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> who gets a covid text these days? Both my kids and my wife have had to do mandatory PCR testing every week for the last year for school, and the kids also do

> who gets a covid text these days? Both my kids and my wife have had to do mandatory PCR testing every week for the last year for school, and the kids also do a weekly instant test. Now that work is making me go back in, I also will be testing regularly again. It's a lot more common than you think.

throwaway193948 4y ago
rasz 4y ago
Very useful, result of the test will let everyone already infected know ... what exactly?
- ThisIsMyAltFace 4y ago
  to stay home in order to avoid infecting other people?
- iqkznnft 4y ago
  My job doesn't force tests, but if you choose to test yourself and test positive, you're asked to work from home. How is this not reasonable? It's getting a bit tiring hearing a certain corner of society complaining how minor inconveniences are oppressing them.
- patrick451 4y ago
  Yeah, this whole testing thing has seemed like such a farce from the get go. Just another way to juice the fear porn.
tomohawk 4y ago
If it is so dangerous to work in an area that I need to wear special safety equipment and get regular tests - no thanks. If I wanted that sort of career, I would have gone into medicine or some such. There is very little benefit to anyone for children under 15 to get vaxed or be tested. The disease works on the ace2 receptors, which are activated at puberty. The observational data bears this out. The number one cause of death for adults 18-45 in the US during the pandemic was opiod/drug overdoses. You wouldn't know it from the public health response.
- schwartzworld 4y ago
  Nobody asked if I thought it was right, they asked who gets tested and the answer is "me". We aren't paying for the tests, so WTF do I care? I've had jobs where I had to clean the toilets, you might walk away from a good salary and good WLB just because they ask you to stick a q-tip up your nose once a day, but it just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
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throwaway193948 4y ago

rasz 4y ago

Very useful, result of the test will let everyone already infected know ... what exactly?

ThisIsMyAltFace 4y ago
to stay home in order to avoid infecting other people?
iqkznnft 4y ago
My job doesn't force tests, but if you choose to test yourself and test positive, you're asked to work from home. How is this not reasonable? It's getting a bit tiring hearing a certain corner of society complaining how minor inconveniences are oppressing them.
patrick451 4y ago
Yeah, this whole testing thing has seemed like such a farce from the get go. Just another way to juice the fear porn.

tomohawk 4y ago

If it is so dangerous to work in an area that I need to wear special safety equipment and get regular tests - no thanks. If I wanted that sort of career, I would have gone into medicine or some such. There is very little benefit to anyone for children under 15 to get vaxed or be tested. The disease works on the ace2 receptors, which are activated at puberty. The observational data bears this out. The number one cause of death for adults 18-45 in the US during the pandemic was opiod/drug overdoses. You wouldn't know it from the public health response.

schwartzworld 4y ago
Nobody asked if I thought it was right, they asked who gets tested and the answer is "me". We aren't paying for the tests, so WTF do I care? I've had jobs where I had to clean the toilets, you might walk away from a good salary and good WLB just because they ask you to stick a q-tip up your nose once a day, but it just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.

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