COVID is going around again

[Fizzzzle]

We've had 3 people test positive in the last week, all of whom are vaccinated and have had it before. We don't have a big staff. I alone am still keeping my streak alive of never getting COVID.

 

Be safe out there.

[TheLeon]

My dumb observation of the day:
Based on how some of the people at my work talk, we would be better off if we replaced talking about “COVID” with a generic “getting sick”. Everyone got so, uh, sick of hearing about Covid, it became such a “political” topic because we are a nation of idiots, people around here just roll their eyes whenever it comes up. Not saying this applies to people here, but irl, definitely. 
 

But a couple weeks ago, when everyone at work was getting sick with something (cough, runny nose, probably just a cold but who knows) suddenly people were keeping their distance, covering their mouths, and washing their hands more. 

[gamer.tv]

I didn’t text but I’m 99% sure I had Covid towards the tail end of July and the cough hung around to late august. 

[Fizzzzle]

28 minutes ago, TheLeon said:

My dumb observation of the day:
Based on how some of the people at my work talk, we would be better off if we replaced talking about “COVID” with a generic “getting sick”. Everyone got so, uh, sick of hearing about Covid, it became such a “political” topic because we are a nation of idiots, people around here just roll their eyes whenever it comes up. Not saying this applies to people here, but irl, definitely. 
 

But a couple weeks ago, when everyone at work was getting sick with something (cough, runny nose, probably just a cold but who knows) suddenly people were keeping their distance, covering their mouths, and washing their hands more. 

If there's one thing I wish became a habit over the last few years, it's wearing a mask when you're symptomatic. People in Asia have been doing it for eons

 

[Keyser_Soze]

48 minutes ago, gamer.tv said:

I didn’t text but I’m 99% sure I had Covid towards the tail end of July and the cough hung around to late august. 

 

Pretty sure I had COVID in 2018 before it was cool. My butthole was twitching so I now for sure it was COVID.

[Fizzzzle]

1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Pretty sure I had COVID in 2018 before it was cool. My butthole was twitching so I now for sure it was COVID.

Oh is THAT a symptom? Shit, I may have had it multiple times, then....

[TUFKAK]

1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said:

If there's one thing I wish became a habit over the last few years, it's wearing a mask when you're symptomatic. People in Asia have been doing it for eons

 

It is the chuds god given right to infect grandma with a respiratory illness cause masks are fascism! 

[Air_Delivery]

I got sick two week and I used an old expired test which came up negative. There was nothing about it that made it stick out. No fever, loss of smell or anything specific to COVID. Symptoms were exactly as you would expect of a cold, but who knows.

[SoberChef]

Speaking of tests, will they still come up POS/NEG even with this supposed new variant or will we all have to go out & buy those as well?

[darkness35]

Ever since I caught Covid on the week of Thanksgiving I haven't been feeling 100%.  Felt like my energy is a lot more sapped than usual, and mood-wise it's been incredibly stressful, although there's a lot that contributed to that.

 

On 9/16/2023 at 6:27 AM, SoberChef said:

Speaking of tests, will they still come up POS/NEG even with this supposed new variant or will we all have to go out & buy those as well?

 

Some bullshit insurance billing is making people pay for $200 when they claimed it was of free of charge.

 

For now, Federal Government is rebooting the free covid tests per household.  Idk when.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

2 minutes ago, darkness35 said:

For now, Federal Government is rebooting the free covid tests per household.  Idk when.

 

Next Monday.

 

Free COVID tests by mail are back, starting Monday

WWW.NPR.ORG

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People will be able to go to COVIDTests.gov and get four free tests per household, starting next week. The Biden administration says it is trying to prepare for the fall and winter COVID season.

 

[darkness35]

Still not going to be good enough; supposedly the rapid tests have not been accurate with the latest variants.  Anecdotal observances of course, but it's left me a bit skeptical.

[Ominous]

My wife, dad, and mom all have it right now 

[Ominous]

13 minutes ago, darkness35 said:

Still not going to be good enough; supposedly the rapid tests have not been accurate with the latest variants.  Anecdotal observances of course, but it's left me a bit skeptical.

My wife had a positive result via a rapid test this week. 

[darkness35]

15 minutes ago, Ominous said:

My wife had a positive result via a rapid test this week. 

 

When did her symptoms begin?

 

If it was the Alpha/Delta variant at the time, it would have been able to detect symptoms within 2-5 days onset.  At the present moment the new variant for 2023 has been harder to detect, or rather it mimics other viruses/infections that people dismiss Covid as the first indicator. Specifically, I've been reading accounts that it can take up to 14 days of symptom onset to finally test positive for Covid.

 

I'm not sure if I have had Covid again since November, but I've tried to stay masked for a while at my workplace, while staying at home or WFH.  Still mask to this day; KN95s when I'm doing 1-2 hour errands, N95 when I'm out in the city, or outside in dense locations for more than 3+ hours.

[Jason]

You've always been supposed to do the at-home rapid tests as a sequence of like 2-3 at 24-36 hour intervals to avoid the false negative issue.

[darkness35]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

You've always been supposed to do the at-home rapid tests as a sequence of like 2-3 at 24-36 hour intervals to avoid the false negative issue.

 

At the 2020-2021 guidelines, I thought the rapid tests were only effective if you experienced symptoms within that time period.  Only the PCR tests (which good luck finding now) were able to indicate a positive test within 2-5 days of exposure.  I could be wrong, but idk.  It gets weirder for those who get asymptomatic.

[Kal-El814]

Yup yup yup 

 

[Ominous]

2 hours ago, darkness35 said:

 

When did her symptoms begin?

 

If it was the Alpha/Delta variant at the time, it would have been able to detect symptoms within 2-5 days onset.  At the present moment the new variant for 2023 has been harder to detect, or rather it mimics other viruses/infections that people dismiss Covid as the first indicator. Specifically, I've been reading accounts that it can take up to 14 days of symptom onset to finally test positive for Covid.

 

I'm not sure if I have had Covid again since November, but I've tried to stay masked for a while at my workplace, while staying at home or WFH.  Still mask to this day; KN95s when I'm doing 1-2 hour errands, N95 when I'm out in the city, or outside in dense locations for more than 3+ hours.

Sunday or Monday 

[Ominous]

9 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

Yup yup yup 

 

My wife has no smell, which was why she thought it was covid... Are these people just dense, in denial, Republican? 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I'm calling it now that those reviews are all in on the joke.

 

The loss of smell and taste simply haven't been significant symptoms of the most recent dominant variants of COVID.

[johnny]

i had it last week for the third time. it was pretty much the same. pretty mild. but the fatigue wasn’t as bad this time. 

[AlwaysDyingX]

Its never going to go away.

 

Its never going to be as strong as it was in the beginning due to the constant mutation of the virus. Most people who test really dont even need to. Its like having the common fucking cold now. 

 

However, I'll still get the vaccine because why not. I get the flu shot every year and Im still here

 

But fuck ever wearing a mask again. 

[SaysWho?]

6 minutes ago, BasemntDweller2 said:

Its never going to go away.

 

Its never going to be as strong as it was in the beginning due to the constant mutation of the virus. Most people who test really dont even need to. Its like having the common fucking cold now. 

 

However, I'll still get the vaccine because why not. I get the flu shot every year and Im still here

 

But fuck ever wearing a mask again. 

Though I have grown into the habit of wearing it if I’m sick but need to go out. That stuff predates the pandemic in other cultures, but I’m now fully on that bandwagon.  

[SuperSpreader]

On my flight yesterday I was 1 of maybe 8 people who wore a mask. 

[AlwaysDyingX]

19 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

Though I have grown into the habit of wearing it if I’m sick but need to go out. That stuff predates the pandemic in other cultures, but I’m now fully on that bandwagon.  

 

I'm mostly anti mask because as soon as the county I work in goes "moderate exposure" my work makes us mask up. Full blown pandemic? I'd probably wear it lol . I really didn't go anywhere during covid. I did store pick up or early morning shopping but I did wear it. 

[Biggie]

2 hours ago, SuperSpreader said:

On my flight yesterday I was 1 of maybe 8 people who wore a mask. 

Were you sitting in the cuck section?

[Keyser_Soze]

11 hours ago, Biggie said:

Were you sitting in the cuck section?

 

Nah, he was sitting in the corazon section 😍

[SmugPrick]

Shut everything down again

[SmugPrick]

23 hours ago, SuperSpreader said:

On my flight yesterday I was 1 of maybe 8 people who wore a mask. 

You dont need to mask up in hospitals right now, which is way more of a critical venue to mask up. And youre surprised no one is wearing them on airplanes?

[SuperSpreader]

Y'all presumptuous 

[gamer.tv]

22 hours ago, Biggie said:

Were you sitting in the cuck section?

Surely the cuckpit if you’re on an airplane.