In 1965, scientists
identified the first human coronavirus; it was associated with the common cold.
The Coronavirus family, named for their crown-like appearance, currently
includes 36 viruses. Within
that group, there are 4 common viruses that have been causing infection in
humans for more than sixty years. In addition, three pandemic coronaviruses
that can infect humans: SARS, MERS, and now, SARS-CoV-2.
As
the news of deaths in China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran began to saturate
every form of media 24/7, we became familiar with a new term: COVID-19. To be
clear, the name of the newly identified coronavirus is SARS-CoV-2, short for
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2. This virus is associated with
fever, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath, the complex of symptoms that
form the diagnosis of COVID-19.
The Trump administration
declared a public health emergency on January 31, 2020, then on February 2
placed a ban on the entry of most travelers who had recently been in China. On
February 4, Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued
a declaration of public health emergency and activated the Public Readiness and
Emergency Preparedness Act, otherwise known as the PREP Act. This
nefarious legislation provides complete protection of manufacturers from
liability for all products,
technologies, biologics, or any vaccine developed as a medical countermeasure
against COVID-19. For those nervously waiting for the vaccine to become
available, be sure to understand the PREP Act before
rushing to the get in line.
Calls for testing – to see if
a person is or isn’t infected – began soon after the emergency was declared,
but performing those tests was initially slow due to an inadequate number of
test kits. As the kits became available, those developed by the CDC had
a defect: The reagents reacted to the negative control sample, making
the test inaccurate and the kits unusable.
In various countries, thousands
of test kits purchased from China were found to be contaminated with the
SARS-CoV-2 viruses. No one really knows how that happened, but theories spread
like wildfire. Could the test kit infect the person being tested? Or, did it
mean the test would return a false-positive result, driving up the numbers of
those said to be infected so those in power could implement stronger lockdowns
and accelerate the hockey-stick unemployment rates? Neither of those questions
has been adequately answered.
Mandatory Testing…of
what?
Authorities
claim that testing is important for public health officials to assess if their
mitigation efforts – “shelter in place” and “social distancing” and “wearing a
mask” – are making a difference to “flatten the curve.” Officials also claim
that testing is necessary to know how many persons are infected within a
community and to understand the nature of how coronaviruses spread.
Are these reasons sufficient to
give up our health freedom and our personal rights, being tested and shamed in
public?
Despite the challenges with
test kits, testing began. By the end of March 2020, more than 1 million people
had been tested across the US. By May 9, the number tested had grown to
over 8.7M. Testing methods include a swab of the nasal passages or
by inserting a long, uncomfortable swab through the nose to scrape the back of
the throat. Specimens have also been obtained bronchoalveolar lavage, from sputum, and
from stool specimens.
The call for mandatory
testing has been gathering steam and becoming ever more onerous. In Washington
state, Governor Inslee has declared:
Individuals
that refuse to cooperate with contact tracers and/or refuse testing, those
individuals will not be allowed to leave their homes to
purchase basic necessities such as groceries and/or prescriptions. Those
persons will need to make arrangements through friends, family, or state provided ‘family support’ personnel.
But
what do the results really mean?
Who Should Be Tested
On May 8, 2020, the CDC has
listed specific priorities for
when testing should be done. As of May
16, more than 11-million samples have been collected and more
than 3700 specimens have not yet been evaluated.
High Priority
- Hospitalized
patients with symptoms
- Healthcare
facility workers, workers in living settings, and first responders with symptoms
- Residents
in long-term care facilities or other congregate living settings,
including prisons and shelters, with symptoms
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Priority
- Persons with symptoms of potential COVID-19
infection, including fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, muscle
pain, new loss of taste or smell, vomiting or diarrhea, and/or sore throat
- Persons without symptoms who are
prioritized by health departments or clinicians, for
any reason, including but not limited to public health monitoring, sentinel surveillance,
or screening of asymptomatic individuals according to state and
local plans.
Read that last priority
again: That means virtually everyone can be required to get
a test.
Is that a violation of your
personal rights? And, if you submit to testing, what does a “positive
test” actually mean?
Types of Testing: RT-PCR
PCR, short for polymerase
chain reaction, is a highly specific laboratory technique. The key to understanding PCR testing is
that PCR can identify an individual specific virus within a viral family.
However, a PCR test can only
be used to identify DNA viruses; the SARS-CoV2 virus is an RNA virus.
Therefore, multiple steps must be taken to “magnify” the amount of genetic
material in the specimen. Researchers used a method called RT-PCR, reverse
transcription-polymerase chain reaction, to specifically identify the
SARS-CoV-2 virus. It’s a complicated process. To read more about it, go here and here.
If a nasal or a blood sample
contains a tiny snip of RNA from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, RT-PCR can identify it,
leading to a high probability that the person has been exposed to the
SARS-CoV-2 virus.
However – and this is
important – a positive RT-PCR test result does not
necessarily indicate a full virus is present. The virus
must be fully intact to be transmitted and cause illness.
RT-PCR Testing: The Importance
of Timing
Even if a person has had all
the symptoms associated with a coronavirus infection or has been closely
exposed to persons who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the probability of a
RT-PCR test being positive decreases with
the number of days past the onset of symptoms.
According to a study done by
Paul Wikramaratna and others:
- For
a nasal swab, the percentage chance of a
positive test declines from about 94% on day 0 to about 67% by day 10. By
day 31, there is only a 2% chance of
a positive result.
- For
a throat swab, the percentage chance of a positive
test declines from about 88% on day 0 to about 47% by day 10. By day 31,
there is only a 1% chance of
a positive result.
In
other words, the longer the time frame between the onset of symptoms and the
time a person is tested, the more likely the test will be negative.
Repeat testing of persons who
have a negative test may (eventually) confirm the presence of viral RNA, but
this is impractical. Additionally, repeated testing of the same person can lead
to even more confusing results: The test may go from negative, to positive,
then back to negative again as the immune system clears out the coronavirus
infection and moves to recovery.
And what makes this testing
even more confusing is that the FDA admits that “The detection of viral RNA by RT-PCR does not necessarily equate
with an infectious virus.”
Let’s
break that down:
You’ve
had all the symptoms of COVID19, but your RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 is
negative.
- Does
that mean you’re “good to go” – you can go to work, go to school or you
can travel? OR…
- Does
that mean your influenza-like illness was caused by some other pathogen,
possibly one of the four coronaviruses that have been in circulation for
60 years? OR…
- Does
that mean the result is a false-negative and you still have the infection,
but it isn’t detectable by current tests? OR…
- Does
that mean it was a sample was inadequately taken due to the faulty
technique by the technician? OR…
- Does
that mean you have not been exposed, and you are susceptible to
contracting the infection, and you need to stay in quarantine?
So, what does a “positive” test
actually mean? And that’s the problem:
No one knows for sure.
Another Type of Testing:
Antibodies
According to the nonprofit
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), more than 200
serologic blood tests, to test for antibodies, are either now available or in
development.
There are two primary types
of antibodies that are assessed for nearly any type of infection: IgM and IgG.
While several new testing devices are being touted as a home test, they are not
the same as a home pregnancy test or a glucometer to your blood sugar. The
blood spot or saliva specimen can be collected at
home, must it must then be sent to a laboratory for analysis. It can take a few
days – or longer – to get the results. With so many tests in the pipeline, the
ability to test at home will be changing over time.
The first antibody to rise is
IgM. It rises quickly after the onset of the infection and is usually a sign of
an acute, or current, infection. The IgM levels diminish quickly as the
infection resolves. The FDA admits they do
not know how long the IgM remains present for SARS-CoV-2 as the infection is
being cleared.
The
interpretation of an IgG antibody is more difficult. This antibody is an
indicator of a past infection. The test is often not specific enough to
determine if the past infection was caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus or one of
the four common coronaviruses that cause influenza-like illness.
The FDA says:
Because
serology testing can yield a negative test result even if the patient is
actively infected (e.g., the body has not yet developed in response to the
virus) or maybe falsely positive (e.g., if the antibody indicates a past
infection by a different coronavirus), this type of testing should not
be used to diagnose an acute or active COVID-19 infection.
Similarly, the CDC says the
following regarding antibody testing:
- If you test positive:
- A
positive test result shows you have antibodies as a result of an
infection with SARS-CoV-2, or possibly a related
coronavirus.
- It’s
unclear if those antibodies can provide protection (immunity) against
getting infected again. This means that we do not
know at this time if antibodies make you immune to the virus.
- If
you have no symptoms, you likely do not have an active infection and no
additional follow-up is needed.
- It’s
possible you might test positive for antibodies and you might not have or
have ever had symptoms of COVID-19. This is known as having an
asymptomatic infection [ie you have a healthy immune system!]
- An antibody test cannot tell if you are currently sick with
COVID-19.
- If you test negative
- If
you test negative for antibodies, you probably did not have a previous infection. However,
you could have a current infection because antibodies don’t show up for 1
to 3 weeks after infection.
- Some
people may take even longer to develop antibodies, and some people may not develop antibodies.
- An antibody test cannot tell if you are currently sick with
COVID-19.
What? Wait!
- Doesn’t
the vaccine industry call the IgG a “protective antibody”?
- Isn’t
this the marker of immunity they assess after you’ve had an infection with
measles or chickenpox or mumps to determine if you are immune to future
infections?
- Isn’t
this the marker of induced immunity they are trying to achieve by
administering a vaccine?
If
the FDA does not know if an IgG antibody to SARS-CoV-2 after recovering from
the infection is protective against a future infection, then they certainly
don’t know if an antibody caused by a vaccine will prevent infection either.
Doesn’t this completely
eliminate the theory that antibodies afford protection and antibodies from
vaccines are necessary to keep you from getting sick?
Mandatory Testing – New Job
Creation
Illinois U.S. Rep. Bobby L.
Rush introduced the H.R. 6666 TRACE Act on
May 1. On his website, Rush said,
Until
we have a vaccine to defeat this dreaded disease, contact tracing in order to
understand the full breadth and depth of the spread of this virus is the only
way we will be able to get out from under this.
H.R.6666 would authorize the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Director of
the CDC to award grants to eligible entities to
conduct diagnostic testing and then to trace and monitor the contacts of
infected individuals. The contact tracers would be authorized to test people in
their homes and as necessary, quarantine people in
place.
Where
do they intend to do this testing? Besides mobile units to test people in their
homes, the bill identifies eight specific locations where the testing and
contract tracing could occur: schools, health clinics, universities, churches,
and “any other type of entity” the secretary of HHS wants to use.
The bill would allocate $100 billion in 2020 “and such sums as
may be necessary for fiscal year 2021 and any subsequent fiscal year during
which the emergency period continues.”
But
what are they looking for?
- Is
your test supposed to be positive – saying you’ve been exposed and
you’ve possibly recovered?
- Or
is your test supposed to be negative, meaning, you are healthy?
- Or
does a completely negative test – negative RT-PCR test and no IgG antibody
mean you’re susceptible to infection and you need to stay in quarantine?
The virus is rapidly
mutating, which is rather typical of RNA viruses. In a study published in
April 2020, researchers have discovered that the novel coronavirus has mutated
into at least 30 different genetic variations. If your RT-PCR test is positive,
does this identify exposure to the pandemic virus or exposure to one of the
genetic variations? The same can be said about the vaccines under development:
With each mutation, is the vaccine more likely to be all risk and no benefit
when it reaches the market?
What You Can Do
Across
the nation, police are being told to not apprehend criminals but instead, to
arrest parents at playgrounds, to arrest lone surfers on public beaches, to
fine ministers and congregation members sitting in their cars listening to a
service on the radio, and to restrict movement by creating one-way sidewalks.
People have had enough. They
are beginning to see the huge scam that has been perpetrated on the entire
world over a viral infection with a global death rate of 1.4% (meaning, 1.4% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2
have a fatal outcome, while 98.6% recover). This is far fewer deaths than a
severe flu season.
We’re
already starting to see the thrust to take our power back:
- In
Virginia, people went to the beaches en
mass, ignoring social distancing and
the orders of the Governor to stay home.
- The
central California city of Atwater has declared itself a “sanctuary city,” allowing
business owners and churches to open, openly defying Democratic California Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus-related stay-at-home order.
- The
truth about wearing masks is
starting to come out and people are voting with their feet. Retired
neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, warns that not only do face masks fail
to protect healthy people from contracting an illness, but they create
serious health risks to the wearer.
While
they shut us down and held us hostage in our homes, they changed our society,
our lives, our world.
- I
am not willing to accept this is the “new normal.”
- I
won’t submit to testing.
- I
will refuse mandatory vaccination.
- I
will stop wearing a mask.
- I
will not be afraid of standing next to a friend or family member and will
not obey the concept of “social distancing.”
- I
will understand that an asymptomatic carrier is a normal, healthy person
and I will not buy into the fear that I might “catch something” from a
normal, healthy person.
It’s time for Americans to
resist with non-violent civil disobedience. Be brave. Be bold. Put on the full
armor of God, as found in Ephesians 6:10-20 in
the Bible, to stand against the world rulers of this present darkness. With God
on our side, all things are possible.
Reprinted with permission
from Vaxxter.
Dr.
Sherri Tenpenny is an osteopathic medical doctor, board-certified in three
specialties. She is the founder of Tenpenny Integrative Medical Center, a
medical clinic located near Cleveland, Ohio. Her company, Courses4Mastery.com
provides online education and training regarding all aspects of vaccines and
vaccination.
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