Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?

Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
15 Posts 10 Posters 119 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • Aqua LetiferA Offline
    Aqua LetiferA Offline
    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on last edited by
    #3

    I test every time.

    Never get a positive.

    Please love yourself.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

      Feel like crap for the past 48 hours… Actually am a little worse today than yesterday. Fever went from 100.3 to 101.5, causing chills on top of the rest…

      So the symptoms match everything from a cold to influenza to COVID. No matter which it is, the general treatment is the same… Rest, hydration, etc… Don’t go back to work until symptoms are gone for 24-48 hours. Is there any reason why I should bother getting swabbed?

      RenaudaR Offline
      RenaudaR Offline
      Renauda
      wrote on last edited by
      #4

      @LuFins-Dad

      Do you have DIY rapid test handy? If not, I wouldn’t bother and keep doing what you’re doing. If the fever persists or starts going up after 72 hours, might be worth calling the doc.

      Elbows up!

      1 Reply Last reply
      • 89th8 Offline
        89th8 Offline
        89th
        wrote on last edited by
        #5

        My FIL is high risk (older, kidney transplant, currently has low white bloodcell count) so if we have symptoms we'll test before we visit. I think it's prudent to test based on the risks of those you'll be around. That being said, I have taken maybe 2 tests in the last 3 years.

        1 Reply Last reply
        • JollyJ Offline
          JollyJ Offline
          Jolly
          wrote on last edited by
          #6

          I keep a few COVID/Flu tests at home. I'll still test.

          The government is still providing COVID tests. Why they don't provide COVID/Flu, I don't know. The cost is very similar.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

          1 Reply Last reply
          • MikM Offline
            MikM Offline
            Mik
            wrote on last edited by
            #7

            Yes, but I haven't for a year or so. Haven't been sick.

            But if I become ill? Certainly. Knowledge is good.

            "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

            1 Reply Last reply
            • Doctor PhibesD Online
              Doctor PhibesD Online
              Doctor Phibes
              wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
              #8

              Mrs. Phibes has me test after I've traveled with work. If I feel ill, I test. I've never tested positive. I'm pretty sure I've had it at least once, but maybe I'm just a super-human.

              I hardly ever get sick, but when I do I make one hell of a fuss about it. Or so I'm told.

              I was only joking

              1 Reply Last reply
              • jon-nycJ Offline
                jon-nycJ Offline
                jon-nyc
                wrote on last edited by
                #9

                I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                Thank you for your attention to this matter.

                LuFins DadL JollyJ 2 Replies Last reply
                • CopperC Offline
                  CopperC Offline
                  Copper
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #10

                  January 2020, no symptoms but I was exposed, so I tested at the drug store - positive, isolated for 10 days

                  December 2022, symptoms for a few days, I tested at home - positive, isolated for 5 days

                  I have test kits at home, I'm not sure when they expire

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                    LuFins DadL Offline
                    LuFins DadL Offline
                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #11

                    @jon-nyc said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                    I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                    I’m isolating. I don’t want my wife to catch a flu, either.

                    The Brad

                    HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                      JollyJ Offline
                      JollyJ Offline
                      Jolly
                      wrote on last edited by Jolly
                      #12

                      @jon-nyc said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                      I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                      Not you dying is one of them.

                      Probably top of the list.

                      Probably.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

                      HoraceH 1 Reply Last reply
                      • jon-nycJ Offline
                        jon-nycJ Offline
                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #13

                        When I had covid in April, the first and only time (so far), my symptoms were mostly gone after a couple of days but I tested positive for almost three weeks. I took certain precautions during that time. Without testing I wouldn’t have had.

                        It helps that I have loads of tests that are always about to expire. The GF is a teacher in NYC and they send her home with many.

                        Thank you for your attention to this matter.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                          @jon-nyc said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                          I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                          I’m isolating. I don’t want my wife to catch a flu, either.

                          HoraceH Offline
                          HoraceH Offline
                          Horace
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #14

                          @LuFins-Dad said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                          @jon-nyc said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                          I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                          I’m isolating. I don’t want my wife to catch a flu, either.

                          That’s how I see it. I stay home if I’m sick regardless.

                          Education is extremely important.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          • JollyJ Jolly

                            @jon-nyc said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                            I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                            Not you dying is one of them.

                            Probably top of the list.

                            Probably.

                            HoraceH Offline
                            HoraceH Offline
                            Horace
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #15

                            @Jolly said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                            @jon-nyc said in Are you guys even bothering to test anymore?:

                            I test. If I’m positive there are things I do to protect people I care about.

                            Not you dying is one of them.

                            Probably top of the list.

                            Probably.

                            You may have cracked the code.

                            Education is extremely important.

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            Reply
                            • Reply as topic
                            Log in to reply
                            • Oldest to Newest
                            • Newest to Oldest
                            • Most Votes


                            • Login

                            • Don't have an account? Register

                            • Login or register to search.
                            • First post
                              Last post
                            0
                            • Categories
                            • Recent
                            • Tags
                            • Popular
                            • Users
                            • Groups