The COVID Test Centre pictured above is located in Kirby Corner Road, Coventry, within the main campus of the University of Warwick and within walking distance of its associated Science Park and Westwood Heath Business Park. With fewer students around than in normal term time and most of those employed by companies based at the science park and business park, now working from home (see previous post), it is hardly surprising that it is quiet. I have taken photographs on another day and found it to be similarly so, though it appears to be part of a national trend, that begs the question of where do all the ‘positive’ test results come from?
Having witnessed people entering the COVID Test Centre located in Leamington Spa Old Town (a demographically mixed area in terms of age, status and ethnicity), it is not as if they are all unused all of the time. So why do people agree to get tested? Notwithstanding the recently announced government bribe of £500, it is because the person required to take the test has been identified as being in the same place at the same time as someone else who has subsequently tested ‘positive’, as a result of both using the NHS Test & Trace smartphone app. This could be at a gym, where the equipment is all ‘socially distanced’ and the person later required to take the test may have been nowhere hear the ‘positively’ tested person, so very few such ‘cases’ have arisen at gyms; or at a pub or restaurant, where similarly the person required to take the test may have been nowhere near the ‘positively’ tested person. Mostly, it is likely to be at a workplace, with the employer mandating that the employee take the test. So in working-class households – where those who could least afford to may be told to self-isolate – there are likely to be a higher proportion of people being tested than in middle-class households where the latter are working from home, having fewer personal interactions in any day, possibly none outside their own household (something that will ironically lower their immunity to ‘outsiders’).
One obvious issue with Test & Trace (originally called Track & Trace) is that of data protection. In a surveillance society as the UK has been since at least the 1990’s, where every one of us gets viewed numerous times in every day by CCTV cameras, located in either public places or business premises (most obviously in any retail outlet) is this any worse? Personal privacy outside one’s home is in that respect now already almost non-existent and has been for quite some time. So in principle you could say no it isn’t any worse (which in itself would not justify it), but the COVID19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test is a sample of genetic material, not kept even within the NHS, but outsourced to private companies who can then cross-reference with other data held on the person tested. What if any of those other companies were employers, pension funds, banks or insurers?
Additionally, if this trend of Test & Trace follows the model used in China, where it is ubiquitous and instantaneously loaded onto a centralised database, then every business transaction gets registered automatically; and this would be the case even if cash were permitted for making that transaction. So retaining the use of cash will be of no benefit if Test & Trace, or an equivalent smartphone app, is always required. Bear in mind that the withdrawl of cash from any bank or building society, either in person or via a machine is already recorded on a centralised database, which can easily be shared between these financial institutions. Add in of course that if a temperature check is required (something that pubs in the UK have done when allowed to open), in addition to Test & Trace, then that gets loaded onto the same database as a ‘health’ measure, which could return a message saying that the transaction be cancelled and the individual needs to self-isolate for a set number of days.
The specific issue with these COVID19 PCR tests, as distinct from any other form of test for a viral illness, is the number of cycles through which the results are being run, with the standard being above that (thirty-five) recommended by Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and other similar professionals in the field such as Dr Carl Heneghan, Director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. The late Kary Mullis, who invented the PCR test, recommended that it is unsuitable for testing for the presence of any particular virus. This high number of cycles means that a genetic fragment of any coronavirus, including the common cold, may be picked up. A good summary of the PCR process is given in this video by Dr Samantha Bailey, a former GP, from New Zealand
Returning to the subject of the UK specifically, it is these supposedly ‘positive’ test results that then feed into the official fatality figures, of people dying ‘within 28 days of a positive test’. As these are the headline figures presented to and by the mainstream media, then it is clear that deaths even attributed to COVID19 have been inflated; and that is without taking into account the apparently miraculous drop in people dying from influenza; something broadcast even by the strongly pro-lockdown Sky ‘News’ channel, which of course uses it to peddle an agenda in favour of ‘vaccines’ and the anti-social, note mainstream media-dependent, ‘New Normal’ way of living.
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