[AR] Re: Ray, Dr. J, Anthony? Did you have anything to do with this???

  • From: Rand Simberg <simberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:38:18 -0800

Off topic, but all the people who would have normally died of flu were diagnosed as having, and having died of Covid. Not to mention people who died skydiving...

On 2/25/21 7:31 PM, roxanna Mason wrote:

What looks suspicious though is the nearly zero Flu cases, < 1K when it usually is >50K.

K

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 6:41 PM Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:44:13PM -0700, BrianK ABQ wrote:
    >Oops, right you are. Wrong link. Though the flu article is worth
    a read.

    Note that it (or rather the first article in the 3-part series) now
    bears a retraction notice -- though there's still an interesting,
    well-grounded story there when one strips away the hype, fear, and
    suspicion: a lot of people are testing positive by the PCR test but
    with high Ct numbers, most probably because they'd been infected much
    earlier and never got a test; this is just residual virus, likely
    dead.)  So the real status of the pandemic is better measured by
    hospitalizations or deaths than by infections.  (The Ct number is the
    number of doublings before the sample lights up as positive, so
    roughly the logarithm base 2 of the viral RNA concentration, or rather
    the negative logarithm.)

    Oh, and in another 'I would never have expected them to do something
    so stupid' move, the Ct number is not allowed to be reported to
    doctors or patients in the US.

    (I don't think we need another big coronavirus discussion, but this
    seemed worth mentioning.)


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