HomeMy WebLinkAbout20201117_S Schumacher COVIDFrom:Stephen Schumacher
To:Board of Health
Cc:heidi4commissioner@gmail.com; msandoval@cityofpt.us; dfaber@cityofpt.us; ahoward@cityofpt.us;
aspeser@cityofpt.us; mmickhager@cityofpt.us; orowe@cityofpt.us; Pamela Adams; jmauro@cityofpt.us;
hgreenwood@cityofpt.us
Subject:Data concerns about lockdown justifications
Date:Tuesday, November 17, 2020 2:11:14 AM
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Dear Jefferson County Board of Health,
Please consider whether case statistics may be inflated by
false-positive PCR test results. Look at this message from Harvard
epidemiologist Dr. Mina, who was featured in the Aug. 29 NYTimes
article that revealed PCR coronavirus testing has 90% false positives
when amplified by the 40 Ct cycle threshold specified by the CDC.
http://solmaker.com/public/CulturePositiveVsCt(MichaelMina).png
Dr. Mina spotlights a chart from an important Oct. 24 paper showing
zero viable virus once Ct exceeds 32. Likewise Dr. Fauci admitted on
Jul. 16, "if you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more, chances of it
being replication competent is minuscule... it's just dead
nucleotides, period." And now a Nov. 12 JAMA paper found 97% false
positives, all with Ct of 30 or higher.
This problem may be compounded by cross-reactivity. The cold and flu
season involves different strains of influenza and coronaviruses that
increase high-threshold PCR false positivity even further, which may
explain why cases go up in winter.
What is happening with deaths and hospitalizations? The Nov. 14
NYTimes says "the virus has killed more than 1,000 Americans a day in
the past week... Twice this past week, there have been more than
1,400 deaths reported in a single day."
But the CDC reveals only 240 of these "deaths reported" occurred
during the week ending Nov. 14 (expecting 2,000 for the week
including future reports). The rest occurred weeks or months in the
past (if truly caused by COVID-19 given PCR false positives). CDC
data shows deaths dropped the past 2 weeks and have been generally
declining since Aug. 1.
Contrary to scare stories, American Hospital Association data shows
"occupancy stands at about 70%, which is about 3.1% higher than the
national average from years past", only 7% from COVID-19.
I'm deeply concerned that problematic PCR test thresholds from 35 to
45 are the basis for the world's current casedemic of skyrocketing
asymptomatic false-positive "cases", which are used to justify new
lockdowns despite stable or declining death rates.
Such misguided lockdowns fly in the face of pleas from the World
Health Organization and 12,000 health scientists that lockdowns are a
"ghastly global catastrophe", "cause irreparable damage" especially
to the poor, and "those who are not vulnerable should immediately beallowed to resume life as normal."
Yours truly,Stephen Schumacher2023 E. Sims Way #200Port Townsend, WA 98368
--- Reference links ---
https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1320642676103012352
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download [p. 35-36]
https://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/sections/virology/COVID-19%20Ct%20values_YNHH%20Aug.%202020%20_395430_36854_v1.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1579/5937368
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Vy6fgaBPE [at 4 minutes]
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1327023694024151052
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7570
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2020-11-04T11_31_01-08_00
[at 1:11-1:15]
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/14/world/covid19-coronavirus-updates
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/coronavirus-deaths.html
http://solmaker.com/public/CDC/CDC_weekly_deaths_20-11-16.png
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1325863049010569216
http://solmaker.com/public/LambLag201109.jpg
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1327741012077211648
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1327829256852934658
https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com
https://www.seattlepi.com/coronavirus/article/inslee-coronavirus-washington-warning-restrictions-15722713.php
https://youtu.be/W4PuvmWqp4k
https://gbdeclaration.org
https://Change.org/EndLockdownWA