Thread by @thatsnotmine125

A thread explaining stuff that’s annoying:

‘PCR cycles are run too high’ No - people regularly confuse cycle & Ct. Cycles can be thought of as the length of the test, & it has to be completed. This may take 45 cycles, but depends on the manufacturer.

Ct is different depending on amount of virus. Low Ct = high viral load, high Ct = lower viral load. There is a cut off at which the test is negative, but the test must still complete (cycles)

But Kary Mullis said..’ No - Firstly he said nothing about Covid, he’s dead. Second he didn’t invent qPCR. PCR is a valuable diagnostic tool, and is most often used in symptomatic people, combined with clinical diagnosis. It has a very low false positive rate.

actionnewsjax.com/news/trending/… ‘Covid has a 99% survival rate, so it’s fine’ No - Diseases with high infection rate & low mortality, aren’t much better than those with high mortality, but low infection rate. IFR is ~1-3% depending on country, but more suffer disability despite survival

‘The vaccines are in trial till 2023’ No - Phase 4 trials/post marketing surveillance continues after drugs are in use. This may be years depending on your drug. It assess different end points, such as ‘how long does immunity last’. Phase 3 safety end points are met already.

Many drugs have ‘study completion dates’ beyond approval dates, and certainly beyond phase 3 completion. Vaccines have been through all standard safety testing. An example of a different drug:

‘But the yellow card system says’ The YC system is an excellent first point of contact. A data collection system, which anyone can report to. After this data has been collected then its scrutinised by the MHRA, and anything seen above baseline is further investigated.

It is so sensitive it found a tiny number of CVST in millions of doses. The reports are not evidence of anything by themselves. Statistically We expect deaths, heart attacks etc ‘after’ vaccines because we’ve vaccinated every adult (almost), this does not make them ‘because of’

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… ‘We should be using ivermectin’ No - most existing IVM trials are small, have poly-pharmacy, are not blinded, have mixed outcomes, many ineffective or inconclusive. Oxford are running a robust trial. A drug can’t be re-purposed simply because it pre-exists

science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65… Masks don’t work’ - firstly, how could they not? Stand face to face, spit & see where it goes. Like many mitigation’s, they are not designed to work 100%, if it was air tight you’d suffocate. The idea is they protect others from your respiratory droplets.

‘I don’t know anyone who’s died of Covid, so it’s nonsense’ statistically you need to know ~450 people to know someone who’s died, most of those need to be over 65. Do you know that many people? I don’t know anyone who’s had a heart attack personally. Heart attacks are real.

‘All deaths have counted as Covid no matter what they died of’ No - first plenty of people died of non-Covid causes. Second people often confuse 28 day post +ve test, which is somewhat raw data, with death certificate data, or excess mortality data

Death certificates only list Covid if it contributed to your death. Altogether these stats show the impact of the virus.

It’s also misunderstood to think Covid had to be a primary cause to be responsible. If Covid lands you in ITU but sepsis & multi organ failure result in your death, Covid may not appear first on your death certificate, but it’s certainly to blame. Rarely do people die of 1 cause

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