I would like to answer the polls, but am compelled to point out that although they may be well intentioned, they are also invalid; and as such, any results from them risk being easily dismissed.
Like the vast majority, (of the billions) I am not a biochemist, virologist or geneticist as may have both the necessary tools, and, happened to …
I would like to answer the polls, but am compelled to point out that although they may be well intentioned, they are also invalid; and as such, any results from them risk being easily dismissed.
Like the vast majority, (of the billions) I am not a biochemist, virologist or geneticist as may have both the necessary tools, and, happened to self-diagnose. In other words, it should be apparent that almost no one can have any confidence in the accuracy or even validity of their own, nor anyone else's response to the pivotal question: How many times have I had COVID?
I know how many times I've had 'COVID-aligned symptoms'. But do not know whether those instances were actually due to COVID, or something else.
I know how many times I've received a positive RAT or PCR test. But I only 'know' the results entirely anecdotally; having been told by others (agents of the government!), of results supposedly determined by further others (presumably lab-based; but who knows exactly who?!). I did not take my own swab, nor store nor transport nor do the test on it myself. Nor, in lieu of those facts, was I provided any evidence of requisite chain-of-custody records regarding my sample. I therefore do not know whether my sample may have been contaminated, nor whether it was handled, stored, transported, or the test done properly, nor whether a sample attributable to me was in fact mine, nor whether a test was even done, or results simply fabricated!, (perhaps to suit others' agendas).
I also know that both test methods (RAT and PCR) were rejected well back by those who know better, based on both producing unacceptably high proportions of rejectable if not highly questionable results, both false negatives AND false positives. (See, for example: Steger et al, (22 authors), Nov 2020, 'External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws ... : consequences for false positive results'.)
Further, by definition, neither I nor anyone else (perhaps certain biochemists, virologists or geneticists aside) can possibly know how many times, I may have been COVID-infected, but asymptomatic.
In short - I do not 'know' how many times I've had COVID. Neither do most of the billions.
As an aside, and relatively trivial versus the above-discussed insurmountable problem with attempting to conduct such a poll, is the non-neutral introductory comments to them, inclusive as they are of the 'leading-the-witness' style line:
"ANSWER ***ONLY** the **ONE** poll below matching your COVID vax status. For more [sic] of you, that will be the first poll."
I would like to answer the polls, but am compelled to point out that although they may be well intentioned, they are also invalid; and as such, any results from them risk being easily dismissed.
Like the vast majority, (of the billions) I am not a biochemist, virologist or geneticist as may have both the necessary tools, and, happened to self-diagnose. In other words, it should be apparent that almost no one can have any confidence in the accuracy or even validity of their own, nor anyone else's response to the pivotal question: How many times have I had COVID?
I know how many times I've had 'COVID-aligned symptoms'. But do not know whether those instances were actually due to COVID, or something else.
I know how many times I've received a positive RAT or PCR test. But I only 'know' the results entirely anecdotally; having been told by others (agents of the government!), of results supposedly determined by further others (presumably lab-based; but who knows exactly who?!). I did not take my own swab, nor store nor transport nor do the test on it myself. Nor, in lieu of those facts, was I provided any evidence of requisite chain-of-custody records regarding my sample. I therefore do not know whether my sample may have been contaminated, nor whether it was handled, stored, transported, or the test done properly, nor whether a sample attributable to me was in fact mine, nor whether a test was even done, or results simply fabricated!, (perhaps to suit others' agendas).
I also know that both test methods (RAT and PCR) were rejected well back by those who know better, based on both producing unacceptably high proportions of rejectable if not highly questionable results, both false negatives AND false positives. (See, for example: Steger et al, (22 authors), Nov 2020, 'External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws ... : consequences for false positive results'.)
Further, by definition, neither I nor anyone else (perhaps certain biochemists, virologists or geneticists aside) can possibly know how many times, I may have been COVID-infected, but asymptomatic.
In short - I do not 'know' how many times I've had COVID. Neither do most of the billions.
As an aside, and relatively trivial versus the above-discussed insurmountable problem with attempting to conduct such a poll, is the non-neutral introductory comments to them, inclusive as they are of the 'leading-the-witness' style line:
"ANSWER ***ONLY** the **ONE** poll below matching your COVID vax status. For more [sic] of you, that will be the first poll."