Thank you for this, John, and for the increasingly blunt conclusions. I had a crack at tackling this matter by taking on his Holiness the Great Mirrorholder (Spiegelhalter) on this very subject (and comparing PCRs to LFTs) after a rather (I thought) absurd article he had published in the Observer: https://reaction.life/mass-testing-is-it-worth-it/: "In short, the testing frenzy that has engulfed the UK has resulted — predictably — in a blizzard of false positives and negatives. What does it all mean, apart from a stupendous amount of money being funnelled away from primary care and in the direction of diagnostic test providers? ... Perhaps it is time for a David to slay the Operation Moonshot goliath… or is mass community testing now an untouchable shibboleth?".
Thanks. This is important work. This was one of the important mechanisms that created the covid panic. Never forget.
Thank you for this, John, and for the increasingly blunt conclusions. I had a crack at tackling this matter by taking on his Holiness the Great Mirrorholder (Spiegelhalter) on this very subject (and comparing PCRs to LFTs) after a rather (I thought) absurd article he had published in the Observer: https://reaction.life/mass-testing-is-it-worth-it/: "In short, the testing frenzy that has engulfed the UK has resulted — predictably — in a blizzard of false positives and negatives. What does it all mean, apart from a stupendous amount of money being funnelled away from primary care and in the direction of diagnostic test providers? ... Perhaps it is time for a David to slay the Operation Moonshot goliath… or is mass community testing now an untouchable shibboleth?".