County Health Departments Asking Recovered Patients to Lie About COVID-19

Here’s a man in the Cook County suburbs who was called by what is apparently a contractor for Cook County.

He was asked “on a scale of 1 to 10” how bad his Covid case was.

“Zero,” he answered.

He was told that number was not on the scale.

Then he was asked if he would be willing to make a video telling people how bad the virus could be in an effort to convince viewers to take protective action.

He refused, using the word–several times–McHenry County Blog doesn’t let commenters use.

Mr. Tim Saenger and his wife on video from his Facebook page, captured on Twitter (language gets harsh):

Tweet of video courtesy of Studio59Designs of Arizona

Cut & pasted from Mr. Saenger’s Facebook page, posted with video on July 16:

“Watch This Right Now! I will NOT stay silent on this!

“I just got a phone call from Cook County about my COVID and was asked to lie. They asked me to say my illness was a 10 out of 10 when in fact in our case it was a Zero!!

“Traced the number. It is indeed coming from the COVID center.
#Cookcounty
#Covid

“*UPDATE: Turns out others that are testing positive for COVID are getting this same call. It’s not just Cook County. Someone in Kane County that we know also got a phone call with similar questions.

“*Update 2: Since this has gone viral, I have literally hundreds of messages from strangers across the United States stating similar phone calls from their results. Asking to bend the truth or enter skewed information on questionnaires. Apparently this is NOT just an Illinois issue.

Tim Saenger Facebook post 7/16/20
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Has anyone else had this experience? Please tell us in comments, and be specific which county health department.

Cal Skinner contributed to this article.


Comments

County Health Departments Asking Recovered Patients to Lie About COVID-19 — 16 Comments

  1. The latest from Governor J B Pritzker: Governor JB Pritzker is declaring Illinois residents the enemy.

    You might want to get Pritzker Sucks signs for your property.

    pritzkersucks.org

  2. A friend in Orlando Florida signed up her family for the Covid test.

    They were waiting in line and it was taking too long.

    She thought they would just come back at another time.

    DID NOT TAKE THE TEST.

    THEY WERE INFORMED THAT THEY TESTED POSITIVE!!

    Talk about fixing the numbers!!!

  3. I like how they’re now saying the actual number of people who have had coronavirus is 10 times more than their reported numbers.

    If that’s true, wouldn’t that just mean it’s ten times less severe than we thought if 9/10 people had it so mild that they didn’t even bother to test?

    Wouldn’t that mean the mortality rate would be 10 times lower than is being reported since the denominator should be ten times higher?

    Wouldn’t that mean we are 10 x closer to herd immunity? How could it be interpreted as anything but good news?

    But the News Man doesn’t bring these things up.

    The News Man is paid to not think.

    The News Man is paid to make you scared and push an agenda.

    He says lots of asymptomatic people is ACTUALLY very concerning…

    Well, I think that the News Man is ACTUALLY very evil.

  4. If it is true that 10x the number of people have already had it, that’s very good news.

    Notice areas hit really hard like NY are not going up now.

    Could it be they are approaching herd immunity?

  5. I have friends and family in the medical field.

    Turns out several have had experience with phoney covid info..

    Nurses have sent in test where they did not swab themselves but sent in the test.

    Al came back positive for the virus.

    I know there are probably more incidents like this.

    This is all political bs.

    These people were out of Illinois.

    This is going on all over.

  6. There are a lot of problems with this “source” Cal.

    1. Saenger states that he received calls four times before he answered the call, but no voicemails were mentioned as being left. With almost every spam call I get, no voicemail is left, however, all legitimate callers, doctor’s, dentists, etc., leave messages.

    2. The caller again asked Saenger to go to the web site and upload a video even after it was apparent by his answer of “0” that he was probably not going to be very cooperative.

    3. Saenger stated “ I just checked the number and it is coming from a company”. What company? How’s it connected to the government? He doesn’t say.

    4. Saenger’s Facebook page is open for anyone to view. He posted on June 23rd that he and his girlfriend had Covid for everyone, including scammers, to see. Probably not real hard for a scammer to locate other info about him which he puts on social media.

    5. There has already been an identity theft case involving very real looking unemployment mailers being sent out.

    My skepticism leads me to think the call he received was an identity theft attempt. And there will be more as thieves try to take advantage of the situation.

  7. How about this?:

    90 people in the state of Connecticut were found to actually have been negative for coronavirus after receiving positive tests, MSN reported on Tuesday.

    The state’s Department of Public Health said that its state laboratory found a “flaw” in one of its testing systems and that 90 of 144 people who were tested for the virus between June 15 and June 17 received false positive tests.

    161 specimens were collected and a total of 91 of those showed false positives.

    Many of those who received the false tests were nursing home residents.

    Source~~~~~~https://www.infowars.com/connecticut-state-lab-finds-90-false-positives-out-of-144-coronavirus-tests-administered-in-mid-june/

  8. If you look at it this way this is no worse than the regular flu.

    They have been counting every death that tested positive as a Covid death.

    If you were give 2 weeks to live and happened to test positive, its a covid death.

    You die in a car accident and test positive, its a covid death.

    I am not trying to downplay the seriousness of the virus but it seems to be more political every day.

    Then you hear about them not counting the negative tests.

    If you go by the regular flu and consider half the positives being false hat brings that number down to just down from 4 mil to 2 mil.

    The recovered number is 1.9 mil.

    Deaths at 146 k.

    So the false Covid deaths based on half would only be 73 K.

    That is less than the regular flu average.

    They never report the total tested and show the negative numbers.

  9. When dealing with any government entity the No.1 rule is . . .

    Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies – Ernest T. Bass

  10. I agree with Rando..

    I do not trust this source..

    I certainly do NOT trust all the hear say stories of I know someone, who knows someone, who is married to a man, who is cousin to another lady and they know someone who works in the Medical field.

    Is this the same guy?

    I need real details like the office that called him, the persons i.d. number and the results he received from calling the Supervisor.

    The endless false conspiracy therory comming from Face Book is ridiculous.

    https://chronicleillinois.com/news/cook-county-news/30-year-sentence-handed-northlake-car-invasion-assault/

  11. I don’t trust one individual source, but stories like these come up all over the place.

    There might be an explanation even that doesn’t involve a conspiracy, never know.

    I do remember reading about contact tracing, and how with the computer system they have, every contact a person who tests positive has, becomes a case in the computer.

    Our government honestly just sucks at everything it does.

    Is it possible they are just incompetent?

    I think there might be more too it, but where there is smoke, you usually can find fire.

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