this is why - and i have said that from the very beginning when the testing at home began - the tests have NO STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
i am a physicist (MSc working towards PhD) so i know quite a share about statistics, significance and how to interprete data and numbers. i also know a little about chemistry. these tests being done by laymen was (((their))) plan to inflate numbers. you have so many crossreactions between seemingly unrelated substances, that you can literally fabricate your positive test result if you want. i know of some cases that did exactly that to get paid days off of work.
even here in germany, the OFFICIAL tests that are done by """professionals""" dont test your bloodsugar before to prove you came on empty stomach. all i need to do for a positive test is to drink some ice tea before the test, then i get sent home for quarantine and im officially another count in the covid 19 statistic.
bloodsugar is basically showing if you have an empty stomach or if you had food earlier. usually you shouldnt eat anything 1 hour before the test, but people dont give a fuck so they get all these false positives.
Yes there are plenty crossreactions of the tests, as you can see in the picture of OP. Imagine chugging a liter of that Kia Ora juice and then doing a throat swab.
I would like to point out that there are many ways to fake out chemical tests.
Chinese milk producers famously sold fake milk, so the government mandated a chemical test for a particular protein found in milk. Chemists discovered that melamine would fake out the test, i.e. cause the fake milk to "test positive" as being real milk. Hundreds of babies and children died from ingesting the tainted milk.
The COVID PCR test is not a blood test. The sample is gathered by swabbing your nostrils. You can contaminate your nostrils quite easily. Children had figured out that you could get a positive test using lemon juice so they would do that to get out of going to school.
That looks to me like an antigen test, not a PCR test. And they are done with blood samples.
[edit] Never mind, the blood tests are for the covid antibodies. I've done a few of which, forgot which was which. But still, the same points apply. They are meant to be used with mucus, not with other things.
Many times the tests are self-administered. The last two times I have gotten a PCR test, I was told to do the swab myself and I did it with nobody watching me. Your points are irrelevant - it does not matter how these tests are supposed to work if they are so easy to game. These PCR tests are very very easy to get whatever desired result you want - negative or positive. Kind of like the 2020 Presidential election.
They have eyes but cannot see.
They're potatoes!
this is why - and i have said that from the very beginning when the testing at home began - the tests have NO STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
i am a physicist (MSc working towards PhD) so i know quite a share about statistics, significance and how to interprete data and numbers. i also know a little about chemistry. these tests being done by laymen was (((their))) plan to inflate numbers. you have so many crossreactions between seemingly unrelated substances, that you can literally fabricate your positive test result if you want. i know of some cases that did exactly that to get paid days off of work.
even here in germany, the OFFICIAL tests that are done by """professionals""" dont test your bloodsugar before to prove you came on empty stomach. all i need to do for a positive test is to drink some ice tea before the test, then i get sent home for quarantine and im officially another count in the covid 19 statistic.
this is an absolute disgrace
wait wait wait, can you please explain for the dummies in the back how your bloodsugar affect the covid tests?
bloodsugar is basically showing if you have an empty stomach or if you had food earlier. usually you shouldnt eat anything 1 hour before the test, but people dont give a fuck so they get all these false positives.
But how does it throw off the test? Food particles fuck up the chemistry or something?
Yes there are plenty crossreactions of the tests, as you can see in the picture of OP. Imagine chugging a liter of that Kia Ora juice and then doing a throat swab.
I would like to point out that there are many ways to fake out chemical tests.
Chinese milk producers famously sold fake milk, so the government mandated a chemical test for a particular protein found in milk. Chemists discovered that melamine would fake out the test, i.e. cause the fake milk to "test positive" as being real milk. Hundreds of babies and children died from ingesting the tainted milk.
Aha, this proves that milk is just a hoax!
No, it means the test was useless.
Touche.
(But think about it, the test actually stopped a lot of fake milk from making it to market before some companies started adding melamine.)
Not sure what this proves. The purpose of the tests is to test blood. If you put things other than blood in it you will get all kind of results.
The COVID PCR test is not a blood test. The sample is gathered by swabbing your nostrils. You can contaminate your nostrils quite easily. Children had figured out that you could get a positive test using lemon juice so they would do that to get out of going to school.
That looks to me like an antigen test, not a PCR test. And they are done with blood samples. [edit] Never mind, the blood tests are for the covid antibodies. I've done a few of which, forgot which was which. But still, the same points apply. They are meant to be used with mucus, not with other things.
Many times the tests are self-administered. The last two times I have gotten a PCR test, I was told to do the swab myself and I did it with nobody watching me. Your points are irrelevant - it does not matter how these tests are supposed to work if they are so easy to game. These PCR tests are very very easy to get whatever desired result you want - negative or positive. Kind of like the 2020 Presidential election.
They're not blood tests you fucking idiot
Well, the blood should be properly collected. Any device if improperly used can malfunction.