Read on Twitter
Thread on my position on the Executive's response to Covid following a brief conversation with an MLA today.
MLA's operate in realtime & with real life or death decisions to make. I have the luxury of not bearing such a burden but I also feel they need held to account.
MLA's operate in realtime & with real life or death decisions to make. I have the luxury of not bearing such a burden but I also feel they need held to account.
I've many concerns surrounding accountability, herein, and least of all, the complete and total subservience of the media to the DoH's every whim. If the DoH says something, it's taken as Gospel. It's no secret I've come to loathe the media's handling of all things Covid..
The Executive takes guidance ultimately from the CMO and CSA on Covid. As politicians they are for the most part ignorant of the science. The CSA and CMO take their guidance from the CDC in America and WHO. Being a small island, our experts suffer from inferiority complexes.
They have no courage or desire to formulate their own plans based on their own data. This is why gyms were closed based upon highly questionable data from....South Korea! McBride's fear was, what if he broke with the rest of the UK and kept gyms opened and then everyone died?
With COVID-19 we have continually witnessed smaller nations playing a game of 'follow-the-leader' with larger entities. On one hand I understand their fears of being independent and messing things up. But on the other I see them as little more than Lemmings.
The media's role is to act as a counter-balance between power and the powerless. To answer the questions being posed by those who are sceptical and to clarify things for those who want to believe in power. Instead the media has attacked sceptics and echoed the words of power.
This is due to nobody in the careerist journalist bubble having the courage to step out of that bubble in the same way our experts don't have the courage to formulate an independent approach to Covid based upon local data. Best defer to the bigs guys and fall into line.
That all said, the hospitals are in bad way. With over 800 members of staff out of work due to "self-isolation" as a result of PCR testing we begin to see a major flaw in the approach. Such an approach begins and ends with a single PCR test, that is where the answer lies, IMO.
We now know that Trusts are using testing kits with a Ct of 40 and 45, way over the recommended threshold. This means that these tests are likely picking up a very many people who are either false positives and/or who had the virus months ago but are no longer a risk.
The higher the Ct - the more amplification cycles a specimen goes through before RNA is detected - the less chance the subject is shedding. So someone tests +ve at a Ct of 45, it's highly likely the subject is not a threat, but they are forced to isolate as are there contacts.
If you're a medic your contacts are also likely medics so now a group of medics are all isolating because of a highly likely false +ve PCR result. That isn't to deny anything, that's simply stating a fact. +ve results using a Ct of 35+ are not reliable.
The WHO advise that Ct's be reduced and PCR testing must not be a means to diagnose infectivity but are to be used alongside medical history, signs of symptoms and patient feedback. In NI, a +ve PCR test, regardless of symptoms, is a diagnosis of Covid.
That, IMO, is medical fraudulence, and is the real pandemic. It's a pandemic of "cases" being confirmed based solely on PCR testing. Testing that its creator says doesn't tell anyone if they're sick. Receive a +PCR today, get run over by a bus next week and you died from Covid!
I explained to the MLA that in no lifetime, is that acceptable. In no lifetime is that not medical fraudulence. The DoH have admitted to me that they don't know how many people have actually died of Covid. They only count deaths of people with a +ve test within 28 days of dying.
NISRA are worse. They don't even require a +ve result to mark you up as dying from Covid. Guesswork from a clinical will do the job. So, the Executive have no idea how many people died as a result of Covid. The daily totals the media use to scare you with cannot be validated.
Here is a real case study. A person was given weeks to live due to cancer and was admitted to the Mater hospital as they neared the end. Whilst there they tested +ve in a PCR test. The person died 10 days later. What did they die from? Covid.
In a sane world where science rules, that can never be acceptable. Think of the wider implications; now a family cannot hold a normal funeral nor can they get in to say goodbye to their dying loved one. Not because they're contagious but because of a PCR test set too high.
Try and appreciate the significant of this and it wide ranging effects right across our society. The lower a reading (the less cycles required to return a positive result) the more likely a person is infectious. But in the absence of symptoms the test needs to be redone.
That information is all from experts leading in their fields. It's not from me behind a keyboard. I'm not an expert in virology or epidemiology. But I'm an analyst. I read reports, I gather data and I formulate informed opinions. I'm also a human of nearly 5 decades on Earth.
If you're sick, stay in bed. If you cough or sneeze, cover your mouth and "don't get too close" people, as I was taught. Fear is all consuming and all encompassing. You can't think straight as the fight or flight response kicks in. People become obedient to power.
Your views are not your views but the views of the power you have no succumb to. You see anyone questioning that power as a threat to your survival. This explains why pro-lockdowners are not necessary "pro-lockdowns" but see them as a means to survive hence why they are so angry.
They're angry at you for questioning what they see as a means for them to survive. "You're a threat to me" they think. "You're therefore a #COVIDIOT" as they set of into the world of social media seeking anyone who confirms and shares their fears. Now it's an eco-chamber.
It's important to keep asking questions. It's important to seek evidence of claims. These aren't popular traits to have today. Obedience, compliance and total acquiescence will see you rewarded and made feel welcome in these times. Questioning will see you being isolated.
This thread came about as the MLA suggested I make a position (one that they share) public as my articles are read and points noted "in some circles" but some still had questions, "Does he deny people are sick"? No he doesn't! I'll leave it there for now. 
