CORONA Don’t want to take government test before I fly

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foreverkeeps

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Husband flew home from Pennsylvania Friday night and had a fresh head cold. He was very tired and had a low-grade fever and congestion and cough.
He doesn’t want to take a covid test. I started symptoms the next day. Cough, congestion, tired, low-grade fever. I also do not want to take a test. I’m supposed to fly to the Dominican republic Wednesday morning!
I’ve taken two days of ivermectin. I take NAC and 20+ other pills that all you guys recommended pretty much every day.
They don’t check my temperature or vaccine status going down. They will coming up Sunday when I return. I understand a family member of my daughter-in-law has us covered for our return paperwork since I am unvaccinated. Please pray for me. I slept an hour during my lunch. When I get off soon I think I’m just gonna go straight to bed.
 
phloydius

phloydius

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Seems like the worst case scenario is: That you have covid and fly down there ignorant of if it is covid or not, and then when you come back test positive for covid and are not allowed to return to the US. You may loose the money you spent on the plane ticket, and have to figure out how to live down there until you recover using the foreign medical services (if you are even allowed), and when you eventually recover in a couple of weeks (or even longer), you'll have to buy a new plane ticket last minute (which will be expensive) to fly back to the US after you take a negative covid test.
 
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bluelady

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foreverkeeps said:
I don’t know what to do. I would definitely wear a mask.
I mean, it could just be a cold?
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If you took a test you would know. If you're afraid the test might give you COVID, you'd better stay home anyway because the risks of hinky nefarious stuff will be worse in the Dominican Republic.. The meds should keep you from getting very ill, but they won't stop you from being contagious, and neither will the masks completely. Is taking the test really worse than going without knowing?
 
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bluelady

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foreverkeeps said:
I’m supposed to be watching my three little granddaughters this Friday while there is a family wedding without kids. Plus I haven’t been down there since 2008. And my daughter-in-law‘s mom told me if I came she would cook me a goat.
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I wouldn't want to miss that either. I'd take the test to make sure it was just a cold, take lots of OTC meds & wear a mask so as not to even pass that on, & then freely enjoy myself. If the test was positive I'd make complex plans to make sure I could go at a better time. YMMV.
 
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Pinecone

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I'm sorry, foreverkeeps. Maybe you can reschedule and go when you feel well and can really enjoy your trip and those beautiful grandkids. If you feel this poorly today, it sounds like you would have a miserable trip if you went, and the change in altitude could really mess up your sinuses and ears.
 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

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foreverkeeps said:
Husband flew home from Pennsylvania Friday night and had a fresh head cold. He was very tired and had a low-grade fever and congestion and cough.
He doesn’t want to take a covid test. I started symptoms the next day. Cough, congestion, tired, low-grade fever. I also do not want to take a test. I’m supposed to fly to the Dominican republic Wednesday morning!
I’ve taken two days of ivermectin. I take NAC and 20+ other pills that all you guys recommended pretty much every day.
They don’t check my temperature or vaccine status going down. They will coming up Sunday when I return. I understand a family member of my daughter-in-law has us covered for our return paperwork since I am unvaccinated. Please pray for me. I slept an hour during my lunch. When I get off soon I think I’m just gonna go straight to bed.
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You'll have to take one to get back into the country. Six of one, half a dozen of another.
 
TammyinWI

TammyinWI

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phloydius said:
From what I have read, I you have no choice about getting a covid test when you fly back. It is a requirement for everyone flying into the US from, and it does not matter if you have been vaccinated or not.

www.cdc.gov

COVID-19 and Travel

CDC travel recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
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Those dang things have proven to be up to 90 percent inaccurate, and that was a cdc article, or something like that.
 
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summerthyme

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DDIL was told the home tests are showing a lot of false negatives. OTOH, she said if you DO test positive on a home test, you have a heavy viral load. Your call... but as miserable as my 3 little (16 Mos, 3 1/2 and 5) granddaughters were with it, even though it never went into their lungs, I wouldn't want to be the one who brought it to them.

OTOH, we had a big outdoor family birthday party for the older DGD, and pretty much every person in our side of the family was just recovering from COVID. The other side of the family is totally brainwashed vaccine believers... we never mentioned COVID to any of them!

And a certain tiny percentage of folks who survive the virus will have similar lifetime effects the vax is causing... if you add on the risk of blood clots due to a long airplane flight to the risks from COVID.... lots to think about...

Prayers and Sympathy.

Summerthyme
 
TammyinWI

TammyinWI

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Prayers added, absolutely! But <sigh> think it all through. Maybe reschedule???

I hate to rain on your parade, but in these times, do not be tricked into bowing to the beast system, and their falsities/deceptions. These times are unprecedented, and it is like being in training for what is potentially coming.

They don't get all of their way, though. This crap all needs to be walked back and combatted, peaceably.

***** And: what they are all trying to impose on us, they can have it instead, all of it, not us. That prayer is Scriptural, too.

I am not happy, after decades of life on this earth, and am "fighting it tooth and nail," using wisdom and discernment, with peaceful means. In the meantime: no flying for me, and it has actually been that way since TSA and back-scatter x-rays at airports got too be too much of a clamp-down...the "patriot act" has got to go! They sure labeled that wrong! On purpose.
 
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FireDance

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WalknTrot said:
So...you're OK with being responsible for making people on the way down and at your destination sick?
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The heck with worrying about the other people. I would be terrified of getting sicker there. DON’T DO IT!! You don’t know if it’s Covid or pneumonia or the flu!! No!!! Think of yourself!

ETA: Prayers have been added. I know how much this means. But a Covid test may be too early. We have lots of flu and pneumonia going around right now. I just wouldn’t do it until I knew precisely what is going on. You don’t want to get there and be in bed all day and I know you don’t want to give it to the grands - whatever it is.

It COULD be a cold or even allergies, but with the fatigue you’re describing and low grade fever, I personally think it’s something more creepy. Im sorry. I know you were looking forward to this.
 
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Cardinal

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phloydius said:
Seems like the worst case scenario is: That you have covid and fly down there ignorant of if it is covid or not, and then when you come back test positive for covid and are not allowed to return to the US. You may loose the money you spent on the plane ticket, and have to figure out how to live down there until you recover using the foreign medical services (if you are even allowed), and when you eventually recover in a couple of weeks (or even longer), you'll have to buy a new plane ticket last minute (which will be expensive) to fly back to the US after you take a negative covid test.
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The good news is that you can get antibiotics without a Dr.s RX down there. Just pay cash for it.
 
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summerthyme

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foreverkeeps said:
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After 2 days of ivermectin? I'd take a home test, but honestly, I'd stay home... the risk of getting worse or throwing a clot isn't worth even a goat barbecue! Your relatives will be disappointed, but will understand. Reschedule when there isn't a stressful family wedding going on and you can have time to spend... feeling well enough to enjoy it!

Summerthyme
 
L.A.B.

L.A.B.

Goodness before greatness.
WalknTrot said:
That's why there are Covid tests. ;)
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I took a CV-19 test in July 2021. A home test kit. I substituted their test kit swab with a Q-Tip swab, and hit the smear kit with the Q-Tip.

It came up positive, twice. I had no doubt prior to that.

I was a stay at home subject for 10-work days. I survived DELTA, by counting every deep breath as revenge against the ****** ******’s who turned this **** loose on the world.

The guy at work I caught it from is about 20 years younger. He was on his @$$ for three weeks, and lost his mom and father in law in that timeframe, all who had attended a big family party in the days before my exposure to (his sneeze droplets, just before I stepped into his office.

Shared droplets, lingering for a nasal passage or lung to culture in.

I hear the current strain is not as harsh. Is that still true?
 
greysage

greysage

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Triple up on the ivm and zinc over the next twenty four hours and go! So you have an extended stay in DR if you can't leave until you're better, thats not a big deal. DR hospitals arent bad, right?
Straight up ask your son what he wants you to do. Come down with a cold or flu and untested? Or for you to stay home? You said you'd wear a mask, and we know how effective those are.
Myself, I hate being sick and probably wouldn't go because I would be miserable with the flu away from home.
 
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ghost

Veteran Member
foreverkeeps said:
Husband flew home from Pennsylvania Friday night and had a fresh head cold. He was very tired and had a low-grade fever and congestion and cough.
He doesn’t want to take a covid test. I started symptoms the next day. Cough, congestion, tired, low-grade fever. I also do not want to take a test. I’m supposed to fly to the Dominican republic Wednesday morning!
I’ve taken two days of ivermectin. I take NAC and 20+ other pills that all you guys recommended pretty much every day.
They don’t check my temperature or vaccine status going down. They will coming up Sunday when I return. I understand a family member of my daughter-in-law has us covered for our return paperwork since I am unvaccinated. Please pray for me. I slept an hour during my lunch. When I get off soon I think I’m just gonna go straight to bed.
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The covid strain is a sign of the FLU only.
The covid name, is one the government made up to kill as many of GODS children as they can ?
 
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foreverkeeps

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We both took hone tests today and both are positive. He’s fine now. The strain definitely isn’t as bad as the one last year. But I’m not going. I hate getting on the phone and canceling my flights and all that. Plus I have a suitcase of my son‘s clothes that he won’t get now.
 
Tristan

Tristan

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phloydius said:
Seems like the worst case scenario is: That you have covid and fly down there ignorant of if it is covid or not, and then when you come back test positive for covid and are not allowed to return to the US. You may loose the money you spent on the plane ticket, and have to figure out how to live down there until you recover using the foreign medical services (if you are even allowed), and when you eventually recover in a couple of weeks (or even longer), you'll have to buy a new plane ticket last minute (which will be expensive) to fly back to the US after you take a negative covid test.
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Even if clear now for the trip down, it's possible to test positive due to exposure on flight or after when attempting to return - so those risks remain.

Foreverkeeps, do you have a 'Plan B' if you're denied the ability to return due to a positive test?


eta: I see I posted late...
 
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