Thread by @ReusVisser

Even though @RFuellmich has failed to make his case against lockdowns and vaccines before an official legal court, today he will present it before his own make-shift “public Grand Jury”. Cornerstone: the PCR test cannot spot infectious people. True, but irrelevant. Stay tuned.

I finally finished getting through this 5 hours of paranoia and pseudo-science. The upshot: the PCR test by @vmcorman and @c_drosten has been designed to produce many false positives, so a casedemic could be declared to justify lockdowns and vaccines that are in fact a bioweapon.

My general impression: the Corona Investigative Committee has trouble staying on topic but at least they accept the existence of viruses, of viral genomes and of the PCR test even if they don’t think this test can be used as a diagnostic tool in large and healthy populations. 2/n

There are areas of legitimate disagreements touched upon in this session, but more often than not it goes entirely of the rails by suggesting Covid is actually an allergic reaction or more people die from Remdesivir than from Covid itself. This has all been debunked entirely. 3/n

So let’s ignore the noise and focus on PCR-related stuff. Sonia Pekova says the Drosten test was “crap”. She herself had a much faster test. It checks for only one, very conserved gene. Borger-Kämmerer would call that a major design flaw. Obviously, there is room for debate. 4/n

Pekova suggests further that Drosten probably chose to work with three genes to catch most of the variability this virus could have. No, for that purpose he used degenerate primers - much misunderstood by Borger-Kämmerer -, and he also, very smart, created a pan-sarbeco assay.

Third, she says that she sequenced all three Covid waves she had in her country, but found it highly suspicious that these did not originate from eachother, as if they were different viruses. But of course, Alpha, Delta and Omicron had completely different places of origin. 6/n

Next comes Ulrike Kämmerer, the main author of the Corman-Drosten retraction paper, which got submitted to @Eurosurveillanc, but got rejected. It was posted on a widely visited website. You can read the whole soap opera that followed in three chapters. 7/n integralworld.net/visser194.html

Kämmerer specifically stated - pressed by @RFuellmich on this - that a PCR test cannot distinguish between inactive and active virus, nor can it provide diagnosis, detect contagion, let alone contagiousness, in someone. Strictly speaking, that is true, but does it matter? 8/n

Likewise, it is often contested by conspiracists that positive PCR test outcomes are called “cases.” But according to Dutch law, PCR test outcomes *can* be used as instrument for initiating measures, as long as there is a reasonable suspicion for contagion or contagiousness. 9/n

Kämmerer als repeats the bold claim from the retraction paper that the Corman-Drosten test protocol was flawed (the Chinese had a better one, she implies), and would produce “many false positives”, to sustain a pre-meditated and fraudulent pseudo-pandemic. This is paranoia. 10/n

In reality, the Corman-Drosten PCR test was less sensitive than comparable tests (leading to false negatives) which got remedied, did not show cross-reactivity (no FPs) with other viruses and was found as valid in test validation studies as any other. 11/n integralworld.net/visser194.html…

But Fuellmich and his South African colleague Dexter Ryneveldt want only just one thing to hear from their “witnesses”: the WHO needed “cases” to proclaim a pandemic, and the Corman-Drosten PCR test produced these in high numbers, even if these were totally fraudulent. 12/n

One last thing, Kämmerer again brings up the high cycle number Drosten recommends (40-45) as another major design flaw, but this conflates cycle number with cycle threshold, as Australian virologist @MackayIM was quick to point out. This is misinformation plain and simple. 13/n.

Virus denialist bonus: @RFuellmich somewhere remarks “of course we know that there is a virus”, leaving not much hope left for virus skeptics Kaufman, Cowan and Lanka to convince Reiner Fuellmich of their “truth” of the non-existence, or at least non-isolation, of viruses. 14/n

Finally are there no problems at all with the PCR test as it is being used in the current pandemic? Definitely not but pervasive black-and-white paranoid conspiracy thinking leads us nowhere. Good science communication can prevent these shadows from erupting again and again. 15/n

More on this Corona Investigative Committee nr. 90 episode and its follow up:

https://twitter.com/reusvisser/status/1490685290306023430