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View in browser By this point anyone who's informed about the virus knows that the count of "cases" -- which doesn't actually mean people showing symptoms -- is an absurd metric on which to base policy, for numerous reasons I've covered in the past. Spikes in "cases" in various parts of the world have led the global midwit population to make all kinds of predictions about deaths that have consistently failed to materialize. But we discovered -- from the New York Times, of all places! -- within the past week or two that the "case" metric is even more absurd than we could have imagined. As I noted in this space eight days ago, the New York Times ran the headline: "Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn't Be." We learned there that as many as 90 percent of positive COVID results were for people who were not contagious, and were therefore being ordered to quarantine and isolate for no reason. It has to do with the PCR test and something called the "cycle threshold," which in the United States is set in most labs at a cutoff of around 40 or 37 instead of a more reasonable 30. Anyway, Phil Kerpen of American Commitment was curious about the situation in the District of Columbia, so he contacted the health authorities there to ask what cycle threshold they're using for their tests (so we can get a sense of the extent to which their tabulation of "cases," already a notoriously unhelpful metric, is truly ludicrous). After contacting them, Phil noted: "If it is 37 to 40 like Nevada, New York, and Massachusetts then up to 90% of reported positives are from noninfectious, months-old viral debris." Well, DC Health got back to him. "DC Health does not have information about cycle thresholds." What kind of a joke is this? As one commenter put it, "What's worse? If they're lying or if they really don't have any?" Meanwhile, our supposedly nonpolitical expert, Dr. Fauci (who revealed last week that he hopes the COVID crisis will lead to the adoption of something akin to the Green New Deal), to my knowledge has not acknowledged any of this. The other day he said the case count was unacceptably high heading into flu season, without acknowledging this report and the fact that we now know the "case count" is wildly inflated. We are truly living in a giant insane asylum. I am reminded once again of my favorite character in all of literature, Wonko the Sane, who appears in a Douglas Adams novel. Wonko called his home Outside the Asylum, and the outside world Inside the Asylum. Ol' Wonko was on to something. Except: Outside the Asylum isn't Wonko's home. It's the Tom Woods Show Elite, keeper of the sanity of thousands:   http://www.SupportingListeners.com Potpourri: (1) I hope to see you in October at the Mises Institute's Supporters Summit in Jekyll Island, Georgia! (2) If you're starting to think it might be a bad idea to let the sociopaths who occupy governors' mansions have a say over how -- or whether -- you can work, you might think about starting something the loons can't shut down. Tomorrow one of my guests is showing how he's been doing it for nearly two decades, so be sure to join us: http://www.tomwoods.com/unshutdownable Tom Woods

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