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Re: Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on

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Post by myko »

in_cahoots wrote: post #123
GloriousKoji wrote: post #58

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Seems like the CDC reducing the suggested isolation time from 10 days to 5 was a mistake.

My family (2 adults, 2 kids) was all vaccinated and the adults boosted when we got Covid for the first time. We all tested positive for 7+ days, and the baby was positive on Day 10 via a PCR test. Just one data point but 5 days has never seemed like long enough to me.

You can test positive after no longer being contagious:

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronav...

"You may test positive for as long as three months after having COVID-19"

That said, yes 10 days seems much safer as a rule!

Re: Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on

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Post by myko »

aodonnell2536 wrote: post #133
op00to wrote: post #73

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If you don’t get Covid because you got the vaccine, that’s a benefit to others.

Receiving the COVID vaccine does not prevent the contraction of COVID or ability to spread it, it only lessens the symptoms after infection

> it only lessens the symptoms after infection

No, it also lowers the possibility of becoming ill in the first place, which does make one less likely to infect others

Re: Covid patients breathe out large amounts of virus early on

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Post by myko »

mcpackieh wrote: post #161
gumby wrote: post #130

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I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Are people with masks hurting you in some way?

Who said they're hurting me? People who live in fear are hurting themselves. I don't care, except in the case of my friend. I don't like to see my friend hurt himself, is that so radical? Radical to you maybe.

I think you have to understand that to your friend and a large number of people wearing a mask isn't hurting him.

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Post by fragmede »

dingnuts wrote: post #22
steve1977 wrote: post #11

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What if he’s right?

when almost everyone has already had the disease and was able to observe what it did to them -- which is the state we're at -- it's pretty hard to say that everyone needs to protect themselves. I know what COVID will do to me, because I had it already. He's not right. I was vaccinated, and the vaccine didn't work (it didn't prevent me from getting ill, get out of here with the 'better outcomes' bullshit, I'm healthy…

> I was vaccinated, and the vaccine didn't work

Thank goodness you got the vaccine! If your body hadn't been primed and ready to take on the real infection, imagine how much worse your body would have responded, and how much poorly you would have felt.

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Post by thesaintlives »

elil17 wrote: post #69
thesaintlives wrote: post #27

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The existence of the human race says he is wrong..

Medieval Peasant 1: "I think we should stop dumping raw sewage near our water supply. It is probably making us all sick." Medieval Peasant 2: "If it was making us all sick, how come only half of my children have died before the age of five?"

Don't forget to take your 10th injection and make sure to always have a dirty piece of paper in your pocket!
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