https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/292952 Austria: Live PCR test in Parliament: Coca Cola tests COVID-19 positive Austrian MP administers COVID-19 PCR test to beverage Coca Cola in plenum before colleagues. Popular drink tests positive for COVID-19. Austrian FPÖ Member of Parliament Michael Schnedlitz administered a COVID-19 PCR test to the beverage Coca Cola in the plenum before his colleagues. The popular drink tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. He said he was performing the test live before parliament: "so you can see how worthless and misguided these mass tests are." He continued: "The evidence is overwhelming, starting with the absolutely absurd mass tests that are currently being carried out, which are nothing more than a large-scale redistribution of tens of millions of euros in tax money from the population...it can't go on like this." Schnedlitz later wrote on his Facebook page: “The coronavirus mass tests are worthless! This was also shown by a simple experiment in parliament, in which cola got a positive result! But this government spends tens of millions in taxpayers' money for precisely these tests."
More fake stupidity.... you really should fact check before you post this nonsense. This clown deliberately did not follow the instructions to create a fake political talking point. Fact check: Coca-Cola does not cause a positive COVID-19 test https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...ot-cause-apositivecovid-19-test-idUSKBN28W20Q Social media users have been sharing content online showing Michael Schnedlitz, a member of the National Council of Austria, using a COVID-19 test on a glass of Coca-Cola and the results appearing to be positive. This claim is false: if done correctly, COVID-19 tests will not produce a positive result with Coca-Cola. Posts making the claim can be seen here and here . One post’s description reads: “The most popular soft drink in the world (COKE) tested positive for COVID right in front of Parliament. Y’all allowed the government to strip almost a year of your lives away along with freedoms. Link in comments.” Most posts link to images from a video taken from a speech Schnedlitz gave in the Austrian parliament on Dec. 10, 2020 (here). The video, posted by Schnedlitz (here), explains that he conducted a COVID-19 rapid antigen test on a glass of Coca-Cola live in parliament. He says the test showed a positive result and was therefore evidence that mass testing for COVID-19 is worthless, as can be seen from subtitles in a post featuring the video here . Dialab, the company that manufactured the rapid antigen test, addressed the video on its Facebook and YouTube pages ( here , youtu.be/CMcUzvrn75E ). The test in Schnedlitz’s video and Dialab’s video appears to be the same, both showing a dark blue underside. Dialab explains in its posts that Schnedlitz conducted the test incorrectly, leading to a positive result. The company demonstrated in the videos how to carry out the test correctly with Coca-Cola, which leads to a negative result. The YouTube video’s description explains that the sample, in this case Coca-Cola, was not swirled with the buffer, which is essential to keep the pH value constant in order to conduct the test correctly. When the sample is not swirled with the buffer, the antibody proteins of the test are destroyed, showing the positive marker. “This result would also be expected from any other manufacturer in such an application,” Dialab explains in its YouTube video. “If you had used the test properly, as described in the package insert, the test would be negative.” Dialab recommends that these types of tests should always be performed by trained professionals to avoid false results. The buffer is explained as a step in test instructions from various organizations and manufacturers here , here and here . VERDICT False. The test was carried out incorrectly, missing an essential step, which led to a positive result. It is not evidence that Coca-Cola produces a positive COVID-19 result. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .
I don't know.. the poeple I spoke with who got it told me they have no idea how they got it. More often than not, it was not a close person but some random contact so no way to go back in memory time and see if they remember them looking sick or whatever. One weakness of contract tracing for many is there really is no way to know where some got it. One neighbor I mentioned has an autistic son and rarely goes out except usual grocery runs so has no clue. Other neighbor claims maybe at grocery but also had workers doing construction on an addition so basically no real idea where it came from...
Federal Judge Scorches Gov. Kristi Noem Over COVID Response https://www.thedailybeast.com/feder...th-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-over-covid-response A federal judge took a rhetorical blowtorch to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, saying in a ruling this week that the state has done “little, if anything” to stop COVID-19 from ravaging the state. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports that U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann ordered a state court to stop using the pandemic as an excuse to delay a defendant’s trial. Then he went after the state’s response to the crisis itself. “South Dakota has done little, if anything, to curtail the spread of the virus,” he wrote. “South Dakota cannot ‘take advantage’ of its own failures to follow scientific facts and safeguards in entering blanket denials of the rights of speedy trials.” Noem has opposed mask mandates and other lockdown measures, even as her state racked up one of the worst per capita infection rates in the country. “Her example significantly encourages south Dakotans to not wear masks,” the judge wrote. “South Dakota is now a very dangerous place in which to live due to the spread of COVID-19.” Read it at Argus Leader
Epidemiologist Warns a Covid-19 ‘Hurricane Is Coming’ With New Variant “We still want to get two [vaccine] doses in everyone, but I think right now, in advance of this surge, we need to get as many one-doses in as many people over 65 as we possibly can,” Dr. Michael Osterholm said in an interview with Chuck Todd https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...gist-warns-covid-19-hurricane-coming-1121577/ Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm issued dire warnings about the potential spread of the new, more contagious Covid-19 variants, saying that they could produce a surge of cases in the United States to levels “we have not seen yet in this country.” Dr. Osterholm, who is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a member of President Biden’s transition team advising on coronavirus, told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd that he expects to see cases of the new Covid-19 variants to surge “in the next six to 14 weeks.” As a result, he said the US may need to execute a major shift its vaccine strategy, focusing on administering the first dose of the vaccine to as many people as possible instead of trying to get people their second doses. “We still want to get two doses in everyone, but I think right now, in advance of this surge, we need to get as many one-doses in as many people over 65 as we possibly can, to reduce serious illness and deaths that are going to occur over the weeks ahead,” Osterholm said. Osterholm predicted that B117, the more contagious strain of the virus that is sweeping England and has been found in pockets of the United States, will become the dominant strain of the virus in the country. “If we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country,” he said. “That hurricane is coming. We have to understand that because of this surge, we do have to call an audible.” The epidemiologist said if we see a surge of the new variant this spring, it will be worse than the previous surges. “We saw our health care system literally on the edge of not being able to provide care,” Osterholm said. “Imagine if we have what has happened in England, twice as many of those cases. That’s what we have to prepare for now.” There is one bit of good news with the strain from England, however. So far the vaccines seem to be relatively effective in combatting B117. “Fortunately, that [B117 strain] has not shown its ability to evade the protection from the vaccine,” he said. “But its ability to cause many more infections and much more serious illness is there.” Other variants, such as those seen in South Africa and Brazil, Osterholm said, present other potential concerns because they “may, in fact, lead to evasion of the immune protection from either natural disease or from [the] vaccine.” But, Osterholm pointed out, in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine trial in South Africa, “No one who had the variant infection who was vaccinated died. So it may actually attenuate the serious illness and not just fully prevent it.” Osterholm stressed that he knows many are feeling pandemic fatigue as well as economic strain, which has led some states to loosen restrictions on activities like indoor dining. But with the new virus strains, Osterholm believes those openings will soon be reversed. “As fast as we’re opening restaurants, we’re likely going to be closing them in the near term,” he said. So how can you protect yourself? Osterholm recommended focusing on simple things you can do, like wearing a mask that fits and wearing it properly. “One thing that’s really, to me, very important is we see up to 25% of people who wear [their mask] under their nose,” he said. “You know, that’s like fixing three of the five doors in your submarine… We’ve got to get people to start using these right. That would help right there tremendously.”
You actually posted this kind of garbage. Why should you not be cancelled? South Dakota sits at 20th and North Dakota sits at 28th,
Are you stating at the time the article was posted the Dakotas were not among the worst in the world?
Excuse me. You were asked to provide your vaccination status several times, but have refused to do so.