DV #83: Can We Trust COVID Tests?
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The New York Times has a new article that is raising questions about the accuracy and effectiveness of COVID testing. Many are wondering if tests might be too sensitive and are leading to positive test results for people who have insignificant amounts of the virus and are likely not even contagious. We go over what that might mean and how the New York Times is (as always) burying the lede.
And there's no shortage of hypocrisy from pro-lockdown politicians! We bring you two stories of politicians in the northeast who are defying their own COVID rules.
Also on today's episode - we visit some more shameless angling from the New York Times who is trying to pin every COVID death on Trump with every word they write. We breakdown the latest maddening article.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Anne McElheny. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Philem McAleer and welcome to the Anne and Philom Scoop, Dilley virus. |
| 0:13.7 | Where we discuss the latest news, views, advice in the pandemic. |
| 0:17.4 | It is Tuesday, September the 1st, week 24. |
| 0:21.6 | That's six months of the two-week flatten the curve lockdown. |
| 0:25.6 | Philan, what are we talking about today? |
| 0:27.6 | Well, I want to talk about, first of all, I want to talk about it. |
| 0:29.6 | Yes, I want to emphasize we were lied to by the Chinese that allowed the virus to come here, |
| 0:36.6 | and then we were lied to when we were told it was |
| 0:39.3 | going to be a lockdown for two weeks to flatten the curve now it's to crush the curve we were |
| 0:44.1 | sold a pop and were paying the consequences don't trust government so what are we talking about |
| 0:49.8 | today apart from that so LA decides science doesn't matter less let's mess a little more |
| 0:57.5 | people's lives because we can and then we're going to also talk a kind of a |
| 1:04.2 | bomb-shell report from the New York Times most COVID cases are non-contagious |
| 1:10.2 | that's what they've most of the the positive tests, they shouldn't even mean positive, not even non-contagious, but completely non-symptomatic. |
| 1:18.6 | So should the lockdown have happened? |
| 1:21.6 | New York Times isn't asking that, we'll be asking that. |
| 1:24.6 | We also ask why, you know, we also look at the latest example of why |
| 1:28.8 | rules are for little people not for the big people and you know would you please stop asking |
| 1:35.9 | awkward questions and for the elites to follow the rules it's really unseemly and new york |
| 1:41.1 | of course has gone to the dogs, and so has Governor Cuomo. |
| 1:44.9 | And again, when he goes to the dogs, the rules don't apply to him. |
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