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Good Information

Kachina624 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:46:08 GMT

This is information many people need badly.

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Drythe — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:53:14 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
This is information many people need badly.

@Kachina624 Thank you - This bears repeating!

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SilleeMee — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:54:21 GMT

Testing for the virus, the technology and science behind it, lacks accuracy, precision and reliability. It needs improvement and how I see things it's the testing which has gotten us this deep in #$%&. Gives people a false sense of security.

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PamfromCT — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:24:01 GMT

This is wonderful!

Plain and simple so people can’t say “I had no idea.”

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Xivambala — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:56:18 GMT

Not contradicting this example, I have often wondered how would one know if they have become positive, unless there was an intentional exposure.

Also, with people waiting to be tested until they are symptomatic, there's a lot of time to spread the disease unknowingly.

It seems like an imperfect science to me.

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red&curly — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 02:05:51 GMT

I understand the timeline but if you work for yourself like I do or employee like my DH, negative test on whatever day means you go back to work.

Doesn't mean I have no idea just that I tested negative.

What more should Bob have done?

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Twoaces — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 02:15:49 GMT

Excellent information. This emphasizes how different this virus is from so many other illnesses. It is fickle and unpredictable. That is why I wear a mask when out, and I mostly stay home. Do I want to be out and about? Would I have loved to be with family and friends at .Christmas?. Absolutely! With vaccines coming our way, I feel like this is like the last mile of the marathon, or the last five pounds to lose on a diet. Yes, the hardest!m But, meaning that we’ve come this far. Light is at the end of the tunnel. We can do this!!

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Still Raining — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 03:06:23 GMT

Thanks for the good graphic. This is such a nasty thing. It is truly enough to make me crazy.

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willdob3 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 05:05:11 GMT

This is a good visual.

Much of the time, Bob has no idea he has been exposed and feels fine so he doesn’t think to get a test at all until/unless he starts having symptoms. If he doesn’t get symptoms he just keeps spreading it and those people spread it...

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on the bay — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 07:02:03 GMT

Wow!

And this is just the information that should have rolled down to all those advising when to get tested,repeating on the news, how to etc. How many could have been saved with following this!

Anyway, thank you @Kachina624 .

I'm going to send this to my family.

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CathyNY — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 07:55:41 GMT

From what I understand, if you have a known exposure to the virus, you then are supposed to quarantine originally for 14 days whether you test positive or not, The CDC has changed that to 10 days I believe .

Even if you test negative at day 5, since the Covid incubation period runs from 2-14 days, a person is still supposed to quarantine.

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ValuSkr — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:50:17 GMT

Yes, it's a long incubation period. That's why they say that anyone who's been exposed should quarantine for two weeks. It may not be possible for everyone, but if you can, you should.

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CelticCrafter — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:11:20 GMT

My husband and I have been saying for a long time a negative result is only for the moment.

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jubilant — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:28:51 GMT

Thanks for the chart. Makes it easier to understand.

I was tested for Covid yesterday. Thankfully I didn't have it but they wanted to see me because I have cold symptoms ..... sinus, sore throat, and have lost my taste and smell. We have been very careful. I will still be careful. Just because it was a no...doesn't mean we can go back to normal living and gather in groups or crowds. I do have a sinus infection and am not quite up to par but I am so grateful I didn't have Covid that I can't feel too miserable!!

DH has heart disease and asthma and I also have heart disease so we appreciate our families understanding.

Since we are in are early 70's it looks like it could be March before we qualify for the vaccine. Hopefully they can get it out earlier than that but it is the way it is. I'm glad the health care workers are getting it first.

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Bri369 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:03:10 GMT

People should be isolating for a full 14 days after exposure, whether you are showing symptoms or not. I don't think people realize this or are willing to do this.

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hckynut — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:35:11 GMT

My true feelings on this whole thing is this. While all the health organizations are gathering tons of information, nobody will convince me, any one of them know exactly the how and why of it this virus.

Unless a volunteer accepts a specific way to better know the specificity of how/when who was the carrier? Everything to me is conjecture. The way these decisions are arrived at make little sense to me.

First, how does anyone know the exact number of days of contraction? Base that with the number of False/Positives, and vice versa. Only a 100% hermit that has seen and been close to only that 1 person, can say with 100% accuracy, this is how they contracted this virus.

All I need do is look back to last March and the "experts" projections. Most of them had more "wrong" than they had "right". Then I could go through almost the daily changes, by these same "experts", almost completely contradicting the original theories.

Last week I met 3 people I know at the ice rink that had had the virus, and quarantined for 14 days. Only 1 of them felt like he "thought" he knew how he contracted it. The other 2 had no clue. Why would I think others that end up contracting it are any more sure than this 1 out of 3? I don't.

This money spending "tracking" to me is next to worthless. Especially tracking someone that every day is in a variety of places, around various types of individuals. Mask/no mask/6' distance(has to be estimated of course unless one has a sure way of measuring)/no 6' distance.

So who transmitted the virus to this person? Of course, according to many here, it had to be those egocentric/non-caring ones without a mask! Is that known to be 100% accurate? Of course not, but if it makes the one saying and guessing, feel better to say they knew? Fine with me.

I follow the masking where mandatory. I wash my hands as many times a day as most that are home more than they are out and about. I distance at the ice rink in the dressing areas, but on the ice? I am my own free spirit. If someone wants to talk with me, if they are concerned, they will keep track of the 6' distancing, because I am not doing the footage guessing game.

Let's see what else is on my mind. Oh! I am snowed in, so cannot get to the ice rink, which is open today. My wife has our snow machine(SUV) I have the no-snow gas mizer.

Time for me to hit the gym starting with my recumbent. Catch ya later,

hckynut

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BornToShop — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:32:37 GMT

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violann — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:13:31 GMT

@Twoaces wrote:
Excellent information. This emphasizes how different this virus is from so many other illnesses. It is fickle and unpredictable. That is why I wear a mask when out, and I mostly stay home. Do I want to be out and about? Would I have loved to be with family and friends at .Christmas?. Absolutely! With vaccines coming our way, I feel like this is like the last mile of the marathon, or the last five pounds to lose on a diet. Yes, the hardest!m But, meaning that we’ve come this far. Light is at the end of the tunnel. We can do this!!

This is such a wise, well stated, reasonable statement. Why do so many deny this @Twoaces ??

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happycat — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:54:53 GMT

Thank you so much, @Kachina624.