I have been travelling the past few days, which is the reason for my silence. Now I’m returning home, dodging the mask police on an egregiously delayed train, and the intermittent mobile internet so characteristic of Germany is destroying my ability to research a longer post. Woe is me, I know.
Instead, I’ll address a matter raised by many of the comments to my last post, namely the reliability and significance of polymerase chain reaction diagnostic panels. I’ve wanted to address this for while, because every time I discuss any study that involves PCR in any way, many readers respond with a range of bitter objections.
I get it: Three years of pointless mass testing and the heavily propagandised presentation of disease statistics have made everyone wary of mass testing for viruses. That’s fine. But, propaganda is rarely based on total lies, because outright deception is expensive to maintain and requires a high level of coordination. You are deceived much more often by misdirection and deliberate silence. The (mis)use of PCR during the pandemic is no exception.
A lot of the puzzling decisions made by our public health authorities over the past few years are downstream of a fundamental choice, taken sometime between February and March 2020, to abandon traditional, mitigationist pandemic planning, in favour of Chinese-style mass containment. Public health is supposed to be about improving health outcomes across the whole population, but in 2020, public health bureaucrats decided it would be more fun to exterminate a virus, regardless of what this project meant for anybody’s health. Once you understand this basic shift in mission, a lot of other things fall into place, including the bizarre testing regime favoured by the pandemicists.
Critics of the PCR have three fundamental complaints. These are 1) that viruses aren’t real or are somehow a hoax; 2) that Kary Mullis and others have said the PCR is not appropriate for diagnosis; and 3) that the American CDC said the PCR cannot differentiate between influenza and SARS-2.
I’m not going to deal with (1) here, because in my experience, people who deny the existence of viruses won’t accept any arguments or evidence to the contrary, and these debates aren’t productive. Viruses, indeed, are real; the largest viruses can be seen with optical microscopes (depicted above); and if you know anything about cell metabolism, you can appreciate why they exist. There’s nothing remarkable or exceptional about viruses.
While (2) is a reasonable complaint for those interested in individual medical diagnoses, it doesn’t really address the population-wide significance of PCR-generated case statistics. A well-validated PCR diagnostic panel (and the tests in use are generally well-validated) doesn’t diagnose current symptomatic infection, but as I typed above, this isn’t really what our public health authorities are after. They don’t care whether anybody is actually sick. They’re locked in pitched battle with a virus, and they want to know how much virus is out there and who is potentially shedding virus, so they can lock them up. This explains the preference for high cycle thresholds, which detect primarily past infections or trace amounts of contamination. In these cases, the PCR really is detecting viral RNA, even if there’s no active infection, and that’s enough for the virus eradicators. When we’re discussing studies about the seasonality of various viruses, or the fate of influenza during the SARS-2 pandemic, it’s also enough for us, because in these cases we’re also not interested in counting sick people or diagnosing anybody. We’re trying to work out when viruses are present in their hosts, which is a different question.
As for (3) and the CDC: PCR tests have gene targets that are selected because they are (believed to be) unique to the SARS-2 virus. These are RNA sequences that, as far as we know, other viruses don’t have. These tests really, honestly won’t light up on other common respiratory viruses like influenza, because the people who develop these diagnostic panels target genetic sequences that do not occur in influenza viruses. There was no little skullduggery involved in Christian Drosten’s Eurosurveillance paper from January 2020 on the Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR, but any intellectual malfeasance here has limited significance for the actual detection of SARS-2, because the gene targets Drosten’s team chose are found only in the original (extinct) SARS virus from 2003-4, and in SARS-2. Could there be as-yet unknown viruses out there that also have these gene targets? Sure, and rare undiscovered viruses might even cause a false positive here or there. But the widely circulating respiratory viruses are all well known.
In July 2021, the CDC issued a lab alert saying the following:
After December 31st 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only. CDC is providing this advance notice for clinical laboratories to have adequate time to select and implement one of the many FDA-authorised alternatives.
In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorised COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season. Laboratories and testing sites should validate and verify their selected assay within their facility before beginning clinical testing.
Emphasis mine. It’s easy to misunderstand what’s going on here. The CDC is not actually saying that their PCR tests can’t distinguish between Corona and the flu. Rather, it’s withdrawing a PCR diagnostic panel for SARS-2 introduced in February 2020, because it was at this point 17 months into the pandemic, and many other PCR diagnostic panels were available. Unlike the original CDC diagnostic panel, these new panels are capable of detecting both influenza and SARS-2, whereas the earlier ones would light up only on SARS-2. If the patient had influenza, the test would come back negative.
If our health authorities were genuinely interested in measuring the prevalence of Corona across the population, they’d have used random sampling methods from the very beginning, testing separate pools of people both for the virus and for antibodies over time. Instead, their aim has been to propagandise the population to further their virus extermination agenda, which explains their unsystematic use of PCR. Crucially, though, this doesn’t mean there’s no information in official case statistics. Before Omicron especially, you could use surging case numbers to predict rising hospitalisation and death statistics several weeks into the future, which is the best proof possible that there is real information in these Corona dashboards, however otherwise broken they are. If the results of these tests were wholly arbitrary, they wouldn’t show trends over time, and they wouldn’t correlate with other medical outcomes.
As always, reality is in the difficult middle, rather than at the comfortable extremes of believing that it’s all true or it’s all a lie.
Update: This post has unsurprisingly attracted a lot of vitriolic comments, particularly about the phenomenon of high PCR cycle thresholds and the frequency of false positives. I guess I didn’t address this explicitly enough: The PCR is very good at detecting the genetic sequences that it targets. The problem with high cycle thresholds isn’t that these yield ‘false positives’ (i.e., they find virus where there isn’t any), but rather ‘meaningless positives’ in the context of diagnosis. That is, at high cycle thresholds, the test detects trace amounts of virus that aren’t relevant for establishing whether the patient is infected or infectious. Similarly, you could imagine a hypersensitive metal detector that detects trace amounts of metal being entirely useless for your garden variety weekend treasure hunter. The metal detector is detecting metal, just not in a way that is useful for the questions its user is most interested in.
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Apparently Bill Gates is funding research into using mosquitoes to deliver mRNA jabs (without consent, or knowledge, obviously).
Obviously I would never wish Bill any sudden harm. That would be a terrible thing to wish for.
And it’s probably a con speerasee thee oh ree, silly me.
I realise it’s infeasible to train swarms of mossies to visit BG and deliver a payload of our own choosing, but I do ponder the ramifications…
“Majority of public believe King should not apologise for slavery, new poll shows,”
The real story is not the 55% who think he shouldn’t, but who the hell are the 45% who think he should..?
I think you’ll find the majority of that 45%
are , don’t knows/ not bothered/ don’t care/ don’t have an opinion either way!
Totally disinterested in the royal family!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-i-am-standing-for-the-heritage-party-tomorrow/
I wrote this for Conservative Woman and it has been published this morning.
Well done. Wish there was a candidate I could vote for where I am.
Good man. I wish you all the best.
(Although I subscribe to TCW I cannot be bothered with ‘disqus’ so I never comment over there.)
Best of luck!
Adding my best wishes….….
People, like your good self, who have made the effort on a personal level throughout the scam are my real heroes…very admirable….
“EU backs Dutch Government’s farm buyout plan to cut nitrogen pollution”
The Dutch people are showing the ptb by actions and votes that they do not want this! Ignore them at your peril! Lesser things have led to civil wars!
Yes it was reported yesterday. More here. Farmers organizations are generally positive about the schemes apparently, though I find that hard to believe.
”The schemes, which can run up to 27 February 2028, are open to small and medium-sized livestock farmers who close their operations, provided that their current nitrogen deposits exceed minimum levels. The compensation of up to 120% of the value of the business will only be open to farmers who close down definitively and guarantee they will not start the same activity elsewhere in the Netherlands or within the EU. In total, some 3,000 highly polluting farms located close to Natura 2000 areas could be shut down.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/05/brussels-says-yes-to-dutch-farm-buyout-scheme-in-conservation-areas/
The EU has said that people who ‘benefit’ from this plan cannot restart their farming activity in the Netherlands and they cannot move and start up anywhere else in the EU. So much for Free Trade and Free Movement of People.
At the same time the EU Parliament votes in favour of yet another ‘Pact for Migration’ which involves quotas of migrants being distributed to ALL EU countries. More mouths to feed; less food available; up go the prices.
Right so before I get all ”OMG :-o!!!” I’d appreciate somebody watching this 5min video and confirming if it’s fake news/a spoof or not, because it sounds way too far-out for my 20th century brain to take in. 6G?!! Neural networks?? LED lights as antennas?? By 2030? There’s that infamous date again…
”While the availability of the new mobile communications standard 5G is still almost insignificant in Germany, work is already underway on 6G, the sixth generation of mobile communications. The 6G network is scheduled to go into operation around 2030 and will enable extremely high data transmission. To this end, the European Union has launched the Hexa-X project to research and develop 6G. 22 companies are working under the leadership of Nokia with the aim of making 6G an indispensable part of our society.
The Hexa-X homepage explains, among other things, the goals of 6G. It says: “Climate change, pandemics, […] as well as distrust and threats to democracy are some of the unprecedented societal challenges of our time. Wireless networks as a central component of a digitized society must reflect such complex needs […] and proactively provide sustainable digital solutions […]”.
https://www.kla.tv/25644
Holy crapsicles, this appears to be real! How did I not know about this?? This from their home page;
”2030 and beyond, Europe and the world will face opportunities and challenges of growth and sustainability of tremendous magnitude; proactively tackling the issues of green deal efficiency, digital inclusion and assurance of health and safety in a post-pandemic world will be key. A powerful vision is needed to connect the physical, digital, and human worlds, firmly anchored in future wireless technology and architectural research. The Hexa-X vision calls for an x-enabler fabric of connected intelligence, networks of networks, sustainability, global service coverage, extreme experience, and trustworthiness.
Wireless technologies are of critical relevance for our society and economy today; their importance for growth will continue to steadily increase with 5G and its evolution, enabling new ecosystems and services motivated by strongly growing traffic and trillions of devices. The ambition of the Hexa-X project includes developing key technology enablers in the areas of:
https://hexa-x.eu/
And so the Nordstream stuff keeps rolling in……
‘The ships are believed to include the Russian naval research vessel Sibiryakov, the tugboat SB-123, and a third ship from the Russian naval fleet that the media outlets have not been able to identify by name.
These were so-called “ghost-ships”, which had their transmitters turned off. The broadcasters, however, say they were able to track their movements, using intercepted radio communications the vessels sent to Russian naval bases between June and September 2022.
These movements were tracked by a former British naval intelligence officer, who worked on interception of the Russian Baltic Fleet until he retired in 2018. That person – who remains anonymous in the documentary – says he used open-source information and radio communications to carry out his research.
These ships are said to have been in the vicinity of an explosion site for several hours and, in one case, for almost a full day.
One of the vessels, the Sibiryakov, is believed to be capable of underwater surveillance and mapping as well as launching a small underwater vehicle.
The former Royal Naval intelligence officer says it took an unusual navigational track in June, around the place where the pipeline would later blow up, and changed its communications pattern to a secret receiver.
Another unnamed vessel was also present in that area the previous week in June.
And a third vessel, the naval tugboat the SB-123, is said to have arrived just five days before the September explosions.
The radio communication suggests that it stayed there for the entire evening and night before sailing back towards Russia.
Satellite imagery examined by the broadcasters is said to support the claims about the unusual routes, and other reports in Germany had claimed it was in the area on 21-22 September.
This vessel can be used to support and rescue submarines and has the ability to carry out operations on the seabed, according to experts interviewed by the broadcasters.’
BBC 03 May 2023
“You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
President Abraham Lincoln, New York Times, August 27, 1887.
Yes, it is murky business indeed, however I’m not sure trusting a BBC documentary is particularly wise considering their high standards of independent journalism.
While I think that one should never rush to hasty conclusions on issues such as these, Seymour Hersh offers a pretty convincing argument that the USA sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline.
Russia has every reason not to blow up the pipeline, one of the key points of leverage it holds over Europe. On the contrary, it’s an excellent strategic move for the US in this proxy war.
Hersh has a very strong track record on these affairs, famously exposing the Mai Lai massacre. He also covered the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the CIA’s program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military’s torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
Hersh’s essay:
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
Biden exposing his strategy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPfXLPUJHM
It be more like…How do you differentiate whether it is fake or true?’ Indeed it is very difficult in such an informational flow,” said Vitiuk. “I say, ‘Everything that is against our country, consider it a fake, even if it’s not.’ Right now, for our victory, it is important to have that kind of understanding, ……”
(Illia Vitiuk Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security, Security Service of Ukraine.) LOL!
The evidence is not conclusive.
The BBC are at great pains to say that the evidence is not conclusive.
‘The Nordic broadcasters do not say there is conclusive proof of what the vessels were up to or that Russia was behind the blast. But the documentary raises questions about the unusual nature of the activity.’
Nevertheless ‘The first vessel departed from a Russian naval base in Kaliningrad before arriving near the pipeline on 7 June.
One radio message places it directly above Nord Stream 2 before moving further north, close to the Nord Stream 1 pipelines, spending hours in the area where the pipeline runs about 80m (260ft) below the surface and where some of the leaks would later occur.
The Sibiryakov arrived on 14 June and went to the same position as the first vessel, close to Nord Stream, and remained there until the next day.
…..a former British naval intelligence officer…….says the pattern of radio communications in June indicated they were in an “operational phase” at some points.’
And
‘One week before the explosions, extensive manoeuvres of the Russian Baltic Fleet began on September 19, which could conceivably be used as cover for a real mission. Frogmen of the 313th Spetsnaz Special Forces Unit from the Baltiysk base in Kaliningrad also officially moved out to join the maneuvers. They are elite soldiers trained for underwater explosive and sabotage operations. In the following days, these suspicious ships were detected in the area of the crime scenes above the Nord Stream pipelines.’
‘….the most important ship in the formation for the operation would have been the submarine support ship “SS-750” . It regularly participates in training simulating accidents on the seabed. Its special feature: On board there is a so-called “Project 1855”, including a deep-submergence rescue vehicle named “AS-26”, which is supposed to evacuate the crew of crashed submarines in an emergency. It has gripper arms that can move cargo weighing up to 50 kilograms underwater.’
‘Usually, “SS-750” is stationed at the Baltiysk base in Kaliningrad as part of the Baltic Fleet. However, satellite imagery shows that it left the port on the night of September 21. At a speed of nine knots, it would have been able to reach the scene by 7:50 pm The so-called “Automatic Identification System” (AIS) , which transmits location data, had been switched off. However, its length of 95 meters would match the dimensions of a dark ship discovered by the US company SpaceKnow without a position signal near the crime scene.’ (T-online 250323)
Hmmm……
You are all entitled, of course, to your own opinions, but, for me, if it quacks like a duck etc etc
Why would the Russians blow up Nordstream? To demonstrate the threat they pose to EU underwater vital infrastructure. In their view, they are at war with the EU, a cold war so far…….and aggression works for them, as Crimea 2014 clearly demonstrated.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-02-irish-lawmakers-pass-hate-speech-law-fines-jails-people-hateful-content.html
More on the Irish hate speech law.
New info from a FOI request obtained by Judicial Watch about FDA and MHRA colluding to keep a side effect under wrap and more.
Seems the cardiologist cited by Andrew Bridgen will be proven right. Certainly, the criminal energy is there.
And so is Perseus with its assessment that the MHRA is unfit for (regulator) purpose.
They are doing very well as enabler. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/05/02/us-uk-hidden-pacts-to-hide-vaccine-reactions.aspx?cid_source=telegram&cid_medium=social&cid_content=mercola&cid=nonlead1_20230502
The EU backing the Dutch Governments Farm Grab is surely the story of the Day / Week / month or even the Year etc ! Proof if any is needed that TPTB are on a mission to destroy all that we hold dear
Dr Malhotra appearing on Joe Rogan podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWPziQGg1vU
Is this another way to stop the plebs flying? I bet the billionaires’ private jets have long fixed this problem.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65465512
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (health regulatory agency) in Australia has just announced the removal of prescribing restrictions on Ivermectin. The announcement makes it clear that the reasons for imposing restrictions were somewhat underhand (shall we say).
“the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has removed the restriction through its scheduling in the Poisons Standard because there is sufficient evidence that the safety risks to individuals and public health is low when prescribed by a general practitioner in the current health climate”
“given the high rates of vaccination and hybrid immunity against COVID-19 in Australia, use of ivermectin by some individuals is unlikely to now compromise public health”
“The restriction on ivermectin was introduced in Sept 2021 because of concerns about the safety of consumers using ivermectin without health advice to treat COVID-19, widespread use of ivermectin instead of approved vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and potential shortages of the medicine for approved uses”
Removal of prescribing restrictions on ivermectin | Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
Ah yes, it will be available on prescription but doctors won’t be allowed to prescribe. Either that or it will be permanently out of stock.
Hopefully Dr G can provide an update.
Morning all….sorry if this is a repeat…
I know that John Campbell’s video with Andrew Brigden has been deleted from YouTube..if you missed it….
https://rumble.com/v2l3cfk-mr-andrew-bridgen-mp.html
https://twitter.com/ijclausen/status/1653693348283047936
The first memorial for the victims of the #Corona -vaccination experiment and the accompanying coercive measures stands in Zinnwald-Georgenfeld (Saxony-Germany)
(Flagged on Andrew Bridgend Twitter….and stating that no one in any country seems to want answers to these questions..)
https://www.portugalresident.com/health-professionals-query-73-increase-in-heart-attack-patients-transported-by-inem/
Health professionals query 73% increase in heart attack patients transported by INEMThe signatories include 62 doctors from various specialties, who point out that 2022 saw the highest number of emergency calls ever recorded by INEM – more than 1.5 million – as well as excess mortality, for which acute coronary accidents may have made a “particular contribution, a situation that must be characterised, understood and overcome”.
Buckle Up!! Things might just have taken a turn for the worse!
https://twitter.com/disclosetv
JUST IN – Russia says Ukraine tried to hit Kremlin with drones overnight in an assassination attempt on Putin.
Of course ‘If it’s legit’ caveats apply!
At about 15 minutes the Head of the IMF talks a bit about CBDCs. They were once the future and then the scamdemic came along and the future has arrived. That was convenient.
https://milkeninstitute.org/panel/14584/part-1-conversation-imf-managing-director-kristalina-georgieva
What do lowlifes or cornered rats do when they’re up against it. I wouldn’t spend time attempting to assess their mental state because it is simply low and venal and is often fuelled by the spirit of the addict or compulsive gambler. They don’t value any life on the deeper levels and so that inevitably includes their own. You have families that have maintained their wealth for centuries. These have also succumbed in our time there is no mechanism for them to survive. It is a fair question -what do you do at the end of an epoch? It is just a dance it is already over. Any redemptive change has to come out of this understanding.