Yes, that would be the same PCR test that we use here in Texas and AMPLIFY FORTY-TWO TIMES!
Portuguese court rules that a PCR test is not a reliable basis for “proving” a covid infection and cannot be the lawful basis for forced quarantine.
They cite (gasp) actual science.
The media reaction to this case has been entirely predictable – they have not mentioned it. At all. Anywhere. Ever.
Most importantly, the judges ruled that a single positive PCR test cannot be used as an effective diagnosis of infection.
In their ruling, judges Margarida Ramos de Almeida and Ana Paramés referred to several scientific studies.
Most notably this study by Jaafar et al., which found that – when running PCR tests with 35 cycles or more – the accuracy dropped to 3%, meaning up to 97% of positive results could be false positives.
The ruling goes on to conclude that, based on the science they read, any PCR test using over 25 cycles is totally unreliable.
Governments and private labs have been very tight-lipped about the exact number of cycles they run when PCR testing, but it is known to sometimes be as high as 45.
Even fearmonger-in-chief Anthony Fauci has publicly stated anything over 35 is totally unusable.
Yet here in Lampasas County – and all over Texas – we are using FORTY-TWO amplifications. Most of the scary “75 active cases” bullshit you hear is just that: total bullshit. Most of those people have zero symptoms because the amount of virus in their blood is so minuscule as to be meaningless. These people are not “sick” in the true sense of the word…and they sure as hell aren’t infectious.
Of course, science never got in the way of Chicken Littles like Jennifer Moreno and Melissa Johnson from freaking out and demanding we follow their ridiculous orders.