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A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

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Re: A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

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Post by yardstick »

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Anyone who cruises or travels internationally to certain nations. https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...

I believe the ops point was that if a covid test was optional, and you felt sick, you wouldn’t bother to get tested. Travel which mandates testing is a separate matter.

That’s been my position for a while. I’m pro-vaccine, and pro-initial lockdown (only), and lived in London during the first years of the pandemic. At some point we just have to get on with our lives, we need to stop living in fear. We need to stop the them vs us divide.

Re: A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

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Post by schwartzworld »

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> who gets a covid text these days?

Both my kids and my wife have had to do mandatory PCR testing every week for the last year for school, and the kids also do a weekly instant test. Now that work is making me go back in, I also will be testing regularly again. It's a lot more common than you think.

Re: A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

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Post by vwcx »

yardstick wrote: post #5
4ensic wrote: post #4

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Anyone who cruises or travels internationally to certain nations. https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...

I believe the ops point was that if a covid test was optional, and you felt sick, you wouldn’t bother to get tested. Travel which mandates testing is a separate matter. That’s been my position for a while. I’m pro-vaccine, and pro-initial lockdown (only), and lived in London during the first years of the pandemic. At some point we just have to get on with our lives, we need to stop living in fear. We need to stop the…

'Living in fear' is such a charged, politicized statement. Can you dissect what you mean by it?

For me, testing before I visit my elderly parents isn't a decision made of fear - it's a basic precaution I can take, causes me no more than 5-10 mins of extra effort, and costs nothing to me (a privileged position provided by employer-subsidized insurance, of course). Is this fear making decisions on my behalf? Is this pragmatism prompted by fear?

Re: A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

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Post by throwaway193948 »

schwartzworld wrote: post #6
tomohawk wrote: post #3

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> who gets a covid text these days? Both my kids and my wife have had to do mandatory PCR testing every week for the last year for school, and the kids also do a weekly instant test. Now that work is making me go back in, I also will be testing regularly again. It's a lot more common than you think.

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Re: A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

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Post by rasz »

schwartzworld wrote: post #6
tomohawk wrote: post #3

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> who gets a covid text these days? Both my kids and my wife have had to do mandatory PCR testing every week for the last year for school, and the kids also do a weekly instant test. Now that work is making me go back in, I also will be testing regularly again. It's a lot more common than you think.

Very useful, result of the test will let everyone already infected know ... what exactly?
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