re: Unable to Get Covid-19 Tests, Americans Carry On, Go to Work, Get on Flights

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Why get tested?

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i work at a small company and we have a weekly zoom huddle every Monday and Friday. today it was just another co-worker and I on early and we were chatting and he mentioned how crazy covid is right now. i mentioned there were quite a few at our kid's school right now, but nobody is suffering from anything other than flu/cold stuff.

then he said "well i can't even find any place for testing right now. i really want to get tested, but everywhere is out of tests or is weeks to get scheduled."

i asked, "why do you want to get tested?"

he said he just wanted to know if he had it. doesn't feel bad or anything. but he just saw the news and felt like going to get a test was the right thing since everybody else was doing it. i mentioned that it would be taking up a test from somebody that's sick, and honestly, if he feels fine, why would he want to put himself around people that are genuinely there because they're sick and getting tested. that whole line of thinking had never crossed his mind, and he said "you're right. i was just listening to the news."

he's a nice guy and i like him. good at his job, great co-worker, but not what i would call overly bright or sharp. not a hyper-liberal, political, or covid crazy, but gets all his news from CNN and takes it as straight news.

but he's a perfect microcosm of what the media and hysteria produces in today's world to your average American.

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I’m thinking only to the extent it traumatized their parents, or ruined their day to day life. Most of us took in stride and our kids were minimally affected.

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Kids that started college during the covid bullshite era. I have one.

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Why even take a test if you feel bad? It's not like they're gonna give you medicine. Stay home till you feel better, no need to test.

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For me personally, I work in a hospital so I would have to in order to go back to work if I started showing symptoms after being exposed.

If I worked from home or something, I wouldn't.

I'm a bit surprised airlines aren't requiring either vax proof or a negative test before boarding. Cruises lines are requiring both.

Can’t test positive if you don’t get tested.

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The only people who should get tested are those mandated by employment.

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The biggest problem is that every Tom and hairy dick around is testing at the first sign of a sniffle. That's just stupid. I don't agree that the only people who should get tested are those required by employers. If you actually get sick enough to go to the doctor, then you should get tested. By sick enough, I mean that if by day three of four you're still feeling like dogshit and running a fever, take your arse to your primary care doc or a clinic and find out what it is. Do not go to the damn emergency room. Hell, ERs are begging people not to come there with minor Covid-like symptoms. Those morons are gumming up the works.

Getting tested if you are legitimately ill after a few days is necessary because you really have an 8-10 day window for the antibody treatments to be effective. So, particularly if you are older or immunocompromised, and continue to have significant symptoms by all means, go get tested and find out what you have.

Otherwise, take the common sense, pre-Covid approach and stay your arse at home for a few days if you just have the sniffles, a cough, and a low-grade fever. It has worked for many years, and it will work now.

I have half of a two-pack sitting at home unused.

I'm done with this horseshite.

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I'm a bit surprised airlines aren't requiring either vax proof or a negative test before boarding.

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I don't think they like losing business

It's hilarious to me that people are getting tested a day or two after they start feeling sick (or a cough) and they don't get their results for 3 days.

Someone set up a free PCR test site by my office a month or so ago (almost like they knew what was coming, that is another story I guess), up until two weeks ago there was never any cars there. The last two weeks there are a 100 cars in line there every day, they are lined up two hours before they open at 8am. At 4 o'clock they pick a car they will get to and send the rest home, craziest shite I've seen in a while. This is on the east side of San Antonio and plenty of culture from the surrounding hoods are represented, they are sitting in cars sometimes 4 or 5 deep with mask on just waiting for their turn, I do not understand this behavior at all. Is their some type of government assistance tied to a positive test I don't know about? Apparently there are bunch of these sites that have popped up all over SA, one of the local channels ran a story last night that scammers have set up sites and are giving fake test just to get the personal info from the people coming in to be tested, wtf???