For this piece, we have to
enter the official world (of the insane)—where everyone is quite sure a new
coronavirus was discovered in China and the worthless diagnostic tests mean
something and the case numbers are real and meaningful. Once we execute all
those absurd maneuvers, we land square in the middle of yet another
scandal—this time at our favorite US agency for scandals, the CDC.
The Atlantic, May 21, has the story, headlined, “How could the CDC make that
mistake?”
I’ll give you the key quotes, and then comment on the stark
inference The Atlantic somehow failed to grasp.
“We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating
mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections
with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus…The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that
it is mixing the results of viral [PCR] and antibody tests, even though the two
tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons.”
“Several states—including Pennsylvania, the site of one of the
country’s largest outbreaks, as well as Texas, Georgia, and Vermont—are
blending the data in the same way. Virginia likewise mixed viral and antibody
test results until last week, but it reversed course and the governor
apologized for the practice after it was covered by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
and The Atlantic. Maine similarly separated its data on Wednesday; Vermont
authorities claimed they didn’t even know they were doing this.”
“’You’ve got to be kidding me,’ Ashish Jha, the K. T. Li Professor
of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health
Institute, told us when we described what the CDC was doing. ‘How could the CDC
make that mistake? This is a mess’.”
“The CDC stopped publishing anything resembling a complete
database of daily [COVID] test results on February 29. When it resumed
publishing test data last week [the middle of May]…”
First of all, the CDC’s basic
mission is publishing disease statistics on an ongoing basis. Reporting partial
data flies in the face of what they’re supposed to be all about.
But the big deal, of course, is
combining results from two different tests—the PCR and the antibody—and placing
them in one lump.
I’ve read the Atlantic article forwards, backwards, and sideways,
and it appears the experts believe only PCR viral tests should be used to count
the number of COVID cases.
So here is a takeaway I
find nowhere in the Atlantic article: COMBINING THE TWO TESTS WILL
VASTLY INFLATE THE NUMBER OF CASES.
I’m not talking about categories like “rate of infection” or
“percentage.” I’m talking
about plain numbers of cases.
Some PCR tests will indicate COVID and some antibody tests will
indicate COVID, and adding them together will pump up the number of cases. You know, that big number they
flash on TV screens a hundred times a day.
“Coronavirus cases jumped up
again yesterday, and the grand total in the US is now…”
THAT number.
The number media and government and related con artists deploy to
scare the people and justify lockdowns and use to stop reopening the economy.
The brass band circus with flying acrobats and elephants and clown
numbers.
Therefore, I’m not characterizing what the CDC is doing as a
mistake. They’ve managed to create the illusion that absolute case numbers are
higher than they should be.
Somehow, these “mistakes”
always seem to result in worse news, not better news. The “errors” are always
on the high side rather than the low side.
Case in point: the computer prediction of COVID deaths in the UK
and US made by that abject failure, Neil Ferguson, whose track record, going
back to 2001, has been one horrendous lunatic exaggeration after another. His
2020 projections of 500,000 COVID deaths in the UK and two million in the US
were directly used to justify lockdowns in many countries.
The CDC, back in 2009, stopped
reporting the number of Swine Flu cases in the US—while still claiming that
number was in the tens of thousands. I’ve written in great detail about the
scandal, which was exposed by then-CBS investigative reporter, Sharyl
Attkisson. The CDC stopped counting cases, because the overwhelming percentage
of tissue samples from patients was coming back from labs with no sign of Swine
Flu or any other kind of flu. And yet, in a later retrospective “analysis,” the
CDC claimed that, at the height of the “epidemic,” there were 22 MILLION cases
of Swine Flu in the US.
Going all the way back to
2003 and SARS, the CDC and other public health agencies around the world hyped
the dangers to the sky; the final official death count, globally, when the dust
cleared? 800.
There is a tradition of lying on the high side, blowing up figures
in order to create the illusion of destruction.
CDC? Mistake? The agency is certainly incompetent. But that’s just
the beginning of the story.
The only time they say there is no danger is when they’re lying
about the effects of vaccines.
My headline for the
Atlantic article would read: SO HOW MANY COVID CASES SHOULD WE
SUBTRACT TO GET THE ACTUAL NUMBER?
And the first paragraph
would go this way: “Just when governors are trying to reopen their economies, a
gigantic case-counting deception at the CDC is taking the wind out of their
sails. The millions of Americans suffering financial devastation could be
pushed back into a hole. Who is screaming to high heaven about THAT on the
nightly news? No one. Why not?”
SOURCES:
* https://banned.video/watch?id=5efd0c2a672706002f3a8501
(video: “CDC Admits Mistakes in Covid Case Numbers,” 7/1/2020)
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a
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