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Our gov was allegedly supposed to make a statement last week in regards to easing some of the restrictions, that never happened so I guess thats a good thing, maybe.
Only a vaccine will save us. We are simply too stupid as a people to suppress this virus with discipline and consistency. It could kill half the population and the other half would still be arguing about the constitutionality of mask mandates and what deaths should be attributed to.

A quick look at the last few pages of this thread is very indicative of the nation's collective intellectual capacity.
 

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Only a vaccine will save us. We are simply too stupid as a people to suppress this virus with discipline and consistency. It could kill half the population and the other half would still be arguing about the constitutionality of mask mandates and what deaths should be attributed to.

A quick look at the last few pages of this thread is very indicative of the nation's collective intellectual capacity.
I'm not the smartest guy around, but my wife is incredibly fucking smart, she can't believe some of the shit I've told her about that gets said on here. There is a real issue with scientific and mathematical literacy in this country.
 

Rambo John J

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Why are you so divisive? You have been acting like a change agent working for the NWO lately. What's your end game here?
I am just copying your posting style...so sorry.

I don't think "only a vaccine will save us", herd immunity is well underway and the more we learn the less a vaccine seems like a necessity(if it ever was one in the first place).

U bros are talking positive tests...not about the threshold for said positive tests...If the PCR cycles were 30 instead of 40 or more 90% of the cases/+tests would be negative.

Carry on.
 

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I am just copying your posting style...so sorry.

I don't think "only a vaccine will save us", herd immunity is well underway and the more we learn the less a vaccine seems like a necessity(if it ever was one in the first place).

U bros are talking positive tests...not about the threshold for said positive tests...If the PCR cycles were 30 instead of 40 or more 90% of the cases/+tests would be negative.

Carry on.
30 what? 40 what?
 

Rambo John J

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30 what? 40 what?
Are you playing dumb sir?
There have been multiple articles and links on this topic in this very thread.
I think you have read them.

Here is a MSM article on the topic if you would like to read and pass on to the "smarter"people in your circle to discuss.

"A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on."

"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said."

"The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations."

TLDR PCR test is too sensitive at that number of cycles and should be reduced to a lower number of cycles...or be discarded altogether for another test, even if that test is less sensitive...widespread PCR testing misrepresents the "outbreak"

Hope that helps clear it up.
 

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Are you playing dumb sir?
There have been multiple articles and links on this topic in this very thread.
I think you have read them.

Here is a MSM article on the topic if you would like to read and pass on to the "smarter"people in your circle to discuss.

"A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on."

"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said."

"The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations."

TLDR PCR test is too sensitive at that number of cycles and should be reduced to a lower number of cycles...or be discarded altogether for another test, even if that test is less sensitive...widespread PCR testing misrepresents the "outbreak"

Hope that helps clear it up.
What's a pcr cycle?
 

Rambo John J

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What's a pcr cycle?
comment on the article if you want to discuss this...I meant to type PCR test cycle and I am not a lab rat so even that may be not be the proper term

U are addressing my half assed post and mis wording ...I linked the source of what I was getting at, lets talk about that.
 

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comment on the article if you want to discuss this...I meant to type PCR test cycle and I am not a lab rat so even that may be not be the proper term

U are addressing my half assed post and mis wording ...I linked the source of what I was getting at, lets talk about that.
I'm asking you to clarify your points and beliefs, but it seems like you may not even know what you are reading. Which is interesting that you have such strong feelings about it.
 

Rambo John J

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I'm asking you to clarify your points and beliefs, but it seems like you may not even know what you are reading. Which is interesting that you have such strong feelings about it.
I posted word for word from the article(hence the quotation marks)...If you wanna pick that apart go ahead...If not then move on.
 

Rambo John J

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That's fine that you were able to parrot an article, anyone, even a bird can do that. Do you understand the article?
Tell me what I don't understand about the article.

Quote part of the article and detail what is right or wrong with it.
 

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Tell me what I don't understand about the article.

Quote part of the article and detail what is right or wrong with it.
You keep avoiding being able to explain what you are reading....I have a feeling you don't actually understand what you are reading.
 

Rambo John J

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You keep avoiding being able to explain what you are reading....

The article speaks in very plain language, and to pretend I don't have the reading comprehension is your way of avoiding the article completely.

How about you comment on a single part of the article.

"A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on."

"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said."

"The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations."
 

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The article speaks in very plain language, and to pretend I don't have the reading comprehension is your way of avoiding the article completely.

How about you comment on a single part of the article.

"A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on."

"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said."

"The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations."
In your own words, what does that mean?
 

Rambo John J

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In your own words, what does that mean?
Ur trolling.
If you don't wanna address these lines then we have nothing to talk about...I didn't write the article.

"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said."

"The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C."
 

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Ur trolling.
If you don't wanna address these lines then we have nothing to talk about...I didn't write the article.

"In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said."

"The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C."
I'm not trolling, I've been asking for you to explain in your own words, because I feel your scientific literacy may not be as good as you think it is, which causes you to easily believe pseudoscience and misinterpreted data. And you have been either unable or unwilling to do this, which leads me to believe you may not be intellectually honest when having conversations about this and other topics.
 
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I'm not trolling, I've been asking for you to explain in your own words, because I feel your scientific literacy may not be as good as you think it is, which causes you to easily believe pseudoscience and misinterpreted data. And you have been either unable or unwilling to do this, which leads me to believe you may not be intellectually honest when having conversations about this and other topics.
The ability to paraphrase is the easiest way to demonstrate reading comprehension
 

Rambo John J

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I'm not trolling, I've been asking for you to explain in your own words, because I feel your scientific literacy may not be as good as you think it is, which causes you to easily believe pseudoscience and misinterpreted data. And you have been either unable or unwilling to do this, which leads me to believe you may not be intellectually honest when having conversations about this and other topics.
Pretty ironic since you won't even comment on the article.

I am withholding any further comment on the article until you address a single sentence in it. I assure you I understand it quite well, I posted about the problems with that test before that article came out. We need to lower the testing threshold or find another test to be used widely if we really want to find out who is capable of spreading the virus.
 

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Pretty ironic since you won't even comment on the article.

I am withholding any further comment on the article until you address a single sentence in it. I assure you I understand it quite well, I posted about the problems with that test before that article came out. We need to lower the testing threshold or find another test to be used widely if we really want to find out who is capable of spreading the virus.
No, you parroted what other people said, you haven't demonstrated that you know what you are reading.
 

Rambo John J

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No, you parroted what other people said, you haven't demonstrated that you know what you are reading.
wow
your really showing how intelligent you are
I'm very impressed

Do you think 35-42 cycles is a proper amount? or not

Did you even read the article?
 

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wow
your really showing how intelligent you are
I'm very impressed

Do you think 35-42 cycles is a proper amount? or not

Did you even read the article?
Respectfully, I'm asking the questions here. Why should someone show you the courtesy of answering your questions when you yourself do not show the same courtesy.?