A positive PCR test does not mean you “have COVID”. PCR tests seek portions of the virus SARS-COV-2, not the disease COVID-19. If you’re asymptomatic, you do not have the disease and are unlikely to be infectious. 1/4
If you recovered from the disease, you can test positive for up to three months, despite being completely non-infectious. If you were infected, but never had the disease, ditto. 2/4
Yet you may be quarantined or barred from travel. The simple solution of using Rapid Antigen tests would eliminate such epidemiological false positives. Why aren’t they deployed? 3/4
The answer does not lie in science, but in commercial interest and politics. They’re cheaper, and don’t produce such spectacular “cases” theatre. Now think about that. 4/4
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