I recently encountered numerous COVID terror propaganda articles pushing a summer spike in cases, each relying on something called “wastewater surveillance” to make their pronouncements of impending doom.
So I did a little digging into how “wastewater surveillance” for SARS-CoV-2 is actually conducted, and it’s as dubious as I expected it to be.
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But maybe I’m a conspiracy theorist; make up your own mind how accurately a handful of fecal matter samples taken from an enormous reservoir in raw sewage reflect actual rates of COVID infection.
Here the corporate state media is in action, promulgating the terror as only they can based on “wastewater surveillance”:
So how does this ingenious viral monitoring method work?Via World Health Organization (emphasis added):
Twice a week, a team of scientists from South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) traverses the country’s metropolitan areas, visiting up to 50 wastewater treatment sites to fill bottles with effluent. The bottles are sealed and disinfected, then transported to a network of laboratories across the country where their contents will be tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
This kind of wastewater surveillance has been used for decades to detect and monitor the spread of viruses and pathogens including cholera, poliovirus, noroviruses and influenza. Now the emergence of COVID-19 has reiterated its role as a cost-effective tool for disease monitoring and the early detection of community infection.
So do a little sewer-diving — which leftists do recreationally anyway — scoop some random material into a plastic bottle, and head down to the lab for…. Are you ready?... PCR testing!
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Via Water Canada (emphasis added):
“In my lab, we process from raw wastewater and simply centrifuge the samples to collect the pellet (solids) and then extract for RNA [ribonucleic acid]. Although there are minor differences in the exact protocol between labs, the overall process is very similar,” explains Gilbride. “Different variants just require different primers for the RT-qPCR [reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR] step. I think that every RT-qPCR reaction gives us accurate results, and all those using this analytical method get very similar results. However, the variation we see in detection — between samples, between labs, and between sites — is mostly due to the variation in the sample we are testing.*”
*In other words, there’s no way to know that the random samples they use to fill up their water bottles for analysis are a reflection of broader trends.
But they’ve got an innovative method for controlling for the randomness involving a thought-provoking chicken soup analogy.
Continuing:
What are they key challenges involved in providing accurate surveillance results?
The best way to explain this, according to [professor and acting associated dean for the faculty of science at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in Toronto, Ontario Dr. Kimberley] Gilbride, is to imagine that wastewater is chicken vegetable soup. When you take a spoonful, you cannot guarantee that you pick up exactly the same number of carrots pieces each time. Even if you stirred the soup before portioning it into bowls, each bowl would not have exactly the same numbers of carrots or chicken in their bowl; hence, variation. The same thing happens with wastewater samples; some samples are more homogenous than others. (For example, poop comes in different consistencies and therefore single samples may vary.)
Gilbride adds that they normalize their COVID RNA copies with pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) since the latter is common in diets (but again may vary between different locations) and its presence in waste represents the amount of poop when analyzing for COVID.
“So, in other words, if we count chicken pieces in the soup, we can predict how much soup we are analyzing assuming the soup is homogeneous. Then, when we look for COVID, we determine how many carrots we have relative to chicken to see if the signal is going up, going down or steady. The challenge is always with the sample we get in the first place."
So they test the alleged fecal matter, which they can’t be sure is fecal matter, for another virus, pepper mild mottle virus, often found in human feces, and if that’s there based on PCR fraud, they assume they’re dealing with a bona fide piece of human poop, at which point they run the PCR scam for COVID on it to determine if we’re all going to die.
Blast the apocalyptic prophecy out to the compliant news media, take your check from Pfizer, and call it a hard day’s work.
