You werent forced, although I recognize the fact it may have seemed that way. Beauty of the US is you could have told them to "go fuck themselves". But realize that realistically it may not have been a good option.
Either way stay safe out there.
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You werent forced, although I recognize the fact it may have seemed that way. Beauty of the US is you could have told them to "go fuck themselves". But realize that realistically it may not have been a good option.
Either way stay safe out there.
LOL. Fortunate enough to keep working instead of of collecting unemployment plus 600 per week. Not sure I am tracking with that one. The entire thing was a fuck fest. The people who worked through it got the least out of it.
Some make more than they did when working with unemployment plus the 600.
But many others do not.
i seriously considered quitting in february, when they made us sign the covid cdc guideline shit. many did quit. the rest of us pulled all of march zero days off 12hr days. wearing masks and showering in sanitizer...didnt want my wife and infant son infected...but chose to work thru instead of lose my medical and life insurance. not sure i chose wisely. now were sick.
The numbers of people making more are grossly smaller than the number of people making less. How many trillions in stimulus. And youre told to worry about someone making an extra $2400 a month while they rob generations....
I do like how the lower classes have been turned on each other for collecting unemployment while corporate America got to raid the Fed and Treasury for a couple trillion dollars. No, really, the dude down the street making an extra $600/week after getting fucked over by his state's stay-at-home order is the real villain in this story.
I'll never know because I'm not going to get tested voluntarily nor will I place myself in a situation where I'll be tested without my consent.
Back on topic - the wife and I were sick with something in late March/early April. Symptoms were a mild fever at the onset, bad cough (dry in her case; very wet in mine), headache, lack of ability to concentrate, aches, and some mild GI upset. She met the qualifications to get tested and came back negative; I did not qualify and was not tested. She was down for a couple of weeks while I stretched things out another week or two past that and then developed bacterial bronchitis that was eventually helped with a round of antibiotics. I've had the flu a couple times before; those past experiences were worse at their peak but didn't linger nearly as long. This was probably not helped by my insistence at maintaining an outdoor training program throughout cold and wet spring weather (very important for all the bike races that never happened).
Was it actually COVID? Who knows. The timing would have been about right, but H1N1 was also still circulating at that time (coronavirus truthers love to simultaneously talk about how bad the flu is every year and claim that what they had this year was way worse than any flu
). Regardless of the cause, I was primed to catch something due to training fatigue, a bit of stress from travel and work, and the crappy weather. If accurate antibody testing comes around then I'd be curious enough to get tested, but right now it's roughly coin-flip accuracy in an individual level so forget about that noise.
Since the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", I'm a bit unclear as to the point of this thread or any other media bit on "my COVID-19 experience". Hopefully everyone can use it to stoke their personal confirmation bias.
Was it actually COVID? Who knows. The timing would have been about right, but H1N1 was also still circulating at that time (coronavirus truthers love to simultaneously talk about how bad the flu is every year and claim that what they had this year was way worse than any flu
). Regardless of the cause, I was primed to catch something due to training fatigue, a bit of stress from travel and work, and the crappy weather. If accurate antibody testing comes around then I'd be curious enough to get tested, but right now it's roughly coin-flip accuracy in an individual level so forget about that noise. Since the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", I'm a bit unclear as to the point of this thread or any other media bit on "my COVID-19 experience". Hopefully everyone can use it to stoke their personal confirmation bias.
I don't feel that anyone should be subjected to compulsory testing, but I would be happy to take an accurate test because I place a high value on information related to my health. Considering that this disease has some long-term ramifications regarding cardiopulmonary health and that I an interested in the performance of that system, it'd be good to know if I've been exposed.
I can also tell you my overnight resting heart rate for almost day from the past 5 years, so I knowledge I'm a bit outside the norm in this regard. Each to their own...
This seems to be the problem. Early on in this period of time, people were getting sick with flu like symptoms. Who knows if it was the flu or Covid19? Many to most, recovered and went on with their lives. Move forward about a month and elderly folks became sick, many because of governmental actions. Sadly, most of those folks died. I heard somewhere that 50% of all deaths are from the elderly and most of those lived in assisted living facilities or nursing homes. If those elderly were quarantined in stead of having sick people introduced into their communities, who knkows how little this disease would be talked about today?
Is the treatment for those covid related CP issues more effective if you know that you had covid?
Somehow I think the answer to that is no.
I think during a serious pandemic that may have been created or released by an enemy to alter world power structure the government will have to institute a bunch of emergency war time health orders to keep our infrastructure intact.
This isn't it the left is trying to dress up the kung flu to be that to bring down DT.
I would refuse any gov ordered vaccines or testing that is designed to enhance the lefts narrative and not provide a true public benefit.
We have a company that provides testing to business and suggest the only reason to do it is for marketing purposes of saying your clean or to test a suspect employee before allowing them back to work to prevent a costly shutdown of operations.
We tell them to send home any employees that have symptoms and tell them to return when they have no symptoms same as the regular flu.
Testing is pointless for 80% of us. The staff at the nursing home yes. The guy changing my oil no.
IMO
This isn't it the left is trying to dress up the kung flu to be that to bring down DT.
I would refuse any gov ordered vaccines or testing that is designed to enhance the lefts narrative and not provide a true public benefit.
We have a company that provides testing to business and suggest the only reason to do it is for marketing purposes of saying your clean or to test a suspect employee before allowing them back to work to prevent a costly shutdown of operations.
We tell them to send home any employees that have symptoms and tell them to return when they have no symptoms same as the regular flu.
Testing is pointless for 80% of us. The staff at the nursing home yes. The guy changing my oil no.
IMO
I'm going to assume that you didn't find success as a supplier to Honda by waiting for symptoms to show up in the end product prior to addressing potential causes in your process, right?
The same logic holds true for my body, particularly since issues related to blood clots in the heart and lungs don't always provide a service reminder prior to showing up at an inconvenient moment. Mile 12 of last night's workout would not have been a good time to learn that I'm at increased risk of coronary problems:
Additionally, from a very practical standpoint, if I've had this shit already then I can move on.
I respect other opinions on this but don't expect that I'm going to get browbeaten into agreement.
Yes it is. Some treatments are risky if you have an underlying condition but worth it if you have covid19.
I see. I value not giving government another wedge against me more than the value of knowing that I have or have had that virus.
FYI no one is tracking antibody testing.
BUT there are to many false negatives with antibody testing so don't trust a negative but it is the only test looking back to see if we had it.
BUT there are to many false negatives with antibody testing so don't trust a negative but it is the only test looking back to see if we had it.
Really? How are you so sure?
I'm not saying antibody testing is being tracked. I'm saying that you CANNOT be sure it isn't being done.
It's good to assume that the government has access to any stored health care history, and that this is increasingly the case for Big Tech as well (Google in particular is scooping up whatever data they can). This includes care provided outside of the normal health care system (such as antibody testing performed by a non-governmental agency). It's really no different than, say, one's financial transaction history.
Act accordingly.
In this particular case, I feel that the benefit of acquiring the information is worth the risk of that data being disclosed to 3rd parties without my consent. I reserve the right to modify that stance as more information becomes known about the risks if infection vs risk of disclosure.
Act accordingly.
In this particular case, I feel that the benefit of acquiring the information is worth the risk of that data being disclosed to 3rd parties without my consent. I reserve the right to modify that stance as more information becomes known about the risks if infection vs risk of disclosure.
I don't disagree with this concern, and would add to this the concern of being prejudiced against in the future by a private organization (employer, insurer, etc.) - particularly if this information is released without my consent by another 3rd party.
employee here about the same age got it and had double lung pneumonia also . is at home now said he slept without oxygen last night for the first time. hes on the mend. nephew had it and felt bad for a few days
I had it, tested positive on 7/15. I came back to work on Monday.
Had fever, the runs, chest pains, vertigo, dry cough, and what felt like BAD case of bronchitis or pneumonia. At one point I considered going to the ER for a breathing treatment, but I waited it out and my breathing cleared up on its own.
People at work, my mom that I take care of, and everyone else that I have been around tested negative and they have not had any symptoms.
Had fever, the runs, chest pains, vertigo, dry cough, and what felt like BAD case of bronchitis or pneumonia. At one point I considered going to the ER for a breathing treatment, but I waited it out and my breathing cleared up on its own.
People at work, my mom that I take care of, and everyone else that I have been around tested negative and they have not had any symptoms.
I do the testing and there has not yet been a requirement nor is there a way to do so.
We do 10-15 a day.
You pull up in your car and call the front desk and pay over the phone a tech then runs out gets a sample marks down on a pre printed form there results IGM and or IGG hands it to them and says have a nice day. If an employer sends them we add there name to the top of the form.
That's how it works where you work. I doubt that you can speak for how it's done everywhere else.
I get to go into a dialysis facility with 15 sick and dying geriatric patients. Not to mention the 16 others who come before me or the 16 others that come before them. So far, I've done well. No symptoms.
Wife got sent home back in Marc for exposure (rode with someone inside single-cab f150). Subsequent low grade fever and complaints of strange smell. Tired. We have a pulse-ox that we used to keep up with spO2, nothing indicated there. She felt better in a week or so.
I got a real strange case of heartburn or something in my chest for a couple weeks after that (kinda similar to what @bachelorjack described but not near that bad) along with wierd gastro symptoms. Could have easily been stress induced. Never had any resp trouble that I noticed, and I’ve been doing a lot of running and biking since March. Also Been heavy handed with vitamin d, c, turmeric, and the G&Ts on the patio every evening, what for the quinine and all.
IDK. Planning to fly to AK next week, which requires documentation of a negative test taken within 72hours of departure. We will see.
I got a real strange case of heartburn or something in my chest for a couple weeks after that (kinda similar to what @bachelorjack described but not near that bad) along with wierd gastro symptoms. Could have easily been stress induced. Never had any resp trouble that I noticed, and I’ve been doing a lot of running and biking since March. Also Been heavy handed with vitamin d, c, turmeric, and the G&Ts on the patio every evening, what for the quinine and all.
IDK. Planning to fly to AK next week, which requires documentation of a negative test taken within 72hours of departure. We will see.
Depending on which infectious disease specialist you speak to I either had Covid or trichinosis.
I’ve been tested four times for Covid and none of the tests have come back positive. However, while it’s statistically improbable that the tests would have false negatives, the infectious disease specialist tells me that’s not uncommon at all.
So they put me on a drug for trichinosis, and that messed me up almost as quick as I got sick.
Symptoms were:
-No fever
-uncontrollable chills
-Dysentery for almost 2 weeks
-Random blood clots with no underlying condition to cause them
-Hard time breathing due to the blood clots in my lungs
-massive fatigue
- joint pain
- Muscle pain
- generally feeling like I got my ass kicked in a bar fight, but worse
Of course, I ended up in the emergency room when I realized I seem to be having a hard time breathing.
They had a guy dressed in full PPE standing outside my clues emergency room door with the crash cart because it tears at my heart was also under tremendous stress.
CAT scan revealed that I had good size blood clot in one of my lungs and another one starting to form in the other.
Three days of blood thinners in the hospital and being on Xarelto for two months clean them right out.
(I ended up back at the hospital when I decided I had trichinosis because of the semi adverse event reaction I had the medication they gave me… Which is awfully similar to when I couldn’t breathe through the blood clots so I got another CAT scan…)
I’ve been tested four times for Covid and none of the tests have come back positive. However, while it’s statistically improbable that the tests would have false negatives, the infectious disease specialist tells me that’s not uncommon at all.
So they put me on a drug for trichinosis, and that messed me up almost as quick as I got sick.
Symptoms were:
-No fever
-uncontrollable chills
-Dysentery for almost 2 weeks
-Random blood clots with no underlying condition to cause them
-Hard time breathing due to the blood clots in my lungs
-massive fatigue
- joint pain
- Muscle pain
- generally feeling like I got my ass kicked in a bar fight, but worse
Of course, I ended up in the emergency room when I realized I seem to be having a hard time breathing.
They had a guy dressed in full PPE standing outside my clues emergency room door with the crash cart because it tears at my heart was also under tremendous stress.
CAT scan revealed that I had good size blood clot in one of my lungs and another one starting to form in the other.
Three days of blood thinners in the hospital and being on Xarelto for two months clean them right out.
(I ended up back at the hospital when I decided I had trichinosis because of the semi adverse event reaction I had the medication they gave me… Which is awfully similar to when I couldn’t breathe through the blood clots so I got another CAT scan…)
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I thought that was an admitted mistake and they stoped? I know the national lab we work with does not report any to Tx.
