Keeping Secrets: How Your Medical Experts Buried The Truth On Testing

For much of the past year you’d wake up, flip on the TV to see some grave-looking morning anchor pause from traffic and weather numbers to spew out frightening statistics from the Covid-19 pandemic. The scary stats from Canada’s Health® bureaucracy, repeated without comment, invariably showed increasing numbers of positive “cases”.

Then the sports reporter would tell you which events were cancelled or which athletes quarantined based on PCR testing imposed by leagues or Tours. Forget that a positive is not a case until the person enters the hospital system. “This is the Narrative we’ve chosen, and we’re rocking it till the end”.

The drumbeat inference was that things were bad and getting worse in the battle against the virus. If the story needed a little push, the TV producers would wheel out video from federal medical officer Dr. Theresa Tam or Ontario premier Doug Ford who’d punch up the Panic Porn with predictions of doom until 2023.

For the Media Party, the juggernaut of sickness was a political weapon against their favourite targets— Ford, Donald Trump, Jason Kenney. So the TV producers would include a clip from an outraged MSNBC critic eager to score bonus points by saying Trump’s Nazi sympathies have caused Covid.

Except.

As we have written here and here and here and here the numbers doled out for your consumption were wildly exaggerated and cynically employed to scare a public skeptical of authorities who’d screwed up the virus’ arrival. Based on the PCR 40-cycle tests, they mixed truly serious infections in with hundreds of thousands of false positives from people who could neither get sick nor spread the virus.

There were hints from officialdom that the “cases” you were being fed were juiced. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci conceded, ”If you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it being replication-competent are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…it's just dead nucleoids, period."

No matter, the narrative surged on. It was the basis for schools closing, airports deserted and sports events cancelled or delayed. Even as late as Friday, Victoria health authorities emptied the stands at the Australian Open during play, because one person has tested positive on the PCR scale at a nearby hotel. 

(Hands up anyone who can point to a single pro athlete with no co-morbidities in the world who’s been hospitalized, let alone died from/ with Covid. No?)

But none of the people in charge thought it was worth you knowing that as much as 60 percent of the numbers delivered by your TV hair-and-teeth were a fraud. Using the PCR 40-cycle test to justify draconian lockdowns and masking, the received wisdom of Legacy Media was keep on keeping on with the deception. 

While it threw considerable resources at chasing down the unicorn cases of 20-year-olds dying of Covid (“It shows we must all lock down and be vigilant”), the titans of journalism never questioned the accuracy of PCR regime— which was a real story.

But now, in a release quietly issued on Joe Biden’s inauguration Day (but written seven days earlier when Trump was still president), the WHO acknowledged that ‘the PCR test was overly sensitive based on its cycle threshold. Simply amplifying viral fragments well beyond what’s clinically meaningful creates false positive cases’, 

This exaggerated the “case” numbers reported on the corporate media in Canada and the U.S. pimped the Panic Porn, provided cover for the ineptitude of the Trudeau response and prolonged the lockdowns now punishing the public a second time in the past 12 months.

For example, Canada has told its petrified citizens that it has had 823,353 “cases” since Covid-19 was introduced into the population. If you understand now that as many as 60 percent of those positive “cases" are useless data that number is reduced to 330,000. 

Similarly, Canada has approximately 21,228 deaths identified as Covid deaths in a year with 300,000 deaths. That’s just six percent of all deaths ascribed to the virus in a year where the flu has practically disappeared. Do you think Canadians would vote to extinguish their economy, and education system based on those numbers?

How many of the deaths promoted on mainstream TV were people who’d died of, not with, the vaccine? Again, no one in officialdom thought it worth you knowing that the death numbers were hopelessly skewed. 

Your media has tacked away from such unpleasant narrative-stoppers to a new dodge— the variants. The new line is that we are “playing chicken” with the variant strains that emerged when the virus morphed to outflank the hard lockdowns. So we lock up citizens in Trudeau’s Hell Hotel and make them pay for the pleasure. 

(Side thought: Has the Liberal government or its slavish scribes considered how many Americans will visit Canada as tourists when they find out they must be incarcerated in hotels for two weeks— hotels they will pay for? Say goodbye to your hotel and airline sector.)

And the collateral victims of all this shifting science? The numbers of children whose lives are being wrecked? The ODs and suicides? The failed businesses? The healthcare front line who’ve borne the weight of Health® bureaucrats latest great idea?

Nah, not sexy like the Plague. They don’t fit on a TV screen at 7 A.M. Better to stick to what we know that we don’t know. Which is, a year into Covid-19, practicality everything.

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