Sounds like you're already past it. You're already past 10 days with no symptoms. I'd go about my life as normal.

So clearly you have indisputable credentials, if you're going to pull that card. :rolleyes:

Sorry to hear your family story, Les Paul. It is tragic and can be multiplied by about 240k in the USA alone and climbing..:every death a personal tragedy for someone. Or some family and friends, I should say.

Some here like to minimize the death of older people but when you get old and have a family, remaining time gets precious. My oldest friend called the other day to tell me that his dad passed away, I’ve known him for 55 years. They went and fished him out of his assisted living facility in Florida back in spring when the pandemic started and brought him to Minnesota to stay with his kids in their houses and family cabin. They tried to be as careful as possible, had him up at the cabin most of summer. This is a WW2 Navy guy who wanted to go skydiving for his 90th birthday, they obliged him. :)

Anyhow, he managed to contract Covid at daughter’s house and died. Now the grown kids are mad at each other, blaming the sister, etc. What’s done is done but it’s sad, they liked having him around and he liked being alive. I wanted to visit him this summer but it was too risky, I got a negative test the other day but do I know 100% that I’m virus-free? No. Same last summer.

Hope you and yours have a good recovery and find peace, Les Paul.

^^This

^^And this

Don't know either one of you guys but what I've read from CDC & Harvard Med aligns w/JYL's comments.

Took another deep nasal swab test at noon. We’ll see what happens in 48 hours....

In the meantime, I’m doing what I can at work outside, staying away from everyone and working by phone.

My wife just got her results and it’s negative. 🙌🏽

If the tests only work for CV-19, why do they consistently detect past Dengue infections?

The fact is, there has been no study done on what other viruses might trigger false positives on the various kinds of tests. They are just assumed to detect only one thing, and even that has been shown to be false.

oh good!! i hope you come back suffering only from the inconvenience of it all.

I'm day 9 since a positive test. See thread I started on living with it day to day. My symptoms never got bad and I was pretty much over it by yesterday but holding to the 10 day quarantine. It's up to you, but as a courtesy to others, you might consider isolating for a couple days just to be sure,

I know several people including my brother and my best friend who had these symptoms in January and December. I was around both of them and never got it. My brother even spent a couple nights in the hospital With pneumonia right before Christmas.

Given that what they had wasn’t crazy contagious like Covid 19 seems to be, I’d say that was not Covid 19. That’s just my engineer brain working on this. My brother was even with my dad after he got out of the hospital. He was not 100% better.

I’m also a person who got extremely sick last fall, (one year ago), wondered if I had Covid, etc. I wound up in the ER from coughing and thought I was getting pneumonia, which is probably fatal for me due to underlying condition.

The truth of the matter is that there was also a particularly nasty flu going around last winter that had some, (but not all), of the same symptoms as Covid.

Given the rate of transmission, morbidity and mortality it's implausible that a first wave was undetected as there were zero measures in place to limit spread.

The hospital where I work is a regional COVID center. Admin is mandating people to work on COVID floors as the staff there need relief or fall ill with COVID themselves. It's no joke. The ICUs are all full, floors filling and people are dying without ever getting to the unit. Staff are quitting rather than being made to go (or go back) to these areas.

Soon care will need to be further rationed as the state sets more records for positive tests, hospitalizations and deaths. Currently, the number of positive tests represent roughly 10% of the state's population. Assuming (for illustrative purposes) that many again have had the virus and were never tested, ~80% of the population remain completely vulnerable to infection not counting potential re-infections. One need not be a mathlete to see how this will continue to balloon. It is a complete mess and getting worse every day. The system is simply not able to absorb it all.

Keep your distance, wash your hands and swallow your pride (mask and stay home) if you have to.

You're not OK to just go about your business. You should let everyone you work with know you have tested positive. Whether they don't care or if they want to keep their distance, that's their decision. You really need to give them the information they need to make their decision.

I understand. I called my manager right after I got my results and have told everyone I’m positive. I didn’t get near anyone and stayed to myself (doing what I can from my truck). I told my coworker, who I share a construction office with (which I’m staying out of) he should get tested and he did.

b/c they have shared clinical and laboratory features, and only serological tests do this

nor is it consistent


Please stop spreading dangerous mis-information.

Just go back to whining about your rights, and you won't get others infected.

Voice of reason. ^^^

I was tested today. There is no way I'm not positive. I don't want to start a new thread. After coming home yesterday feeling tired, I opened a beer, which I could not taste upon sipping. Felt tired, and chills, although it was 80F in the house (hot), went to bed early, 8pm.

I woke up this morning, felt fine, then felt sluggish an hour later. I went straight to a testing facility. Along the way, I pass by 2 places that throw me signs that I have covid-19, but no taste preceded both. First was a feed lot, didn't smell it, second was Luling, Texas. If you can't smell that town, something is wrong with your whiffer. I drove into to Lockhart, no barbecue smell. Action taken. Tested and waiting results. Going back home on the same path, I could not smell a damn thing. Feeling about 80%. Quarantine.

Edit: Forgot about the Tyson chicken hualer, we have a plant here, and they were live, not a scent could I gather. Those are dodgers, meaning get past them.

A bunch of the people in my office were claiming the same thing this spring, but those who have taken an antibody test were all negative.

I was one of the ones that might have had it early, had every symptom for covid. Felt like my chest was in a vise or the fat lady was sitting on me. Went to get tested for antibodies and was told they don't show up after 2 months and it had been four. So didn't waste my time or theirs. My Daughter the DR. said that a T-cell test for them would show if I had it, but not worth the cost of it, which I would have to pay for.

Does the current test check for antibodies or just the virus itself?

there are different tests - some check for antibodies to the virus (your body's response)

others check for DNA segments

a T-cell test would be one of the former