re: if you get tested/test negative for Covid, are/will you quarantine for 14 days?

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Are tests not trustworthy?

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there are a lot that are not trustworthy. lots of places are doing a basic nasal swab and not going all the way up your nose. the MD told me he thinks they are about 70% accurate at best. so give or take 1/3 of people getting tested are going back out in the populace with a false negative. which is a large number. not everyone can get the full up your nose swab.

Absolutely, I'm getting paid to do it.

I did, but this was in April.

Absolutely not.

So here's the thing. What's "sensible" to you, seems ludicrous to others. I'm a pretty risk-averse person, and no way on the planet would I even put my life on hold for 2 weeks after testing negative for any illness. It would be hiding from something that is extremely unlikely to even exist.

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Wait, why tf do you have to quarantine if you test negative???

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There is a delay between the time of initial infection and when it will show on a test. For instance, if you get exposed and infected at 10:00 am and take a test at 3:00 pm that same day, it will undoubtedly be negative even though you are infected.

The 14-day thing still the CDC recommendation from back in April. Although when you look at the bellcurve distribution of infection to symptom presentation (at that point you would undoubtedly show positive), like 95% of people reach this point on Day 5 post exposure.