that the confirmation of covid is not by pure PCR
its actually if you simplify it down a 3 step process and PCR is the middle part
when saying PCR alone wont confirm covid. that is true. because it needs steps before PCR and steps after PCR to be the full confirming test parameters
once badecker remembers that he has been told that its the chemicals to isolate the virus(1) the PCR to replicate them(2) the chemicals to test for them(3)
that stage 2 alone wont work as it doesnt know what its replicating and doesnt then verify its replicated what it should have
stage 1 and 3 do that
and thats the stupid thing badecker and his fellow clowns keep avoiding. the fact that a covid test is much more than just (2)pcr
there is actually more risk of fault/error at stages 1 and 3 than at stage 2. and if badecker realised the stages involved he would understand how important it is to get stages 1 and 3 right because 1 and 3 are the important parts..
its like making a cake the important parts are the ingrediants and the icing afterwards
you can make a cake in many different ovens or even microwaves but if the ingredients are not right it wont make a cake. and if the icing after aint right it wont look like a cake
badecker this and is trying to suggest that a specific oven is the main ingrediant sorry. but no and if a oven is branded as roaast dinner oven then is should never be used to bake a cake
not relaising the secret to baking a cake is in the ingrediants and the icing..
the other part of the "scientifically meaningless" is that having covid or not is real. but the test has no context of informing if that person being tested is severly symptomatic or just a cough or assymptomatic. thus the test alone doesnt help scientists work out the severity of sickness
so the test combined with data of another source of things like hospitalisation rates is more helpful as combined info
yes more tests = more people having it. but when combining it with hospitalisation data.
(take UK stats of ~800 a day test positive and 150 hospitalised = 18% severity of those tested)
thus the data of covid tests becomes more meaningful when used in combination with other data
When you have 100% Covid indicated by PCR, the other steps don't matter.