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CDC COVID-19 Testing Contaminated With COVID-19

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/cdc-coronavirus-lab-contamination-testing.

Fallout from the agency’s failed rollout of national coronavirus kits two months ago continues to haunt U.S. efforts to combat the spread of the highly infectious virus.
Credit…Audra Melton for The New York Times

Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.

Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs, according to the Food and Drug Administration.  (See link for article)

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This is just rich. On March 21 I posted that COVID-19 testing is riddled with problems:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/21/study-shows-covid-19-testing-as-bad-as-lyme-msids-testing/

Since I checked over a month ago, this is what the actual CDC website states about its COVID-19 test – up to today:

International Reagent Resource (IRR) began distribution of the test kits to states, but shortly thereafter performance issues were identified related to a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents which led to laboratories not being able to verify the test performance.  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/testing.html?

Now, does that sound like their very tests are contaminated with the virus they are looking for?  No?  I didn’t think so.

On April 4, I also posted that this test contamination occurred in the UK:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-testing-kits-heading-to-the-uk-found-to-be-contaminated-with-covid-19/  Now I’m wondering where their test kits were made!

Key quote on the finding by a FDA expert on the CDC:

He found an astonishing lack of expertise in commercial manufacturing and learned that nobody was in charge of the entire process, they said.

No! Say it isn’t so!

This lack of scientific rigor to laboratory standards is rife within the CDC. The entire organization lacks any credibility as Lyme patients are well aware, due to their mishandling Lyme/MSIDS for over 40 years – along with everything else they touch.  

In the article we learn that:

  • researchers came and went without changing their coats
  • tested ingredients in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples
The only reason we learn of this debacle is after media outlets requested public disclosure.
CDC labs are currently embroiled in a federal investigation by the Department of HHS.

All I can say is it’s about time.

Don’t ever expect the CDC to come clean on anything. They have lied so often they believe their own lies:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/03/cdc-centers-for-damaged-credibility/ A literal rap-sheet on CDC lies – although far from complete.

The article also notes that the FDA is under fire for not initially allowing commercial labs to create their own tests. This is a common problem in the US. The direct competition between our federal government and the private sector regarding testing for public health. Until this is addressed, we will continue to see more fraud and collusion:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/cdcs-deadly-testing-fiasco-centralization-of-public-health-authority-a-threat-to-national-security/

For a long read on CDC blame games and interagency problems:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-chiefs-early-missteps-set-back-coronavirus-response-11587570514 Key quote:

In recent weeks, some administration officials have become so concerned about the lack of agency coordination that the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council began convening his own meetings with agency leaders at HHS, including from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS.

BTW: The two players in this power squabble consist of Dr. Azar who was top lobbyist for Eli Lilly & Co., an Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical company, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC who was under investigation for research fraud: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/10/dod-leak-birx-cdc-director-investigated-for-scientific-fraud-misconduct/

So there you have it folks.  More of the same from the HHS, from which the CDC stems.

The CDC’s abysmal handling of testing is directly behind our current plight. We can thank them for the stay at home orders which possibly could have been avoided all together or rationed to those who are immunocompromised.

 

The Biggest Next Battle on COVID-19 That You Don’t Know Your Position On Yet

The BIGGEST Next Battle on COVID-19 That You Don’t Know Your Position On Yet

by jameslyonsweiler

4/20/2020

BY ANY ESTIMATION, I have been reliably and consistently 30 to 45 days ahead of the curve on issues related to COVID-19. That’s the benefit of having done independent research leading to a book on Ebola. I called for social distancing before anyone knew why I was proposing that we not place our hands above our shoulders in public, stop shaking hands, and stop attending large gatherings. I nailed it in my revised hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was likely a laboratory escape, but not man-made. I’ve recast “Immune Enhancement” more properly as “Pathogenic Priming” – a term all will get used to hearing when Phase I trials become Phase II trials and people start getting infected w/SARS-CoV-2 following vaccination and start dying at even higher rates due to disease enhancement caused by Pathogenic Priming from SARS-CoV-2 vaccination – something the vaccine developers SHOULD have tested for in animal studies, but skipped.

Call it a crystal ball, call it the product of insight of thirty-five years of non-stop learning in all areas of Science that I find merit my attention…

Today, 4/19/2020, I’m publishing that a major battle is brewing that neither side is yet aware of. It’s probably the most controversial aspect of COVID-19 public health policy, personal choice and the urge to “return to normalcy”. People who pick one side will see clearly why they are on one side; people who choose the other side will either be (a) bent on securing a massive revenue stream for allopathy and continuation of the centralization of faux authority on public health at CDC, or (b) so deeply conditioned and already convinced that even while they call for their personal, human, and constitional rights to be secured and defending, that they have already given up to their oppressors as all-mighty, all-powerful, and they will fight against their own best interest thinking they are defending their freedoms.

I’m talking about Private vs. Mandatory testing.

Private. As in SECRET. As in EYES ONLY. YOUR EYES ONLY.

Oh, you may think you have an opinion about this already. If you are against private COVID-19 testing, and you’re new to the topic, trust me, you won’t agree with yourself in a week. It will be a weird week for you. Your mind will feel closed, under attack. It will hurt, a little. That’s cognitive disequilibrium, and it is state of mind in which you are about to learn something.

For me, it’s been a weird two weeks, since I first brought up Private, Non-Compulsory In-Home Antibody Testing in the #IPAKBacktoWork Plan. Why interesting? Because everywhere I discuss it, I get kicked in the ass. For wanting the choice for all. It is me? Is this thing one? CHOICE. FOR ALL. BETTER YET – PRIVATE CHOICE. Not Bill Gate’s option. The IPAK option.

Evidently, post-COVID, major portions of freedom-loving America have already conceded, in their subconcious, the right of the government to test them for COVID-19, at any time, and to report those results to CDC. This portion – who in other settings spend 18 hours a day fighting an increasingly unwinnable fight to preserve the right to determine what we inject into our bodies – are evidently so deeply conditioned on the fallacy that “Testing Means Reporting” that they cannot read the word “Private” without reading “Mandatory”.

I have set up interviews to educate people on Private vs. Compulsory testing. That helped a little.

I’ve spent hours and hours answering questions online with hundreds of people. To little effect.

I’ve written articles explaining in great detail the differences between Private and Clinical testing.

And here I am, again, 12 something AM in the morning, writing another article, fighting the urge to explain yet again.

I won’t win that fight. I’ll give in. Let me try not to, because I’ve already explained it so many other times, so many other articles.

So let me try to unprogram you.

Read this sentence:

“Private (Non-Compulsory) Immunity vs. Mandatory Clinical, Reported Vaccination”

Now read it again, out loud:

“Private (Non-Compulsory) Immunity vs. Mandatory Clinical, Reported Vaccination”

And, take breath, and close your eyes and think of that sentence, and what it means to you for 10 seconds.

Now read this one:

“Private (Non-Compulsory) Testing vs. Mandatory Clinical, Reported Testing”

I hope that help you liberate yourself.

You of course can, and should choose which side of the Private vs. Bill Gates testing you are on. Those who want “NO TESTING!” are covered by the #IPAKBack2Work plan because no one will know if you are testing, or not testing. You’re good. It’s included. For real.

To all, good luck when the battle comes. Because those who want to perpetuate massive profits in allopathy and centralized authority in the CDC are hell-bent and already working to

(1) Force you to test in your home and report.

(2) Force you to carry some proof of immunity.

(3) Restrict your rights to participate in society w/out presenting such proof of immunity (Vaccine Cards, Quantum Dot Tatoos, RFID Nose Rings, whatever).

(4) Transfer all of their new authority – which you gave them because you did not win the decisive battle that will win the war – to all other vaccines.

(5) Outlaw vaccine skepticsm speech. Goodbye CHD. Goodbye ICAN. Goodbye IPAK. Hello, Australian Rules Police State.

DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO SELF-TESTING W/ZERO REPORTING. WHERE THIS GOES DEPENDS 100% ON YOUR ACTIONS. TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS NOW – EMAIL, PHONE AND TELEPHONE CALLS – THAT YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND ABOUT WHEN YOU GO BACK TO WORK BASED ON YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION FROM YOUR PRIVATE TEST.

To those still skeptical if it’s even POSSIBLE to know your own COVID-19 status w/out reporting: That’s Clinical Testing, not Private Testing.

Ever take your own temperature? In the privacy of your own home? Did you report it? Were you compelled to report it? Did you take your temperature “voluntarily”? Or did you just take your temperature.

Non-Compulsory is Not “Voluntary” Voluntary implies participation in a program.

The #IPAKBacktoWork Program defends your personal liberties and rights to #KnowYourStatus without ever having to report it – to anyone.

Do you think Big Pharma and Big Medicine and CDC want you to have that level of autonomy? That level of freedom?

Do you want to know your status? Can you go to CVS or RiteAid and buy a COVID-19 in-home antibody test assay, like you can an EPT?

No.

That’s an option that you cannot exercise.

Because FDA won’t allow it.

I have ZERO financial stake in the game of COVID-19 testing.

No Quid Pro Quo. NADA.

If you do nothing, mandatory testing and all the rest will surely come.

Because FDA does allow that.

Simple. #IPAKBacktoWork.

For those wondering “will we even succeed it we try”?

The answer, of course, is you. Will you do your civic duty to participate in your own self-goverance, or will your fear prevent you from claiming that which is already yours?

It’s 100% up to you. I ask you to do all you can do every day. If you have already done so, thank you. Please share with others. Again and again.

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**Comment**

A “Must Read” for everyone, Weiler presents important civil liberty information regarding the importance of PRIVATE testing in the midst of fear of COVID-19. Please contact your representatives and senators regarding this matter or we may find every part of our lives tracked, recorded, and used against us.  Please take the time.  It’s your freedoms at stake.

I know Wisconsin Governor Evers has repeatedly stated how he does not want to lift restrictions until testing has been done and a vaccine is in place.

 

Predict High Season for Ticks

https://www.easthamptonstar.com/villages-health/2020416/predict-high-season-ticks

Predict High Season for Ticks

A lone star tick, which can be a carrier of human ehrlichiosis and other infections, can be found in the eastern and southern U.S.  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

With consistently warmer weather on the way, and already here on some days, and people out and about enjoying that weather, one particular pest has the potential to cause havoc: ticks.     

Health professionals said this week that symptoms of some tick-borne diseases can mimic those of Covid-19, and an already stressed health care system may not be able to handle an influx of new patients who have been bitten by ticks and get sick.

“It confuses the picture of trying to assess and see if someone is positive for Lyme disease,” said Rebecca Young, a nurse who is the patient navigator for the Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Regional Tick-Borne Disease Research Center. “That’s what a lot of the conversations are about. Because we had a warm winter, I’m sure it will be a high season for ticks, especially since there are so many more people out here for this time of year.”

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Important quote:

Fever, chills, weakness, headaches and body aches, and even respiratory symptoms can occur with the bite of an infected tick. (Not all ticks carry an infection.) Illnesses like Lyme disease, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, Powassan, and others — though not all are present in this region — have symptoms that can overlap with those of Covid-19.     

The doctor interviewed for the piece states that due to current restrictions, treatment for tick-borne illness may be hard to get.  He also states that those who suspect TBI may end up in the E.R. because of the similar symptoms, and get exposed to COVID-19 while there.

For more: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/category/lyme-disease-treatment/

 

Help! I Got Bit By a Tick! What Do I Do?

The following article is a great resource. Please file this away somewhere handy so you can retrieve it if you need it.

https://www.lymedisease.org/tick-bite/

LYME SCI: Help! I’ve gotten a tick bite. Now what?

By Lonnie Marcum

Nov. 2019

We keep being told that early treatment is imperative yet most doctors take the “wait and see” approach which isn’t working. In order to treat each and every tick bite as seriously as a heart attack to avoid perhaps life-long symptoms, I encourage prophylactic treatment.
As you read above, ILADS recommends at least 20 days of doxycycline for an acute tick-bite. It’s important to remember that this mono therapy will not cover many of the confections so it’s important to track symptoms and keep in close contact with your doctor – preferably an ILADS-trained doctor who understand the nuances of treatment.

Dr. Bhattacharya Explains COVID-19 Testing in CA – Many Already Have Antibodies

 Approx. 40 Min

The Fight Against COVID-19: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Recorded on April 17, 2020
A month ago, we interviewed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya just as the COVID-19 crisis was shuttering the economy and governments were ordering citizens to shelter at home. In that interview, Dr. Bhattacharya mentioned that he himself would soon be conducting tests for COVID-19 in Santa Clara County, California, one of the most active hotspots in the country.
Today Dr. Bhattacharya returns to discuss the results of that study and one currently under way in partnership with Major League Baseball.
We also discuss some signs of hope,and specifics about how the economy can be restarted safely and efficiently. Dr. Bhattacharya also gives some (unsolicited) advice to Dr. Anthony Fauci, California governor Gavin Newsom, and president Donald Trump.
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This article explains the study: https://thevaccinereaction.org/2020/04/stanford-study-suggests-covid-19-mortality-rate-similar-to-flu/  The research study is included in the reference section which is a pre-print.
Great video that points out again what we continue to hear – not from mainstream media but from epidemiologists: many people have antibodies to COVID-19 showing that it is far less deadly than we’re being told, and that in fact is about as deadly as the flu. This fact continues to come out of the mouths of world renowned experts who follow disease in the human population for  living.
The bad news, according to Dr. Bhattacharya is that due to the lockdowns, prohibiting people from moving about, far fewer people have antibodies to the virus than normally would- which means we’ve only extended the virus’ stay. 
Dr. Bhattacharya also admits that getting rid of COVID-19 entirely is highly unlikely.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/06/wheres-the-evidence-supporting-the-drastic-measures-against-covid-19/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/16/does-the-coronavirus-exist/