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Patrick

says that if you take all the COVID cases from last year, and add one to them, going forward there's only one COVID case. That's where they measure from, and that's it as far as they are concerned.

This is not a joke. They are saying this.

@PatrickoftheG they seem pretty certain that they won’t have to announce and explain a negative number of cases i wonder why?

@PhDHealthPR They are going to measure COVID in water to the baseline of whatever the previous year was.

Same amount as last year?

Then there is none. One percent more? Then it's one percent.

@PatrickoftheG @PhDHealthPR So if it goes up 10% each year for 10 years, a doubling of prepandemic baseline, that's still only 10%.

Genius technique to eventually hide geometric or exponential growth.