How to get an endless pandemic:

1. Use a test that detects fragments of the virus and then designate every positive test as a "case."
2. Test at a massive scale, including people who are asymptomatic.

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3. Issue guidance that every death with a positive test should be counted as a COVID death.

These are surveillance tools that have morphed into tools for control of every part of our lives.

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Now that the metrics are being used as evidence that we need to stay locked down and wear masks, we need more accurate tests (lower cycle threshold) and more scrutiny of primary causes of deaths.

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The number of people who died after a positive test is irrelevant.

What we need to know is how many people are dying who wouldn't already have died in the next couple of months - and we need to know more about why COVID killed them when so many illnesses are mild.

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