Why are people flocking to get tested for covid?

stgislander

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Are these the "reliable" Covid test we are talking about, and not the unreliable ones CDC warned us about?
 
acommondisaster

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vraiblonde said:
I don't understand this. If they're not sick, why would they get tested? And if they are sick, they'd know and wouldn't need a test.

Is this just another ploy to juice the numbers? Get all these people in there, hopefully a ton of them testing positive so the overlords can go, "Covid cases are on the rise"?
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Is it all government facilities or just the one I work at that will only test you if you DO NOT have symptoms? I tried to get tested yesterday because of symptoms and was told they would not test me because I had symptoms. So, I went up to my desk and plinked around on the computer trying to make an appointment somewhere on the way home. I tested positive, now they have to clean my work area. Quite honestly, I didn't feel all that bad, in normal times I'd have attributed it to the bad air in the room and stayed at work.
 
acommondisaster

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GURPS said:
Panic Porn Over Omicron


as far as the testing, the Gov is NOT Tracking Case Numbers anymore .... the shift is to track Hospitalized

and another shift is From vs With Covid - admitting 40 % or more of the ' positive ' test results are coming from people hospitalized for something else, they just also have covid
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IRT where I work is still tracking all cases.
 
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OccamsRazor

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vraiblonde said:
Ok, I see. They need it to NOT work or go to school in some areas
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kwillia said:
Interesting enough to add to your mix... the base doesn't accept 'at home' negative tests. I asked our flight doc what good are the Biden test? He said well if you get a positive you can assume you are positive but negative will require further testing.
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Just like everything else with the pandemic, this does not jive with others. My neighbor told me that all he has to do is provide proof of a negative at-home test in order to get back to work. On the base.

Simple scam really. Don't want to work this week because you have home projects to do? Simply say that you were "exposed" to COVID. Put on telework until negative test result. On Thursday or Friday you take a test which will of course be negative and then its back to business on Monday. Wash, rinse, repeat until you get your projects done.
 
CPUSA

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OccamsRazor said:
Simple scam really. Don't want to work this week because you have home projects to do? Simply say that you were "exposed" to COVID. Put on telework until negative test result. On Thursday or Friday you take a test which will of course be negative and then its back to business on Monday. Wash, rinse, repeat until you get your projects done.
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Is this what you've been doing?
 
Kyle

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OccamsRazor said:
Simple scam really. Don't want to work this week because you have home projects to do? Simply say that you were "exposed" to COVID. Put on telework until negative test result. On Thursday or Friday you take a test which will of course be negative and then its back to business on Monday. Wash, rinse, repeat until you get your projects done.
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I'm pretty certain that's the case with two in particular at my location.

Of course their boss doesn't seem to give a #### so what the hell.
 
TPD

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kom526 said:
My oldest had to have a negative test 72 hours prior to returning to classes.
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Because we all know that you can NOT catch the 'rona in the 72 hour period between getting the test and returning to school. It's like when you sit in a restaurant and take your mask off - the 'rona goes right over your head.
 
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WheezyCarl

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vraiblonde said:
I don't understand this. If they're not sick, why would they get tested? And if they are sick, they'd know and wouldn't need a test.

Is this just another ploy to juice the numbers? Get all these people in there, hopefully a ton of them testing positive so the overlords can go, "Covid cases are on the rise"?
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We were sick, most likely the rona. Didn't need to wait in a line for 4 hours for the government to tell me that I was sick. Stayed home, lounged in the recliner, binged watched TV.
 
LightRoasted

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vraiblonde said:
I don't understand this. If they're not sick, why would they get tested? And if they are sick, they'd know and wouldn't need a test.

Is this just another ploy to juice the numbers? Get all these people in there, hopefully a ton of them testing positive so the overlords can go, "Covid cases are on the rise"?
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Just think. If people went to get tested as often, or on a whim, for syphilis, gonorrhea or chlamydia, or hepatitis B-C, etc., the rate of these diseases, and more, would be practically zero. Think about it. With syphilis it can take up to 90 days for just a sore to appear, and if the sore is missed, or ignored as caused by something else, and heals, syphilis can remain inactive for years, decades, before being active again. And it can kill you too. And with hepatitis B, it can take up to four months to present symptoms. And with gonorrhea, one can have it present despite having no symptoms. Holy moly. Maybe there should be testing tent cites popping up to the other testing tent cites. Humanity could wipe out all communicable diseases if we all just get tested.
 
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