by Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n
As my readers know, I\u2019ve been presenting evidence AGAINST the idea that the China \u201cepidemic\u201d is caused by a new coronavirus. (archive here<\/a>)<\/p>\n Of course, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control are relentlessly pushing the idea that: this is a spreading epidemic, and it is caused by COV-19, a new human coronavirus.<\/p>\n Now, the US Centers for Disease Control is rolling out a program to test Americans (e.g., travelers who have been to China). As time passes, the program will likely pull larger numbers of Americans into that net.<\/p>\n The CDC program immediately raises two problems: why bother testing for a virus if it isn\u2019t really causing human disease; and what kind of test is being done?<\/p>\n In this article, I\u2019m focusing on the type of test, and whether it\u2019s accurate, even if you assume the coronavirus is causing disease.<\/p>\n Reading through CDC literature<\/a>\u00a0(see also\u00a0here<\/a>), I believe the two most prevalent US testing methods are: antibody, and PCR.<\/p>\n Antibody tests are notorious for cross-reactions. This means factors in no way relevant to a given virus can make the test read positive. In that case, the patient would be falsely told he \u201chas the coronavirus.\u201d But it gets worse. Traditionally, antibody tests reading positive were taken as a good sign for the patient: his immune system had contacted a germ and defeated it. Then, starting in 1984, the science was turned upside down: a positive test was, astoundingly, taken to mean the patient was ill or would soon become ill.<\/p>\n The PCR test (which requires excellent technicians who will not make any number of possible mistakes) takes a tissue sample from a patient which might contain a tiny virus particle(s) much too small to be observed\u2014and blows it up many times, so it can be seen. However, the test says nothing reliable about HOW MUCH virus is in the patient\u2019s body. Why is that important? Because millions and millions of replicating virus in the body are necessary to even begin talking about actual illness. A positive PCR test, nevertheless, will be taken to mean the patient \u201chas the epidemic disease.\u201d \u2014An even deeper issue: where is the PRIOR PROOF that the PCR is testing for a virus that actually causes disease?<\/p>\n The prospect of these two tests being done on Americans is not comforting, to say the least. People will be roped into believing they are \u201cepidemic cases,\u201d and therefore need to be isolated, and\u00a0treated with highly toxic antiviral drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the event they become ill, from the drugs, they\u2019ll be told \u201cthe coronavirus is doing the damage.\u201d In some cases, this will result in even further dosing with the same drugs, at higher levels\u2014a disaster.<\/p>\n A very small percentage of doctors are aware of the profound shortcomings of these two diagnostic tests. Most of them will shrug off their doubts and perform the tests anyway, because refusal would endanger their careers and medical licenses.<\/p>\n This is the sordid drama now unfolding in the American landscape.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just America. The same tests are being done all over the world.<\/p>\n