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flyham's avatar

All it takes is a few testing sites that look like the BBC footage of PCR tests cross contaminating each other. If the virus aerosolizes easily, then it spreads in a lab and - boom - all the tests are positive.

One dirty lab could account for all of this. Without an open society machines get less maintenance, fewer people check on things in person, and obvious problems go unresolved.

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Positive tests are not cases. As I stopped arguing with dave, asymptomatic positives should not to be considered in population prevalence, they may not be illnesses. Despite how some want to minimize IFR estimate.

The US started out trying to save the ICU system, quickly became zero covid, which quickly became zero positives from hyper sensitive tests. PCR at high Ct done randomly might show snap shot prevalence including old cases with fragment RNA, but I worry fragment RNA might be other than SARS CoV 2.

Michigan has begun a down turn of positives, seasonality effects the hyper sensitive tests too!.

Minor observation: 30 month old grand daughter sent home from day care went to Pediatrician: positive flu, in north Boston suburb.

Hope it means SARS CoV 2 viral interference is waning.

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