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[–] rickki6 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Yup

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[–] tweety51 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Yes yes yes!

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[–] numina18 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

That wouldn't hurt enough.

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[–] Silver_Sky 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Playing devils advocate, the higher concentration of the virus that they can test, the more likely the test will give an accurate result. Accurately testing for the virus in a water solution 100% saturated with viral particles is easier than accurately testing for the virus on one of these bore cleaner q tips. If you were to bkow on the thing, you would likely only deposit a few tens of thousands of viral particals - enough to make someine sick, but that's an astronomically small amount of mass to test for. Roughly speaking, these viruses are 10-100 nano meters in size IIRC which is much closer to being the size of a single atom than to the size of a human cell. I know a lot of these tests rely on decomposing the viruses DNA, RNA, or proteins and watching for them to bind to chemicals, and a very real problem with this kind of testing is not having enough viral material to get over the activation threshold of the testing chemicals, therefore you need to get a dense sample to guarantee accurate results. Now, whether or not these tests are accurate is another question...

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[–] alphazebra 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

See my response to @4therepublic above

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[–] A_Punkass_Bitch 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

need a big sample for tests to detect it

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[–] Whentwurf 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

THATS BULLSHIT THEY ARE JUST SEALING MY BODILY FLUIDS

VIRUSHOAX

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[–] corrbrick ago 

Every cycle of a PCR test doubles the amount of RNA present. That's it's whole purpose -- it's for manufacturing, but has been hi-jacked for testing.

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[–] JJS1 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I was forced into being tested or I couldn't receive my operation. Pissed ne off

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[–] ghost_of_aswartz 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Because ambient air doesn't contain antibodies

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[–] ghost_of_aswartz 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

which is what they are testing for

If they test for RNA fragments, using a PCR (rna/dna fragment mass copy duplicator), then the results are scientifically meaningless and the test is invalid

why? Because RNA fragments are NOT a virus, and rna fragments in the coronavirus are also in hiv, and many other retroviruses. You could have fragments floating around and have several different, related viruses (such as other human coronaviruses, even sars (SARS-1) for example, and not have SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19 / 'the corona' or 'rona')

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[–] ghost_of_aswartz 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

And they can't test your genome (dna sequence) because though coronavirus is an RNA virus as is HIV, unlike HIV it's not a retrovirus and therefore doesn't write itself into your DNA.

My point is that it's harder to accurately test for COVID19 than HIV and others

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[–] corrbrick ago 

Yes to this a thousand times!

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[–] avanti 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Worth watching

(I like the fact that it's Q minutes long.)

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