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cov exists in contagious form for ~5 days but in detectable form for ~77.
this is leading to massive false positives for clinical cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
this vastly distorts the data that is then used to drive policy.
we're on the gerbil wheel to hell. https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1327113537819435008
this is leading to massive false positives for clinical cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
this vastly distorts the data that is then used to drive policy.
we're on the gerbil wheel to hell. https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1327113537819435008
this is what's driving the "casedemic". it's also what's driving much of the deaths data because so many are counting "death with" covid instead of "death from." sweden even goes so far as to count any death from any cause within 30 days of cov diagnosis as "covid death"
so you die from being an 85 year old with congestive heart failure but get counted as "covid" either because you had trace disease or because you picked it up opportunistically in the hospital.
this is leading to all kinds of bizarre data outcomes that look nothing like the way anything else is measured.
it's telling that when real drug companies and the FDA set protocols for testing vaccines, they do NOT accept a simple + PCR as a proof std. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1308451578869809152?s=20
it's telling that when real drug companies and the FDA set protocols for testing vaccines, they do NOT accept a simple + PCR as a proof std. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1308451578869809152?s=20
this is true in the pfizer trial as well.
in fact, i am not aware of a single vaccine trial that accepts just a PCR+ as proof of a case.
yet this is what all our data and public decision making is based upon.
and it's full blown ruining us. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1326152447430189057?s=20
in fact, i am not aware of a single vaccine trial that accepts just a PCR+ as proof of a case.
yet this is what all our data and public decision making is based upon.
and it's full blown ruining us. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1326152447430189057?s=20
we've gotten the basic measurement here catastrophically wrong.
even the NYT has figured this out.
quite possibly 90% of all positives are non clinical.
think about how badly this misstates the situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
even the NYT has figured this out.
quite possibly 90% of all positives are non clinical.
think about how badly this misstates the situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
for those not up on this issue of oversensitive PCR tests, i did a deeper look at this issue here.
cliff notes: US tests at 40 Ct amplification. that's 1000X as sensitive as 30Ct. no live virus EVER found over 34
our tests are 100-1000X too sensitive https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1299748993296216071?s=20
cliff notes: US tests at 40 Ct amplification. that's 1000X as sensitive as 30Ct. no live virus EVER found over 34
our tests are 100-1000X too sensitive https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1299748993296216071?s=20
all cause deaths in a place like the US become impossible to read because lockdowns have caused so many excess deaths that it's hard to separate from covid and the 2 line up so well temporally.
this addresses much of that. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1308022818571988993?s=20
this addresses much of that. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1308022818571988993?s=20
all cause deaths in sweden who did not lock down look utterly normal for the trailing flu year.
they have lots of "covid deaths" but all cause deaths look the same as the neighbors.
it's mostly over-counting with over sensitive tests and definitions. https://twitter.com/HaraldofW/status/1318260177955684352?s=20
they have lots of "covid deaths" but all cause deaths look the same as the neighbors.
it's mostly over-counting with over sensitive tests and definitions. https://twitter.com/HaraldofW/status/1318260177955684352?s=20
and this spills over into every single metric. ironically, it makes hospitalization rates for covid into gibberish and possibly a contrary indicator
if 90% of positives are non-clinical, when you re-open to electives, you pick up piles of new "cases" that are just RNA fragments
if 90% of positives are non-clinical, when you re-open to electives, you pick up piles of new "cases" that are just RNA fragments
so the act of opening hospitals because things are good makes it look like hospitals are flooded with new covid because you're catching bits of virus from months ago (or nosocomial contamination) in people who are actually healthy and just needed care for something else.
hospitals LOVE this.
upcoding to covid brings in $10, 30, 50k in cash
it's a gravy train of CARES funding
testing too. 1.3 mm tests a day is a $60bn a year biz that just appeared from nowhere
see if you can spot the massive windfall:
revs +52% seq. income up 207%.
wowsa.
upcoding to covid brings in $10, 30, 50k in cash
it's a gravy train of CARES funding
testing too. 1.3 mm tests a day is a $60bn a year biz that just appeared from nowhere
see if you can spot the massive windfall:
revs +52% seq. income up 207%.
wowsa.
when people ask, hey, why would a testing lab use such an over sensitive assay, it's hard not to laugh.
um, that's why. the $568mm of net income in Q3 vs 184 the Q before and 215 a year ago.
that's beyond even fever dreams of avarice for companies like quest.
um, that's why. the $568mm of net income in Q3 vs 184 the Q before and 215 a year ago.
that's beyond even fever dreams of avarice for companies like quest.
it's not a conspiracy, it's rational economic actors responding to bad incentives.
put a pile of money on the table, lay out the rules for getting it, and away they go.
bad incentives lead to bad outcomes.
i've written on this before. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1306948923274203142?s=20
put a pile of money on the table, lay out the rules for getting it, and away they go.
bad incentives lead to bad outcomes.
i've written on this before. https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1306948923274203142?s=20
this is why the CARES act and all this covid slush money has to go away.
we're subsidizing the mining and overstatement of covid and that, in turn, is being used to inform freedom robbing and economically catastrophic policy.
we're literally paying to have our lives taken.
we're subsidizing the mining and overstatement of covid and that, in turn, is being used to inform freedom robbing and economically catastrophic policy.
we're literally paying to have our lives taken.
we have built a machine that feeds on this money and produces needless terror and unmitigated social harm while allowing popinjay politicians to ride around like conquering dictators shouting orders and gives them the unbridled hubris to demand we thank them for it.
this is what fascism is guys. it's the textbook definition.
it's government and media and industry all in one cart together feeding one another and getting more powerful and richer by imposing their will upon the people.
does this sound familiar?
it's government and media and industry all in one cart together feeding one another and getting more powerful and richer by imposing their will upon the people.
does this sound familiar?
the government that sets testing and standards "consults" with the testing companies about what it should be and they agree to go with what's super profitable and allows maximum power accumulation by the state. then, the media cheer-leads
big companies LOVE fascism
always have
big companies LOVE fascism
always have
it cements their control and influence and it crushes small companies that lack political connections and influence.
the sea of lobbyists currently pouring into DC is going to be a bonanza of 1930's level pork gluttony.
and they do not have your best interests at heart.
the sea of lobbyists currently pouring into DC is going to be a bonanza of 1930's level pork gluttony.
and they do not have your best interests at heart.
this is what has gotten loose in NY and NJ and CA and IL.
it's poised to go national.
fear is means by which such politicians grab power. they unify vs an external enemy and take your rights for your own safety.
secretly, they don't believe you deserve or even want them.
it's poised to go national.
fear is means by which such politicians grab power. they unify vs an external enemy and take your rights for your own safety.
secretly, they don't believe you deserve or even want them.
presuming this is not so, then it's time to stand up and demand an end to this farce.
when you get industry and media and government in the same cart, the people ALWAYS lose.
always.
stay brave, and stay free.
when you get industry and media and government in the same cart, the people ALWAYS lose.
always.
stay brave, and stay free.
