COVID-19

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I get tested every Wednesday just in case

[LeopardLetang]

After a family reunion about 10 members of my extended family all tested negative after getting a sore throat and cough. Then we all tested positive sometime after day 4.

I spread it to a friend of mine the day i ended up developing a minor symptom. Seemed like our at home tests weren't picking it up until it was full blown but it also seems like it's most infectious when it's minor (and coming up negative). Kinda makes it moot.

That was the first time I had it (late June). Didn't really have symptoms except a bad sore throat for a few days. Felt great and was exercising for about 5 days before finally testing negative.

I am developing symptoms again this week though. I guess I should be pretty well protected since I just had it.

[tifosi77]

Neither of us have had it. And we've been testing pretty regularly for several months now, burning through those at-homes.

Why

Because we want to do 'things' in what we believe is a responsible way. If we ever test positive at home, we'll shut down for a few days.

Mrs Tif's employer requires an on-site negative rapid test to enter campus, regardless of vax status.

[tifosi77]

At-home testing when you don't have symptoms is almost as baffling as not testing when you do have symptoms.

No it isn't.

It's a minimal amount if effort in a home with an immunocompromised occupant with reduced capacity to specifically fight respiratory disease. If sticking a swab up our noses a couple times a week gives us peace of mind to go out and about and do stuff, so be it.

I'm still the only one doing regular errand running to minimize potential contacts.

[tifosi77]

Also, after something like travel or the one concert we've been to, we'll go get a (PCR?) test at the local urgent care after a few days.

I'm quite happy 'wasting' tests in this fashion.

[skullman80]

At-home testing when you don't have symptoms is almost as baffling as not testing when you do have symptoms.

No it isn't.

It's a minimal amount if effort in a home with an immunocompromised occupant with reduced capacity to specifically fight respiratory disease. If sticking a swab up our noses a couple times a week gives us peace of mind to go out and about and do stuff, so be it.

I'm still the only one doing regular errand running to minimize potential contacts.

If you are living with someone who is immunocompromised that makes more sense to be cautious.

If it's just a normal household with no one like that..then it seems silly to me.

[NTP66]

Why are we even still talking about this. Let tif do what he feels is right and move on.

[faftorial]

Bunch of busy bodies ITT.

[nocera]

Why are we even still talking about this. Let tif do what he feels is right and move on.

It was my throwaway reply to his original post that sparked it. I didn’t expect it to be a thing. He’s free to waste his tests on all the false negatives he wants.

Let’s talk about Shyster not testing despite being sick during the height of Omicron wave instead.

[meow]

I mean. It’s excessive. But it sounds like you know that. So stab way at your brain. You do you homes

[Shyster]

[meow]

[nocera]

So they’re saying you don’t have to isolate after exposure… which was already the recommendation if you were vaxxed. The guidelines for Covid positive folks are still quarantine for 5 days then you’re good to go if you’re fever free without meds. Same as before.

Perhaps the biggest education-related change is the end of the recommendation that schools do routine daily testing, although that practice can be reinstated in certain situations during a surge in infections, officials said.

The CDC also dropped a “test-to-stay” recommendation, which said students exposed to Covid-19 could regularly test instead of quarantining at home to keep attending school. With no quarantine recommendation, the testing option disappeared too.

No school in Pittsburgh was doing routine daily testing. They also weren’t requiring quarantine unless you had symptoms. CDC also dropped the 6 ft recommendation which hasn’t been a thing for at least a year.

Masks continue to be recommended only in areas where community transmission is deemed high, or if a person is considered at high risk of severe illness.

Yup same as last year as well. This literally changes nothing.

[King Colby]

They stopped recommending social distancing too.

Anyone still behaving like this isn't over has separation anxiety at this point.

[shafnutz05]

When my family had covid in January real bad, I somehow never got it and had no symptoms. And I was around them a lot in the early stages.

This time around, I had a light positive stripe and had no symptoms.

[count2infinity]

When my family had covid in January real bad, I somehow never got it and had no symptoms. And I was around them a lot in the early stages.

This time around, I had a light positive stripe and had no symptoms.

Do you know your blood types? Just curious if it follows a trend that’s out there about blood type variation and catching covid.

[NTP66]

When my family had covid in January real bad, I somehow never got it and had no symptoms. And I was around them a lot in the early stages.

This time around, I had a light positive stripe and had no symptoms.

Do you know your blood types? Just curious if it follows a trend that’s out there about blood type variation and catching covid.

I recall the early studies saying that B and O were the least likely to get infected, but that it didn't appear to affect the severity. I'm B+, and my wife is O something, which means my daughter is either B or O.

Edit: Of course, now I found another study that showed B and AB as least likely to get infected. So I don't think this really matters.

[count2infinity]

I’m pretty sure the data was statistically relevant, but not like a “hey, you got B? You’re immune!!!”

[shafnutz05]

I'm A-, so who knows.

[count2infinity]

I think the negative rh types were less likely to catch it, but I haven’t read the study or subsequent ones in a while.

[DigitalGypsy66]

I was in a packed, poorly ventilated gym for a high school orientation last night. If I don't get it now...

[count2infinity]

Daughter got her second dose this morning. COVID is now officially over.

[King Colby]

Where are we on meaningful boosters?

Should I expect to be able to get the updated version this fall?

[meow]

Yes

[count2infinity]

System upgrades seem to be a go for the fall, yes.