By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – July 29, 2021 Can our Medical Community, the Media, the Government, the social media monopoly ever be trusted to be honest with the public again? With deceit and dishonesty exposed and beginning to unravel the great end of the world panic over Covid-19, will citizens of this nation begin to stand up and demand a more rational approach to viruses in the future and an end to the current intrusions into their lives by a nanny state government? The Centers for Disease Control is ending its reliance on PCR tests to determine whether or not a person has Covid-19 on December 31,2021. If the primary test, the "gold standard" for Covid, does not work as advertised, why wait for six months? For that matter, why was the PCR test primed and ready for use in February of 2020 before we even knew we had a problem with this virus? Why was there almost an immediate call for this test to be utilized in wide scale application when so little was known about Covid-19? And what happened to tests are but a tool for the medical practitioner to work his or her magic? Drive up testing, does any one remember? Money, power maybe? The testing industry was a huge money maker for certain people well over a billion dollars per day. You do not have to be a scientist or even a medical practitioner to begin the laundry list of questions that need to be asked of the Media experts, our government bureaucracy, those in social media, our medical community, and even those that regularly give us the doomsday count 22, I believe this week, 2 in hospital and 8 total deaths. If the PCR test is faulty and can't distinguish Covid from other viruses, what do the numbers even mean? How serious is our experience with Covid? Where did influenza go? Are Influenza numbers mingled with those purported to be Covid-19 as has been reported? Did the over all deaths reported in 2020 sharply decline? Did the elderly really die in record numbers from Covid, or were those deaths from causes commonly associated with being old and not Covid-19? Were people who tested positive for Covid with no symptoms actually infected and able to transmit the infection to others? All good questions that should have already been answered, but no, the federal government, some states, and some local municipalities are set to turn the clock back with mandates for vaccines, masking, distancing, reduced capacity for businesses and public events, which leaves us all where? Public Officials should not base restrictions on positive PCR tests, or any Covid test for that matter. More and more experts are demanding that misuse of PCR tests are revealing large numbers of false positives. That coupled with the recording of single individuals having multiple tests recorded as "new" positives completely distorts the level of actual infections. With the news of the PCR test being unreliable, it is difficult to understand why public policy to squander individual constitutional rights and depress the economy has continued to be acceptable. If those who continue to base decisions on the "test only model" are allowed to continue, we will never reach a state of normalcy. Aside from the unreliability of the testing model, too many other issues have cropped up that also affect the reliance on the PCR test. There continue to be defenders of this specific test, yet there does not appear to be anything scientific about their arguments. Most rely on "shooting the messenger" and not anything that guarantees an acceptable explanation for any of the troubles testing is experiencing. The PCR test relies on very careful handling of the sample and precise procedures carried out in the laboratory. This has not happened on the scale it is being attempted. It is foolish to say that mass testing can be equivalent to scientific testing in a science lab. With the under pinnings of the Covid Pandemic on life support due to short comings of the mass testing regiment, it is important to realize that flu season occupied our minds every fall for hundreds of years. If testing was the solution for getting a handle on how the flu season could be approached, don't you think government would have already applied such a handy mechanism of control. This is a new world we have entered and not for the good of the people. It has long exhausted the use of "state of emergency" to the point where health safety should be returned to individuals. How we respond today will go a long ways towards how we respond to the next "state of emergency".