Beyond the Mainstream
[ The bits they'd rather you didn't know ]
The RT-PCR Test
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This is a big one - the test on which all the case and death numbers are founded and which drives the lockdowns.
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PCR tests cannot distinguish between inactive and live viruses, meaning they cannot detect infection.
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The test can pick up the presence of other coronaviruses, so a positive result could simply indicate you’ve recuperated from a common cold at some point in the past.
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The sample taken is amplified in cycles, which double the size of the sample each time. The WHO originally recommended a cycle threshold (CT) of 45, which is what the NHS has been using.
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It has been acknowledged many times that over around 33 cycles, the result is so unreliable - with such a high percentage chance of a false positive - that it's meaningless. (See The Highwire video below.)
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The PCR test machines are incapable of quantitative analysis, they just give a 'yes' or 'no' result - i.e. the test cannot tell you how much viral load you have, only that it's identified at least on strand of the genetic material they're looking for.
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With no available sample of the virus to use as the base for the PCR test, virologists looked at just 37 out of the approximately 30,000 of the base pairs that are claimed to be the genome of the intact virus, then put these 37 segments into a computer program, which filled in the rest of the base pairs. There were a series of different results, so the virologists just came to a consensus on the 'real' genome of the virus. When the base for the PCR test is essentially a speculative simulation, how can any test definitively prove you have the thing that's actually making people sick?! (See Dr. Tom Cowan's article below.)
“With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody.”
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"It allows you to take a very minute amount of anything and make it measurable and then talk about it like it's important - that's sort of a misinterpretation."
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"[PCR] is just a process that's used to make a whole lot of something out of something. It doesn't tell you that you're sick; it doesn't tell you that the thing you ended up with was gonna hurt you."
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– Kary Mullis, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for inventing the RT-PCR test
"The only test for live virus is viral culture. PCR and lateral flow tests do not distinguish live virus. No test of infection or infectiousness is currently available for routine use.
As things stand, a person who tests positive with any kind of test may or may not have an active infection with live virus, and may or may not be infectious."
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- Published in the BMJ, December 2020
Anthony Fauci says there’s no reason to take a test if you don’t have symptoms
Interviewer: “Have you taken a test, are you going to take a test?”
Fauci: “No. I’m not taking a test for the simple reason, I have no symptoms. I’m practising pretty good social distancing…”
Interviewer: “But it’s hard to fully do it…”
Fauci: “But not everybody in the United States should take a test. I mean, I have no symptoms, there’s no reason for me to take a test.”
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“These PCR tests are so highly sensitive that even very healthy and non-infectious people may test positive. If, for example, such a pathogen scurries over the nasal mucosa of a nurse for a day or so without her getting sick or noticing anything, then she’s suddenly a MURS case.”
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- Christian Drosten, Germany’s leading coronavirus expert, speaking about PCR tests in relation to the MURS virus in a German business magazine in 2014)
False positives
As at November 2020, the false positive rate for Covid PCR tests was estimated at around 0.5%.
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Taking a 1% true infection rate and testing 100,000 people, you'd have 1000 people genuinely sick with Covid and another 495 false positives (99,000 x 0.5%).
If the false positive rate were as high as 2.3% (estimated from pre-Covid PCR tests) and the infection rate more like 0.05%, as in summer 2020 (ONS - see Andrew Kaufman video below), that's 50 people out of 100,000 genuinely sick and 2,299 additional false positives!
You have the right to refuse to be tested
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Consent to treatment means a person must give permission before they receive any type of medical treatment, test or examination.
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The principle of consent is an important part of medical ethics and international human rights law.
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For consent to be valid, it must be voluntary and informed.
Source: NHS website
“The Covid virus would never disappear if this test practice were to be continued, but would always be falsely detected in much of what is tested.”
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- Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford
Courts in Portugal and Austria have ruled the PCR is not suitable for diagnosing Covid-19 and therefore lockdowns have no legal basis.
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In November 2020, an appeals court in Portugal ruled that the PCR process is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2 and that a single positive PCR test cannot be used as an effective diagnosis of infection.
Therefore, any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful. The ruling also suggested that any forced quarantine of healthy people could be a violation of their fundamental right to liberty.
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And at the beginning of April 2021, the Vienna Administrative Court in Austria made a similar ruling.
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A summary of all court rulings against Covid measures around the world can be found here.
The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity
An excellent article by Dr. Pascal Sacré, explaining how the PCR test works, cycle thresholds and why the test is not fit for purpose. Read the full article here.
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All current propaganda on the COVID-19 pandemic is based on an assumption that is considered obvious, true and no longer questioned: positive RT-PCR test means being sick with COVID. This assumption is misleading.
"In medicine we always start from the person: we examine him/her, we collect his/her symptoms and objective clinical signs and on the basis of a clinical reflection, in which scientific knowledge and experience intervene, we make diagnostic hypotheses. Only then do we prescribe the most appropriate tests, based on this clinical reflection.
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Today, our governments, supported by their scientific safety advice, are making us do the opposite.
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This notion of quantity, therefore of viral load, can be estimated indirectly by the number of amplification cycles (Ct) used to highlight the virus sought. The lower the Ct used, the higher the viral load is considered to be; the higher the Ct used, the lower the viral load is considered to be.
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Above Ct 35, it becomes impossible to isolate a complete virus sequence and culture it. In most countries, Ct levels above 35, even 40, are still used even today.
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In Massachusetts, between 85 and 90% of people who tested positive in July with a Ct of 40 would have been considered negative with a Ct of 30. And yet, all these people had to isolate themselves, with all the dramatic psychological and economic consequences, while they were not sick and probably not contagious at all.
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Summary of important points :
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The RT-PCR test is a laboratory diagnostic technique that is not well suited to clinical medicine.
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It is a binary, qualitative diagnostic technique that confirms (positive test) or not (negative test) the presence of an element in the medium being analyzed. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, the element is a fragment of the viral genome, not the virus itself.
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In medicine, even in an epidemic or pandemic situation, it is dangerous to place tests, examinations, techniques above clinical evaluation (symptoms, signs). It is the opposite that guarantees quality medicine.
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The main limitation (weakness) of the RT-PCR test, in the current pandemic situation, is its extreme sensitivity (false positive) if a suitable threshold of positivity (Ct) is not chosen. Today, experts recommend using a maximum Ct threshold of 30.
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This Ct threshold must be informed with the positive RT-PCR result so that the physician knows how to interpret this positive result, especially in an asymptomatic person, in order to avoid unnecessary isolation, quarantine, psychological trauma.
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THE HIGHWIRE, 23 mins - begin at 07:27
5th November 2020
Excellent explanation of the cycle threshold and why there are so many false positives.
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#TESTGTE Sequencing of PCR tests, 1 hr 54 mins
26th March 2021
Prof. Dolores Cahill, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, Dr. Sin Hang Lee, Dr. Henry Ealy and Kevin Jenkins discuss why the PCR test is so inappropriate for 'confirming' a SARS-CoV-2 infection and the way it's been mis-used to produce false data. NAATEC is an international collaboration of scientists and doctors conducting research on the evaluation of qRT-PCR testing used in the diagnosis of pathogens such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
From the Highwire video above...
PCR tests are useless after 33 cycles – you’re getting an 80% chance of a false positive. At the NHS rate of 45 cycles, it’s absolute nonsense.
Even at between just 20 and 30 cycles, you have a 70-80% chance of a correct positive result ONLY if you have the test on day 3 or 4 after developing symptoms. Past day 6, the chance is zero.
PCR TESTS & THE FALSE POSITIVE RATE - Dr Andrew Kaufman (43 mins)
30th September 2020
Andrew Kaufman talks to David Icke about false positives & the cycle threshold.