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We have learned that people who are asymptomatic can, cannot, can, cannot, can, cannot, can... spread the virus.
That the accuracy of PCR antigen testing is brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless, brilliant, useless.
That false positive tests are impossible, common, impossible, common, impossible, common.
That facemasks are useless, necessary, useless, necessary, useless... absolutely necessary.
We also know that some people are, are not, are, are not are, naturally immune. In addition, we know that having had COVID means that you can, cannot, can, cannot, can cannot - maybe you can, frankly who knows, get it again. I think Kurt Vonnegut Junior put it best:
We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.
I like to think I have some expertise in reading medical research papers, then trying to work out what they really mean, rather than what they say they mean. I even gritted my teeth and wrote the book
Doctoring Data in order to help people understand the endless games and manipulations that are played with research studies.
I analysed the power of money to distort research findings, in ways such that black can be magically turned into white.
Comment: These kinds of cases are in the news a lot recently but it's not clear whether this is a reflection of the deteriorating state of people's health, rising pollution and toxins, whether changes in the environment are to blame, or whether it's all of the above or something else is at play: