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01-19-2022, 11:50 AM - 1 Like   #3256
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please wish me good luck

just had both nostrils swabbed for covid-19 test

promised results within 72 hours

took me 40 minutes on the phone to get a testing slot at noon today

double vaccinated and boosted in early December late October

tested negative on December 13


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QuoteOriginally posted by aslyfox Quote
please wish me good luck

just had both nostrils swabbed for covid-19 test

promised results within 72 hours

took me 40 minutes on the phone to get a testing slot at noon today

double vaccinated and boosted in early December

tested negative on December 13
Good luck Allen,do you have symptoms or taking a test as a precaution?
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Good luck Allen,do you have symptoms or taking a test as a precaution?
had some symptoms I guess, very sore throat and some cough, I thought it was a bad cold, my primary care physician asked me to get tested when I saw her today

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QuoteOriginally posted by aslyfox Quote
please wish me good luck

just had both nostrils swabbed for covid-19 test

promised results within 72 hours

took me 40 minutes on the phone to get a testing slot at noon today

double vaccinated and boosted in early December

tested negative on December 13
Fingers crossed that it is simply a cold, and nothing worse.

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had some symptoms I guess, very sore throat and some cough, I thought it was a bad cold, my primary care physician asked me to get tested when I saw her today
Didn't you have any lateral flow tests lying around?

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Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally - BBC News

A sad story or more Darwin Award fodder?

I can’t decide,hopefully it will encourage more people to get vaccinated and not gamble with their health.
I can have sympathy for people who view their situation as being so dire that they commit suicide.
This is not that.
I have virtually no sympathy for "Here, hold my beer and watch this." people.
Her son said he and his father were vaccinated. Apparently he inherited his father's intellect and common sense; not his Mother's.
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Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally - BBC News

A sad story or more Darwin Award fodder?

I can’t decide,hopefully it will encourage more people to get vaccinated and not gamble with their health.
A sad story, IMO. It doesn't seem like she was malicious or disdainful WRT to the vaccine, just her rationalizing was misguided. She probably thought she would catch the "mild" Omicron and simply recover.

OTOH, she was gambling with her life, so maybe she does merit a Darwin Award.

The article mentioned back pain, so quite possible she had covid-induced pneumonia.

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Good luck Allen!
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USA residents, order your free test kits from the gov't here: https://www.covidtests.gov/

Tracking, of course, is included.
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and there is this news for us in the US

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UPDATE 2-U.S. to distribute 400 million free N95 masks at CVS, Walgreens in COVID fight
By Jeff Mason and Lisa Baertlein - 29m ago

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. government will make 400 million non-surgical "N95" masks from its strategic national stockpile available for free to the public starting next week, a White House official said, as the Biden administration tries to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.

Snug-fitting N95 face masks, so-called because they filter [ Explainer: N95? KF94? Which mask is best at protecting against COVID-19 | Reuters ] at least 95% of particulate matter from the air, will be shipped to pharmacies and community health centers this week, the official said, and will be available for pickup late next week. . . .
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How to Reuse Your KN95 or N95 Mask Safely
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QuoteOriginally posted by JimS_256 Quote
I do too. I remember that shots (seemed to) hurt more back then, maybe some crying but no fainting or throwing up. Mostly I remember the polio epidemic, no cure, no vaccine, no real hope if you got the disease. That all changed once the vaccines came out. How anyone that lived through those times can be an antivaxer is beyond me.
Very few are, I suspect.

The present-day tendency to ignore both history and science will no doubt be the basis for a good number of research papers and PhDs.
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QuoteOriginally posted by timb64 Quote
Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally - BBC News

A sad story or more Darwin Award fodder?

I can’t decide,hopefully it will encourage more people to get vaccinated and not gamble with their health.
Both, IMHO. It does not have to be a laughing matter just because it's clearly a Darwin Award...
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and there is this news for us in the US


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How to Reuse Your KN95 or N95 Mask Safely
My own professional experience best and almost comfortable mask Aura 9205 N95 NIOSH distributed by 3M one size
I use every day 12 hr work very well strip go over head and no irritated ear
If doesn't wait free mask go to Home depot they have this mask
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thanks for all the best wishes but no joy

just got notified of positive test covid 19

actually, not feeling too bad

the bright side

twice vaccinated with Pfizer

boosted with Pfizer

and now antibodies ( presumably ) from infection

I'm set all right

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QuoteOriginally posted by aslyfox Quote
thanks for all the best wishes but no joy

just got notified of positive test covid 19

actually, not feeling too bad

the bright side

twice vaccinated with Pfizer

boosted with Pfizer

and now antibodies ( presumably ) from infection

I'm set all right


Well that sucks. Hope you fully recover.
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