News Item: "The #FlaPanthers are raising capacity at the BB&T Center to nearly 75 percent for Game 5 on Monday. That’s about 14,000 fans in the seats.”

Anyone watching TV sports on the Victoria Day weekend noticed the large crowds at sporting events being played this weekend. Cheering throngs spilled onto the the 18th fairway at Kiawah Island, S.C., as 50-year-old Phil Mickelson won the PGA Championship on the Ocean course.

Many baseball parks were full of fans. In Arlington, Texas, the Rangers are averaging 26,925 fans a game. The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced they will allow full attendance going forward at Chavez Ravine. In Tampa, the Lightning has 40 percent of their average crowd in attendance.

Everywhere in the U.S. teams are relenting on their previous #Covid-19 protocols to allow fans to return in large numbers to their favourite sports.

Canada? The Montreal Canadiens have said they will allow 6,000 fans to Gm. 3 of their series with the Maple Leafs. But elsewhere cardboard cutouts, tarps and piped-in audio remain the rule of the day in Canada. These regulations reflect the continued high positive tests being registered in the country.

In the U.S., however, these testing numbers are now about a third what they were just a few months ago. The plummeting figures are forcing even reluctant blue state governments to open up the stands to fans and resume some sense of normalcy.

What has happened to make Canada register so many more positives than the U.S.? Are Canadian masks leakier? Do Canadian lockdown bunkers permit too much outside air? Is it our legendary politeness that the virus is exploiting?

The answer, in part, is that these numbers say what their government experts want them to say. Yes, seasonality is a factor (heresy!) as the warmer U.S. states allow more people to get out in the sun, get vitamin D3 and other beneficial products of fresh air. (In Canada, locked-down people— who are not being instructed in the value of D3, sunshine or exercise— are still getting stale air and bad air conditioning.)

But the telling numbers come from our old friend, the Polymerse Chain Reaction testing system used by government health experts around the world. As we have constantly noted since this time last year, the PCR test’s cycle numbers (how many cycles before you obtain a result) can tell you whatever you need for propaganda purposes.

Under 28 cycles you have real illness. Above 32 cycles the results are worthless, as this Manitoba official admitted this month. Even the NFL’s own expert admitted that, without reporting the number of cycles needed to find some minute trace of the virus, positives as “cases” is highly deceptive.

For much of the pandemic 40 cycles has been the standard PCR level. Using a standard of 32 cycles, as much as 60 percent of the positives announced in Canada (1.3 million at this moment) produce traces that can neither produce illness nor transmit the virus. Do the math on 60 percent of 1.3 million and you realize the daily counts vomited out on TV and social media have deliberately been used more to scare than to enlighten.

In case that didn’t put a chill in the Karens double-masking for a stroll in Trinity Bellwoods Park, health officials use impossibly broad standards for what constitutes a Covid-19 death. That includes blaming the virus for the 80 percent-plus of the deaths of those with three or more co-morbidities (high blood pressure is No. 1). You still wonder why your neighbour is rigid with fear?

Now look at the PCR figures in the U.S. Suddenly, positives have dropped like a stone, creating a permission for governments to open up and tell their exhausted voters that the coast is now clear. If you believe this drop is the result of masks, social distancing, hand washing and lockdowns I can get you a screaming deal on the Brooklyn Bridge, too.

(In neither Canada nor the U.S. is anyone seriously trying to make a scientific case that masks, lockdowns and social distancing created anything but panic among the most psychologically vulnerable . Take a look at the curve from when masks and lockdowns were mandated in October to today. See any signs of their effect? Me neither. )

But while Canada’s health junta— and its obedient media slappies— want their public to think it’s not safe to defy them just yet, U.S. leaders like Joe Biden and a number of governors up for election in 2022 want you to think that their remedies have been the key to defeating “Trump’s Virus”.

In the wake of vaccine skepticism from the Robert Kennedy Jr. types Biden must sell a wary populace on the value of the vaccines they’re now getting. Having voters take the vaccine and still wind up testing positive on the old PCR scale would be a disaster.

So health officials in that country have quietly begun dropping the PCR cycle requirement to as low as 28 cycles for those who submit to the vaccines. Voila! Since the CDC quietly announced the changes in late April, over 50 percent of previous numbers listed as positives or cases magically disappear into the the Fauci Vortex. Biden’s Magic Vaccine is working!

As well, the broad parameters for what constitutes a death from Covid-19— anyone who expires within 30-60 days of a positive test— have been eased. The financial benefits of doctoring death certificates has been reduced creating a more balanced picture of the death toll. Finally, mild or asymptomatic cases are finally being expunged from the “case” records to make the vaccines look better.

This whole pantomime is then dutifully recycled by the Democratic Media party to further emphasize that the blood of 500 K Covid victims lies on Donald Trump’s hands not on those of Health® gurus. Their next broadcast show trial will be for promoting anything but the approved Big Pharma “cures”, not hydroxycholoriquine, invermectin or Remdesivir.

In the days before the media surrendered its integrity in favour of blaming Trump, Doug Ford and Jason Kenney, government exaggerating death tolls would constitute a major scandal worthy of leading every newscast. But these are different days. Different indeed.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx

PCR Tests: Fudging The Numbers To Suit The Narrative