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monyka's avatar

"The test result did not need to be supported by clinical signs/symptoms in order for a case, hospitalization, or death to be coded U07.1, virus identified."

Textbook on how to "make a pandemic happen" right here!! that a single test could tell you are sick with "deadly" virus with no clinical correlation is something else I've been screaming into the void since covid testing proliferated

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Jennifer Smith, PhD's avatar

This has been a huge pet peeve of mine, everyone calling everything "COVID". The virus is SARS-CoV-2 while the disease has been couched as COVID-19. Testing positive for some bit of genetic material for SARS does not mean someone has COVID, especially those who have no disease symptoms. While working in Hawaii I would tell people in 2020 during the course of my investigations that very thing.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

It's a pet peeve of mine too but I take it further: Language manipulation is everything in this mess and is not unintentional.

What does it mean for someone to "have COVID"?

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Jennifer Smith, PhD's avatar

They muddied the waters so much in that every symptom became a symptom of "COVID" (ie COVID toes, rash, headache, fatigue). It was so absurd. I had someone who traveled for ten hours and was tired so they went to get tested, must be COVID no way it could be jet lag. We still don't really know what the disease "COVID-19" is because the symptoms have never been fully delineated.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

It's everything but the kitchen sink!

You don't have any symptoms? That's a symptom!!! :)

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Jennifer Smith, PhD's avatar

I loved that everyone was pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic or symptomatic so everyone had COVID all the time presumably.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

What if I am pre-symptomatic for bird flu RIGHT NOW?!?!?

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monyka's avatar

I am suspicious of bird flu as well-seems this has been on ongoing thing every year now-yet we have migrating birds all over the place and have yet to see piles of dead birds. Perhaps it is more conditions of 'factory farming' than flu strain-after all you test enough you WILL find something -ALWAYS

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Pete Ross's avatar

If the people were once again to line up for 'covid' swabbings in the same enormous numbers as in 2020, would the same 'pandemic' pattern of 'covid' cases remanifest?

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Of course.

And if we decided some 'variant' of rhinovirus were deadly - and tested all hospital and care home patients for it, and then applied deadly protocols to those with positive results - what would happen?

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Pete Ross's avatar

But in the GOF laboratory for the rhinovirus experiments, they do don't dress-up in spacesuits.

:)

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Jen Young's avatar

If the story is that a “novel disease” leaked from a lab in China, and then asymptomatically infected Chinese who travelled spread said disease, then why wasn’t the San Francisco Bay Area hit twice as hard as NYC? Only 9% of 8M in NYC are Chinese while over 20% of 7.75M in SF BA are Chinese. The hospitals were insanely quiet here in SF in March-April 2020.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

The insane propositions we are asked to accept defy credulity.

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