Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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I like how they word it so it's as scary as possible. I'm no expert, but in PCR reactions there are these things called primers. These primers bind to the genetic material you want to copy and amplify. In this case a section of the COVID genetic material. This is what you are testing for, whatever these little primers bind to. Every time the test material gets heat cycled, the genetic material attached to the primers doubles. (that's where the cycle threshhold thing comes from, how many heat cycles). Anyway basically this means the "new mutant" is very different on one of these standard primers they have been using, and has sites so different that it won't bind to them. All that means is they have to redesign the primers for the newer version, it doesn't mean they could "ZOMG ITS UNDECTABLE! RUN!" I hate the media, you know that's how they are going to spin that. I'm so tired of spin. 🤡🌏
The solution would be to design primers that cover a well conserved region of the genome. The trade off of course is that you wouldn't be able to detect SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that differentiate strains of the virus. Alternatively, you could have two primer sets--one to amplify the conserved region, and another to detect a SNP in the variable region.

Source: Did PCR in the lab for 12 years, including 1.5 in a molecular diagnostics company.

P.S. All of this horseshit is basically so that research labs and biotech companies can shake down their sugar daddies (governments and large institutional investors) for more $$$$. But don't mention that or your a backwards anti-science luddite.
 
So I don't know if you guys posted this yet but Wendy Williams was recently interviewed by that hack Dr. Oz.
He asks her:" Are you getting the shot?'
She said no and stated her reasons were that she did not get the flu shot and that she never get's sick. My co-worker who is pregnant also said she is not doing it due to those concerns. Not a concern for me but it is just me and hubby. Who will care for me or him if we have to to working? Nobody.
So unless I can SUE you, I am not taking anything. If I choose to travel I would rather do the J and J.
 
And then Albert Einstein clapped
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"The US needs mandatory masking and restrictions on movement and association like other countries so we can succeed like them!"

*Poland, France, Germany, Italy, etc. going into lockdowns because mandatory masking and restrictions on movement and association haven't done anything, whereas the US is on a significant downswing in cases, deaths, and hospitalizations*

Sometimes it's hard to contain my anger at these absolute smoothbrain retards.
 
"The US needs mandatory masking and restrictions on movement and association like other countries so we can succeed like them!"

*Poland, France, Germany, Italy, etc. going into lockdowns because mandatory masking and restrictions on movement and association haven't done anything, whereas the US is on a significant downswing in cases, deaths, and hospitalizations*

Sometimes it's hard to contain my anger at these absolute smoothbrain retards.

that's the worst - all the smooth brains who want to sit in their home offices / collect covid bucks for another year screeching for more lockdowns / tighter restrictions.

the stuff is here, we should of course not breathe into old people's mouths now but it won't go away. So open shit up and just make sure we don't overwhelm the hospitals... I mean, for that we have the vaccines and we should really work towards some meds....
 
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