PCR Tests were never used to

 

PCR TESTS WERE NEVER USED TO..

PCR TESTS WERE NEVER USED TO DIAGNOSE A DISEASE ON THEIR OWN, WHY ARE THEY NOW?

PCR tests are the gold standard test for diagnosing Covid-19 positive cases. Yet, they are fraught with problems that are potentially leading to inflated case numbers and deaths; all of which are driving lockdown policies around the world.

PCR TEST IS NOT DIAGNOSTIC

The PCR test by itself is not diagnostic and never was. Its inventor, Kary Mullis, Nobel prize in biochemistry for his invention, stated that “PCR, it’s just a process that’s used to make a whole lot of something out of something” on July 12, 1997. He added that “It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick, and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with, [like Covid-19], really was going to hurt you.” (1)

Before March 24, 2020, shortly after the “Covid-19 pandemic” was called on March 11 by the WHO, the PCR test was never used on its own to diagnose an infection. The PCR test was only used to confirm a clinical diagnosis, that is, a person had identifiable symptoms of a disease and the PCR test would confirm presence of a suspected pathogen (disease agent, like Covid-19). (2)

PCR CAN’T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN INFECTIOUS AND NON-INFECTIOUS PARTICLES

A live, whole virus is infectious; a part or parts of a whole virus are not infectious. When a person’s immune system fights off and conquers the Covid-19 virus, pieces of the killed whole virus will remain in their nose and throats, and therein lies another major problem with the PCR test: if these dead particles are swabbed and run through the PCR test, the PCR test cannot tell the difference between these non-infectious particles of the virus versus infectious whole viruses. Both a person who overcame the virus (and, if healthy, may never have had Covid-19 symptoms) and a sick, infectious person will test positive. (3)

PCR TEST TOO SENSITIVE, RESULTING IN “FALSE POSITIVES”

The PCR test detects a positive case after doubling the amount of genetic matter (RNA) from a patient’s swab sample a specific number of times. A doubling, or replication of the viral load (amount of virus swabbed), is call a “cycle.” The total number of cycles is called the “cycle threshold (Ct).” A Ct of 20 makes 1 million times the original amount of viral load, 30 = 1 billion times and 40 = 1 trillion times. The fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or “viral load.” The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is contagious. (4)

Dr. Michael Mina, Harvard epidemiologist, says 30 cycles or less is enough to detect Covid-19 infection. But, globally, there is no standard cycle threshold. A New York Times review found most US PCR tests set at 40 with “up to 90% of people testing positive [carrying] barely any virus.” (4)

Dr. Fauci, NIAID director, added that 35 or more cycles is almost useless in detecting live (infectious) particles, as only “dead nucleotides” can be found. Cycle thresholds are not standardized and are generally higher than 35 cycles. In Canada, no province is below the suggested 30 cycles. With a 45 Ct cut-off, Quebec leads Canada in case infection rate and number of deaths with/from Covid-19. (6)

Nova Scotia (33-35 Ct) and Newfoundland (33 Ct) have correspondingly low deaths per 100,000 population with/from Covid-19. (With 2 deaths per 100,000 and a 40 Ct, New Brunswick is the lone outlier.)

Juliet Morrison, a virologist from the University of California, says “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive.”

With more and more lockdown harms being reported, including destroyed livelihoods, increased mental health issues and deaths from delayed healthcare, suicides, overdoses and isolation (esp. in long-term care home elderly), divisive social and family relationships due to personal stances on lockdowns and increasing losses of freedoms and rights leading to increased policing, why are Canadian public health units not returning to the more clinically accurate pre-Covid-19 diagnostic method: a necessary clinical diagnosis that is confirmed by a PCR test and not just PCR test results alone?