The Inconvenient Truth Around Covid-19 Testing

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This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Someday, you're going to die. Now that's not some morbid statement or scary idea. It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited.

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What is going on everybody? I almost started with, hey all you cool cats and kittens. I've been watching too much Tiger King. But today's subject matter is is actually very serious. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start by reading you a segment from an article by the EMF guy.

He is somebody who's in a group, doctor Anthony G. Beck's group. Anthony Beck was a previous guest on this podcast, and he deals with human health and optimization. He's a homeopathic doctor. And, you know, what I want to do upfront is say this. I'm not going to bring any conspiracy theories or hoaxes to you.

What I want to do is I want to present you with some facts, and I want you to to form your own conclusions from these facts. And this article is called eight inconvenient truths about COVID nineteen. And one of the inconvenient truths about what we're being told about COVID nineteen is that up to eighty percent the positives, the positive results for COVID nineteen, could be false positives. And about two weeks ago when this whole thing started, I had Doctor Kirk Parsley on the show.

He explained that we carry a lot of things around with us that have similar RNA to COVID nineteen. Now here's the deal. I'm a moron. I'm not a doctor. Right?

I'm not somebody who you should be looking to for medical advice. I'm not somebody whom you should put your entire faith into when it comes to your health. I talk quite a bit about fitness and things like that. But again, as always, I ask you to go out and do your own research and to confirm these things for yourself. What I'm just doing here is I'm bringing you some facts because as the WHO itself, the World Health Organization itself says is that facts not fear are going to defeat the coronavirus.

And I want to present some of these facts to you, and this article by the EMF guy, which again I'm going to post in the show notes, it's a very very good article that talks about some of the things that we are not bringing up, or if you bring up, then people start coming after you like you are some sort of conspiracy theorist. These are facts. They're not something that's made up out of thin air, they're not something that I'm putting a tinfoil hat on and then smoking a blunt, and then coming up with out of my own head. These are things that are actually true. So I'm going go through a few of these, the first of which is the massive problems with testing.

Testing problem number one is that RT PCR test does not rule out bacterial infection or co infections with other viruses. I'm reading from the article here. Hey, I'm not making this up. It's clearly stated in the CDC COVID-nineteen testing kits instruction manual, quote positive results are indicative of active infection with twenty nineteen nCoV, but do not rule out bacterial infection or co infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease.

In other words, the test can detect the presence of RNA of the virus SARS CoV-two, but does not rule out the fact that a person considered a confirmed case of COVID-nineteen might also have a serious or deadly bacterial infection, or even other viruses which might be responsible for their symptoms. But in the current political medical climate, the vast majority of those who test positive will be considered a confirmed case of COVID nineteen regardless of whether their actual symptoms are caused by COVID nineteen or something else. We can rest assured, should this symptomatic person die, the cause of death will likely be COVID nineteen, and not they had COVID nineteen, but also several viruses and bacteria bacterial co infections that each might have contributed to their death, and they will become yet another red dot on the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker. Here's the deal, and and I'm not reading from the article anymore. You know, what you're seeing right now is that politicians' hands are tied, and I'm gonna get into this later.

They're tied toward this course of action that they've taken shelter in place, creating these lockdowns. And they're tied to it because of fear. Even if President Trump or Governor Newsom or Governor Cuomo didn't want to do this. They have to do it because of the current political climate, because people are out there banging the fear drums. Now before I move on with that, I wanna go into what this gentleman says about testing problem number two.

The second problem is that there are up to eighty percent false positives. Again, this is something that Doctor Kirk Parsley brought up two weeks ago on the show. I'll read from the article again. Okay, this is one study, but if that number happens to be true, then we are in deep, deep trouble, since this might mean our entire assessment of the current situation might be wrong by orders of magnitude.

In their study titled Potential false positive rate among the asymptomatic infected individuals in close contacts of COVID-nineteen patients, Chinese researcher Zhuang et al reported on 03/05/2020 that when the infection rate of the close contacts and the sensitivity and specificity of reported results were taken as the point estimates of the positive predictive value of the active screening was only nineteen point six seven percent, in contrast, the false positive rate of positive results was eighty point three three percent. Eighty point three three percent. A false positive test is when a test shows that someone has been infected with the coronavirus, when in reality they have not been infected. But this gets more complicated, since false negatives might also be a serious problem. In other words, people are being told that they don't have the virus when in reality they have it.

Both of these problems with testing makes our assessment of how big the issue is much more blurry. An important March 26 update. Since I first wrote this part, it was confirmed that the original Chinese study has been retracted, as confirmed by NPR. We currently do not know a lot about why it was retracted other than the senior author of that study saying it's because of a sensitive matter. The rest is up to speculation.

Even if this study ends up being proven false, there are several other indications that the tests might be inaccurate something that in the end needs to be part of the scientific and public debate. Wang Chen, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, admitted early in February that the accuracy rate of the test is only thirty to fifty percent. Fourteen percent of the recovered patients in China test positive again for SARS CoV-two. This is downright bizarre, and it supports the idea that they were in fact never infected with the virus. These are false positives.

The rapid tests measuring antibodies, which have been considered a possible alternative to test large samples of population, are also extremely inaccurate. The Spanish media El Pais report that the tests acquired by the government have a sensitivity of 30% when they should exceed eighty percent. And here's testing problem number three. The WHO and world governments have complete faith in these clearly inaccurate tests. Even though the tests are clearly not reliable, the WHO and governments around the world seem to be taking the results at face value a fact that David Crowe describes in length at length in this article.

Infectious disease always have a definition, but they are usually not publicized too widely because then they would be open to ridicule. They usually have a quote suspect case category based on symptoms and exposure and a quote confirmed category that adds some kind of testing. Since January 18, after Chinese researchers gathered more information on this novel virus, the definition of a suspected case of COVID-nineteen changed to these four criteria. One, fever with or without recorded temperature. Crowe notes that this criterion is as vague as it can get.

Two, radiographic evidence of of pneumonia. Sorry. I can't talk today, guys. Radiographic evidence of pneumonia. Three, low or normal white white cell count or low lymphocyte count.

Crowe notes this is not really a criterion as every healthy person is included. One of these two, this is number four, one of these two, patient has a travel history to to Wuhan or direct contact with patients from Wuhan who had a fever or respiratory symptoms within fourteen days before illness onset. Confirmed cases of COVID-nineteen were defined by the WHO as a person with laboratory confirmation of COVID nineteen infection, irrespective of clinical signs and symptoms. Crowe continues, the big problem is that in contrast to the definition for SARS, a confirmed a quote confirmed case did not originally require the criteria for a suspect case to be met. A confirmed case simply required a positive RNA test without any symptoms or possibility of contact with previous cases, illustrating total faith in the PCR technology used in the test.

Right? That's total faith in that Chinese technology. The World Health Organization definition has the same flaw. It was the fact that the SARS definition required both a reasonable possibility of contact with a previous case and symptoms that allowed the epidemic to burn out. Once everyone was quarantined, new cases were highly unlikely, testing stopped, and doctors could declare victory.

So in plain English, anyone who tests positive on the RT PCR test, which is known to be extremely inaccurate, can be considered a confirmed case of COVID nineteen, even if there's no way on earth that person could have ever been in contact with someone infected with COVID nineteen. But this part gets even more interesting and might explain why COVID nineteen cases, quote unquote cases, in China decreased so much around mid February. The Chinese eventually woke up around February 16, requiring confirmed cases to meet the requirements for a suspected case as well as a positive test. They might have put this new definition into practice earlier because after a massive addition of almost sixteen thousand confirmed cases on February 12, the number fell dramatically each day and by February 18 was under five hundred cases and continued to stay low. But other countries did not learn.

Korea, Japan, and Italy have started doing tests with no epidemiological link, encouraging people with the vague symptoms that are part of the definition to come to the hospital to get checked out, and obviously following up with asymptomatic people with a connection to anybody who tests positive. Consequently, in mid to late February, cases in those countries started to skyrocket. This part is so important, it bears repeating. With such an imprecise test, there is a strong chance that the more you test, the more so called confirmed cases of COVID-nineteen you get. The more you see outbreaks, the more panic you create, and the less scientific and rational your assessment of this situation becomes.

Look, and I'm not reading from the article anymore, here's the deal. We are not thinking clearly about this. Clearly, the decisions from government are based on fear. The misinformation that is going around through the news media, whom in my opinion, and in most of the cases you see out there in mainstream media, are looking for a gotcha to make the president look bad, are looking to create clickbait clickbait headlines to make people click on their articles and so that they can get revenue from their ads that they place on their pages. And again, I am not trying to deemphasize the danger here.

Right? I'm not trying to say that you should all start going out and start partying on the beach. What I'm saying here is that rather than us sitting back, watching our economy fall apart, and watching the the the absolute irrational outcomes that are coming because of this, not just the people who are getting the virus, but millions more people having their lives ruined because the economy is getting shut down, because they're losing their jobs. That to me is not worth it if the statistics on this thing are no more deadly than than what the flu brings about. Let me read for you another inconvenient fact about COVID nineteen. And again, this is from the article by the EMF guy. You can check out his site at emfguy.com, and I will again put the link to this article up on the show notes for this episode. Fact number three, quote unquote confirmed deaths from COVID nineteen are not so confirmed either. And the article reads, you've guessed it, the story gets worse.

It turns out that just like a large fraction of confirmed cases of COVID nineteen are possibly not real cases of COVID nineteen, a lot of deaths blamed on COVID nineteen probably have nothing to do with COVID nineteen. The tricky part is that so far, the vast majority of deaths attributed to COVID nineteen have been seen in the older population, and that a lot of these folks have multiple other conditions that could have been responsible for their deaths. There's also the fact that since the COVID-nineteen test kits do not rule out the presence of a bacterial infection or other viruses such as the very common influenza A or B, it's quite possible that people who got killed by the seasonal flu or other viruses will in fact be counted as a victim of COVID-nineteen. This problem has been highlighted by Stanford Medicine Data Scientists who released their early findings which show that up to twenty five percent of all people infected with SARS CoV-two also had a co infection. They commented that infection rates are much higher than previously reported rates.

And since we are in the midst of a global panic where everyone is looking for a new deadly virus, it's natural to think that the medical system will display a huge confirmation bias and artificially make COVID nineteen deadlier than it really is. Think about that for a second. Global panic, people are dying, and there is going to be a confirmation bias, a pressure on anybody in charge of this, to show that these deaths would be related to COVID nineteen. Okay? Now let me go back to reading the article.

Doctor John Lee, consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital, shares the same concerns. Quote, in the current climate, anyone with a positive test for COVID nineteen will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them. If any of these patients die, staff will have to record the COVID nineteen designation on the death certificate. Contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind. There is a big difference between COVID nineteen causing death and COVID nineteen being found in someone who died of other causes.

Making COVID nineteen notifiable might give the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths whether this is true or not. It might appear far more of a killer than flu, simply because of the way deaths are recorded. Here's the problem we know from recent Italian data, the example everyone uses in the media to prove how deadly this COVID nineteen pandemic is, that ninety nine percent of all patients who presumably died from COVID nineteen had other illnesses. So again, a lot of these variables are getting confounded. They're getting wrapped up with each other.

And what we're seeing out there reported as deaths might not be entirely accurate. So, what am I trying to accomplish here? Once again, I am not telling you to stop social distancing. I am not telling you to start going out of your house, to start going to parties, to throw a tag party, to to do anything other than what you're being told right now. What I do want you to do is I want you to start to think.

When you start to see these headlines on the mainstream media, I want you to start looking for how they're trying to induce fear, and how they're trying to point fingers, and how they're trying to influence. And one more thing I want you to think about here. We all know the story of a Trojan horse. When the Greeks were trying to defeat the Trojans, they brought out a huge wooden horse that they were trying to, to give to the Trojan as a supposed gift. The Greeks had been trying to sack Troy for for ages before that, and they couldn't penetrate the walls of Troy.

But what they did instead, they they delivered that horse, they said it was a gift, the Trojans brought it in, thought the war was over, and then a bunch of Greek soldiers came out in the middle of the night from inside the horse and then slaughtered the Trojans while they slept. Now our economy was extremely strong before this. There was probably a good chance that we were gonna bring American manufacturing back, that we were going to stop relying on foreign manufacturers and and Chinese manufacturing for a lot of the things we were doing.

There was a good amount of talk of tariffs on Chinese products and Chinese goods, and if you think about it, well, the Chinese probably couldn't defeat us. They probably were having a very difficult time figuring out what their next move was. And so you start to see some videos of the Chinese shutting down their streets and then putting out these teams to gather up people and to enforce a certain amount of isolation. These videos start to link on Twitter. I saw them starting around the holidays where people were like oh what the heck is going on in China?

And then the virus that was supposedly causing all this starts to make its way over to the West into The United States to Europe and again, I'm not saying that the virus is not real, think it's a very real thing. I think it's something that is posing a danger. But the amount of danger might be something that we should question. And we might be wanting to question the motives of anybody who was making it look like it was a danger. And I'll state another fact.

Over the last two weeks The United States has economically been brought to its knees. Our economy, which was flying, is now in tatters. And there are many people who are going to suffer because of it. And there is a lot of opportunity to point finger at politicians who were not necessarily so friendly to China. You might accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat on this.

And you know what? I probably am. And hopefully, I'm wrong. Hopefully, we're not so gullible, and hopefully, we're not so stupid. But so far, you know, the the media keeps saying that that hospitals are getting inundated, that they they're about at their breaking point.

But when they're finally pushed to the truth, even governor Cuomo admitted that the hospitals aren't getting inundated yet. They're preparing for what they think is to come. We're not seeing lines at hospitals, we're not seeing hospitals getting overcrowded, we're seeing hospitals preparing for what is a potential disaster. And when you do look at the raw data at Johns Hopkins University, and you you see the numbers, the numbers aren't adding up. We've had about six thousand people die from this thus far, approximately three hundred thousand people getting infected, about a one point four percent death rate. When you consider the fact that many more people are probably infected than are showing symptoms, that death rate drops somewhere below one percent. And again, that's not tinfoil hat stuff, that's stating the truth based off of the raw data that Johns Hopkins University is providing and which most of the media is going off of. But yet they choose to put up these fearful clickbait headlines.

And again, I could be wrong. Two weeks from now, they say that this next two weeks could be vast danger. And two weeks from now, we might be in a place where hundreds of thousands of people died. But, and I wouldn't happily be proven wrong on that one, I don't want hundreds of thousands of people die, I hope I'm right on this one, but it looks like those numbers aren't climbing at the rate the media supposedly says they are. And once again, I want to emphasize that I am a moron. I don't have any medical training. I do have some statistics background, which can help me with understanding some of this stuff, but I'm nobody you should listen to on this or put whose hands you should put your life.

But again, I'll say this, I don't have an immune system. I have autoimmune disease. The medications I'm on take down my immune system. And so, if anybody's at risk to die of this, then it's me. And of course, I'm continuing to wash my hands.

I'm continuing to social distance. I'm not going out in public and doing a bunch of stuff. I'm not going to large gatherings. But and and I don't want you to stop doing that either. But what I do want you to start doing is to question what you're being told and to do your own research when it comes to this stuff.

I love you all. I hope that you're remaining safe and healthy. I hope that you continue to follow these guidelines until either the world comes to its senses or this thing ends. And I hope you always look to find the truth. God bless you all.

I'll be back at you later this week with some more awesome content. This is Chris Albert with the Warrior Soul Podcast, and I am out.