COVID-19

Testing

I wanted to write an op-ed on COVID-19 testing, since there was and is a big push for it. Although the big push, now, is for vaccines. But I figured it’s been long enough for the “powers that be” to have this testing thing down pat. Wrong!

In doing research into the, “testing phenomena”, I admit I got overwhelmed. If you go to six different websites, you’ll get six different answers, or no answers at all. For instance: the FDA handed out 200 EUAs, (emergency use authorizations), for diagnostic tests and 100 for Serology tests. HUH????

So, I did a search on what states used what tests. Forget it.

First of all, let me explain that there are three different types of tests.

Diagnostic tests – These tests supposedly reveal if you are currently infected with COVID-19.

Serology tests – These tests supposedly reveal if you have been infected in the past but will not reveal if you are currently infected.

Tests for management of COVID patients – These tests supposedly help to determine what course of treatment to use on a person infected with COVID-19.

Under these categories are a few hundred subcategories that you need a degree of some sort to understand.

Let me explain why I decided to do research into testing in the first place.

My neighbors’ granddaughter tested positive for COVID, isolated for two weeks then tested negative after the two weeks. Thing is she never got sick, nor did anyone in the family get sick including her 5-year-old. Was she “asymptomatic”, as people are quick to point out, or were the tests wrong?

Another friend had a daughter that went into a hospital for an unrelated problem and tested negative when she went in but positive on the way out. What was done? They gave her what I like to refer to as the “Trump Milkshake” and sent her home to her family that included children. Did she get sick? – No. Did her family get sick? – No. So, either the tests were wrong, or the Milkshake works. Will we ever know? I doubt it.

The bottom line is that people are already afraid of this new virus. Enough to do almost anything “the powers that be” tell them to. And the best way to control people is to keep them afraid and make them more afraid.

Do I believe this virus actually exists? Yes, I do. Is it dangerous? Yes, but mostly to the weak and infirmed. Are we over-reacting to the virus, (which I think can also be called politicizing)? Absolutely!  

So, what is the answer? God only knows.

Joe Bayona