Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

My mom kept testing positive when she got it over the summer, and she was getting tests at the doctor’s office (we took precautions when she went there). Finally they were like, stop testing, it’s doing no good.

It’s good to see that you’re on the back nine re: fever.

 

Yeah I’m going to avoid pcrs for a while. Just wish I read the fine print before I went because I would have avoided it. Just going to home test the next couple of days and hope results repeat

 

wear a mask

Just How Bad Is the ‘Tripledemic’?

 

get boosted

New Covid Booster Shots Cut Risk of Hospitalization by Half, C.D.C. Reports

 

If you've recently had COVID-19, tests in the doctor's office or a hospital emergency room will almost invariably be positive. The PCR test they use is much more sensitive than the antigen-based home test, and if you have COVID, to any degree, the PCR test will detect it.

I posted earlier about how, after a few days of being out of work with COVID-19, I wanted to go back but was told by my store personnel manager that I needed a negative test before I could return. I was getting genuinely worried, though, because I kept testing positive, even as I was obviously feeling better. I just could not get a negative test, and was on my way to my third week out of work, until I finally went straight to the store manager, and explained what was happening. He said, "You know you can test positive for weeks -- even months -- after getting COVID, right?" Uh, no. I didn't know that, until I'd been told it by an emergency room doctor I'd gone to in my concern over not being able to get a negative test, and needing to return to work because a 14-day leave was all that was allowed in my state in cases claiming COVID without a doctor's test/intervention.

I only got back to work when I did because, as I spoke to the store manager, he told me to just come on back in as long as I felt OK, and, a couple of days later, that's what I did, even as I still tested positive the night before.

I've been wearing a mask again since then, just trying to be careful and considerate. But yeah, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been in the position of testing positive repeatedly, and who has "resolved" things by just...stopping testing.

Who knows how many others are probably doing the same thing at this point?

 

zooooooooooooooooooom

 

Just got boosted on Saturday. I looked at my card and saw it had been a year since my third shot.

I did pretty well with this one. My arm is still a little sore, but I took Tylenol and chugged Gatorade, and didn’t have a headache. Slightly tired, but nothing major.

The worst part was my wife deciding to take the initiative and ripped off my bandaid when we woke up Sunday morning.

 

And they say old married couples don't have adventurous sex lives ...

 

s'up?

 

Here we go again. City of Oakland reinstates mask mandates in city buildings due to rise in COVID, flu and respiratory diseases, and RSV, effective immediately.

May be paywalled: Oakland reinstates mask mandate in government buildings amid surging COVID (sfchronicle.com)

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/20/china-covid-policy-endanger-world/