BinaxNow at home test and false positives?

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Obviously op did the right thing in testing. It’s how we save lives, even if it’s becoming endemic.

For my own sanity, I always imagine it’s one nutter posting the same thing over and over again.

Good luck OP.

And I wish people would stop posting that false positives are the rarer of the two for at home tests. You’re uninformed. That’s a pregnancy test.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

This is so obviously made up or exaggerated.

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world would you test for a minor headache that quickly resolved itself?

My DD told me her throat was sore this morning. I gave her a glass of OJ and asked if it went away. She said yes. We get this often when running the heat over night. I certainly didn’t Covid test her?!??

Some of you are really making this extra difficult on yourselves.

We got a call from my kids school that my child had a headache. Just a headache no other symptoms and were told a negative covid test was required to return. I thought the same thing why am I covid testing for a headache that had resolved itself by the time we had gotten home. Tested both the child with headache and sibling (same school) and both were positive. My entire home except for my youngest tested positive. We would have never known.

Our public school doesn’t require tests to return and hasn’t had any spread of Covid this year.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

Except maybe your kids are spreading when they are out in public to other more vulnerable people or perhaps even giving it to someone at school who then asymptomatically gives it to a vulnerable person who gets very sick. You are an incredibly selfish person!

No I'm just more accepting of our collective future than you are.

Our behavior now is shaping our future. Your choices are immoral to many, but the people who may find it most repugnant in the future are your own children. Knowingly letting them potentially spread a deadly virus is far from maternal, and may come back to bite you. I am sure you are convinced you are immune from such reproach and just being "pragmatic". Insufferable.

I know you think more people are like you. But I work in a school and trust me most people are not behaving like you. And there still haven’t been any outbreaks.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

This is so obviously made up or exaggerated.

Umm. What part is made up? That is my life and not exaggerated..we have family coming in town on the 23rd so we were going to celebrate my husband's uncles bday. My MIL did lose her husband in 9/19 (which I guess yes sorry wasn't last month but feels that way). That is part of why she was coming to visit.

And my son's friend's brother does have a heart defect. He is 3 and was vaccinated against the flu but got it and then pneumonia and was in the hospital.

But sure why any of that sounds made up. But sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world would you test for a minor headache that quickly resolved itself?

My DD told me her throat was sore this morning. I gave her a glass of OJ and asked if it went away. She said yes. We get this often when running the heat over night. I certainly didn’t Covid test her?!??

Some of you are really making this extra difficult on yourselves.

We got a call from my kids school that my child had a headache. Just a headache no other symptoms and were told a negative covid test was required to return. I thought the same thing why am I covid testing for a headache that had resolved itself by the time we had gotten home. Tested both the child with headache and sibling (same school) and both were positive. My entire home except for my youngest tested positive. We would have never known.

Our public school doesn’t require tests to return and hasn’t had any spread of Covid this year.

Ok, Donald: “if we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world would you test for a minor headache that quickly resolved itself?

My DD told me her throat was sore this morning. I gave her a glass of OJ and asked if it went away. She said yes. We get this often when running the heat over night. I certainly didn’t Covid test her?!??

Some of you are really making this extra difficult on yourselves.

We got a call from my kids school that my child had a headache. Just a headache no other symptoms and were told a negative covid test was required to return. I thought the same thing why am I covid testing for a headache that had resolved itself by the time we had gotten home. Tested both the child with headache and sibling (same school) and both were positive. My entire home except for my youngest tested positive. We would have never known.

Our public school doesn’t require tests to return and hasn’t had any spread of Covid this year.

Ok, Donald: “if we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”

And yet everything is fine. I know that disappoints you.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

Except maybe your kids are spreading when they are out in public to other more vulnerable people or perhaps even giving it to someone at school who then asymptomatically gives it to a vulnerable person who gets very sick. You are an incredibly selfish person!

No I'm just more accepting of our collective future than you are.

Our behavior now is shaping our future. Your choices are immoral to many, but the people who may find it most repugnant in the future are your own children. Knowingly letting them potentially spread a deadly virus is far from maternal, and may come back to bite you. I am sure you are convinced you are immune from such reproach and just being "pragmatic". Insufferable.

I know you think more people are like you. But I work in a school and trust me most people are not behaving like you. And there still haven’t been any outbreaks.

Agreed. Children are going to find our choices repugnant? Do posters actually read what they write and believe it?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

This is so obviously made up or exaggerated.

Umm. What part is made up? That is my life and not exaggerated..we have family coming in town on the 23rd so we were going to celebrate my husband's uncles bday. My MIL did lose her husband in 9/19 (which I guess yes sorry wasn't last month but feels that way). That is part of why she was coming to visit.

And my son's friend's brother does have a heart defect. He is 3 and was vaccinated against the flu but got it and then pneumonia and was in the hospital.

But sure why any of that sounds made up. But sure.

I’m not sure why you leave your house at all. Sounds way too dangerous.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

Your actions make them self-aware of their own irresponsibility. And they can’t handle that cognitive dissonance, so the knives come out.

Classic psychological response and coping mechanism.

Really? I genuinely DGAF. Covid is going to spread regardless. Most of the vaccinated will be absolutely fine. So next...

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

Except maybe your kids are spreading when they are out in public to other more vulnerable people or perhaps even giving it to someone at school who then asymptomatically gives it to a vulnerable person who gets very sick. You are an incredibly selfish person!

No I'm just more accepting of our collective future than you are.

Our behavior now is shaping our future. Your choices are immoral to many, but the people who may find it most repugnant in the future are your own children. Knowingly letting them potentially spread a deadly virus is far from maternal, and may come back to bite you. I am sure you are convinced you are immune from such reproach and just being "pragmatic". Insufferable.

I know you think more people are like you. But I work in a school and trust me most people are not behaving like you. And there still haven’t been any outbreaks.

Agreed. Children are going to find our choices repugnant? Do posters actually read what they write and believe it?

It’s just undiagnosed and untreated anxiety. They sit at home on these boards and whip themselves into a frenzy. People IRL would think they are crazy so they have to do it here.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

Your actions make them self-aware of their own irresponsibility. And they can’t handle that cognitive dissonance, so the knives come out.

Classic psychological response and coping mechanism.

Really? I genuinely DGAF. Covid is going to spread regardless. Most of the vaccinated will be absolutely fine. So next...

+1. I’m in complete shock how many people still seem to think we are going to “control” Covid, test and quarantine for every case, aim for no cases, etc. indefinitely going forward. That just isn’t realistic or possible. Some people just haven’t accepted it yet.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.

Well just keep the pandemic going since it's such an inconvenience to your life.

Covid is endemic. Its not going away. We have to learn to live with it and that includes not testing for minor symptoms or quarantining.

But I hope OP has fun keeping BOTH her kids home for 10 days because 1 kid had a 10 minute headache. You do you. Just know that most others are not doing this any more.

You obviously don’t live in DC. Stop pretending your norms are our norms.

I live in Nova. Absolutely no one is testing or keeping kids home for brief headaches that resolve on their own.

Well you guys are all so selfish. How hard is it to get a PCR test and stay at home for a day until you get results? Quarantining for 10 or more days sucks, and I’ve been there with kids who had one day of mild to no symptoms, but I still listened to the rules so my kids didn’t spread it to a vulnerable person who could have gotten very sick. Also, I didn’t want other families to have to spend days/weeks in quarantine from exposure or getting sick from my kids.

Since I guess this isn't obvious, I'll spell it out. If you don't test children for minor symptoms that resolve quickly, you don't have to report said test to the school, and no one has to quarantine. Our public elementary school has had zero Covid cases this year. Zero.

Except maybe your kids are spreading when they are out in public to other more vulnerable people or perhaps even giving it to someone at school who then asymptomatically gives it to a vulnerable person who gets very sick. You are an incredibly selfish person!

No I'm just more accepting of our collective future than you are.

Our behavior now is shaping our future. Your choices are immoral to many, but the people who may find it most repugnant in the future are your own children. Knowingly letting them potentially spread a deadly virus is far from maternal, and may come back to bite you. I am sure you are convinced you are immune from such reproach and just being "pragmatic". Insufferable.

I know you think more people are like you. But I work in a school and trust me most people are not behaving like you. And there still haven’t been any outbreaks.

Agreed. Children are going to find our choices repugnant? Do posters actually read what they write and believe it?

It’s just undiagnosed and untreated anxiety. They sit at home on these boards and whip themselves into a frenzy. People IRL would think they are crazy so they have to do it here.

At least PP courteously finished their post by personally signing it..."Insufferable". Perhaps Insufferable will return with more pontification soon.

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OP here. This post is so strange. We have been doing playdates and sports and everything. My kids are in school. I even went to the kennedy center twice since they reopened. We aren't living in fear. I just had a feeling something was up and we tested and now we will stay home for 10 days (and my kids miss 5 days of school).

I am really not sure why that is me living in fear or having anxiety or anything. I just knew we had family coming in and to risk infecting them.

I don't understand why folks are getting so worked up over the fact that I tested when we are all positive.

But go on keep arguing. Have fun.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: I really wish this hadn't turned into an argument. There is zero need for folks to get upset over my individual choice to test. Does it make you feel better to get upset at me? What i chose to do doesn't impact you at all. It doesn't matter that my kid isn't sick or feels fine. I would keep him home if he felt fine but had the flu too (or any number of other illnesses).

Anyway, we are ALL positive (the four of us). I am glad we tested because now I won't be attending the birthday of my husband's 80 year old uncle and hopefully we protected my son's best friend's brother who has a heart defect and just spent a week in the hospital for the flu. And now we won't be exposing my MIL who just lost her husband last month and is high risk herself.

I don't really care to hear any comments about how we are stupid for testing.

Your actions make them self-aware of their own irresponsibility. And they can’t handle that cognitive dissonance, so the knives come out.

Classic psychological response and coping mechanism.

Yup. They lash out because they know they are wrong.

Feel better, OP.