David Crowe is a Canadian progressive person, not a right-winger.
Wanted to know your thoughts here, I don't know the answers ....

Mitchel


From: David Crowe <[log in to unmask]>

Please read my article:
http://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf

But the short version is this. Coronavirus is being tested for using the PCR technology, looking for specific strands of RNA. A few points:

• (major point) Nobody has ever purified a virus and shown that it contains this specific RNA. It is just assumed that this RNA is viral.
• PCR is a manufacturing technique, it is not intended for testing.
• PCR is ultra sensitive. One molecule of RNA or DNA in the lab can produce a false positive (e.g. cross contamination).
• One recent paper showed the majority of patients going from Infected to Uninfected and back to Infected within a few days.
• There are an increasing number of positive coronavirus tests in people with no connection with other coronavirus cases.
• PCR used for testing is not binary (positive/negative). It is a cyclic test, and the result is the number of cycles required to detect RNA or DNA. The number of cycles used as the cutoff is arbitrary and is not the same in all labs. For example, one lab used 36 cycles as the cutoff for positive, with 37-39 being "indeterminate", and 40 or over being negative. Another used 37 cycles, with no indeterminate.
• If PCR was run for many more cycles it is likely that everyone would be positive.

- David