Agree: PCR is NOT a test. Disagree: COVID-19 is the flu. It is not the flu because influenza is not a corona virus but COVID-19, and the common cold, are.

See how it works: You wind up the PCR process to give many false positives. Then you insist that as many people as possible are tested. That will give the most false positives. When you have enough positive tests you can declare a pandemic.

If the WHO had just tested symptomatic people with a reliable test there would not have been enough cases to make it a pandemic.

Elon Musk got himself tested four times in one day. he was positive twice and negative twice! One African president sent off samples from a fruit and a goat. Both were positive. He "died" shortly afterwards.

I can't back this up but I seem to remember a rumour about someone who just pretended to be a testing lab. They received the samples and destroyed them. Then they returned mainly positive results and pocketted the testing money!