Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that parents should “be prepared” for the possibility of schools shutting down “as early as Monday” as the city’s rolling positivity rate continued to climb towards the key benchmark of 3%.
The mayor said the city will “immediately alert parents” if public schools plan to close, and he’s urging families to plan for that potential announcement as soon as this weekend.
“People should get ready,” de Blasio said in a radio interview. “This is not something any parent wants to deal with. But we should get ready. And parents should have a plan for the rest of the month of November. I think that’s the safe way to think about it. Have an alternative plan beginning as early as Monday for whatever will help them get through this month if school is not open.”
De Blasio said updates would be provided on Saturday and Sunday mornings as soon as the new indicators come in.
The mayor said the city’s positivity rate on a seven-day rolling average rose to 2.83% Friday, up from 2.6% reported Thursday.
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Anything that prevents the spread of the magaifah should be fully backed and praised!
https://thehighwire.com/false-positive-covid-tests-will-extend-unjustified-lockdowns-fauci-admits-miniscule-accuracy/
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The polymerase chain reaction (or PCR test), amplifies viral RNA using multiple cycles to produce a detectable amount. The cycle threshold (CT) value is the number of cycles necessary to spot the virus. The false positives come down to a question of testing cycles.
From the NY Times: “Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37…The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations.”…
Fauci added, “If you get a cycle threshold of 35 or more that the chances of it being replication competent are miniscule….You almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshhold cycle. So I think if someone does come in with a 37…38, even 36, ya gotta say, ya know, it’s just dead nucleotides. Period.”
After hearing Fauci, the next logical question for populations being held under lock and key is: What cycle thresholds are being run on the current Covid tests?
Investigative journalist Jon Rappoport writes, “What Fauci failed to say on the video is: the FDA, which authorizes the test for public use, recommends the test should be run up to 40 cycles. Not 35. Therefore, all labs in the US that follow the FDA guideline are knowingly or unknowingly participating in fraud.”
The NY Times investigation confirmed that officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab identified positive tests based on a threshold of 40 cycles. Likewise in Massachusetts, “from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles,” writes the NY Times.