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-authorized 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.
Translation: Labs, please stop using the PCR tests to test for Covid. Turns out they can't tell Covid from the Flu. Use some other tests instead. BTW, we haven't verified that those work any better, so you're on your own there too.
Withdrawal notice sent out to labs 7/21/2021, but won't take full effect until 12/31/2021. Labs can continue to use these tests until then, and report "new cases" of Covid based on them.
These are the tests that were used since February 2020.
These are the tests that were used to sell the notion that there is a pandemic at all.
Not a peep about it in globalist media, that I've seen.
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[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons [op] 9 points 2.8 yearsJul 25, 2021 17:00:12 ago (+9/-0)
There's a technical reason for that. Besides the obvious financial motivation of getting government handouts for each case. Those are counted by design. Which is why they usually don't get "uncounted" when called out.
Whenever the media or anyone else pushes the pandemic narrative, they speak of "Covid deaths" or "deaths caused by Covid" or the like. But, if you trace those reported numbers to their source, they never call it that at all. Sources for those numbers, such as the CDC, speak only of "Covid-related" deaths. Nothing about cause. And, if you read the fine print, a "Covid-related" death is defined simply as any death of a person who has had a Covid "case" at any time within the past 6 months.
What is a Covid "case" you ought to ask (but most didn't)? Well, that's just any positive test result. From one of these tests. Which can't tell the difference between Covid or Flu (or Cold or anything else), and are known to have a 40%+ false positive rate in general, at the number of cycles they were using.
It doesn't matter if you were hospitalized, or ever saw a doctor. It doesn't matter how sick you were, or even if you had symptoms at all. It doesn't matter if you got tested because you suspected being sick, or because you were forced to due to needing to travel. Doesn't even matter if you also got negative test results as well. None of that matters.
If you got a positive test result, you instantly became a "Covid case" statistic. And, if you then died for any reason, within 6 months, you became a "Covid-related death" statistic. Click. Counter + 1. Beat the panic drums.
This is how you fake a global pandemic. You don't really need to fake that much. Or have many people in on it. You just need an unreliable test, and some fine print, and then count on people being too stupid to ask the right questions.
[ + ] we_kill_creativity
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You're not alone friend.
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[ - ] Love240 6 points 2.8 yearsJul 25, 2021 16:28:28 ago (+6/-0)
I want out. Lord Jesus, come quickly.
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[ - ] theBreadSultan 1 point 2.8 yearsJul 25, 2021 18:03:28 ago (+1/-0)
Gives you time to adapt.
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Oh hai flu welcome back!
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[ + ] oursenilepresident
[ - ] oursenilepresident 2 points 2.8 yearsJul 25, 2021 17:41:57 ago (+2/-0)
I bet the cdc will now start adding in a few flu deaths but not drop covid deaths they made up
I think up to dec 2020 a handful got the flu and all were covid lies
covid cured the annual flue
[ + ] TheLastStraightMan
[ - ] TheLastStraightMan 1 point 2.8 yearsJul 26, 2021 00:34:48 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Nosferatjew
[ - ] Nosferatjew 1 point 2.8 yearsJul 25, 2021 22:17:36 ago (+1/-0)
So, they're going to start tracking the flu again?
[ + ] chrimony
[ - ] chrimony 0 points 2.8 yearsJul 26, 2021 09:49:39 ago (+1/-1)
Now I think it's complete bullshit that flu virtually disappeared during Covid, but this isn't the smoking gun you think it is.
[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons [op] 0 points 2.8 yearsJul 26, 2021 12:23:16 ago (+0/-0)*
But none of that really matters.
Whether the CDC wishes to admit it or not, RT-PCR tests have exhaustively been shown to be incapable to reliably differentiate one particular virus from another, a live one from a dead one, or even from bacteria, or human cells, or random samples of fruits or animals. Even His Holiness, Pope of Covid, Mr. Fauci, Himself, admitted that PCR results with a Ct of 35 and above are effectively useless since, at best, this represents inert viral debris which is not infectious[1]. Most labs ran a Ct of 40 to 50, under CDC guidance. For reference: At a Ct of 60 literally everything tests positive 100% of the time.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/a_Vy6fgaBPE (4:22 onward)
Also, note that this would be the first time in history that we would be doing widespread testing for influenza. We have never done anything of the sort because it would be pointless. Like most diseases, influenza has always been diagnosed on symptoms. If you have the symptoms, then you have the disease. If you don't have the symptoms, then you don't have the disease. Nobody ever needed a test to tell the sick from the healthy.
Put a different way: If you have to resort to analyzing and detecting specific RNA sequences to tell the difference between Covid and the Flu, then, for all practical purposes, Covid is the Flu.
PS: Have an upvote to cancel the downvote. You make a fair point.