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Funny you ask, I took one this morning and tested positive. First time testing positive. I’ll admit I thought Covid was over at least until the fall. But I was feeling off and didn’t want coffee. Since we had a bunch of extra tests I said why not. Was kinda shocked. Now I am stuck in bed reading HN.
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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 pr…
I never needed to take a test to know to stay away from people if I felt sick (family or work colleagues).
I guess if I knew it wasn’t a transmittable sickness (which is normally quite obvious, eg headache, sunburn, hungover, muscle pain, etc) then I would still visit. Coughing, sneezing, etc anything involving fluids I’d probably just stay away. No test needed. Just common sense, same as before covid.
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> who gets a Covid test these days. Funny you ask, I took one this morning and tested positive. First time testing positive. I’ll admit I thought Covid was over at least until the fall. But I was feeling off and didn’t want coffee. Since we had a bunch of extra tests I said why not. Was kinda shocked. Now I am stuck in bed reading HN.
This is not a bad time to catch it anyway. We're all going to get it many times and right now there's plenty of care available for those who get really sick.
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'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 pr…
If your parents are vaccinated, and you are vaccinated, and you don’t have any symptoms then yes I would call it unnecessary worrying. Elderly parents are vulnerable to not just covid, but the cold and flu etc. That’s why elderly normally get free flu jabs. I never needed to take a test to know to stay away from people if I felt sick (family or work colleagues). I guess if I knew it wasn’t a transmittable sickness (w…
What if you're asymptomatic?
Why it's so hard to spend 5 min taking a test before situations where you'll be with a bunch of people (airplane, large meeting, event, etc)?
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If your parents are vaccinated, and you are vaccinated, and you don’t have any symptoms then yes I would call it unnecessary worrying. Elderly parents are vulnerable to not just covid, but the cold and flu etc. That’s why elderly normally get free flu jabs. I never needed to take a test to know to stay away from people if I felt sick (family or work colleagues). I guess if I knew it wasn’t a transmittable sickness (w…
> I never needed to take a test to know to stay away from people if I felt sick What if you're asymptomatic? Why it's so hard to spend 5 min taking a test before situations where you'll be with a bunch of people (airplane, large meeting, event, etc)?
I have wondered for awhile if the tests developed 2+ years ago for the original strains are not accurate for omicron and the latest strains.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and...
I have wondered for awhile if the tests developed 2+ years ago for the original strains are not accurate for omicron and the latest strains.
I recently had COVID and found that the test showed a faint bar right after my first sign of symptoms. Because I had plenty of tests, I continuously tested the 4 in my household as symptoms progressed and receded.
Although the visibility of the bar can't reliably be used to gauge level of infection, it did roughly track with my whole family's symptom severity and was confirmed with a PCR test.
After months of using these tests, we never got a positive either until this point.
These were the orange, made in China tests that the federal government is sending out for free.
So while they may not signal early enough to do much good, they certainly seemed to work in our small example.