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Woman in the Philippines says she caught COVID-19 despite weeks of 'zero contact with outside world'
ABS CBN News ^ | 05/02/2020 | Angela Coloma

Posted on 05/02/2020 7:08:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

These non-specific tests are picking up ordinary (common cold) coronavirus remnants. This is why so many people are testing positive when they shouldn’t be, or testing negative, then positive, then negative again in the course of a couple days.


21 posted on 05/02/2020 7:48:36 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind
she caught the coronavirus disease 2019 despite observing strict quarantine measures. … was rushed to the St. Luke's Medical Center on April 25 …

Call me skeptical. I don't think the virus was known well enough in April of 2019 for a test to be administered in the Philippines.

22 posted on 05/02/2020 7:51:09 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: SeekAndFind
OK, I’m a little slow today. What does that imply? That her husband is positive but asymptomatic?

It implies that the reporters are retarded.

23 posted on 05/02/2020 7:51:11 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: libertylover
coronavirus disease 2019

I don't think the virus was known well enough in April of 2019 for a test to be administered in the Philippines.

That is not what it says. "Coronavirus 2019" is literally the name of our disease. It is "Covid-19" for short. That means coronavirus disease 2019. So it is referring to the current disease, not having a test or contracting it in 2019.

24 posted on 05/02/2020 7:53:24 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: SeekAndFind

I have New Zealander friends who have said the same thing. This may be an argument for 5G rollout


25 posted on 05/02/2020 7:58:48 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like she broke quarantine by virtue of contact with her husband...


26 posted on 05/02/2020 8:03:11 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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“Bekema has not had any exposure to the outside world - except for when her husband went out to do groceries two weeks before she got tested for the disease for the safety then of her baby.”

There’s your problem! Geez these people are stupid.


27 posted on 05/02/2020 8:09:28 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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“Bekema has not had any exposure to the outside world - except for when her husband went out to do groceries two weeks before she got tested for the disease for the safety then of her baby.”

There’s your problem! Geez these people are stupid.


28 posted on 05/02/2020 8:09:28 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: SeekAndFind

Her husband could have caught it, asymptomatic, on March 14 or earlier, and carried it the whole time. She could then have caught it from him and was likewise carrying it until tested April 25.

We don’t really know how long people can carry the virus asymptomatically and test positive.

Btw this is part of a cluster of covid infections in the Philippine Senate. Her husband was on a Senators staff. At least four Senators have caught it, plus numerous staff and Senators relatives, and a couple of the Senate staff have perished.


29 posted on 05/02/2020 8:11:27 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: JonPreston

They eat a lot of bats there too.


30 posted on 05/02/2020 8:16:05 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imply’s she didn’t disinfect the groceries well enough.. Didn’t wash her hands well enough.. Didn’t get her husband to decontaminate himself well enough..
Most are fed up with this.. It’s no way to live.
It’s futile fighting microorganisms we have no immunity against.
Slowing the curve was never about saving lives.. it was about keeping the medical system from being overwhelmed. So now deaths will be drawn out over a period of time. It’s a ‘made to order’ crisis for power-hungry DemonRats.


31 posted on 05/02/2020 8:24:43 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Lizavetta

Exactly.


32 posted on 05/02/2020 8:37:07 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d first ask, “did the test come from China?”. Could the test itself be contaminated? Or just a false positive?

I don’t think we can determine anything from this instance.


33 posted on 05/02/2020 8:44:18 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SeekAndFind

Click-bait headline!

Husband. went out.

Did son go out?

Did househelpers go. out?


34 posted on 05/02/2020 9:15:14 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SeekAndFind

Zero contact is impossible unless you are totally off the grid, far from neighbors and grow, hunt or slaughter and butcher your own food. Let’s assume she had food delivered and sometime in the prior 24 hours it was handled, during prep, packaging or delivery by an infected (possibly asymptomatic) individual. Boom, she’s got it.

We’ve cut the delivery part out; I go to pick up the orders when we support our local restaurants. But I have no illusions of perfect safety!


35 posted on 05/02/2020 9:27:35 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Salamander

That does put one’s other issues in perspective!


36 posted on 05/02/2020 9:35:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Make an animal friend today!)
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In other news, this is going on right now, via a group called Reopen MD

There are rumors saying the cops are currently ticketing them for their protest ride

http://www.wfmd.com/2020/05/02/hundreds-gathered-at-fsk-mall-for-reopen-maryland-rally-delegate-cox-threatened-with-arrest/?fbclid=IwAR0pOIuxrDUGZ5qhy9e9HgEDyxARRToMH7WWvX6mG3BK7daiDWkkXNjsDOs


37 posted on 05/02/2020 9:37:15 AM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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I wish them success. We’re going to South Carolina tomorrow. They have their state parks open.


38 posted on 05/02/2020 9:40:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Make an animal friend today!)
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To: FirstFlaBn
She probably also fails to understand how she got pregnant.

But he told me you can’t get pregnant if you do it standing up!

39 posted on 05/02/2020 9:46:33 AM PDT by PGR88
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“Well, if a “woman in the Philippines” said it, it must be true.”

Lots of stupid things have been said concerning this virus, all because someone saw it on the boob tube or the Internet.


40 posted on 05/02/2020 9:57:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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