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Feb 1, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

I don't understand the obsession we have with testing for this virus. Prior to 2020, we never tested people to see if they had a particular type of virus unless they were sick enough to need serious medical attention.

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Feb 2, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

Excellent article and very timely for me.

Is this correct though?

You say "When an Antigen test is deployed within this early time frame of the disease, the lack of high viral load is likely to lead to a false positive, such that someone may not receive a positive result even though they are likely to be infected."

Don't you mean to say 'likely to lead to a false negative'? i.e. it indicates negative but it isn't really?

Shows you that I read it all and pay attention =;o)

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Feb 1, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

I would imagine that if with Omicron the PCR test now is only able to detect 2 primers instead of 3 with the S part not there, the accuracy has gone down by 33% ? (Or is it the sensitivity or precision???)

Why isn't anyone talking about this.

A previously useless test is 33% more useless.

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Feb 1, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

Glad you are among the healthy. Excellent substack.

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Feb 1, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent

I’m not sure how you were diagnosed with Omnicron as there are no current lab tests that differentiate between the strains, aside from gene sequencing based upon computer modeling of the various strains. Genetic sequencing is generally not performed as most state labs don’t have the capability to perform these specialized tests. The CDC when pressed with FOIA requests admitted they have no isolated samples of the “COVID “ virus. I must assume you either have a cold or the flu.

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