Adaptation to COVID world

[Spartan Squad]

I had something similar when I caught my first (confirmed) case in August 2022. I was told that the dead virus can still linger in your system for a week or so and keep setting off positive results. Unfortunately, I only learned this after multiple visits to the only clinic in Omaha that did the kind of test Hong Kong wanted in the right amount of time ... for US$300 a test.

I remember your ordeal. I'm so glad I was just put off during my break. Trying to get back into a country would have been maddening.

 

[justgladtobehere]

My extended family's Christmas Eve and Christmas parties were COVID spreader events. A handful of people came down with COVID. Luckily, I was taking of my father, who can't get around, and we weren't exposed.

Nobody is very sick, happily.

 

[TrooperBari]

I remember your ordeal. I'm so glad I was just put off during my break. Trying to get back into a county would have been maddening.

My Viktor Navorski era was in August 2020. Every test I took then was free, with having to get to testing sites around the Metroplex without a car making up most of my costs. In 2022 I at least had relatives with whom I could crash, but the testing set me back nearly a grand. A chill went down my spine when some local health authorities suggested bringing back testing and quarantine for the current winter surge in respiratory illnesses, but thankfully that appears to have been just talk.

 

[Neutral Corner]