I thought you meant fucking New Zealanders.

You make a great point. Not the one you think, but the one where it's best to remain silent.

Validating a test such as this needs to be done under sterile conditions or the validation/invalidation is not reliable.
There is no connection to field conditions in this requirement.

Let's look at that link you provided.



The current prevalence is about 0.4% per the CDC data.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean that the false positive rate is somewhere between 70 and 96 percent?

Covid is a sham.

I run a molecular diagnostics laboratory and as such, am responsible for keeping tabs on the QA/QC of all our instrumentation.

I run my own sample along with the daily covid quality control specimens every morning. That's five days a week since May. Not a single positive.

Of course, I'm self-collecting under sterile conditions. As a general rule, nurses suck ass at collecting patient samples and it's during this preanalytical phase when the vast majority of testing errors occur.

PCR is the gold standard of viral testing for good reason; it's highly specific and extremely sensitive. The problem we have is that it was never intended to be used with specimens collected in assembly-line fashion in what are essentially field conditions (drive-thru testing).

That's why I first clicked on this thread.

Story on fox that Chinese ICE CREAM has virus also

That's way outside of my lane, and I don't know what sized area that prevalence would apply. Aggregate information is famously misleading in terms of how it bears on the local reality.

But all of this is spitballing.

None of it matters. The tests, and their effectiveness, or lack of effectiveness, don't matter. The vaccine doesn't matter. For months, all we heard was " wait for a vaccine." No we have several, and it hasn't slowed down the doom train one bit. People are taking the magic vaccine they were told to wait for, then they're told to keep wearing their mask, keep isolating and keep doing all the things they were doing before the vaccine. The MSM, tyrants, Karens and doomers are all screaming about the "new strain" now. They're never going to let this go.

Anyone who has honestly been following the public health discussions, and not the derposphere "interpretation" of them, would know that all recommendations have been and would be driven by statistics.

The statistics most decisions have been focused on up to now have been the cases reported and the test positivity rate. Virginia has specifically been tracking its test positivity rate data with PCR tests only due to the problems manifesting last year with the antigen tests.

Open public discussion of a public issue requires an informed public - one informed by facts, not memes.

We can and should debate openly about what measures should be in place relative to what statistics, but to suggest that anyone ever said merely having a vaccine would cause a rollback in such guidance, as opposed to observed statistics, indicates someone who has very strong opinions but hasn't taken the time to actually learn about the discussions outside of the derposphere.

LOL, at first I thought this thread was referring to New Zealanders.

Are you saying one of the people without a mask has covid and breathed on it?

Fun Fact -

back in the day, Kiwi fruit were named "Chinese Gooseberry" so maybe there is something to this.

The NZ export dept got the name changed to "Kiwi Fruit" to make them more easily sellable as a NZ export product.
Originally they only grew in NZ. Then some enterprising growers figured out how plant and harvest them in CA.

Turned a $3 specialty product into a $0.20 commodity.

And they are gonna keep it again, this year.
As in right now, this week, and it is incredible racing / sailing.
Boats are doing over 50 knots.!!!!
https://www.americascup.com/https://www.americascup.com/

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