PCR Tests – The Perfect Government Program
The sheer number of covid tests has always bothered me. As an engineer I know that nothing is perfect and the more times data gets handled the more suspect it is. Alberta is now doing more than 15,000 tests every day; that number has been steadily increasing since the beginning of this farce. More tests means more people, more labs, and more errors. I found one paper that put the number of false positives between 0.8% and 4.0% with a median value at 2.3%. The wide range probably reflects how careful the samples are handled and how good the various labs are. Alberta continues to increase their margin for error by increasing the number of people involved and even with that we have not been over 2% positive since the first week in May, you know when the “pandemic” officially transitioned to a scamdemic.
It is very easy to find out how many tests are being done every day in Alberta; the government is very forthcoming with that data. It is a point of pride how many tests are done every day. It is not however, easy to find out how much money the Government is spending on all the testing. Some estimates of testing costs I have found indicate that Alberta is spending over 4 million dollars/day testing people to find out that 98% of them do not have covid. We are on pace to spend 8% of our entire health care budget to find out 98% of the people are wasting our time and tax dollars. It is hard to understand why this is such a point of pride for the government. If they wanted a good indicator of how the scamdemic was proceeding they could track hospital admissions. Something they were already doing so it would not cost a nickel. Be honest now, 18 months ago when you voted for Jason Kenney did you think you would be looking back nostalgically at the fiscal responsibility of Rachael Notley?
A few weeks ago I thought the only problem with massive testing was the cost and high number of false positives that served to fuel the panic. That was before I started l educating myself on the PCR test. I used to worry that the 0.8% to 4.3% false positive rate was artificially inflating the numbers. Now that I understand the PCR test a little better I am concerned about the 100% false positive rate sustaining a fake pandemic that ended in April.
The most common test for covid 19 is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. PCR was developed by Kary Mullis, he won the Nobel Prize for it. It was originally developed as a way to replicate a strand of DNA over and over again until you had a sample large enough to study. It is basically a manufacturing process. When HIV was first discovered someone figured out that they could use the PCR process to replicate the virus in a sample enough times to actually find it. When a lab technician takes a sample it has a lot of stuff in it. Trying to find one specific thing is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. With the PCR test you are able to keep duplicating the needle until you have enough of them that you can say for certain the haystack must have contained at least one needle. The way the process works is that the piece of DNA you are looking for is split in 2 and then re-built. Now you have twice as many. If you do that 30 times you have a billion times as many. By the time you have a billion times as many needles hopefully you can see them in the hays stack. When they started to use the PCR technique to identify the HIV virus Kary Mullis objected. He was adamant that this was never to be used as a diagnostic test and that if you have to produce 1 billion copies just to see it is it really a problem?
So the guy who won the Nobel Prize for developing the technique says that it should not be used to identify a virus and the test kits from Altona Diagnostics actually caution that the tests are not to be used as a diagnostic test. The keystone of our pandemic response is testing and both the man who developed PCR and the people who produce the tests do not stand behind them. You would think that would be enough to convince us not to spend 4 million dollars a day but unfortunately Jason is just not that smart. That on its own is bad enough but unfortunately with Covid the more you look the worse it gets.
The PCR test works because DNA is symmetrical so when it is split it is easy to double because you know what the other side is supposed to look like. Virus don’t have DNA they have RNA which is not symmetrical so the first step of the test is to turn the RNA in to DNA so that you can split it and replicate it. Then in the Covid test you replicate it as many as 40 times which means you make 1 trillion copies. So to find the virus RNA you convert it to DNA and replicate it 1 trillion times to see it. This really sounds like something that we should use to shut down an economy and destroy lives over right?
I hate to sound like a sham wow commercial but wait that is not all!!! Here is where it gets really stupid (like it was not stupid before). No one has ever produced a purified sample of the virus. That means the piece of RNA that the test turns in to DNA and replicates came from a sample that did not just contain the Covid 19 virus. There was other stuff in there. We are spending 4 million dollars a day to identify a piece of RNA that might not be part of the virus. You read that correctly we might not even be testing for the virus. We can’t be that stupid can we? Need I remind you we are talking about Jason, Justin, Deena, and Theresa?
There is some empirical evidence that the test is not actually identifying the virus that is causing the disease. There is a documented case in Wuhan China of a woman how go sick and then infected her whole family. Everyone in the family tested positive except the woman who brought the disease home in the first place. They tested her 18 times, swabbed everything that they could swab and she was negative every time. She had what they had but she did not have the strand of RNA that the test looks for. There was also a study in Singapore where they tested a group of patients every day. Every one of the patients flipped back and forth from positive to negative multiple times. They were all sick but they could not always find the strand of RNA that we test for. That strand of RNA might be from some common thing that has nothing to do with the virus. We are spending millions of dollars a day to accomplish absolutely nothing; the very definition of government.
Here are a couple of good articles on the PCR test and why we should not be using it
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/27/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/