Hello BillPopMMS, your words here: "They used PCR mostly because they did not have a COVID-19 specific test until they did.
They were doing the best they could under the circumstances". inspired me for a summary of circumstances during the pandemic.
The best they could under the circumstances...? My foot! The PCR test counts any pathogen as an illness, and in this case, it was counted as a Covid-19 positive outcome.
Cases were declared Covid-19 positives, while no illness was present. People were asymptomatic even, and they were forced to isolate themselves, and quarantine measures were involved for travellers moving abroad or returning to their homeland. Patients with other ailments arriving in the hospital were diagnosed as Covid-19 positive, and isolated. Treated insufficiently or even maltreated.
Every hospital in the US received a sum of money for each Covid-19 patient and for each ventilator that was in use for such a patient. . Wholesome remedies were denied for those showing early symptoms. Patients with Covid-19 symptoms arriving in the hospital, were sent home, with the recommendation to return when oxygen levels were too low. No mention of preventive measures whatsoever.
The world population had to find that out by itself, in a much later phase of the pandemic.
Victims of traffic accidents found themselves waking up on ventilators because they were immediately sedated when the ambulance showed up. Some of them, who wasn't seriously wounded, were able to detach themselves from the instruments, find their clothes, and escaped, in fury at times, and in shock. How do I know this? Several of these victims presented their testimony as a video report on alternative media channels, such as Rumble, Bitchute, and Odyssee.
Patients who died from any cause other than Covid-19 were declared such patients, and the counting of deadly cases was compromised. Nurses were forced to sign the death certificate with the cause being Covid-19. Many have left their job by now, not wanting to dishonour their oath, their profession. In The Netherlands, a large group of doctors and nurses are starting a hospital
that is fully detached from big pharma and the medical industry that determines humanity's future, preferably a non-existing one. That's how "they did their best" and "do their best" to this day.
Don't let appearances fool you.