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And yet they made it in policies all around the world with lots of people involved poking around in the other peoples noses and throats.
by harha 3y ago
And yet they made it in policies all around the world with lots of people involved poking around in the other peoples noses and throats.
- basisword 3y agoI’ve never seen a rapid test done by anyone other than the person taking the test. And most now only require a small nose swab rather than nose and throat. In fact any PCR tests I did were also self-administered (with guidance) so that the patient didn’t accidentally cough/sneeze on the nurse.
- harha 3y agoIn many European and Asian countries this was the prerequisite to get approval from the app to not be locked up
- gjulianm 3y agoPrecisely the point of most of those policies was to use rapid tests to ensure you weren't being infections at that moment or close to it. I honestly don't know what's so controversial about them.
- harha 3y agoI can figure out for myself if I have symptoms or not
- Broken_Hippo 3y agoSo? That's not the point. You and I both know that not everyone will be upfront about symptoms. The tests are there to attempt to cut down on this.
- maxbond 3y agoSometimes in society, we adopt laws that are about keeping other people safe more than they are about keeping yourself comfortable. You might feel inconvenienced. Ultimately, you're the beneficiary of this too. Your life is going to be a lot longer, because the people around you are occasionally inconvenienced for your benefit. If this isn't acceptable to you, I'm sorry about that, that's tough.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y ago[flagged]
- fdasfdmfdm 3y ago[flagged]
- cortesoft 3y agoAnd you think everyone would disclose their symptoms?
- spamizbad 3y agoHow? I wouldn't know the difference between a seasonal cold (or flu) or COVID, mostly because I've never had COVID.
- maxbond 3y agoEvery time I've gotten together with my family for Christmas the past few years, a very virulent infection has ripped though the household, getting everyone sick within a week, and taking me out of commission for a large part of the trip. Every time I think to myself, "this is it, we all got COVID. I can tick off the symptoms." None of those times were COVID (as confirmed by PCR tests). More recently I was getting ready to go meet a newborn family member. I felt a little off so I took a Rapid Test. Guess what? I had COVID. That Rapid Test stopped me from introducing COVID into a household with a newborn baby and parents trying to stay healthy to take care of their newborn baby.
- fdasfdmfdm 3y ago[flagged]
- nradov 3y agoYou likely have had COVID-19 at some point without knowing it. In most patients it presents with minimal symptoms and is clinically similar to the common cold. Other coronaviruses that we classify as "common cold" viruses such as HCoV-OC43 are genetically very similar to SARS-CoV-2.