@whiteline @arcana prior to the lockdown mongering the medical community considered PCR diagnostics to be garbage consigned to the desperate, and even in those uses (like meningitis diagnoses) the journals considered it unreliable and needing multiple samplings and careful attention to settings. (i checked some pre-covid papers on this just to see what professionals thought of it before they had guns to their heads)

i think the CDC finally started pushing to use a different test because the dam was breaking on how you can just turn the cycle count up and down to find whatever you want to find.

if they're using an actually reliable test this time, good.