COVID-19 Testing is Unreliable
Lockdowns and measurements to reduce the number of corona patients are based on the number of cases and mortality rate that is being created by the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests. This test is used to identify ‘positive’ patients, where positive is interpreted as infected. However, this test is unreliable. The creator of the test Kary Mullis said this about the test:
“PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral load tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.”
The first problem with the PCR test is that there is no golden standard to compare the results with. Normal tests need to be evaluated on preciseness and sensitivity compared to the most accurate method available (the gold standard).
Jessica C. Watson from Bristol University confirms this, but instead of concluding that the testing method is unsuitable for SARS-2 detection, she claims that PCR testing itself may be the best golden standard available.
This is not scientifically sound. You cannot take the PCR test itself as a golden standard to evaluate the PCR test. There are also no specific symptoms of COVID-19 patients, about 60% of the patients are also believed to be a-symptomatic. Only virus isolation can be the golden standard.
The second problem is that there is no proof that the RNA is of viral origin. The PCR test can detect even the smallest parts of RNA, but it cannot determine where these parts came from. Because COVID-19 is an RNA virus, we have to know that these gene snippets are part of the virus. And this can only be done by correct isolation and purification of the virus. This means that from the collected RNA gene sequences you cannot conclude that it belongs to a specific virus.
There is also no proof that these particles of RNA are the causation of COVID-19. In order to establish such a causal connection, it would have been necessary to carry out an experiment that satisfies the four Koch’s postulates, but no such study has been done.
We can also not know the false positive rate, because there is no test independent of the PCR test that can determine whether or not someone has COVID-19. There are several papers explaining the irrational test results.
As an example, there was one study in Singapore in which patients were tested daily for over 18 days and the majority went from positive to negative and then back to positive again at least once. This happened even up to five times in one of the participants.
More importantly, in order to conclude that someone is actually sick there needs to be millions of viral particles actively replicating in their body, which cannot be concluded by a small piece of RNA conducted by the PCR test.
All in all, there can be concluded that the PCR test is highly unreliable and cannot be used as a method to determine the measurements needed to ‘control’ the pandemic.
