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Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by beerandt on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:00PM (#27973977)
On inauguration day.
Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by apercu on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:05PM (#27974046)
Sure, and it could be political. In fact, most things of this nature are at that level. So, maybe, the people in charge didn't like the previous US government admin so they didn't help improve its numbers.

That is certainly more likely and believable than some vast left-wing conspiracy to implant Bill Gate's microchips in to your iPhone carrying ass to "track" you.

:)

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by leereeves on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:36PM (#27974437)
Instead you're just talking about a left-wing conspiracy to lie to the public in order to take control of the government.

Things like that make people suspicious, and make it easy for people who don't know the difference between a quantum dot[1] and a microchip to misunderstand when Bill Gates calls for a national tracking system[2].

1: (a quantum dot to store medical information beneath the skin really was funded by Bill Gates)

https://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218

2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/03/18/bill-gates...

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by kook_throwaway on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:36PM (#27975183)
>Instead you're just talking about a left-wing conspiracy to lie to the public in order to take control of the government.

To take control of the government or for good PR/propaganda? Governments have never had any issues conspiring and lying to the public, remember when Fauci said not to use masks because they didn't help? Or those WMDs that we will surely find any day now?

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by betwixthewires on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:56PM (#27980112)
I'm not who you're replying to, but I'd like to know, what reason would WHO or anyone else have to maintain a high false positive rate under one admin and correct it for the next, other than to lessen the chances of the previous admin's reelection? It wasn't "good PR" it was bad PR, specifically for the previous admin in an election year. That sounds a lot like "lie to the public in order to take control of government" to me.
Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by apercu on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:49AM (#27997918)
Or using whatever agency they had to direct the US voters towards what they feel is more effect public health policies and stopping millions of unnecessary deaths?

Look, I am not defending anyone, I am saying that _all_ things of this nature are political.

Re:Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after... by naturalauction on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:41PM (#27975940)
Is there evidence that the cdc/other testing labs significantly changed their protocols as a result of this new advice?