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Why we should not rely on PCR testing for COVID-19

4/12/2020

I've written about the PCR testing being used for testing COVID incidences in the past, in detail. Here's just a quick summary and reminder:

The PCR testing process used for COVID and other viruses was never invented for or intended to be used for diagnostic purposes! It was only designed to generate an increasing amount of genetic material (DNA or RNA) given a subset of some existing DNA/RNA.

The rt-PCR test being used for COVID testing involces a cycling function of a number of rounds that the test is repeated to generate enough DNA/RNA or genetic material from a sample to determine an alleged positive or negative result. The more cycles or rounds done in the lab, the more DNA/RNA material is generated, giving more genetic material, and therefore more people test positive for COVID.

If you cycle the test sample material 60 times, EVERY sample will generate a high amount of genetic material which is interpreted as a positive test result!
If you cycle the test sample material 30 times, SOME samples will generate a moderate amount of genetic material which can be interpreted as a positive test result, or a negative result!

If you cycle the test sample material just 10 times, every sample will have a low result of genetic material and NO-ONE tests positive!

There is no "gold standard" rule or recommendation by the WHO or anyone for how many PCR cycles are used for COVID testing. Different countries have a different number of cycles! Hence very different results of alleged incidences...

This means that the governments and labs have full control of how many people test positive or negative to COVID. And the results can be manipulated as needed...

We all should be very concerned by this abuse of science, being used to create fear of a pandemic that doesn't really exist. There MAY be a virus, but in many people who test positive but don't have or get any symptoms, there is something else going on - with the major issue being the PCR testing and interpretation of the results.

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The PCR test for COVID-19 cannot prove you have the virus!

20/7/2020

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I have written a few times before on the testing for the coronavirus, based on studies showing its inaccuracies (and therefore ineffectiveness) of its use, why the media scaremongering campaigns should be ignored, and why various governments should NOT be implementing policies based on the PCR test results.

Here's some more detail, as to how the PCR process works, or really DOESN'T work, and why it cannot prove that you have the coronavirus.

The PCR testing process was developed by Dr Kary Mullis in 1985, who received a Nobel prize for chemistry in 1993 for his invention. The PCR process was designed to amplify or replicate pieces of DNA (ie a subset of a known RNA/DNA sequence) to increase their numbers substantially, to allow for this to be used for research purposes. Dr Mullis always stated that the PCR process should not be used for diagnostic testing for many reasons:

1) The small subset of an RNA/DNA sequence that is used in the PCR process is not the actual virus! It might be a very small part of it, or the sequence might actually match RNA/DNA of another virus, or it could be a contaminant

2) The PCR process is highly affected by contamination. If there are any other RNA/DNA or contaminants in the sample, they too will be amplified and replicated and thus affecting the outcome of the process to cause false positive or false negative results

3) The PCR process is run a number of times, called cycles, to repeat the process and further amplify the number of RNA/DNA subsets in the sample, until sufficient numbers are produced

4) The outcome of the PCR test is a sample with an exponential number of RNA/DNA pieces. The test outcome is just a count or number of those RNA/DNA pieces. The test result does NOT give a "positive" or "negative" outcome!

5) How do the labs determine the number of DNA/RNA particles in a test sample is deemed "positive" or "negative"? That depends on the lab and how they decide to interpret the result!

6) There is no standard or universally accepted protocol for the number of cycles used in the PCR process. Different countries use a different number of cycles, and even use a different number of cycles for different tests. If a too-small number of cycles is performed, ALL test results will have small numbers and all people will receive a "negative" test result. Or if too many cycles are run, EVERYONE will return a "positive" result!

From the TGA's own website (TGA, 2020), they say:

"The reliability of COVID-19 tests (using PCR) is uncertain due to the limited evidence base. Available evidence mainly comes from asymptomatic patients, and their clinical role in detecting asymptomatic carriers is unclear"
"The extent to which a positive PCR result correlates with the infectious state of an individual is still being determined".

The other coronavirus testing used in Australia is a serology (blood spot) test, which determines whether someone has been exposed to the coronavirus and developed antibodies, and therefore if they have immunity to the virus. This testing is also flawed because (TGA, 2020):

It cannot be used in someone who currently has a respiratory infection (a cold, flu or COVID-19), as development of antibodies takes approximately 2 weeks or longer to produce
Someone who has recently had COVID-19 may not have developed antibodies yet when tested, and so this can give a negative result to this test
The blood spot antibody testing is not specific enough to the coronavirus - as antibodies to other human coronaviruses (such as the common cold virus) will give a positive test result! (TGA, 2020). Hence someone who has not had the coronavirus may show positive to having antibodies.

The TGA confirm these issues on their website, saying there is limited evidence available to assess the accuracy and clinical utility of available COVID-19 tests (TGA, 2020). It seems that the Australian and state governments aren't listening to their own medical regulator on COVID-19 testing.

To make matters worse, the WHO have given recommendations to governments and their health systems to record COVID deaths based on assumptions (ie, not testing), and when someone dies WITH COVID, rather than FROM it. This is highlighted when 98% of those who allegedly die from COVID have 2 or more chronic health conditions. In many countries and cases, deaths have been recorded as from COVID from suicides, shootings, accidents and other unrelated deaths. The WHO and health authorities seem to want to inflate the incidence and death rates - why?!

Even with the very inaccurate PCR test, the average rate of positive COVID-19 test results in Australia is just 0.3% of all COVID-19 tests performed! In reality, that figure, if the test was accurate, would be much, much lower.

Here's some more very interesting statistics:

The total COVID-19 mortality rate in Australia is only 122.
The mortality rate in Australia of positive tests is only 0.01%.
The mortality rate in Australia as a percentage of the population is just 0.0004%.
Or more positively, 99.99% of Australians survive this virus.

In the early days of the outbreak, the government and health officials were predicting over a hundred thousand deaths, which if had occurred, would justify some of their restrictions, lockdowns and changes to our way of life. But not for the statistics we have here.

So why are our health authorities and governments causing such a fear campaign over such low incidence and mortality statistics? Why are the same people relying on these inaccurate and unscientific tests to control everyone for longer?! Because there's a lot of other things going on in this plandemic... No sane or well-meaning politician would be implementing the restrictions and recommendations they are doing, based on these statistics, for something which has such a miniscule impact on your health or on the country. There is another agenda going on that they don't want you to know about.

Question everything. And stay healthy!

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how accurate is the coronavirus testing - you will be shocked!

6/5/2020

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In this whole pandemic saga, there have been many crazy and amusing moments, mostly from the multitude of funny memes on the topic, and well as some questionable government decisions. But this one is probably the weirdest...

I have been questioning all along for the accuracy of the testing kits or processes used to determine if someone actually has the coronavirus or not. This is very important, as EVERYTHING we have had to endure in recent times - from the social distancing, lockdowns, job losses, business closures, food shortages, toilet paper shortages (!), and tyrannical government decisions to restrict your normal rights, is ALL dependent on the accuracy of the coronavirus testing and the resulting statistics.

The PCR test that is the main test, is not accurate with some studies showing that it gives a false positive result in 20-80% of tests in people who do not have any symptoms. The PCR test also returns false negative results too (that you don't have the virus, when you actually do) which is a much worse situation. The inventor of the PCR process has said publicly that it should never be used for diagnostic testing - as it was developed for a different purpose.

Published by Reuters today, the Tanzanian government ordered some testing kits, and on some suspicion, they tested some non-human samples and they tested POSITIVE! (article link here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzania-suspends-laboratory-head-after-president-questions-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN22G295?fbclid=IwAR10Rg-n8Qeoif92xTtyATptNJZCFVLXJ_DJLB7FRxLUt7Zm6oGOIVw67tI)

Their scientists tested samples from a goat (remember that the coronavirus is only transmissible in humans!) and some fruit (a pawpaw!), and both tested positive to coronavirus! This is not supposed to happen!

Again, the coronavirus test is not accurate. Yet we have all had to make massive changes to our lives and lifestyles based on these inaccurate tests. I hope in the washup of this pandemic, that there will be inquiries into the testing and reporting of the statistics to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

I wonder what might come out of this finding, that non-human samples test positive to coronavirus - that there might be government directives to not eat goat or pawpaw?!

Stay healthy!

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The PCR test for COVID-19 cannot prove you have the virus!

how accurate is the coronavirus testing - you will be shocked!

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