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That was the answer all along, ESPECIALLY after we found out the virus was already far more widespread than we thought. That was in April, 2020.

There's a reason we don't test healthy people for traces of the flu and then quarantine them while tracking down all their recent contacts. It's an idea so monumentally stupid that only government would actually do it.

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Yet so monumentally stupid that half the population is not only taken in by it but actively joins in the enforcement effort.

Stockholm syndrome.

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Shaking my head and laughing at the same time, in seeing staggering long queues of people waiting up to 3 hours to get a test to tell them they’re not sick!!

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3 hours. Pffft. That is nothing. People in my town wait up to 9 hours. 99% of the tests are negative.

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And 99% of the 'positive' ones are, too, lol! Bayes' Theorem.

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These people either want to stay home (not work) or get all kinds of attention from like-minded individuals. Yay them. haha

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Hypochondriasis is a real affliction!

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Brethren of “cranial-rectamiasis ( aka: walking around with ones head up their a-s!”

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I don't watch TV but a friend just told me that she saw a news item of a line up here in Canada (and baby it's cold outside) starting at 4 am of people hoping to get their boosters for Immacold/Omicold/Omicron (courtesy of Alex Berenson also at substack). A riot practically broke out when they ran out of shots.

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Wait? Canada? No one offered to share?

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So where I live in San Diego, in an adjoining neighborhood there is an Urgent Care Clinic. Back in April 2020 they set up outside their back door, a Pop Up Covid Tent. (For I assume was Covid testing as back then they weren’t treating any Covid cases, just sent people home and wait till you get real bad & then go to the ER.) The have kept the ‘tent’ up all this time. Yesterday I drove by the place there were 6-7 people in line waiting to be seen. Today I drove by there and there were at least 10-15 people in-line waiting to get into the building, not at the front entrance but the back entrance. And pretty much it was all people under 40 ish. (No older over 65 like me.) I guess they all have Omicron now? And most likely all have been Jabbed a few times! 😜😵‍💫

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San Diegan here is well. Where exactly is this? The Gaslamp I would imagine.

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No it is in University City next to Rite Aid. The lines everyday are getting longer and longer! 😉😜😳

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More than half...

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and also: enjoying being capos against their neighbours

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"Buy from us and nobody gets hurt"

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Where does the new 5-day quarantine guidance come from? Can we have 2 days? 0 days?

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the same place as 10 days, distancing, masking, and contract tracing, mr norstadt.

if you can find a doctor with a flashlight, i'm pretty sure they can show it to you!

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Dec 28, 2021·edited Dec 28, 2021

With so much self-testing now, people are less likely to turn a positive into a negative if the self-flaggelation period is only 5 days.

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😹😹😹

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It comes from science, of course!

Oops, I mean "Science™"

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as in "Trust me! I am science!" fauci

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Why do I picture Tiny Tony warbling along to Helen Reddy's 1970's hit?

I am science hear me roar

with a slush fund too big to ignore

though you know too much for me to pretend

cause you all heard it before

i'll make you get shots 3 and 4

No one'll escape my lockdowns again

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Fauci Sez ...... what a game for adult-children

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But you’re supposed to wear a mask for another 5 days which is weird since everyone wears a mask everyday in public.

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you're supposed to wear it even tighter

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It’s from Rachel Walensky of CDC as of yesterday. I know, it’s hard to keep up.

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the routine for exposed health care workers is test at 5 day if w/o symptom, then at 10 days. i hope the data shows very few + at 10 days after - at 5.

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It’s stupid if the goal is to improve public health. It’s clever, though, if the goal is to play on our fears in order to persuade us to hand more power over to politicians and public health bureaucrats.

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I would ask the doctor Dewald what I have asked all my esteemed colleagues (MDs) since March 2020: Have you ever done a mono test, or flu test, or mycoplasma, or Dengue, or RSV... on anyone who was not sick? We never do that in medicine. They invented that practice with covid...

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This appears to be a case of asymptotic transmission of stupidity, but we’ll need to conduct a stupid test to confirm.

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excuse me miss margaret, i do not like to be contrary, but having just read the doctor lady's twitter feed, i'm pretty sure there were some pretty significant symptoms here...

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You know, I thought that after posting but wrote it in the middle of my sleep (this, too) and was too tired to revise it accordingly. I really need to recalibrate my sleep schedule to coincide with your posting timeframe so I stop being tempted to read/comment after each REM cycle 😹

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😸👏

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Certainly. Take it from me. Definitive symptoms of stupdity. A test would only be confirmatory.

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Sadly, stupidity is rarely asymptomatic.

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I was symptomatic about 7 months ago. There are about 340 people who should thank me for not getting them locked down for 2 weeks.

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Hubby actually got sick after the j&j. never tested, but 3 days of high fever (shaking) told me pretty much it was covid. I never stopped my routine and he was back int the gym three days later. Naughty us!

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😸😹😻

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You don't have to be intellectually gifted to be a Doctor. You just have to know how to memorize really well. And then to learn how to follow 'the standard of care' regardless of any important evidence to the contrary. This Doctor seems too be a shining example of this...

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Richie... please do not generalize. There are "doctors" and there are doctors. I have worked as a medical educator for more than 30 years. I can tell you that unfortumately, many of our younger doctors have become "guideline followers". And apparently this doctor is an example. But it is not always the case. Practicing good medicine is not about memorizing; it is much more complicated.

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I'm sorry Ivan... when the majority of Doctors are going along with this total fraud of a Covid scare... what are we to make of this ? Are they just stupid, our something else ? Sure... there are a minority of Doctors who dare to speak out about this Covid fraud. And an example is oftentimes made of them. See: Dr. Paul Marek, of the < https://flccc.net > group. He was fired because he wanted to use Ivermectin and was prevented from doing so by his Hospital. Again, sorry Ivan... but the MAJORITY of Doctors are 'go along, get along' MEMORIZERS who are essentially worthless ! Sorry to get so intense about this. But the DOCTORS haven't stood up and opposed this Fraud. And they are extremely culpable. I doubt that many will have much confidence in any Doctors going forward. And I'm doubly pissed off about this Cowardice because my sisterinlaw and my niece are having a tough time with Covid now. They are double vaxxed and boosted. WHERE were the doctors who were willing to stand up and warn them about the possible longterm immune system problems generated by these vaxxes ?????

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I completely agree. We are no longer rewarding critical thinking; we are rewarding and lauding unquestioning consensus with the official narrative. I have had numerous arguments with my MD sister over COVID. She's a very smart person, but she literally cannot see or hear anything contrary to the official narrative. I have lost all faith in modern medicine and our medical institutions over this. The upstart docs (like Marek, Koury, McCullough) need to start their own version of an AMA, where civil discourse and disagreement is again welcomed.

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Dec 28, 2021·edited Dec 28, 2021

FYI, there already are alternatives to the AMA, like the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS): https://aapsonline.org

McCullough spoke at an AAPS event recently: https://youtu.be/On5wvCiIKx0?t=2095

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That was one of Dr. McCullough’s better ‘talks’ I feel, that he gave at the Annual Meeting of the AAPS in Pennsylvania.

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I agree, Richie. I am VERY disappointed in my colleagues. But I always like to point out that there are a few of us who still act oit of principles.

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https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search As I mentioned in my post, a lot of these "Doctors" are getting paid (or receiving some nice bonuses) for prescribing and injecting more than *practicing* medicine. Though I can empathize with Ivan as well. :)

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Exactly; they're unthinking and/or fearful official-protocol-followers. I honor those true physicians who prioritized their patients and thought through how the virus acts, how the immune system acts, and then what modalities could possibly help. We really do have to be careful in choosing our own physicians, and I worry about the quality of physician that will be available, from which to choose, in the future.

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Very good reply. 👍🏼

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Many of our younger humans in almost every profession are followers. I work w/research scientists - a good percentage of the older ones, who aren't on the Covid gravy train, are on Team Reality, the younger ones not so much. Maybe it's a reflection of the woke agenda in our universities?

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Young people have been taught to be compliant all through the educational system. I am astounded at the level of unquestioning loyalty they have to government entities and how little they value their freedom and privacy.

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Just think, soon there will be universal basic income and utopia will be here! Everyone will be free to pursue things to their heart's content and study hard and work hard as much as they want. Everyone will be "woke" and happy. Heaven help us.

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Yes! We will own nothing and be HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!

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I think that was an instruction rather than an observation. Be happy! (or else)

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I agree the ‘younger humans’ have swallowed this whole Scamdemic , as us older folks say…”hook, line, & sinker”! They are the self appointed Mask Nazi’s in a-lot of stores I go into. Not management or the older employees!

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It's about memorizing the party line or memorizing what you are paid most to do.

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Yes but it is convienent to stop now that the vaccine looks terrible. They did not care when they were testing the unvaccinated that weren't sick in order to afford rent. They will continue to do so even if they stop testing the vaccinated who aren't sick in order to make the vaccine look better and justify eternal tests on the unvaccinated. I'd rather this continues for now, until every shred of faith in the vaccine is burned to the ground.

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Is she.....serious? Just asking cause that's been the answer all along. And I basically dont trust anyone anymore!

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Denise Dewald is paranoid and full-blown Covidian. She absolutely would want to test everyone regardless of symptoms and force quarantine if she had her way. She's loony tunes and blocked me on Twitter months ago.

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That was the plan from the start. Test for a virus with fraudulent testing and scare the shit out of everyone so they stand in line to be poisoned. Hitler told them to stand in line to get a shower to clean off the lice.

I will qualify that. Gates plan from the start. The greedy sheep followed.

* Massive population reduction, a eugenics plan – in part through vaccination and other means (Ref. Bill Gates, “if we are doing a real good job vaccinating, we may reduce the world population by 10% to 15%”. See “Innovating to Zero!” speech to the TED2010 annual conference, Long Beach, California, February 18, 2010).

- YouTube......which is another site that is now removed were Gates said, I quote exactly from his speech:

“If we do a good job on vaccines, health and reproduction, we can reduce the world population by 10-15%. Only a genocide can save the world”.

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Ah come on Viking. That was fact checked. lol. ;-)

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I listen to him say that before YouTube scrubbed it. You really don’t believe in fact checks they have become a joke.

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Thus the lol and the winking...

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Scarcasm is not easy to do on the internet..😳

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I've never thought of it as scar chasm before. Thanks.

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Other forums I use, people put /sarc or /s to explicitly indicate it - helps sometimes

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Summer of 2020 in the UK "State of Fear" was a #1best seller; established a deliberate, calculated effort by the gov. to "scare the ... out of" - and then .... nothing changed. Fall 2021 USA "Real Anthony Fauci" near #1 best seller; result? hoards of people waiting nine hours to "get tested" - the merry go round goes on and on - people trickle off (some are here) - but where is the tipping point? ... I wouldn't even hold out much hope for ceasing asymptomatic testing. I am discouraged.

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I just cannot believe how easy it has been for a few very wealthy psychotic men to pull off a worldwide genicide. Maybe it is time to thin the herd to improve the quality of the stock.

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Can we try and be accurate? Especially when you say “quote exactly”? Gates says nothing about a genocide saving the world and yes, he does lead his statement by mentioning vaccines before he says that reproduction services can reduce the population growth by 10 to 15 percent (which is at the very least an odd association taken at face value), but I’m not sure that he’s admitting that vaccines will make the recipients sterile. Even if that was true (which I have personally yet to see any slam dunk evidence of, the case for contributing to conditions like autism seem a lot firmer, though still with questions), it doesn’t seem likely that he would be announcing this at a flippin’ TED talk. Seems far more likely that he simply didn’t phrase his statement particularly accurately. Secondly, this talk has not been scrubbed from YouTube, it’s still available directly on the TEDtalks channel (quoted section starts around 4:40):

https://youtu.be/JaF-fq2Zn7I

Look, this pandemic and the response to it is largely cashgrab nonsense and Bill Gates obviously has financial investment in “cutting edge” medical technologies, but that by itself doesn’t mean that him and his ilk are actively trying to kill off the plebes. In fact, I believe that a lot of folks, especially Gates, are deluded enough to believe that they’re doing the right thing and are too blinded by personal ambition and profit to see the harm that they are causing. There seems to be a tendency in among those the COViD/vaccine skeptical to frame all of these players in the worst possible light and the problem here is sacrificing truth and accuracy in order to promote their agendas. Which isn’t any different from what the mainstream is doing and worse, allows them to throw the baby of valid criticism out with the bathwater of hyperbole and exaggeration.

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The voice of reason.

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I fully understand someone have difficulty believing anyone would put a drug on the market knowing it would kill people. The news and Biden say everything is fine. Don’t worry that we are the leading nation in the world in death rates from Covid.

I guess the question I would ask....why would anyone continue to push an experimental drug that we now know the injections are deadly and continue to try to inject children with it. Read my substacks...DEATHS BY THOUSAND CUTS and SHEEPLE?

A lot of very smart medical people and scientist are saying this. Concerned to the point of suing Gates and gang in the International Criminal Court to stop the genocide. read my substack FINALLY and the PDF law suit you can open up.

https://theagingviking.substack.com/p/finally

Gate has headlined more than a half dozen TED TALKS with four saying how his vaccines will reduce world population. The one he added “Only a genocide can saved the world” has totally been scrubbed from the internet.

Did you know Bill Gates is consider the worlds leading believer in eugenics and the supports thennew Project Depopulation with the Rockefeller Foundation, another leading believer in Eugenics. Did you know he financed in India and Africa develop a contraceptive based a a synthesized bacteria to sterilize woman. Injecting 10’s of thousands with it without their knowing it. Just do a little research. It is not crazy people saying these things. It is much worse than I am making it. His financed organizations that did this are legally banned in Africa and India.

Finally, read THE REAL FAUCI. Open to any page. Facts, date, time, place, who

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How can I do a “little research” if this supposed clip of “only a genocide” has been fully scrubbed from the internet? Which is a pretty neat trick, given all the other damning information you can find on the internet. Maybe he shouldn’t have even said it in the first place if it required that sort of elaborate coverup, which requires very carefully removing a single sentence from a video uploaded 11 years ago in addition to diligently monitoring every video upload site to make sure that not a single person can provide the unaltered clip anywhere? And if you go to that trouble, why not also remove the sentence with the association to vaccines at all (which I concede raises an eyebrow)?

I do not by any means blindly believe what the government or media tells me but I also don’t believe what is asserted by random folks on the internet that conveniently lacks proof. Your post is a mix of verifiable fact and speculation of intent. If you could produce a single link to the full unedited clip on any website of him saying “genocide” I would find this more creditable, instead I just have to believe that he possesses the resources to completely shove it down the memory hole.

As to a lot of the rest of what you’re saying, like I said, there is truth in there and I absolutely think that Gates believes in population reduction (a popular position among elites going back to at least the 16th century and a major force in establishing the alleged “New World”). But as to his exact quote about genocide, I’ll need something more concrete.

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You sound like a man that has already taken the third booster shot.....I guess I would cling to your beliefs if I were you too.

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Heh, nope completely unvaxxed. I just realize the sword of skepticism cuts both ways. And it’s telling to me instead of providing a link to the section of video I’m requesting, you decide to turn it around to be about me and my “beliefs.”

Despite your presumptions, I am very open minded but I do require evidence. Even if the Gates video where you say he says we need a genocide doesn’t exist anymore, can you at least tell me when the video was allegedly taken? From context, I thought it was from the 2010 Ted talk that I linked to but I realize now that you didn’t say that specifically. So is it from that one and the line has been scrubbed or was it another presentation all together? Have you personally seen this or are you going off of second-hand info?

I genuinely would like to know because deception does not just occur through mainstream sources. Thanks in advance.

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I think you missed the word QUOTE?

And you don’t trust me. “ CDC Withdraws Use of PCR Test for COVID and Finally Because it can’t differentiate between flu or Covid” They just locked down a nation for a year and destroyed an economy on a lie.

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Most docs are too afraid of losing their licenses or being punished for prescribing early outpatient treatments. What possible good does any testing do when that is the case? It's best to start an early outpatient treatment program on your own. If it doesn't work, you're no worse off. You still go to the hospital. There you will be tested. If you have covid, you are where you would be anyway. If the treatment works or you never get that ill, you saved a few days at a minimum when days are important in early treatment.

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Bravo Bob. Exactly what we've done in my family. (Kinda what we've done for generations in my family for all illness...)

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Never go to the hospital for any reason you can possibly avoid. Did you break your leg? Are you having a heart attack? Suddenly paralyzed from the waist down? Those are all good reasons.

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I disagree; The hospital will put you on Remdesivir and a ventilator, which will make sure to kill you or leave you with permanent organ damage which will kill you within a year or two. I'll die at home, thank you very much.

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Totally agree. Good info about early self-treatment here. < https://flccc.net > Also... since Ivermectin is now so difficult to get, check out the Fluvoxamine protocols. And new research has shown that a combination of Quercetin, Zinc sulfate or chelate (elemental zinc ?), Vitamin C, D, D3 & A, and some Selenium can help beat back C-19. Check out: < https://zstacklife.com/products/z-stack >. Wishing all great good health...

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Not only the pcr... ANY laboratory test will give you a high percentage of false positives if you do it on someone who is not sick. PCRs are only worse. That is why in medicine we have never done tests for acute diseases on people who are not sick. We do tests on asymptomatic individuals for SOME (very few) CHRONIC diseases. It is called screening or early detection, and it is done for a completely different purpose. It is a different subject altogether.

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Just spitballing here but is part of the impetus related to the phenomenon of ‘the worried well’ do you think? Or perhaps the confluence of the genetic testing idea with Scotty’s diagnostic method on Star Trek? (Lol)

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I believe the FDA quietly posted on their website last summer that the PCR test was inaccurate and would be phased out on exactly December 31, 2021. Funny how they're nailing that timing?

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it's just one version of the test that they used.

there are 100's more.

will make no difference.

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Yes, my understanding is they're just retiring one of the PCR "primers" that were based on a previous SARS "virus"- NOT SARS-COV-2. Now, they supposedly have better (less fake) primers.

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Yes. Like Gato said. CDC notified that they would phase out one version of the pcr. They instructed laboratories to start using one of many other available pcr tests.

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Thank you for that info, I was wondering what would replace if. Figures...🥴

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If I would have just thought of starting a "covid" testing company before 03/2020 I would be a billionaire too! (Even though I wouldn't be able to sleep at night)

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The PCR tests detect viral RNA from destroyed virus for up until three months after recovery. They also detect spike protein from the vaccines. So "cases" are wildly over-reported, and it's impossible to tell in that population who can actually transmit the infection, so those tests are useless as a public health measure.

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The PCR tests detect RNA. Full stop. Everything else is an assumption, extremely likely to be an incorrect assumption.

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Yep. In a sane world, the test would tell us who could actually infect others. That seems to be (even conservatively) about 31 cycles or under.

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When dystopia is your utopia, everything sane appears dystopian.

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But.. but.. if we stop testing people who aren’t sick, cases will go DOWN, and who is that going to scare?

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At this point the politicians are looking to escape blame. This is the best way to do that.

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Clearly. Blame-shifting to state governments appears to be the next move...

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And, they desperately need people to start going back to sleep. I think that some will, but not as many as have fallen back to sleep in the past. I kinda hope the monsters keep pushing just a bit longer. As horrible as "their" agenda is, I see people awake now that I *never* would have thought would see the truth. It's exciting as hell. :)

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And they will say CDC guidance is just doctor safety advice that doesn't include real-world trade offs.

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can we call her Dystopian Denise?

Or how about Denise the Menace?

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Funny thing. I began to feel ill with a cold on Thanksgiving night. And I've had what feels like a cold ever since. Nasal congestion, a cough mostly precipitated by talking; yesterday I developed a moderate headache with the usual icky feeling that gives me, leading to a little retching. Today that's gone.

Now, I live in the region just notable on the news for morons feeling fine but with a positive test flooding the ERs in hysteria. I do not consider myself a moron, and well or not-so-well, I take a considerable amount of Vitamin C daily (minimum well or ill 8,000 mg) plus other supplements I deem appropriate. Suspected cold, suspected flu or suspected Plague, my approach is the same. I'll get better, or I'll die, eventually...

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What got us into this thing is Bill Gates saw the old movie “CONTAGEON” and loved the plot. Another idea I can steal and make $ billions.

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We can’t stop testing! Where will all the money go?

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I'm all for testing everyone, for every large event. And I mean everyone.

If the vaxxed can get infected and transmit the virus, then they should be tested just like the unvaxxed.

To use my NBA tickets, I have to show a negative test within 24 hours of the game, but a vaxxed person could be hacking up a lung, spewing virus on everyone, and because they drank the Kool-aid, they get a free pass. Not scientific.

It seems the only way out of this BS is to irritate and inconvenience everyone, so let's all test, all the time. Quarantines all around.

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i lost you when you said you have tickets to the ccp basketball cabal.

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Haha. It's a vice. I love sports.

I do think that this is the last year, too much of a hassle for a bunch of aholes.

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I wouldn't want one of those PCR swabs up the back of my nose every few days.

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I'm doing the swabs for work already, not too bad, you get some cancer causing agents jammed up your nose, you give someone your dna for use in a future bioweapen.

Calif, come for the weather, stay for the crazy.

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Is she upset about this? Is she making fun of us ever doing this? Is this a Babylon Bee meme? I cannot tell.

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Dec 28, 2021·edited Dec 28, 2021

I've been begging for this since the testing madness began in 2020. stop testing asymptomatic ppl and use those funds to get back to normal regular healthcare that people have been abandoning since covid became the only disease. the polling must be so abysmal, hence the u-turns

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I win. I never followed crap from the CDC.

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This is a rerun of Nazi Germany with the medical care and doctors all becoming....Sergeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes....”I know nothing” as genocide is taking place.

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Still waiting for an 'internet doctor' to release us from 'asymptomatic spread'. I mean no MD ever told us we could start touching our eyes again but for some reason when I'm in the produce section of the grocery store where the most communicable diseases exist on all the fruits and veggies handled by all the asymptomatic spreaders, I just tend to touch my eyes sometimes because of the fluorescent lighting but you know what? I'm OK! I AM OK, be amazed internet doctors!

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I just cannot believe how easy it has been for a few very wealthy psychotic men to pull off a worldwide genicide. Maybe it is time to thin the herd to improve the quality of the stock.

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*Their* herd.

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I was being sarcastic...meaning all the people in the world. But their works too.

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No no, I know, your comment was good, I just wanted to emphasize the need, or desire, to thin *their* herd.

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Pandemic of the tested

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We could make health care 100% of our economy if everybody just got up every morning and went to a Health Screening Service™ to probe, test, and look for diseases before they had symptoms. Every day we could learn about incipient scary conditions and then go to treatment centers and begin pharmaceutical therapies. Or have surgeries. Think of how healthy we'd be as a nation--that is, those of us who didn't commit suicide as a result of perpetual pathological hypochondria. What a moron you are, Denise.

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I always come back to this 2 page document provided by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, dated April 30, 2020, intended for health care professionals and never updated or revised:

http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Professionals-Site/Documents/COVID19_InterpretingTesting_Results_NAT_PCR.pdf

Interpreting the results of Nucleic Acid Amplification testing (NAT; or PCR tests) for COVID-19

in the Respiratory Tract

And this is the last paragraph:

"Ultimately, for COVID-19 testing, there is currently no gold standard, and the overall clinical sensitivity and specificity of

NAT in patients with COVID-19 infection is unknown (i.e., how well NAT results correlate with clinical infection, “true

positivity” or “true negativity” rate)."

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This batshit lady got be banned from Twitter because she sucks at debating and practical science.

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lol. I think that's actually the minimum requirement to get the blue check mark...

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Blue check means - "I can be bribed"

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In a direct plea, Mr Perrottet asked people who are not unwell and who have not been asked to get a PCR test by NSW Health to “please don’t do so”.

“I know this runs counter to everything we’ve been saying over the last two years in relation to testing, so I know we’re going through an adjustment phase ... but there are many people who are lining up for tests who do not need them,” he said.

“The most important thing is that people only turn up to get tested if they’re symptomatic,” Mr Ayres said on Seven’s Sunrise program on Wednesday morning.

“If you don’t need to get tested, please don’t go and line up in one of those queues.”

[Proving yet again the power of critical mass - they have too many "cases' and there are too many people are wanting to get probed.]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-records-11-201-new-covid-19-cases-as-premier-defends-decision-to-ease-restrictions-20211229-p59kl3.html

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Why would you test someone who isn’t sick? Oh yeah everyone who is STUPID AND INSANE.

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Or shift all the testing to take place at home so there is no record of high positive test counts. And voila, the vaccine works in decreasing case counts.

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well, technically, they should stop testing people who are sick too, since the test cannot be used as a diagnostic, and cannot be used to tell us what anyone is sick with. To stop the dystopian merry-go-round we need to go further, and simply stop testing altogether. Once we have a test that can actually legitimately be used for diagnostic purposes, then and only then does it make sense to test.

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Denise has one of the best parody accounts on Twitter.

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What is her Twitter name?

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This is no longer an amusement park.

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Agreed. We are on a dystopian merry-go-round. Not testing people who are asymptomatic would be a logical place to exit the merry-go-round and close it for serious maintenance, perhaps even scrap and rebuild it.

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Build it back better? ;-) Sorry, couldn't help myself.

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She got her degree out of a box of Cracker Jax

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Great song ! Great artist ! Thanks for posting !

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That's literally how Obama ended the swine flu epidemic. Just stopped testing.

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How is it that "doctors" are some of the thickest* people around?

*Thickest, as in unbelievably stupid, not as in possessing a huge ass*

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"You do realize that the next stop on this dystopian merry-go-round is for the CDC to recommend us to stop testing anyone who isn’t sick."

Sooner (I hope) or later, someone, somewhere (not one of us peasants obviously but someone, you know, important) will catch on to the idea that declaring victory and packing up will be the Royal Road to Recovery from the pandemic.

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MD's are mostly Arrogant high priests and priestesses of Big Pharma living in Covidstan for fun and profit.

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That woman is a moron. Heck her Twitter feed. 🙄

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As I wrote in The Light last month, this is the real reason Japan has largely avoided this whole pandemic. There is no culture of testing. A PCR testing facility went up near my local city hall. It's pretty big, about 8'x 8' (I shit you not) and I have never seen a single person in there. You can turn up at the doctor's with all the (ahem...flu-like) symptoms and they still won't test you. I have never taken any type of test this whole time, and that's true for almost everyone I know.

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Quick, Ms. Dewald, test all your patients for Dengue Fever! Don't you know how terrible that disease is?! Quick! Test them one and all or admit that you just don't care!

What's that? None of them have any symptoms of Dengue Fever? Since when did that matter to you?

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Positive tests for Long Island since 12/24: 20k or so. Net new hospitalizations: 200 or so. Looks better than the seasonal flu now. No wonder markets are enjoying a Santa Claus rally: this all has to stop as we enter a federal election year.

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Wouldn’t that be a novel idea?

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c'mom CDC...do it, do it, do it...make this already wacko lose more of her mind!

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I have said this before, we need to keep a list of these insane so called Doctors so we can avoid them, no way in hell would I want someone this stupid to be treating for anything. Don't know if she is actually an "MD" since no blue check mark.

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Well they are withdrawing their PCR test as of 12/31.....not sure if it is the CDC's own test, or all of them?

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