A word of warning about this round of COVID

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

Except if we all know what disease we currently have and can limit our exposure to vulnerable populations, that's a very good thing. I don't want to give the flu to a newborn anymore than I want to give Covid to my 85 year old father.

So some of us would gladly welcome tests and masking to avoid those things.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

Only jerks don't try to isolate when they have COVID.

I work with elderly people. I'm testing so I don't kill anyone.

The majority of us DON’T work with elderly people. We’re not going to kill anyone anymore than if we don’t isolate with the common cold. Stay in your lane.

you don't know if you're exposing someone who has a vulnerable family member. My kid is one. Thanks - I already knew no one gives a sh#@$

People should stay home when they are sick with whatever, not just covid

The onus is on the vulnerable members of society and/or their caretakers to take extra precautions. The whole world is not going to keep shutting down for a virus that for a huge number of folks is so mild that they might not even know they have it.

So staying home for a few days when you are actively sick with symptoms is shutting down the world?

Expecting everyone to stay home regardless of symptoms for as long as they are testing positive for covid is, yes.

the vast majority of people on this thread are not saying that. Go be a pot-stirring jerk elsewhere.

Are irrationality and hyper-sensitivity some of the lasting effects of Covid or something?

You folks who are determined to keep Covid “a thing” are seriously over dramatic and sensitive. It’s bizarre.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

Except if we all know what disease we currently have and can limit our exposure to vulnerable populations, that's a very good thing. I don't want to give the flu to a newborn anymore than I want to give Covid to my 85 year old father.

So some of us would gladly welcome tests and masking to avoid those things.

But the tests don't tell you about infectiousness, aside from like day 1-3 of symptoms. So just don't go around people when you've got symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because you are still testing positive doesn’t necessarily mean you’re still contagious. I’m sorry you had it rough, but I had it recently and I did not have it badly. I hope you feel better soon.

“ Just because you are still testing positive doesn’t necessarily mean you’re still contagious”

This is not true at all. A positive rapid antigen home test absolutely means you are still contagious.

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Anonymous wrote:This latest COVID made me so sick, but it is also lingering on a rapid test well past the 10 days for both me and my friend.

Seems like you may be infectious for much longer. I am masking but with the latest guidance people probably would not even know.

I thought we were already well aware that rapid tests did not provide an indication of infectiosness. Like, we've known that for years now.

I think you might be thinking about PCR tests. Rapid tests may miss COVID-19, particularly before or just after the onset of symptoms, so a single test is not necessarily reliable in excluding transmissible COVID-19. However, a positive rapid test is considered to be evidence of infectiousness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This latest COVID made me so sick, but it is also lingering on a rapid test well past the 10 days for both me and my friend.

Seems like you may be infectious for much longer. I am masking but with the latest guidance people probably would not even know.

I thought we were already well aware that rapid tests did not provide an indication of infectiosness. Like, we've known that for years now.

I think you might be thinking about PCR tests. Rapid tests may miss COVID-19, particularly before or just after the onset of symptoms, so a single test is not necessarily reliable in excluding transmissible COVID-19. However, a positive rapid test is considered to be evidence of infectiousness.

Yep, this. A negative rapid home antigen test doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have COVID because they aren’t very sensitive. A positive one means you have COVID and are still infectious.

There is a theory that PCR tests can sometimes still be positive past the infectious period, for about a month or so. So if you test positive for COVID, and a month later you test positive for COVID on a PCR test, you may or may not be infectious. Rapid home antigen, you test positive, you are infectious

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This latest COVID made me so sick, but it is also lingering on a rapid test well past the 10 days for both me and my friend.

Seems like you may be infectious for much longer. I am masking but with the latest guidance people probably would not even know.

I thought we were already well aware that rapid tests did not provide an indication of infectiosness. Like, we've known that for years now.

I think you might be thinking about PCR tests. Rapid tests may miss COVID-19, particularly before or just after the onset of symptoms, so a single test is not necessarily reliable in excluding transmissible COVID-19. However, a positive rapid test is considered to be evidence of infectiousness.

I think it's a good indication in the first few days of symptoms, but after something like 5 days, a positive antigen isn't a good indication of infectiousness. The OP is talking about testing for 10 days (or more?) with the implication being to isolate (or something) based on that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

Except if we all know what disease we currently have and can limit our exposure to vulnerable populations, that's a very good thing. I don't want to give the flu to a newborn anymore than I want to give Covid to my 85 year old father.

So some of us would gladly welcome tests and masking to avoid those things.

Hear me out. Don't be around a newborn or your dad when you're sick...regardless of whether it is the flu or Covid

[Anonymous]

I have it for the first time, and I think I got off easy. Had a scratchy throat/lost my voice/congestion and some mild tummy upset. Other people I know who have it have a cough and chills, and one feels like she got hit with a ton of bricks and is exhausted,etc. I am probably the one with the most boosters, not sure if that helped or not.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

Only jerks don't try to isolate when they have COVID.

I work with elderly people. I'm testing so I don't kill anyone.

The majority of us DON’T work with elderly people. We’re not going to kill anyone anymore than if we don’t isolate with the common cold. Stay in your lane.

Lemme guess, you're a Christian?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

I have health issues, I still mask and I still test. Only the lucky don't have to anymore.

Same. However, because I also have a relative with long COVID, I don't think of people who are ignoring all of this as "lucky." I think of them as idiots.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This latest COVID made me so sick, but it is also lingering on a rapid test well past the 10 days for both me and my friend.

Seems like you may be infectious for much longer. I am masking but with the latest guidance people probably would not even know. [/quote]

I thought we were already well aware that rapid tests did not provide an indication of infectiosness. Like, we've known that for years now. [/quote]

I think you might be thinking about PCR tests. Rapid tests may miss COVID-19, particularly before or just after the onset of symptoms, so a single test is not necessarily reliable in excluding transmissible COVID-19. However, a positive rapid test is considered to be evidence of infectiousness. [/quote]

I think it's a good indication in the first few days of symptoms, but after something like 5 days, a positive antigen isn't a good indication of infectiousness. The OP is talking about testing for 10 days (or more?) with the implication being to isolate (or something) based on that.[/quote]

+1 I looked at studies on this when I was testing positive for 10+ days and later on when DD was told she could go back to daycare after 5 days. I felt really nervous about sending her back while still testing positive. But what I found are studies showing transmission by and large was not occurring after 5 days - it happens pre symptoms and in the next 2-3 days after symptoms start. Some individuals with compromised immune systems and/or severe COVID may transmit for longer.

Some studies conflate a positive antigen test with infectiousness, but some studies suck. There is a lot of bad science out there. Most people with common sense understand that if the risk of transmission is so minimal (which it is after 5 days) there really is no need to worry.

[Anonymous]

People talking about positive rapid tests indicating infectiousness don’t understand the concept of viral load and the likelihood of transmission.

[Anonymous]

When I got sick recently, did not think it was covid at all but had a test leftover from last year so I took it and tested positive. I wasn't very sick, a cold more or less, but I had a dr. appt. in a few days that I did not want to reschedule and was scheduled to give blood later that week and had a social event in a few days with older people. I canceled and did not attend all of them. According to some of you nut jobs I should have not tested, took some Dayquil and just gone to those events, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't know people were still testing for this anymore. It's 2024, not 2021. It's endemic. We don't isolate anymore and nobody masks. There's no point.

Only jerks don't try to isolate when they have COVID.

I work with elderly people. I'm testing so I don't kill anyone.

The majority of us DON’T work with elderly people. We’re not going to kill anyone anymore than if we don’t isolate with the common cold. Stay in your lane.

Lemme guess, you're a Christian?

Worse. I’m a scientist with a solid understanding of statistics.