https://trusttheevidence.substack.co...ion-riddle-7a8


Interestingly another Conspiracy that’s true


So, yet again, we’re left with authoritarian advice that isn’t backed up by the evidence. It is not the first time we have come across the problem of evidence-free assertions. In 2020, we did not realise that “cases” were defined as PCR positivity alone (or other tests) in symptomatic people without any reference to viral load or the properties of the tests.

Therefore, we asked those responsible for pandemic management in Lombardy to test for the presence of other agents, which could partly explain the spread and seeming lethality of SARS-CoV-2. Unfortunately, because of political interference, our requests fell on deaf ears; we will probably never know what else was circulating at the time.

By the end of 2022, over 6.5 billion SARs-CoV-2 tests were done worldwide, pretty close to a test for everyone on the planet if you count all discarded. The US had done over a billion, the highest of any country; the UK, half a billion. Such use, on an industrial scale, is unprecedented and has helped distort perceptions, as we shall discuss in subsequent posts.