They want people to be infected and reinfected to build that sweet sweet "hybrid immunity". It's the only option left since zero-covid is off the table. Mitigations like air filtering and masks? Paid time off for sickness? Nah, that puts the burden on the government and rich.
We are now personally responsible for trying to avoid one of the most contagious diseases ever seen, which is several times worse than a bad flu season when cases are at their lowest, all year long, on top of being burdened with every other respiratory disease. And if you got covid you get to do it with a likely comprimised immune system.
Hope people like getting sick all the time. :covid-cool:
Is this what "death to america" is going to look like, shit I was hoping for more getting nuked and less becoming less and less well over a few years until my organs give up.
don't forget emergency rooms treating trauma and ICU patients on crash carts in the hallways because all the beds are full with people who's lungs have turned into cement :covid-cool:
Hope you don't have a heart attack, stroke, car accident, or a bad slip-n-fall, American Populace :biden-troll:
Other than giving u lots of tasty slop, is there anything we can do for u comrade?
The director of the CDC caught COVID recently with “mild symptoms” and was off work for 17 days.
:thinking-about-it:
I think what they're getting at is that post infection you might continue to have positive test results even when you're no longer sick/contagious.
If you've got enough viral load to test positive with an antigen / lateral flow test, you're pretty much contagious.
I’d bet good money that I was simply testing myself wrong.
How well the rapid tests work depend on a few factors, but the ones I want to focus on are (a) how wet your epithelium is when you swab it and (b) how many of the virions are hanging around the section of your epithelium you swab. If you don't breathe through your nose very much (easy to do when you have a respiratory infection), you might have fewer virions in your sinuses (depending on if you have viral replication there). If your epithelium is super dry (super easy for this to occur when its infected with a virus that reduces circulation, makes the throat sore (leading to less water intake), and makes a person cough a lot), you'll transfer a lot less viral matter onto the testing swab.
There are probably videos online that can help, but if your tissue is super dry the threshold of number of virions produced by the subject per second required to register a positive probably increases.
Source: speculation mostly. I used to do research in a different but related subfield of biophysics
A positive rapid test means that you swabbed your nose and found intact covid virus particles, and enough of them to trigger a positive test. A positive PCR test could still be picking up viral RNA after the virus was eviscerated by the immune system.
So a positive lateral flow = contagious, a positive PCR means maybe contagious. A negative of either means you could still be contagious, a negative PCR being much more indicative that you have cleared the virus than a negative lateral flow.
take care ❤️ , I think for me it wasn't till 14-16 days ish that i finally tested negative. I assumed if I tested positive, even faintly then that meant I was contagious
