I understand that and encourage you to avoid others while symptomatic.
But, I wonder, why aren’t the \known\ symptoms enough such that you need tested-verification?
You recognize the difference between allergies and the flu.
Also, what if, as I have contended, the tests (invasives) have been designed to pass on the virus in random cases?
I just read your initial reply to my inquiries.
I get it.
Your last point is one of the reasons we don’t want to test. Neither of us will unless we need a doctor. If you go to the doctor with covid symptoms, the first thing they do is tell you to get tested. I was at my doctors for my regular physical when a lady called and said she thought she had covid. She was told to test, either at home or at the walk-in clinic, and then call them back with the result and they would treat her. For some reason, the doctors here are referring everybody with symptoms to the local covid testing centers before they will treat them for it. Before they would do my physical, they made sure I wasn’t symptomatic before they would do the physical. It’s very strange. I supposed the CDC is forcing all of that. They obviously don’t trust all the doctors to report covid. That’s another reason I prefer to recover at home unless I need a doctor. I don’t want to get on the government covid list. It’s none of their business.
If I run a fever, I will assume I have it because the only other thing that causes me to run a fever is the flu. My temps are normally around 97.5. If I’m running a fever I will stay home. I also watch my oxygen saturation since I have asthma. We decided that if I get it, he will probably get it too since I’m healthier. That’s not guaranteed though. I really don’t want him to test unless he insists because it would scare him and he would be like her. He would make himself even sicker if he knew he had it.