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gs568 01-19-2022 1:21pm

Tested long ago when this first started. So far haven’t been sick. No vaccine either.

The_Dude 01-19-2022 2:43pm

Kid tested positive today, so I have to test negative before I can go back to work. Getting tested in a couple of hours.

Vandelay Industries 01-19-2022 3:42pm

Had to get tested last summer before surgery--Negative
Got tested again about a month ago when I came down with my annual sinus infection--Negative as expected. If not for having parents/inlaws in their 80s, would not have bothered at all with a test.

Aerovette 01-19-2022 4:21pm


Aerovette 01-19-2022 4:43pm

I get tested 2 or three times a week.

More if I choose to.

Best part is the information goes nowhere. I am not on any statistics.

theandies 01-19-2022 4:54pm

Been tested every week since August. All -

ZipZap 01-19-2022 5:15pm

Way back when the test was first available, and the vax was not, I worked at a location where if you had so much as a sneeze, you had to either sit out for 14 days, or have a negative test. At that time the symptoms were pretty vague, so basically, take a sick day and don't come back without a negative test. I worked in an area where work from home was impossible unless you wanted a visit from the Fed's. Negative.

Bill 01-19-2022 5:32pm

No test here. I had a sinus cold a few weeks ago. Horrible drainage.....felt bad for about 3 days, then had residual congestion for several weeks. No loss of taste or smell, so I don't think it was the Wu flu.

Other than that, the only time I was sick this whole artificial crisis was when I rode with one of my employees, who was very sick for about a week after getting his second injection. He said he was better, but after riding with him, I got sick. Friggen' shedding spike proteins probably got me.

I try to stay away from injected people.

Aerovette 01-19-2022 5:39pm

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Originally Posted by bill_daniels (Post 1935396)
No test here. I had a sinus cold a few weeks ago. Horrible drainage.....felt bad for about 3 days, then had residual congestion for several weeks. No loss of taste or smell, so I don't think it was the Wu flu.

Other than that, the only time I was sick this whole artificial crisis was when I rode with one of my employees, who was very sick for about a week after getting his second injection. He said he was better, but after riding with him, I got sick. Friggen' shedding spike proteins probably got me.

I try to stay away from injected people.

You were involved in a "vaccident".

Bill 01-19-2022 5:57pm

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Originally Posted by aerovette (Post 1935398)
You were involved in a "vaccident".

:ohnoes:

bsmith 01-19-2022 9:52pm

Three negative tests over the last two years.

Not sure how I've avoided it so far.
6 people on my floor at work, 4 have tested positive since Christmas.
Now several of our other employees are out sick that work on another floor, but come up to ours occasionally.

dwjz06 01-19-2022 10:08pm

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Originally Posted by bsmith (Post 1935436)
Three negative tests over the last two years.

Not sure how I've avoided it so far.
6 people on my floor at work, 4 have tested positive since Christmas.
Now several of our other employees are out sick that work on another floor, but come up to ours occasionally.

I was pretty much the same until the end of December. My turn I guess:D

Scissors 01-19-2022 11:49pm

No test came back positive, despite having done nothing to avoid infection before getting vaccinated, however:

There's "testing negative" and then there's the far more gray "infected enough to impact others".

Rapid antibody tests only look for antibodies. They are wholly dependent on whether you've been previously infected or vaccinated, how long you've been exposed, the mechanism of exposure, initial viral load, and a host of other factors specific to how your body fights off infections. PCR tests are more accurate, detecting actual presence of the virus (or at least its genetic markers), but still doesn't necessarily indicate the probability that you can or will infect others.

To be fair, I was part of one of the first mass spreader events, right when we realized it was in the U.S., so that probably contributed to my resistance thereafter.

Aerovette 01-19-2022 11:50pm

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I'm thinking of getting this for work...

ft laud mike 01-20-2022 5:41am

not tested, don't care...what is the purpose of being tested? If I'm sick, I take vitamins, drink water and sleep
testing doesn't change that

LisaJohn 01-20-2022 7:32am

Day 13 or maybe 14. “They” said 5. Liars!

Shrike6 01-20-2022 7:46am

No benefit to being tested. So, not gonna play the home game.

Aerovette 01-20-2022 8:08am

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Originally Posted by Scissors (Post 1935448)
No test came back positive, despite having done nothing to avoid infection before getting vaccinated, however:

There's "testing negative" and then there's the far more gray "infected enough to impact others".

Rapid antigen tests only look for antigens. They are wholly dependent on whether you've been previously infected or vaccinated, how long you've been exposed, the mechanism of exposure, initial viral load, and a host of other factors specific to how your body fights off infections. PCR tests are more accurate, detecting actual presence of the virus (or at least its genetic markers), but still doesn't necessarily indicate the probability that you can or will infect others.

To be fair, I was part of one of the first mass spreader events, right when we realized in was in the U.S., so that probably contributed to my reistantance therafter.

Are you confusing antigen with antibody testing?

Aerovette 01-20-2022 8:11am

https://mdmedicalgroup.us/antigen-vs...he-difference/

MadInNc 01-20-2022 10:03am

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Porter keeps sending me his test results


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