An appeals court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR test is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful.
Most importantly, the judges ruled that a PCR test cannot be used as an effective diagnosis of infection.
The specifics of the case concern four tourists entering the country from Germany (all of whom are anonymous in the transcript of the case) who were quarantined by the regional health authority. Of the four, only one had tested positive for the virus, whilst the other three were deemed simply of “high infection risk” based on proximity to the positive individual. All four had, in the previous 72 hours, tested negative for the virus before departing from Germany.
A PCR test is totally unreliable in detecting an infection. Whether positive or negative results are achieved depends upon the number of repetitive cycles (amplifications) the test sample is given. The testing labs run, and re-run, the samples by amplifying them through repetitive amplifications (cycles). Each cycle doubles the sample. The lower the virus concentration in the sample, the more cycles are needed to achieve a positive result. Labs amplify (magnify) the samples 35 to 45 cycles. Whether a test turns out positive or negative depends upon how many cycles they give it. Any sample can show a positive (false positive) when subjected to enough cycles of amplification. Thus, the number of reported “cases” depends solely upon how many people are tested. The more tests and cycles, the more “cases” are reported as “positive” – which means NOTHING. The PCR tests are merely a tool used to inflate the numbers of “cases” and give a false appearance of a pandemic (which doesn’t really exist).
In their ruling, judges referred to several scientific studies.
Most notably this study 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. Every lab technician and sensible doctor knows this.
You can read the complete ruling in the original Portuguese here, and translated into English here. There’s also a good write up on it on Great Game India, plus a Portuguese professor sent a long email about the case to Lockdown Sceptics.
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The media reaction to this case has been entirely predictable – they have not mentioned it. At all. Anywhere. Ever.
The ruling was published on November 11th, and has been referenced by many alt-news sites since…but the mainstream outlets are maintaining a complete blackout on it.
The reddit Covid19 board actually removed the post, because it was “not a reliable source”, despite relying on the official court documents:
This is a victory for common sense over authoritarianism and hysteria.
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