CORONA Covid tests...why?

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KFhunter

Veteran Member
Why do people rush off to go get tested every sniffle they get?

It just feeds the beast, they use it against us.

If you're worried it might be COVID-19 take therepudics, stay home if you have any fever or sniffles, or coughing. It's the obvious here folks...

Having a test is going to what exactly for your health? It isn't going to make you better.

It's going to start contact tracing, its going to invite bureaucracy, it's going to screw your employer, your co-workers, and your friends and family.
 
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Ogre

Veteran Member
Not to mention the very minor detail that they are worthless.

CORONA - CDC to withdraw EUA for PCR test for COVID 19 on 31DEC21

Cant confirm anything but whats below from the CDC but everything else Im reading says that it failed its review because it could not differentiate between COVID 19 and other corona viruses (like the common cold) From the CDC Audience: Individuals Performing COVID-19 Testing Level: Laboratory...
www.timebomb2000.com www.timebomb2000.com
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WalknTrot

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All through this thing I've LMAO at the super low ratio of tests vs. positives. Maybe 5%?
People are weird.

Only explanation I can see for some of throwing the curve is the required testing, without any symptoms whatsoever, to comply before medical procedures like surgeries or travel.
 
WildDaisy

WildDaisy

God has a plan, Trust it!
KFhunter said:
Why do people rush off to go get tested every sniffle they get?

It just feeds the beast, they use it against us.

If you're worried it might be COVID-19 take therepudics, stay home if you have any fever or sniffles, or coughing. It's the obvious here folks...

Having a test is going to what exactly for your health? It isn't going to make you better.

It's going to start contact tracing, its going to invite bureaucracy, it's going to screw your employer, your co-workers, and your friends and family.
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And if you work and are sick, how exactly do you call in sick to work without being told you need it to return to work or keep a job? Please let me know. I'd love to hear your plan so I can use it too.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
In some places, you have to be able to show the positive results from a COVID test to be granted time off.
In other places, you need a negative COVID test to get into a country or have procedures done in some hospitals.

I agree: best to avoid the tests, unless absolutely necessary. It's a risk vs. reward scenario.
 
bw

bw

Fringe Ranger
Watch a Youtube video of kids in India putting those long Qtips into paper sleeves. The Qtips are spat out onto the floor, and the barefoot kids squat there picking them up and stuffing them. You're at more risk from whatever you get off that Qtip than you are from WuFlu.
 
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KFhunter

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bethshaya said:
And if you work and are sick, how exactly do you call in sick to work without being told you need it to return to work or keep a job? Please let me know. I'd love to hear your plan so I can use it too.
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If your employer requires it, so be it.

I'm not attacking any particular person nor talking about required tests.

I'm talking about people who run and get a test at any sniffle they get and nothing requiring them to do so.
 
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Night Breeze

Veteran Member
They stopped reporting test results a while back only thing the press can say is so many people have been tested not how many have been exposed. With the way the CDC works no tests can't feed negative scenarios. Of course they are going to play the spike game and everywhere there is a slight case increase is going to be a crisis place and need for everyone to get a jab and booster.
 
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FireDance

TB Fanatic
SouthernBreeze said:
When you're sick, and go to the doctor for what ails you, they do a Covid test automatically.
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I went in twice and on the second they tested me. I didn’t like it because I knew I didn’t have it despite being around several other sick people who were in there the week before. I just let them do it. Turns out it was a major sinus infection. Bleh.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
It's coming up on ragweed season. I'm going to refuse to get tested or will lie about it if my seasonal job
decides to require it. I told the head honcho that we'd be better off with "Don't ask, don't tell." He laughed.
The only way I will get tested is if I'm also running a high fever, and testing is free.

Otherwise, it's allergies, and there are going to be about 2-3 weeks that my eyes will be red and itchy and I'll have a cough. That's just how it is, no matter what I take.
 
subnet

subnet

Boot
bw said:
Watch a Youtube video of kids in India putting those long Qtips into paper sleeves. The Qtips are spat out onto the floor, and the barefoot kids squat there picking them up and stuffing them. You're at more risk from whatever you get off that Qtip than you are from WuFlu.
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Thats like the vids of the Asians ironing used masks flat to resell
 
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Membership Revoked
bethshaya said:
.... you need it to return to work or keep a job?
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Eventually ... soon, the requirement to be ... "vaccinated", will be enforced.
Unless you've already been, you'll have a tough choice (which really isn't a choice)
to make then.

It's time to consider a drastic change of lifestyle as this drastic change
in reality evolves ....

O.W.
 
WildDaisy

WildDaisy

God has a plan, Trust it!
Oscar Wilde said:
Eventually ... soon, the requirement to be ... "vaccinated", will be enforced.
Unless you've already been, you'll have a tough choice (which really isn't a choice)
to make then.

It's time to consider a drastic change of lifestyle as this drastic change
in reality evolves ....

O.W.
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Yeah, Dh and I are unemployed, so we are fine and dont need to answer to anyone by way of taking the vax, however, my son lives at home and is still employed. We talked about it the other night, before any of us showed symptoms. He is torn. He needs his job, however, he does not want to take the vax under any circumstances. He had a good job with good benefits in a trade he has a passion for, however, if it came down to him not working, we would survive without him working somehow. He would lose his car, which he worked hard for, but the homes are paid for (My Mom's next door and ours) and between us, we have three paid for older cars if he needed it.

He is odd man out in his group of peers since he is a millennial that is Conservative. I am kinda proud of him. He gets the peer pressure and all the social media junk from his friends, and still stands firm to his beliefs.

Best we can do right now is stand firm in our choice, prepare the best we can and trust God for the outcome.
 
AlaskaSue

AlaskaSue

North to the Future
I’ll just put this here. Friday night I was pretty doggone snuffly and head and chest quite congested…I do go to gym and store here and Alaska is ‘spiking’ since we went from 20 positives per day to 40. That’s statewide.

Went to bed, had a fairly crummy day yesterday and couldn’t find my sense of smell no matter what I sniffed, not even a jar of jalapeños.So just rested.

Well, I may (probably) have just had the crud, but feel a lot better today. I can smell my nasturtiums again, no cough, very little congestion. And a ton more energy. So, about 24 hours all tolled.

I do take all the things recommended here…zinc, c, d, etc. Since we don’t have a TS up here I have ivermectin on order for just in case….But whether I had the Delta or not — and I’m certain I had the original in Jan 2020 down in Florida - I guess even knowing it was possible did make me pay attention, though I’m not really afraid. But a bit cautious for the sake of others. Good thing I’m way remote!

Funny how just a summer cold can take us down these paths. Sigh. Maybe I had a 2nd case of the cv, maybe not. Just thought you might be interested in my experience.

I have no plan to test or get the injection. Had to get tested when admitted to ER last summer….otherwise …Don’t go out a lot either, really, but since I’ve alway practiced very good hygiene I don’t think anyone around here will be likely to catch anything.

Praying for my friends here, especially Minkykat that she fully and quickly recover.
 
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SouthernBreeze

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
FireDance said:
I went in twice and on the second they tested me. I didn’t like it because I knew I didn’t have it despite being around several other sick people who were in there the week before. I just let them do it. Turns out it was a major sinus infection. Bleh.
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The same happened to my DDIL Friday. Turns out, she also had a bad sinus infection. The doctor tested her as part of his diagnostic procedure.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
I'm waiting for "regular" colds and the flu to return.

(I know, they never left. Some of the Karens get one little sniffle and they automatically assume it's COVID)
 
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FireDance

TB Fanatic
Meemur said:
I'm waiting for "regular" colds and the flu to return.

(I know, they never left. Some of the Karens get one little sniffle and they automatically assume it's COVID)
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Right? I am so tired of being asked if (when I sneeze or sniff) I have Covid. I just want to say, “no you moron”. But I just reply no. I may have to just start giving “the look”. Haha.
 
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foreverkeeps

Veteran Member
Speaking of COVID tests, does anyone know of a reliable home test? I looked in Amazon, CVS and Walgreens, and the tests they do have show a lot of negative reviews for inaccurate results. Others are over $100.
I would love to have a few on hand in case we ever need them, but not if they are unreliable or so pricey.
Please share if you have any advice, and thanks!
 
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summerthyme

Administrator
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WalknTrot said:
All through this thing I've LMAO at the super low ratio of tests vs. positives. Maybe 5%?
People are weird.

Only explanation I can see for some of throwing the curve is the required testing, without any symptoms whatsoever, to comply before medical procedures like surgeries or travel.
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Yeah, that's the only reason I've been tested... pre-surgery. Otherwise, who cares? If it's bad enough it *could* be COVID (both hubby and DS apparently caught COVID at a family wedding at the beginning of the month. When they started running a high fever (4+ degrees above their normal), they took ivermectin. It could have been flu, I suppose. But whatever- 4 hours after the ivermectin dose, DS's fever broke, and he was feeling OK in 3 days. We see no sense at this point in getting tested.

Summerthyme
 
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TidesofTruth

Veteran Member
KFhunter said:
Why do people rush off to go get tested every sniffle they get?

It just feeds the beast, they use it against us.

If you're worried it might be COVID-19 take therepudics, stay home if you have any fever or sniffles, or coughing. It's the obvious here folks...

Having a test is going to what exactly for your health? It isn't going to make you better.

It's going to start contact tracing, its going to invite bureaucracy, it's going to screw your employer, your co-workers, and your friends and family.
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Our company policy requires that any travel to an area with over 15 infections per 100,000 you must be tested before returning to the office. Well back in November I went to a Wedding of my son near knoxville. We rented a house for all 15 of us. Coming back I had my PCR test and tested positive. I had no symptoms. Our entire family came down with it. Many with symptoms. It seems I was patient 0. I had to stay off work for two weeks until I got a negative result. I have tested probably 15 times now. All others Negative and a couple of antibody tests which were positive until about six months after infection.

I have had about 6 friends die and many more that I know on a first name basis since this started, We just buried one yesterday. Yes all had comorbidities and probably did not have years left on their lives but still.

Well anyway all this to say that I would have felt horrible and really created a lot of problems at my work if I had come in and infected everyone because regardless of what anyone thinks of its severity it still would have sent everyone into quarantine (you have to consider a business's liability) We as a company are on the very front lines of this whole covid mess dealing with hospitals/doctors and industry HR. It would have ruined a lot of lives if we couldn't do what we do. So I am in favor of testing. I am in favor of promoting good safe practices in hygiene and preventive nutrition encouragement. I am in favor of protocols that keep tabs on employees health. About 60% of our Employees have had covid and our safety protocols have stopped transmission from happening in the workplace every time so far and testing is a hyge part of that. HOWEVER I AM ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO VACCINATION.
 
ShadowMan

ShadowMan

Designated Grumpy Old Fart
Long before Covid when I was supervising offices and clinics if one of my people came to work with the sniffles or feeling sick, or flu like, I SENT THEM HOME IMMEDIATELY!! So they wouldn't get everyone else at work sick.

"Oh I can still work...I'm OK, SNIFF!!"

Ah NO!! GO THE "F" HOME!!

Gee how hard is that. It's even worth paying them to stay away otherwise EVERYONE in the office/shop/clinic gets sick.
 
BinWa

BinWa

Veteran Member
Meemur said:
It's coming up on ragweed season. I'm going to refuse to get tested or will lie about it if my seasonal job
decides to require it. I told the head honcho that we'd be better off with "Don't ask, don't tell." He laughed.
The only way I will get tested is if I'm also running a high fever, and testing is free.

Otherwise, it's allergies, and there are going to be about 2-3 weeks that my eyes will be red and itchy and I'll have a cough. That's just how it is, no matter what I take.
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That’s pretty much how I handled it. When I spiked a high fever at work and felt sick to my stomach I just knew something was off with my body… had been sick before and never tested but this felt different & I did test positive when I went in the only time I had ever tested.
 
bev

bev

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Standard operating procedure here, it seems, at least with kids. DGD woke up early today really stuffy with a sore throat. DD knew she’d have to take her to get tested before she could go back to school. Negative for Covid and strep.
 
helen

helen

Panic Sex Lady
foreverkeeps said:
Speaking of COVID tests, does anyone know of a reliable home test? I looked in Amazon, CVS and Walgreens, and the tests they do have show a lot of negative reviews for inaccurate results. Others are over $100.
I would love to have a few on hand in case we ever need them, but not if they are unreliable or so pricey.
Please share if you have any advice, and thanks!
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Walmart, $20 for a box of two. Results within 15 minutes.
 
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glennb6

Inactive
Meemur said:
It's coming up on ragweed season. I'm going to refuse to get tested or will lie about it if my seasonal job
decides to require it. I told the head honcho that we'd be better off with "Don't ask, don't tell." He laughed.
The only way I will get tested is if I'm also running a high fever, and testing is free.

Otherwise, it's allergies, and there are going to be about 2-3 weeks that my eyes will be red and itchy and I'll have a cough. That's just how it is, no matter what I take.
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Exactly. My body my choice do not only apply to your CHOOSING whether to get jabbed (never) but whether you take a cv test, or ANY medical proceedure or checking.
 
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glennb6

Inactive
TidesofTruth said:
Our company policy requires that any travel to an area with over 15 infections per 100,000 you must be tested before returning to the office. Well back in November I went to a Wedding of my son near knoxville. We rented a house for all 15 of us. Coming back I had my PCR test and tested positive. I had no symptoms. Our entire family came down with it. Many with symptoms. It seems I was patient 0. I had to stay off work for two weeks until I got a negative result. I have tested probably 15 times now. All others Negative and a couple of antibody tests which were positive until about six months after infection.

I have had about 6 friends die and many more that I know on a first name basis since this started, We just buried one yesterday. Yes all had comorbidities and probably did not have years left on their lives but still.

Well anyway all this to say that I would have felt horrible and really created a lot of problems at my work if I had come in and infected everyone because regardless of what anyone thinks of its severity it still would have sent everyone into quarantine (you have to consider a business's liability) We as a company are on the very front lines of this whole covid mess dealing with hospitals/doctors and industry HR. It would have ruined a lot of lives if we couldn't do what we do. So I am in favor of testing. I am in favor of promoting good safe practices in hygiene and preventive nutrition encouragement. I am in favor of protocols that keep tabs on employees health. About 60% of our Employees have had covid and our safety protocols have stopped transmission from happening in the workplace every time so far and testing is a hyge part of that. HOWEVER I AM ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO VACCINATION.
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"Yes all had comorbidities and probably did not have years left on their lives but still."

Were they overweight to obese also?

Were their cause of death listed as CV or as whatever comorbitity they had?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus > and see the Active Cases drop down box which says 99.4% of all CURRENTLY infected are "in Mild Condition". IMPO, that would include many people with NO symptoms. Read again, 99.4% mild condition. This is CANNOT be a deadly pandemic with that data (from the WHO btw).

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your choice whether you get tested, jabbed, or lock yourself in your room for xxx days.

No symptoms = NOT SICK. You CANNOT give anyone else ANY ILLNESS if you have no symptoms.

Worldwide over the past 18 mths the fatality rate is only 0.057%. That includes the ussa (which has a 0.19% rate) so it tends to skew the world rate slightly to the high side. If you actually believe the 649,680 dead number due to cv, I have a big bridge in Brooklyn for sale.

Even to presume the ussa numbers are died WITH cv rather than OF cv, is absurdly high.

Never the less, 0.057% is FIVE One-hundredths of One percent over 18 mths. TINY. A NOTHING-BURGER.
 
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summerthyme

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glennb6 said:
suppose you tell them NO cv test?
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Well, if you went to them with symptoms of fever, headache and pneumonia, I'd suggest you let them test you for everything they might needs, so you can get the correct treatment to recover!

If you've just got sniffles, why did you go to the doctor?

If you're there for totally unrelated complaint and they inexplicably try to force a COVID test on you without explanation, you need a new doctor.

Summerthyme
 
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glennb6

Inactive
Oscar Wilde said:
Eventually ... soon, the requirement to be ... "vaccinated", will be enforced.
Unless you've already been, you'll have a tough choice (which really isn't a choice)
to make then.

It's time to consider a drastic change of lifestyle as this drastic change
in reality evolves ....

O.W.
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ya know, this is the part that really bothers me, a lot. To be told you cannot earn a living, cannot shop for food, cannot do XXX etc. This is the antithesis of a free society. Presumption of guilt unless your can show your papers that you've obeyed govt medical mandates.
No.

It equates to imprisonment without trial. This equates to violence and dangerous force. You may just wither away from lack of food or cannot pay your rent/mtg/etc without a job, but that IS violence albeit slow violence. And if you have kiddies and they're hungry do you cave in and get jabbed or do you fight back?

Those businesses that support or follow those illegal govt mandates will be as guilty as the govt.

This is the quinticential situation that the 2nd Amendment is for.
 
lojoma

lojoma

Veteran Member
TidesofTruth said:
Our company policy requires that any travel to an area with over 15 infections per 100,000 you must be tested before returning to the office. Well back in November I went to a Wedding of my son near knoxville. We rented a house for all 15 of us. Coming back I had my PCR test and tested positive. I had no symptoms. Our entire family came down with it. Many with symptoms. It seems I was patient 0. I had to stay off work for two weeks until I got a negative result. I have tested probably 15 times now. All others Negative and a couple of antibody tests which were positive until about six months after infection.

I have had about 6 friends die and many more that I know on a first name basis since this started, We just buried one yesterday. Yes all had comorbidities and probably did not have years left on their lives but still.

Well anyway all this to say that I would have felt horrible and really created a lot of problems at my work if I had come in and infected everyone because regardless of what anyone thinks of its severity it still would have sent everyone into quarantine (you have to consider a business's liability) We as a company are on the very front lines of this whole covid mess dealing with hospitals/doctors and industry HR. It would have ruined a lot of lives if we couldn't do what we do. So I am in favor of testing. I am in favor of promoting good safe practices in hygiene and preventive nutrition encouragement. I am in favor of protocols that keep tabs on employees health. About 60% of our Employees have had covid and our safety protocols have stopped transmission from happening in the workplace every time so far and testing is a hyge part of that. HOWEVER I AM ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO VACCINATION.
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No judgement. We're the 6 friends who died vaccinated?
 
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TidesofTruth

Veteran Member
glennb6 said:
"Yes all had comorbidities and probably did not have years left on their lives but still."

Were they overweight to obese also?
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Some were some were overweight some were normal.

glennb6 said:
No symptoms = NOT SICK. You CANNOT give anyone else ANY ILLNESS if you have no symptoms.
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Not true. I had zero symptoms. I gave it to my whole family. Some without symptoms but mostly had symptoms. My wife was quite ill. All came down with it after I was tested. I got a negative test within a week of my first test. Had to stay out of work until I got a second neg test, I then subsequently tested positive for the antibodies from an entirely different outfit and then tested negative for antibody 6 months after we all had gotten covid.

My immune system did not create antibodies for no reason. And btw I have had no illness at all with symptoms since a flu march 2020.
 
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