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Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

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Swansong said:
We have a troll bot right in this thread, pretending to know what PCR means or what the sensitivity of a novel virus test should be.
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Yup. It's pretty amazing when he goes on those PCR rants.... i have zero medical knowledge and even I'm like "that doesn't sound right."

I'd rather hear about that from those in the field who have a clue (like you, Les, and others here).
 
Swansong said:
We have a troll bot right in this thread, pretending to know what PCR means or what the sensitivity of a novel virus test should be.
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Please do share your thoughts then?

Your little quips don’t offer much. Your posts are no better than the next three, you would think you would have more to offer? Reality is you know there are valid points of discussion around the testing. To shut the door on that is nothing but pure ignorance or its purposeful to avoid an actual discussion. I would assume for yourself, you fall it to the purposeful category. The next three posts, ignorance most definitely.


There are no points here to have a discussion around? Interesting.
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aparch said:
Yup. It's pretty amazing when he goes on those PCR rants.... i have zero medical knowledge and even I'm like "that doesn't sound right."

I'd rather hear about that from those in the field who have a clue (like you, Les, and others here).
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Come on everyone is an expert on sensitivity and specificity
 
To be fair, my knowledge of microbiology testing comes second hand from my father (he's a compliance officer at a private testing lab) and my own research when I was managing lab orders and their interface with Quest. I talked to our hospitals lab director about it one day (she was impressed that a systems analyst was so curious), specifically PCR vs. serology tests and what's the difference between IgG and IgA and IgWhatever. I admit it's barely above high school micro level understanding, but I'd wager that's far higher than trollbot's understanding is.
 
Swansong said:
To be fair, my knowledge of microbiology testing comes second hand from my father (he's a compliance officer at a private testing lab) and my own research when I was managing lab orders and their interface with Quest. I talked to our hospitals lab director about it one day (she was impressed that a systems analyst was so curious), specifically PCR vs. serology tests and what's the difference between IgG and IgA and IgWhatever. I admit it's barely above high school micro level understanding, but I'd wager that's far higher than trollbot's understanding is.
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Good post! Taking the time to respond but sticking with the quips, got it.

There are no points here to have a discussion around?
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Even Captain Kool-Aid (Dump) is on tape admitting this virus is deadly and easily spread. But, let's all just complain about some shit about false positives.
 
When you've got absolutely no legitimate reason to question the facts at hand, it's best to cling to something utterly irrelevant in the scheme of things and bludgeon that one tiny fact to death, without offering any context whatsoever.

It's the anti-vax playbook. It doesn't matter what "common side effects include" actually means in a clinical sense when you can just say "ReAd TeH INsErt!"
 
Swansong said:
When you've got absolutely no legitimate reason to question the facts at hand, it's best to cling to something utterly irrelevant in the scheme of things and bludgeon that one tiny fact to death, without offering any context whatsoever.

It's the anti-vax playbook. It doesn't matter what "common side effects include" actually means in a clinical sense when you can just say "ReAd TeH INsErt!"
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So hospitalizations are down, ICU is down and deaths are down and the only thing being harped in the media is "cases." Wouldn't context mean discussing what "cases" means and the application which they are being derived from?

And if different Countries are using different Cycle Thresholds wouldn't that lead to different types of data about "Cases."
 
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