Why are people still testing for COVID

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I probably won't go visit my elderly parents if I have Covid. I had it in the past and it presents like a really mild cold for me, so it's not obvious that it's COVID.

Is that a good enough reason for you, OP?

I could easily think of at least 10 different reasons why someone would want to test. Why can't you?

You might want to work on you post- pandemic anxiety and lack of empathy.

So you test EVERY time you visit, because you could have asymptomatic COVID?

NP here. Yes, I see my parents once a twice a week and I test every time before I see them.

Do you test for RSV, flu, and strep, too? Otherwise why are you just focused on covid when you can have asymptomatic cases of other illnesses?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because I have places to go?

I have a runny nose and congestion so I tested. It’s not Covid, so I will wear a mask to my nail appointment this evening. If it was Covid, I would have cancelled.

I will wear a mask for camp carpool pick-up. If it was Covid, I would ask to swap days or wear a mask and walk the kids home from the bus stop.

If you are sick with anything, don't do carpool or go to freaking nail salon! That's the problem with tests, they give people license to be terrible.

Also, tests don't always match current variants.

RATs work fine on the current variants. Don't get me won't, I think it's a waste of time to test, but the RATs have always worked fine if you choose to test. They're not perfect, but no test is perfect. PCRs give false positives in the sense that they'll pick up past infections and early exposures that never advance to a systemic, contagious infection. RATs mostly go the other direction with their tradeoffs, often taking an extra day or two beyond PCRs to turn positive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t test. I don’t want to know . We treat every illness the same. Fever = stay home. Everything else, life as usual.

I didn’t have a fever with Covid so I went to work. Several kids started the summer sick with fevers because they got Covid from their teacher. Sorry! Should have tested sooner.

They easily could have gotten it from someone that was asymptomatic. Such is life. People get sick occasionally.

[Anonymous]

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There is almost no risk of covid mortality unless you're elderly.

a good enough reason to mask up. Do you have grandparents? Older neighbors? Are they worth you doing something slightly uncomfortable so they can live?

Why can't your grandparents and neighbors wear masks to protect themselves?

[Anonymous]

There's no need to test.

If you're sick, stay home.

If you feel well, go out.

I don't understand why people are complicating it - don't spread your gyms around if you're sick, regardless of what you have.

[Anonymous]

I tested because I had old tests from ~2022.

I also never, ever get sick otherwise. I traveled 2 weeks ago and came home feeling like death. I tested. Positive. It was almost exactly 12 months since the last time I had it. This was the 4th. I think it's interesting to track. I like data. If there is some sort of resurgence in the fall I'll know I already had it. No harm, no foul in testing.

[Anonymous]

When my kid needed to miss high school for three days last May, having a positive Covid test meant we didn’t need a doctor's note to get the absence excused. It was rough for her to make everything up that close to exams, and having an excused absence meant she got all the time she needed. So, yeah, Covid positive was still good shorthand for “not faking”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These threads are so transparent. “Why are other people doing a relatively simple thing that I don’t want to do because it causes me slight inconvenience? No one is making me do this thing, but I don’t like that other people are doing it, because it makes me question myself a little, which I don’t like to do.”

You don’t want to test? Don’t test. No one is making you. But your need to challenge other peoples’ decision to test and start a debate about it with internet strangers is pathetic.

Standing ovation 👏 and plus one million.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I probably won't go visit my elderly parents if I have Covid. I had it in the past and it presents like a really mild cold for me, so it's not obvious that it's COVID.

Is that a good enough reason for you, OP?

I could easily think of at least 10 different reasons why someone would want to test. Why can't you?

You might want to work on you post- pandemic anxiety and lack of empathy.

So you test EVERY time you visit, because you could have asymptomatic COVID?

NP here. Yes, I see my parents once a twice a week and I test every time before I see them.

Do you test for RSV, flu, and strep, too? Otherwise why are you just focused on covid when you can have asymptomatic cases of other illnesses?

Covid is more transmissible than any of those. And researchers are still figuring out how it affects the body. Keeping covid away from the elderly make sense.

Duh

[Anonymous]

This whole thread created by someone who has still not moved past the pandemic (even though they would claim that those of us with consideration for vulnerable populations are the ones who haven't moved past it.)

Thoughts and prayers

This can't be the only manifestation of your anxiety in your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I probably won't go visit my elderly parents if I have Covid. I had it in the past and it presents like a really mild cold for me, so it's not obvious that it's COVID.

Is that a good enough reason for you, OP?

I could easily think of at least 10 different reasons why someone would want to test. Why can't you?

You might want to work on you post- pandemic anxiety and lack of empathy.

So you test EVERY time you visit, because you could have asymptomatic COVID?

NP here. Yes, I see my parents once a twice a week and I test every time before I see them.

Do you test for RSV, flu, and strep, too? Otherwise why are you just focused on covid when you can have asymptomatic cases of other illnesses?

if tests for other illnesses were as easy to find and administer as covid tests, I totally would.

They gave covid tests out for free and people still wouldn't take them. It's not a flaw in the test, it's a flaw in some people.

[Anonymous]

I have a stash of rapidly expiring tests in the closet so why not use them if there is a question of being ill.

[Anonymous]

Two of my friends had parents that were hospitalized with COVID in the last 4 months. I get the thought of why bother now but it still affects people so would be good to know if you are spreading it.

[trippy]

apparently there's a new variant called FLiRT, and there are groups in more potential danger if they catch covid in general. Makes sense with people who have family and close friends with people in the higher risk groups, and plan to hang out especially if they know they have been close or around someone positive with covid or even in a hospital recently.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind if people still want to test, but please for the love of God stop blast emailing everyone you have seen for the last 5 days if you test positive. I don't care and I'm not going to do anything with the information. Keep your anxiety to yourself.