420bootywizard [he/him]

Capitalists will approve the patent for the guillotine with which we will behead them

It doesn’t change your point about comorbidities. It was only tangentially related, tbh.

I mean that’s the thing about statistical evaluation of lab work.

Just because it has a higher false positive rate doesn’t mean negative results are wrong. It means you probably want to follow up with a more precise test, instead of doing the rapid 4 times in a row because Elon Musk asked you to.

Yeah this one is open and shut, beans own

I think it’s a perfect example of how the general public has a limited vocabulary with which to discuss these things.

I’m also a clinical lab scientist, so speaking in very specific terms about this stuff is kind of my bag.

Leftists can have one senator they don’t hate, as a treat

They’re also the genesis of the Alex Jones myth about “turning the frickin frogs gay!”

BPA, in particular, can pass through frogs skin so they absorb it just by swimming in contaminated water.

You don’t “catch” pneumonia - it’s a disease state that can result from an infection. You catch the causative agent of pneumonia.

Sorry if that sounds pedantic but I think it’s emblematic of how easy it is to mischaracterize something this complex by not knowing the correct medical terminology.

I want him to try just so we can laugh about how badly it failed

They’re definitely not great for this type of test. Rapid Ab testing suffers from high cross-reactivity, which causes a high false-positive rate.

A good ELISA kit will take hours to run and result.