Congrats on your victory big pharma

Pretty close to the same picture, just a little bigger to make it more readable.

Must very embarasing when they finally realize they have been fooled all this time. That moment when it clicks.

1) Here's the actual article if anyone wants to read it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10606107/Did-flawed-tests-convince-Covid-worse-really-was.html

It amounts to "what if?" and doesn't offer anything more concrete than "well, this one person over here said this, and this other unrelated person said this." It's fluff and nonsense that poses a question and doesn't do anything to actually answer it.

BUT

Let's flip this around.

Let's say that the PCR tests returned false negatives? How many people would be walking around thinking they weren't infected but actually were? How many MORE people would have gotten infected with false negatives?

I dunno about you, but I'll take a false positive over a false negative.

A false negative gets more people killed.

A false positive gets someone two weeks of isolation.

Which one do you think is worse?

Let’s say the PCR was purposely flawed to support a narrative. I don’t know about you but I prefer the truth and not a narrative.

What about a narrative that the PCR was purposely flawed instead of incidentally flawed?

The difference is one is asking a question while the other is a narrative that denies all discussion or possibilities. I didn’t say it was a fact, but what if it was and it was being used to manipulate the public?

Do you have evidence that it was purposely flawed or are you merely coming to that conclusion before seeking it out? Are you seeking vindication or information? Are you dismissing information that does not adhere to the narrative that it was purposeful?

The point is banning discussion of it is unamerican. I think there are certainly factual indications that people knew it was flawed and kept silent out of fear. That is a tragedy.

I at least agree that people shouldn’t have been banned for discussing it.

I wouldn’t go so far as to label it unAmerican so much as corporate interest. They feared litigation if not federal investigation for allowing rampant misinformation. The tragedy being that too many people were sharing a clickbait video full of inaccuracies and unfounded claims. Bot accounts sprung up and Twitter and Facebook acted. And the victims of the misinformation campaign got caught up in it.

That was the tragedy.

They didn’t just ban some they banned all. Banning all discussion contrary to the narrative is unamerican. Free speech must be jealously guarded and even erred o the side of. If arguments and facts can’t stand up to light then they need to be investigated further. They didn’t investigate further they just shut down comments wherever found stifling discussion and establishment of fact.

They didn’t ban any of my friends or family who are deeply conservative.

So, no, they did not ban everyone

Ironically, they did give my liberal cousin a timeout on Facebook and Twitter for raving about George Floyd and the pandemic and for being vindictive toward people who were essentially giving him death threats.

He got a 1 month suspension and several suspensions in 2020 from Facebook.

They banned official news agencies for periods of time for reporting on it.

Yes, I’m curious about this as well. But let’s wait and see. From what I understand, the only people who have substantiated the laptop are the NYPost. They can’t substantiate their own story… it requires a second source to do that so I just assumed it was clickbait.

Most NYPost is.

I was thinking if that article was accurate, it seems to me that (at the time) it would have actually made covid seem LESS bad than it was.

A bunch of covid cases being reported, yet not being hospitalized & not dying (due to them being false positives) would kind of make it seem less deadly. Idk. I guess they think a higher number of cases is "worse" than deadliness.

That's a valid point- false positives throw off the hospitalization & death rates. But that's still better than false negatives.

False negatives would drive a lot more panic & fear with the "the government is lying to us about how deadly the virus is!!!!!" instead of "these tests made us too cautious!!!"