously silent on recent COVID-19 developments) did our heads in. Many people are still in a very bad head space waiting for the COVID-19 sky to fall.
However, a recent step forward was a landmark court case finding the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test unreliable to diagnose COVID-19. New Zealand uses a deep nasal swap for the PCR test.
But the PCR test was not designed as a diagnostic tool. It was designed to aid clinical diagnosis by a trained physician also reviewing patient symptoms before making a diagnosis.
The court case failed because there was no doctor to perform a medical examination of any of the four Germans claiming that their forced quarantine was unlawful.
“The judges also said that only a doctor can “diagnose” someone with a disease, and were critical of the fact that they were apparently never assessed by one.”
Put simply, a PCR test cannot tell you whether the patient is infectious, meaning our tally (and everyone else’s) of thousands of COVID-19 cases are junk science and reported case numbers totally unreliable.
A PCR test indicates the presence of RNA, remnants of COVID-19, in their respiratory tract. The person being tested may have had the disease earlier, or they may be unsymptomatic, or they may have an infection and are therefore contagious.
The PCR test does not discriminate between an active case, a previous case or whether the patient is asymptomatic — and our government has no interest in differentiating or putting fears to rest.
The more COVID-19 cases we chalk up, the more reason the government has to keep us tightly controlled using masks, social distancing and contact tracing — all heavily dependent on the notoriously unreliable PCR test.
The PCR test failed to hold up in the Lisbon Appeal Court because of its unreliability.
“Four German holidaymakers who were illegally quarantined in Portugal after one was judged to be positive for Covid-19 have won their case, in a verdict that condemns the widely-used PCR test as being up to 97-percent unreliable.
Earlier this month, Portuguese judges upheld a decision from a lower court that found the forced quarantine of four holidaymakers to be unlawful. The case centred on the reliability (or lack thereof) of Covid-19 PCR tests.
The verdict, delivered on November 11, followed an appeal against a writ of habeas corpus filed by four Germans against the Azores Regional Health Authority. This body had been appealing a ruling from a lower court which had found in favour of the tourists, who claimed that they were illegally confined to a hotel without their consent.
The tourists were ordered to stay in the hotel over the summer after one of them tested positive for coronavirus in a PCR test – the other three were labelled close contacts and therefore made to quarantine as well.
There is no accurate “gold standard” test for COVID-19.
Our government adopted an elimination strategy to control the spread of the disease using quarantine and contact tracing to stamp out community spread. Under their regime the only way to reopen our borders is an effective vaccine.
The fact that worldwide COVID-19 cases have been grossly overstated does not bother our government or many overseas. Two months ago the unreliability of PCR testing was common knowledge.
It would be difficult to argue that the US Covid testing is fit for purpose in its current state. The experts seem to base every decision now on case numbers or derivatives thereof, despite the apparent lack of association between fluctuating case numbers and hospital admissions and deaths; the latter two of which have been relatively negligible for months – even when taking into account recent rises in parts of the world – compared to the springtime peaks. But they keep ringing that bell: ever more testing, they toot, will somehow lead us into their ‘new normal’.
It’s a virus so deadly, you need a test to tell whether you have it or not. So goes the refrain of many lockdown skeptics, Covidiots and anti-maskers, of whom I am an indignant supporter. Something has gone… not just wrong, but totally haywire… when the might of the world’s scientific establishment is trained with the zeal of a Witchfinder General on one particular microscopic particle. Not even one that’s most likely to kill you; the latest data show it is the eighth most common cause of death in England, and it doesn’t make the top ten in Wales.
Meanwhile, in Wuhan, the original source of this disease, the pool parties are in full swing. They don’t seem to be too worried about PCR tests or contact tracing, or even the virus itself. The Chinese government says that their supreme lockdown was so awesome that they now have zero Covid: probably a biological impossibility. Maybe they just stopped testing, and decided to get on with their lives. A turn of events we are unlikely to see if the US or Europe any time soon, for better or worse.
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