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  • 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.