11 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

It's super weird and sad/pathetic how many people seem to WANT to get it, or at least test positive so they can tweet about it.  Two negative tests already?  Can't be right, better get a third!  

My wife's one co-worker and her husband were both sick over the holidays, both tested negative MULTIPLE times, and she is STILL telling people that she had COVID.  Says "she just KNOWS that's what it was"  

Oh yeah, my wife's cousin who is a huge ishlib, obsessed with the vaccines and triple vaxxed, and really big into wearing masks at all times contracted Covid and was all over snapchat posting about her experience. Said stuff like "omicron is no joke, get the vaccine" then claimed that she had a really bad case of post-covid "brain fog" in another post.   

Unless of course, you wind up with long COVID. You might not enjoy that so much. There isn't any data on that yet.

4 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

No, smart guy, she is definitely laid up and was told at urgent care to not go to work and to avoid contact with anyone as much as possible.

I guess the trickier part is for you to determine if you need to quarantine at home given that she hasn't actually tested positive.

1 minute ago, Toastrel said:

Unless of course, you wind up with long COVID. You might not enjoy that so much. There isn't any data on that yet.

Is it worse than dementia?  Asking for a friend

4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

I guess the trickier part is for you to determine if you need to quarantine at home given that she hasn't actually tested positive.

 

I think that's the safe thing to do right now. She'll just stay in the bedroom as much as possible and I'll mostly stay downstairs. At urgent care, they said that today is probably still too soon to get the PCR test, so she re-scheduled it for tomorrow. The truth is that it could still be too early to detect it, so we'll have to see what the next couple days hold.

Just now, mikemack8 said:

Is it worse than dementia?  Asking for a friend

WHAT!?!?!

damned kids always mumbling

6 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

No, smart guy, she is definitely laid up pretty badly and was told at urgent care to not go to work and to avoid contact with anyone as much as possible.

Wow, it's amazing how much control the mind has over the body. 

4 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

Unless of course, you wind up with long COVID. You might not enjoy that so much. There isn't any data on that yet.

That's true though most of the medical and viral experts pretty much agree that everyone who's out and about at all is going to catch / be exposed to Omicron at some point.

1 minute ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

I think that's the safe thing to do right now. At urgent care, they said that today is probably still too soon to get the PCR test, so she  re-scheduled it for tomorrow. The truth is that it could still be too early to detect it, so we'll have to see what the next couple days hold.

Yeah that makes sense.

If you are vaccinated, you need to wait 5 days to test.

I was exposed at work on a Tuesday, had to wait until Sunday to test. Tested again the next day. At least, that is the last I read on the subject.

Live look at Eaglesrocker and his girlfriend testing her for covid:

 

Just now, Toastrel said:

If you are vaccinated, you need to wait 5 days to test.

I was exposed at work on a Tuesday, had to wait until Sunday to test. Tested again the next day. At least, that is the last I read on the subject.

I think it depends.  It can be more in the 48hr period but can take up to 10 days in the worst case.

The only way contracting COVID to "get it over with" makes sense is if contracting the virus a single time conferred lifetime immunity.

Just now, DrPhilly said:

I think it depends.  It can be more in the 48hr period but can take up to 10 days in the worst case.

Speaking of home tests, nasal swab only. Those are what I was able to get, so those are what I looked up.

Just now, Toastrel said:

Speaking of home tests, nasal swab only. Those are what I was able to get, so those are what I looked up.

Yeah, that's what I was talking about as well.  Negative tests with those are not really reliable either.  Positive on the other hand is something you can pretty much rely on to be accurate.

2 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Live look at Eaglesrocker and his girlfriend testing her for covid:

First time: Botched the test
Second time: Administered the test correctly with a negative result. Decided to get tested for flu since it was easily done at a local clinic
Third time: Asked for a flu test but was also required by staff to test for COVID.


At the end of the day, I'm really glad the people that I associate with are the kinds who take this virus seriously enough to wait for accurate test results before letting their guard down. Beyond that, I'm glad that, even if she doesn't have COVID, she's the kind of person considerate enough to want to protect those around her from contracting any illness that makes you feel like complete sh**.

4 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

The only way contracting COVID to "get it over with" makes sense is if contracting the virus a single time conferred lifetime immunity.

I think there are several holes in that statement.

For example, I'd gladly accept a few days of minor cold symptoms for a year of immunity.

There are also a lot of people who are super scared of both getting COVID and also of the possibility that they might transmit it to others.  I've read some articles about how relieved people have been to test positive so that they could be done with that extra stress and anxiety over potential guilt that they might have to face.  My 21yr old daughter is in that category.  She suffers from bad anxiety and this is a real issue for her.

4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

I think there are several holes in that statement.

For example, I'd gladly accept a few days of minor cold symptoms for a year of immunity.

There are also a lot of people who are super scared of both getting COVID and also of the possibility that they might transmit it to others.  I've read some articles about how relieved people have been to test positive so that they could be done with that extra stress and anxiety over potential guilt that they might have to face.  My 21yr old daughter is in that category.  She suffers from bad anxiety and this is a real issue for her.

 

I see what you're saying, but so far it seems that natural immunity wanes after several months.

29 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Honestly, given how mild Omicron appears for those that are vaccinated/boosted, I know plenty of people who WANT to get it and just be done with it. If it weren't for having immuno-compromised family members, I might feel the same way at this point. 

Except that you aren't done with it. Immunity leaves your body in a few weeks from all I've heard. 

4 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

 

I see what you're saying, but so far it seems that natural immunity wanes after several months or so.

Not what I'm seeing.  The studies I've seen say the immunity is quite strong and lasts.

The antibodies wane but not the memory cells.  Not in the shorter "several months" timeline.

Just now, Gannan said:

Except that you aren't done with it. Immunity leaves your body in a few weeks from all I've heard. 

You can do a lot of blow and bang a lot of hookers in those few weeks.

1 minute ago, Gannan said:

Except that you aren't done with it. Immunity leaves your body in a few weeks from all I've heard. 

That's not right.

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New laboratory research from Oregon Health & Science University reveals more than one path toward robust immunity from COVID-19.

A new study finds that two forms of immunity — breakthrough infections following vaccination or natural infection followed by vaccination — provide roughly equal levels of enhanced immune protection. The study published online today in the journal Science Immunology.

Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D. (OHSU)

"It makes no difference whether you get infected and then vaccinated, or if you get vaccinated and then a breakthrough infection,” said co-senior author Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine. "In either case, you will get a really, really robust immune response — amazingly high.”

The research follows an OHSU study published in December that described extremely high levels of immune response following breakthrough infections — so-called "super immunity.” That study was the first to use multiple live SARS-CoV-2 variants to measure cross-neutralization of blood serum from breakthrough cases.

The new study found that it doesn’t matter whether someone gets a breakthrough infection or gets vaccinated after a natural infection. In both cases, the immune response measured in blood serum revealed antibodies that were equally more abundant and more potent — at least 10 times more potent — than immunity generated by vaccination alone.

The study was done before the emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant, but researchers expect the hybrid immune responses would be similar.

Here is a clip from a recent study.  Pre Omicron and not peer reviewed so take it with a grain of salt.

We don't really have any long term data.

Just now, Toastrel said:

We don't really have any long term data.

That's pretty much the case with everything related to COVID.  We've been working with at best half baked data from the get go in every aspect of this pandemic.