Community Chat

[violann]

I am hoping that many of you who have posted in this thread did not have the torment of suffering this horror yourselves, or perhaps more important, did not have the anguish of getting a phone call informing you that an asymptomatic carrier had infected your tiny, innocent 92 year old LO.

"IT HURTS"????? Lying on your stomach attempting to drag in a breath hurts too. 

Intubation? Google it. Would it be what you'd want for your only living blood relative? 

"I'm never sick"?? My LO was infected by someone who had NO symptoms until AFTER LO developed symptoms herself. People who are asymptomatic carriers are FINE......until their symptoms develop.

I understand that it can be very easy to forget this quickly as long as nothing that has happened has touched you. But if/when it DOES touch you, your personal risk is 100%.

If you are still operating on assumptions that are not backed by emerging science DON'T LISTEN TO ANYBODY WHO SAYS "JUMP IN AND GET BACK IN THE SWIM" IF THEY ARE NOT SPEAKING BASED ON UP TO THE MIINUTE SCIENCE THEMSELVES, AND HAVE AN IMMACULATE TRACK RECORD CONCERNING TRUTH TELLING. 

REMEMBER, if it's your grandchild, or your spouse, or your dearest friend, or YOU, your risk is 100%.

[CalminHeart]

I got a free test yesterday.  Our governor hired a company out of Utah to do all the tests. It was announced yesterday that they're now under investigation for questionable tests as well as inaccurate results and reporting.  ugh. 

[Drythe]

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@Mary Bailey wrote:

Yes. 

and I wonder how a dog got a test and some humans are refused.

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@Mary Bailey 

I wonder how some humans are allowed to get tested every day, while other humans continue to do without.

As already stated, the test for Dogs is not the one used on humans.

[Drythe]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

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@sunshine45 wrote:

if i had symptoms i would get it, but hopefully the "spit test" will be more readily available by then. i dont want that six inch swab test.

A new test for the coronavirus is so simple and straightforward, almost anyone could do it: Spit a glob of saliva into a cup, close the lid and hand it over.

I believe this is the one Walgreen is suppose to get.  When I & others inquired at my local Walgreen's, the clerk gave me & the other customers in line that "deer stare caught in headlights look."  The first he heard about it was at the WH press conference. 

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Well color me surprised 😯

[Stray]

I might get tested for antibodies out of curiosity but a negative Covid test is really not of any value unless you are sick. You may have had the disease and the swab won’t tell you that or you could be negative today and meet up with a carrier tomorrow. I’d leave the Test for Covid for those who need it. Eventually the worried well will deplete the supply, unnecessarily. Front line people should be tested frequently. The antibodies could be neg and maybe you haven’t acquired immunity as yet if you were ill. But I’d worry more about a false positive which could happen if you had a mere cold or another coronavirus. I wouldn’t live my life differently because we don’t know if there definitely is immunity or how long it lasts. So I probably will forego it.

[pigletsmom]

They are still doing unannounced antibody testing in grocery stores around NY and I'd do that. I think they really want to get a large number of people who haven't shown symptoms. They originally announced it last week and of course everywhere they had them word got out and lots of people who had previously had symptoms showed up.

[Hippiified]

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@violann wrote:

I am hoping that many of you who have posted in this thread did not have the torment of suffering this horror yourselves, or perhaps more important, did not have the anguish of getting a phone call informing you that an asymptomatic carrier had infected your tiny, innocent 92 year old LO.

"IT HURTS"????? Lying on your stomach attempting to drag in a breath hurts too. 

Intubation? Google it. Would it be what you'd want for your only living blood relative? 

"I'm never sick"?? My LO was infected by someone who had NO symptoms until AFTER LO developed symptoms herself. People who are asymptomatic carriers are FINE......until their symptoms develop.

I understand that it can be very easy to forget this quickly as long as nothing that has happened has touched you. But if/when it DOES touch you, your personal risk is 100%.

If you are still operating on assumptions that are not backed by emerging science DON'T LISTEN TO ANYBODY WHO SAYS "JUMP IN AND GET BACK IN THE SWIM" IF THEY ARE NOT SPEAKING BASED ON UP TO THE MIINUTE SCIENCE THEMSELVES, AND HAVE AN IMMACULATE TRACK RECORD CONCERNING TRUTH TELLING. 

REMEMBER, if it's your grandchild, or your spouse, or your dearest friend, or YOU, your risk is 100%.

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@violann 

🙏🏼Prayers.

[germanshepherdlove]

I think everyone who lives in a hot spot should have to wear a mask and an affective one like medical professionals do.  How sad that our country didn't have enough N95s to go around for the medical community much less the innocents who reside in their districts.  

[hooked on books]

I was tested last week because I had symptoms. I tested negative but I am having a cardiac catherization on Monday morning and I was told today that I needed to be tested again before the procedure. You have to be tested within 48 hours of your procedure so I'm going tomorrow morning for my second test. Throat swab last time, hopefully same thing tomorrow! UGH!!!😷

[hooked on books]

@SunSprite, thanks so much for your well wishes!😃