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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuffler on January 18, 2022, 04:06:27 PM
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Go to US Postal Service, click on Covid Test. Fill in your email, name and address. You get 4 free test emailed to you. Limit 4 per household.
Well your taxes are paying for it. Might as well take advantage of it.
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And its accuracy is better than nothing...maybe
https://khn.org/news/article/covid-rapid-test-accuracy-safe-gatherings-false-negatives/
Maybe that's why you get 4? Average your results? :)
Eagler
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A friend had the symptoms but only the third test showed positive. It can take a while for the disease to show in your snot.
Having done a couple home tests by different makers I can tell that it's not too tempting to dig deep and long enough with the stick. Also, the instructions can be quite hard to understand: On the last package of five it read that one should push a hole through the area marked with a circle. There was also a drawing of a brick of sorts, a flat 3D rectangle. It took me a while to figure out that they meant the box of five instead of the test block as the proportional dimensions of the drawing illustrated a single test carton instead of the family pack... The fever of 38.6 C/101.5 F may also have affected my logical thinking.
Anyhow, there's many ways a first timer or a sick person can fail in performing the test so a bigger pack is a valid option.
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Free test, free shots and soon masks maybe now that they are finally admitting cloth masks are useless and the paper ones almost just as much but N95 is what we should have be using..for the last 2 years..
Pretty sure our tax dollars cover all this free stuff..if not they will print it out of thin air like they do for most things these days
Eagler
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Haha! Perfect!
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A friend had the symptoms but only the third test showed positive. It can take a while for the disease to show in your snot.
I think that is where a lot of these false negatives and positives skew the numbers. I know multiple people who found out they were in contact with someone who just tested positive, and then rush out to get a test and it comes back negative even though it could take days to fester.
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And its accuracy is better than nothing...maybe
https://khn.org/news/article/covid-rapid-test-accuracy-safe-gatherings-false-negatives/
Maybe that's why you get 4? Average your results? :)
Eagler
No. The USPS is delivering 4 per address to accommodate for families, eg. you cannot put in an order twice to the same residential address. Nice troll though, probably won't be long til this one's locked too!
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Troll?
Just stating with the failed accuracy of these things you better do 2 or 3 and average your results to increase the accuracy of these at home tests/guesses...
I can only imagine the average yahoo attempt at this and then trusting its results...
And as omicron is a mild flu for most..why test at all?
Just stay home for a week....like you would pre 2020
Eagler
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Accurate as the test they use at a medical facility. You can take 4 of those at the same time and get different results also. That has been known for quite some time.
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Troll?
Just stating with the failed accuracy of these things you better do 2 or 3 and average your results to increase the accuracy of these at home tests/guesses...
I can only imagine the average yahoo attempt at this and then trusting its results...
And as omicron is a mild flu for most..why test at all?
Just stay home for a week....like you would pre 2020
Eagler
There is still delta around.
Omicron can still put in the hospital especially if you aren't vaccinated.
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And as omicron is a mild flu for most..why test at all?
For 'most'...hmm.
If you had 10 skittles and 2 of 10 would kill you, would you eat the skittles?
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Accurate as the test they use at a medical facility. You can take 4 of those at the same time and get different results also. That has been known for quite some time.
Source?
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For 'most'...hmm.
If you had 10 skittles and 2 of 10 would kill you, would you eat the skittles?
Delta is just about gone ...very few cases
Majority if not all new cases are omicron
Omicron doesn't kill 2 out of 10 who catch it
Omicron is the flu and a mild one for the majority who have had it
Overreach and overreaction...key words for our medical policies today
Eagler
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Free test, free shots and soon masks maybe now that they are finally admitting cloth masks are useless and the paper ones almost just as much but N95 is what we should have be using..for the last 2 years..
Pretty sure our tax dollars cover all this free stuff..if not they will print it out of thin air like they do for most things these days
Eagler
:aok
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Source?
Multiple.. simply type in multiple covid test different results. The clinical test is thought to be 70% to 90% accurate. 70 to 90? They really don't know. We do know you can test multiple times at once and get different results. You'll find that there too.
We also know there is no vaccine against covid. You can get covid no matter what.... the best thing is to keep a distance.
Even distance is not really for sure as when my wife had it, she laid her head on my shoulder the whole time were in the waiting room to be tested. They took up back to a room together to be tested. She had fever and I had no symptoms. She was positive and I was negative. She felt bad one day with fever and that is all. I never did get covid and I have never had it. I do not wear a mask and I don't get in folks face.... of course I never did before either. :)
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When the gov asks the public to test themselves for a "pandemic " which has shut down the global economy..those of us with more than half a brain wonder WTH? Why? Who can take the stats from those test results seriously?
It's getting stranger by the day..
Eagler
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For 'most'...hmm.
If you had 10 skittles and 2 of 10 would kill you, would you eat the skittles?
Yes can't go wrong with skittles.
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Oh my, it might offend the CCP!
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And what about marijuana protecting us all? :devil
Maybe but method counts: https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/01/smoking-weed-wont-protect-you-against-covid-19-reports-say.html
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So what names will be used when this list is exhausted? The could go like the NWS and start using names like they do for hurricanes
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Stick with your doctors for the test. My wife and 2 daughters went to rapid test site and my son also . I went the same day they di their rapid test they all came back negative. Now the same test I had done via my doc they tested me for the Flu xs2 and Covid. The Covid test came back positive. Family did the required quarantine at home since I was positive Their School said as long as no symptoms ya can return. My son who already missed half the year stayed him in his best with very limited contact with me since I slept for 2 days straight. He started with the symptoms along with his older Sister they both came back positive but with different symptoms. The rapid test does not go in far enough to get good boogie samples only was to see if your Positive or not is go to your Doctor or Urgent care they run the test longer and usually take 2 days for results. The downfall is if you do test Postitve they will not retest you
Because your still carrying the Covid Eve. Tho your not spreAding it after the 5 or 10 days quarantine period but it can stay in your system up to 3 month. I did the Pfizer vaccine by choice due to my heart issue and still got Covid if I did not get it I would not be typing this long message cause I would probably be on a ventilator right now
Just thought I would share this info
Molsman
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Free test, free shots and soon masks maybe now that they are finally admitting cloth masks are useless and the paper ones almost just as much but N95 is what we should have be using..for the last 2 years..
Pretty sure our tax dollars cover all this free stuff..if not they will print it out of thin air like they do for most things these days
Eagler
N95 mask are the only mask that will help to stop spread this but those mask should also goto first responders first because every year we had to be fit tested for the
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Glad you are feeling better Molsman
You may or may not have ended up on a respiratory..I didn't and I have heart listed comorbidities for this thing...depends on other things too like BMI
I don't think the type of mask will matter for many as to how effective they are as many have them below their noses, it falls off their face while talking and they constantly mess with it on their faces which results in more hand to face contact than not wearing a mask at all..and those are the adults ... forget the average child...
Not to mention the general public are not trained medical professionals who know how to properly wear and use a mask..
It seems just more theater to me
Eagler
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Not to mention the general public are not trained medical professionals who know how to properly wear and use a mask..
Well it is not rocket science to wear a mask.
The thing that never made sense to me was...OK everyone wear one, but then you take it off and put it in your pocket (therefore touching it with your hands). Then you put it back on when you get up to leave.
Of course, these masks are designed to be single use in the medical field, but early on you couldn't buy any and if you could they were like $2.50 a piece. So nobody is using them as they were designed, not because they didn't know how, but because they couldn't. Even today I still wear it til it starts to fray.
As time goes on it is understandable for things to change as knowledge grows, but I've also seen things seem to make less and less sense.
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As a musician in my night job the bands I am in use the home tests weekly.
I can report that one member of a band in the last month, who used the home test, did find she was positive.
Then she went to CVS for to do their COVID test and it was also positive, i.e. she got COVID. Because of the heads-up using the at-home test, she ended up not infecting the rest of the band.
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Troll?
Just stating with the failed accuracy of these things you better do 2 or 3 and average your results to increase the accuracy of these at home tests/guesses...
I can only imagine the average yahoo attempt at this and then trusting its results...
And as omicron is a mild flu for most..why test at all?
Just stay home for a week....like you would pre 2020
Eagler
it's a mild flu for most but not for everybody. lots of people end up in hospitals or dead.
soon death toll will be 1 out of every 350 Americans. plus millions more having problems for life. that's why you test.
semp
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With or from
The numbers are so screwed now no one will ever know
If omicron was half as deadly as delta I could somewhat understand the push for masks and tests but it is not
I think if you are healthy catching it would be the best thing for prevention of catching a more serious variant if one were to come along in the future..can't be any worse than the 3 shots we have now that doesn't stop infection or spread
Natural immunity equals zero dollars .. the road we are on now is big $$$$ for many
Personally I think tests and masks should be a personal choice/expense and not something paid for by our taxes
Eagler
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no such thing as natural immunity when it refers to covid, you can get it many times. my brother has gotten it 4 times.
what the shots do is lower your chances of getting seriously sick or dying. all of us who take the shot are given that info.
semp
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no such thing as natural immunity when it refers to covid, you can get it many times. my brother has gotten it 4 times.
what the shots do is lower your chances of getting seriously sick or dying. all of us who take the shot are given that info.
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I was never given that info when I got the first 2 rounds of Pfizer.
However I did read today that the CDC said that having had the virus offered better immunity than the shot when it comes to Delta variant.
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I was never given that info when I got the first 2 rounds of Pfizer.
However I did read today that the CDC said that having had the virus offered better immunity than the shot when it comes to Delta variant.
I made the appointment online and had to agree that I read that part before I even made the appointment. also when i went to get it had to sign a form that told me that. and given a pamphlet to take home that also said that.
as for the cdc statement, just checked their website and it says getting the covid does give you some protection but also you can get seriously ill or die.
semp
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The info I got when I got the booster basically stated the shot might do nothing and to continue to social distance and wear a mask...
See South Africa for how well natural immunity fought off omicron and how they are worried in western nations that have more vax immunity than natural
To not consider natural immunity as good as this messed up vax is another strange move to say the least
Eagler
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Waiting to see what the world does with the next ones:
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The info I got when I got the booster basically stated the shot might do nothing and to continue to social distance and wear a mask...
See South Africa for how well natural immunity fought off omicron and how they are worried in western nations that have more vax immunity than natural
To not consider natural immunity as good as this messed up vax is another strange move to say the least
Eagler
south africa does limited testing that's not proof that it is doing better than us. if it was true then why 90% of deaths are among the unvaccinated here.
might as well compare the west to north korea, they haven't had any deaths. it's that proof that a closed society ward off infections better?
semp
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To not consider natural immunity as good as this messed up vax is another strange move to say the least
You sure do talk a lot of crap about the vaccine for someone who got it and rushed out to get the booster. :rofl
Oh wait, "because my family wanted me to".
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You sure do talk a lot of crap ...
Hehe, you could of just stopped there.
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I've heard South Africa actually tests better/deeper than we do in the states
They first discovered omicron because they do
Eagler
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You sure do talk a lot of crap about the vaccine for someone who got it and rushed out to get the booster. :rofl
Oh wait, "because my family wanted me to".
No just my youngest.. this stupid crap is not worth the family feud nor the absence of the grand kids
Before the vaccines I am sure I had covid in early march 2020
I have never told anyone not to take the shot but I can discuss it without being a fanboy for it
Eagler
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I've heard South Africa actually tests better/deeper than we do in the states
They first discovered omicron because they do
Eagler
i have heard that Kennedy jr is alive and will be running with trump in 2024.
that's the problem with i have heard.
semp
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No just my youngest.. this stupid crap is not worth the family feud nor the absence of the grand kids
Before the vaccines I am sure I had covid in early march 2020
I have never told anyone not to take the shot but I can discuss it without being a fanboy for it
Eagler
you know the story of my wife. when the vaccine came out, I said let's have a few million people take it. not like we were eligible anyway. when it came to us being eligible, I asked her if she wanted to take it. she said she did.
isn't funny how how I didn't force my wife to take it. I believe in choice. your choice, she made hers.
you still had a choice,I have 3 grandchildren the 2 youngest ones I have never met in person. but I still talk to them on FaceTime or whatever. they know I love them. they just live far away.
semp
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i have heard that Kennedy jr is alive and will be running with trump in 2024.
that's the problem with i have heard.
semp
https://youtu.be/ItKsN1y7CTg
One of the most honest sources going IMO
Eagler
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NAtural immunity didnt kill smallpox and polio, vaccines did
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you know the story of my wife. when the vaccine came out, I said let's have a few million people take it. not like we were eligible anyway. when it came to us being eligible, I asked her if she wanted to take it. she said she did.
isn't funny how how I didn't force my wife to take it. I believe in choice. your choice, she made hers.
you still had a choice,I have 3 grandchildren the 2 youngest ones I have never met in person. but I still talk to them on FaceTime or whatever. they know I love them. they just live far away.
semp
Glad you and the wife made your vax choices...yes it sounds like your wife was one that this thing affected much more than the average exposure
My grandkids live an hour away
I made the choice to - to take the risk of the vax in order to calm my son and see the gkids
What I don't have an issue with if you choose to get the shot or not or get tested or not or what you do at all...sorry just not that paranoid
If the thing worked as advertised originally no one should care but it doesn't and if the unvaccinated require negative test to do something so should the vaxxed as they can spread it as well and are more likely to have a asymptomatic experience and may not even know they have it..
Eagler
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NAtural immunity didnt kill smallpox and polio, vaccines did
Vaccines that actually worked did
It's more like a flu shot than a vaccine at this point IMO
Eagler
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Vaccines that actually worked did
It's more like a flu shot than a vaccine at this point IMO
Eagler
The "flu shot" is a vaccine. Derp.
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It's another shot I have skipped since 92 when the one and only time I took it made me sick as a dog...
A vaccine prevents the disease it is intended to..the flu shot is a guess each year and doesn't provide complete protection..just like the shot going around now..you can call it what you like..its the results that matter
Eagler
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So you are disputing the fact that it is a vaccine?
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine
https://www.immunize.org/influenza/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pandemic-timeline-1930-and-beyond.htm
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812621
Seems like it's a vaccine to me. I will call it what it is.
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It's another shot I have skipped since 92 when the one and only time I took it made me sick as a dog...
A vaccine prevents the disease it is intended to..the flu shot is a guess each year and doesn't provide complete protection..just like the shot going around now..you can call it what you like..its the results that matter
Eagler
the flu shot doesn't work all the time because there's around 220 different strains. the shot is only good for the strain that it's designed for. and they take a guess at which 3 it 4 strain will be prevalent.
semp
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To this day there is still no vaccine for covid.
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To this day there is still no vaccine for covid.
there has never been a vaccine that is 100% effective.
semp
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To this day there is still no vaccine for covid.
PSA: Don't listen to medical opinions from people without important letters after their name.
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Love home many topics are taboo because of all the fragile Retardlicans and demorats in here. Idiots...
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the flu shot doesn't work all the time because there's around 220 different strains. the shot is only good for the strain that it's designed for. and they take a guess at which 3 it 4 strain will be prevalent.
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Would you please link a list of the 216 “strains” I’m unaware of?
Mutation variants are not the same thing as a TYPE or “strain.”
https://www.afcurgentcare.com/blog/types-of-flus-the-4-flu-strains-explained/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm
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there has never been a vaccine that is 100% effective.
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THERE IS NOT A VACCINE FOR COVID. Not one that keeps you from getting it or even lowers your chances. No vaccine keeps you from spreading covid either.
All any vaccine may do is keep someone who gets it from having issues. Many do not have issues anyway.
You stated earlier a number for deaths.. which is patently false. No one has any idea how many have actually died of covid. Too many listed actually died of a disease they already had and just acquired covid toward the end.
My own mother in law and sister in law had paperwork from the hospital that was blatantly fraudulent. Both had procedures done and were tested for covid. Both were negative. Neither or them were sick, I believe one had something done to her hand and the other was a shoulder. Paperwork afterwards said it was covid related. A few folks do have some issues that are aggravated by covid and some may die because of it. There have even been a few actual healthy people die. Much like the flu.
To look at the numbers leads one to believe that covid has almost cured cancer, heart disease, aids, and many other things that were a menace to so many folks. No.... it's just fraud and greed.
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This has deteriorated into a political rather than a medical point of view.