Would You Get Tested? - Page 5

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

@Peaches McPhee wrote:
Why bother? Unless you have symptoms of course. It is only valid for that exact second. The moment you leave the testing facility you can catch it. Are you going to get tested every day?

@Peaches McPhee

I would like the test to see if it's what I had Nov.-Dec last year. I know several other people saying they were sick same time also wondering if they had it.

We are suppose to re-open tomorrow but from the looks of it when I went after groceries everyone was out with no masks.

I won't be going any place for a while so I can wait to see what happens when they all go back to work. Phase 1 starts tomorrow with Phase 2 June 1st & Phase 3 July 1st depending on how it goes.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
The reason to be tested even if you have no symptoms is to know if you are a carrier.

People going back to work should not be going back to work if they test positive, even if they are not symptomatic.

That's just one reason for widespread testing.

@QueenDanceALot

what if you are a carrier? does it ever leave your body?

if you ARE a carrier are you just supposed to quit or never go into work or beg to always work at home?

how often are you to be tested? every week, every month, every year?

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Porcelain · ‎02-19-2014

@sunshine45 wrote:
@Porcelain wrote:
It's sort of like STD testing. Back when I was dating, I remember insisting on both my bf and I getting tested for every known social disease before getting serious. We had to trust each other not to go catting around after the test, but it freed us so much. Now I didn't have any kind of spotted past, but my bf at the time did have a kind of shady ex, so...I felt justified. Meow.

Why am I saying all this? Well it is because I could have easily said well why bother getting STD tests since either of us could catch something after being tested. But as long as we trusted each other, getting negative test results at the start really did mean something.

For a limited-time event, testing everyone going to that event before letting them enter could allow people to go to that event. The only things necessary would be limited people, enough tests, and quick results.

@Porcelain

say you were tested on a saturday for an event that was the following saturday. the saturday you were tested you were fine..... no covid - 19.....totally clear. say on monday or tuesday you were exposed to someone and did not know it and then contracted covid -19 or were a carrier. how would you know NOT to go to the event on saturday then?

The timeframe would have to be much shorter than that. They are developing much faster tests.

If an event were important enough and people were willing to spend enough time and money and commit to isolating as part of the event if needed, it could be done. Everyone involved in the event would have to strictly quarantine during the time between the test and the event. I would only do it if I trusted everyone involved.

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SANNA · ‎04-23-2010

If it were readily available I would get tested for antibodies and have ( especially) my husband tested.I have a suspicion he had it in mid November. Given the fact that at his workplace the Chinese scientists are coming and going I wouldn’t be surprised. Many people at his workplace got ill, 1 person died. It was a viciouse, very strange flu with simptoms exactly like covid19. We fought it hard and I got him well my way, using my regiment. He got better in 10 days.

So we would like to see if it was really the corona bug. Btw insurance pay for the testing anyway!

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

@Porcelain wrote:
@sunshine45 wrote:
@Porcelain wrote:
It's sort of like STD testing. Back when I was dating, I remember insisting on both my bf and I getting tested for every known social disease before getting serious. We had to trust each other not to go catting around after the test, but it freed us so much. Now I didn't have any kind of spotted past, but my bf at the time did have a kind of shady ex, so...I felt justified. Meow.

Why am I saying all this? Well it is because I could have easily said well why bother getting STD tests since either of us could catch something after being tested. But as long as we trusted each other, getting negative test results at the start really did mean something.

For a limited-time event, testing everyone going to that event before letting them enter could allow people to go to that event. The only things necessary would be limited people, enough tests, and quick results.

@Porcelain

say you were tested on a saturday for an event that was the following saturday. the saturday you were tested you were fine..... no covid - 19.....totally clear. say on monday or tuesday you were exposed to someone and did not know it and then contracted covid -19 or were a carrier. how would you know NOT to go to the event on saturday then?
The timeframe would have to be much shorter than that. They are developing much faster tests.

If an event were important enough and people were willing to spend enough time and money and commit to isolating as part of the event if needed, it could be done. Everyone involved in the event would have to strictly quarantine during the time between the test and the event. I would only do it if I trusted everyone involved.

@Porcelain

at this time, my daughter works in a healthcare facility. even the people they are testing there have to wait 4 -5 days to receive test results.

i dont think even self isolation is foolproof.

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noodleann · ‎06-10-2015

No. I have no reason to be tested.

It's absurdly cumbersome and expensive for a community, city, or state to use the flawed testing of individuals to assess the spread in that area, when they could simply measure the viral load of the sewerage in that area before it's treated for an estimate of the same thing.

SusieQ_2 · ‎03-27-2012

@sunshine45 wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
The reason to be tested even if you have no symptoms is to know if you are a carrier.

People going back to work should not be going back to work if they test positive, even if they are not symptomatic.

That's just one reason for widespread testing.

@QueenDanceALot

what if you are a carrier? does it ever leave your body?
if you ARE a carrier are you just supposed to quit or never go into work or beg to always work at home?
how often are you to be tested? every week, every month, every year?

Another question--how long until you get the results?

And if it's just a swab test it only tells you if you if it's in your body at that moment. Only a blood test will reveal if you've already had it. And, even then, no one seems to know if having had it makes you immune.

Say it takes 48 hours for the result that tell you you're negative so you return to work only to become infected the same day, which you wouldn't even know, and you go back to work the next day and infect others.

I guess I just don't get it but I don't see how the testing, unless it's done daily with immediate results (which isn't possible), is going to go a long way to protecting others.

ALRATIBA · ‎07-15-2016

Probably not, but depends on what the test is.

Anything invasive? Absolutely NOT

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

Not unless it was recommended by my physician as I'm perfectly healthy ... so far.

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

There are so many problems with these tests and their accuracy, for both the virus and the antibody test, I really don't see the point.

As a doctor said the other day, the US needs a test that is readily available to the masses, quick, reliable and affordable. Similar to a pregnancy test you can walk into a drugstore and buy.