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  • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I had a nasty respiratory flu several weeks ago that I'm still not totally over. I've heard of multiple people in my life getting something similar, and not from the same place. I've only heard of adults getting really sick from it, so I wasn't expecting that the children's hospitals are filling up. Not a good sign.

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      how do you know it wasn't covid

      covid test negative? it could have mutated enough that the antigens no longer register as covid-19, fun!

      • hostilearchitecture [any]
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        2 years ago

        The rapid tests are a very mixed bag as it is, but it's unlikely COVID-19 will mutate enough to not be detectable. The antigen tests are designed around a number of markers unlike the vaccines which lose effectiveness rapidly because they target only the spike protein subunit from a strain which no longer circulates in humans. I decided to use 4 of them that'd we'd gotten which were set to expire before anyone would've used them, back to back, when I realized I hadn't left the house/my yard for about 2 weeks over the summer while my fiance was out of town.

        2 positives, 2 negatives. All stored correctly, followed directions to a T, different batches and two different manufacturers but both gave one negative and one positive response.

        Never vaccinated, had neocleoplasm antibodies detectable in a blood draw as early as Jul 2020, again in May 2021, and again in Jan 2022. Never been symptomatic, certainly not when I took the rapid tests.

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I tested negative, and my family and friends who got sick also tested negative. You would think that at least somebody would have tested positive if it was Covid.