Posted on 12/17/2020 10:50:16 AM PST by Capt. Tom
However this article may be helpful to those Freepers who travel and may want to try an at home test.
The cost for the test is $30, according to the article. -Tom
So a 9% false negative and 4% false positive rate.
Planning a trip to the Bahamas. They require a proof of a negative test along side a passport.
You can buy like 100 packs of Ramen for that...
Seriously, this shit is ridiculous. What’s next?
Proof of vaccine to work, travel, etc?
[[The cost for the test is $30, according to the article]]
So folks will have to test how often if they wanna go or do anything? couple times a week anyways to give ‘proof they tested’ where places demand it?
That is one of the reasons I believe restarting cruising will result in possible setbacks and PRESS hysteria.
You will have the same % in vaccinated cruisers resulting in hundreds of potential covid cases onboard, and an overaction to a person or persons coming down with it while on a Cruise. -Tom
You are free to move about your local community as long as you can present your papers to the authorities whenever they stop you. Also, travel outside of your community is still allowed, although this is subject to change.
Oh, we’re not supposed to travel? I guess I’ll have to cancel my 3000 mile Christmas road trip that starts tomorrow night
Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, infections - unnecessary tests on people with no symptoms are still skyrocketing.
Fixed it for them.
At a recent dept. meeting, that possibility was discussed.
Will employees be required to get vaccinated? No one knows - yet.
“People with COVID-19 have an incubation period when the virus can’t be detected yet by tests but they can still transmit it. “
No proof of that.
The “incubation period” is from infection to illness. There is no proof that asymptomatic people have an established viral load sufficient for transmitting an infection to others. If the viral load was that sufficient, then in most such cases they would have symptoms, not be asymptomatic.
Why is someone ill from the virus? Because the viral load has increased to where it is making head way against the immune system sufficient to demonstrate symptoms of an illness. THAT is when a person has a viral load with which they may transmit the virus to others.
I’d rather have to take a rapid test than have to carry a vaccination card, might as well get a chip.
“Though testing can help limit the spread of COVID-19, especially by catching people who have the virus but are asymptomatic,”
There is no evidence that identifying Virus-positive asymptomatic persons affects the transmission of the virus. When and if they have symptoms is when they could be infectious. Until then it is not likely they are yet infectious. Instead of being told to quarantine such persons should be told to carefully watch for any symptoms for 10 to 14 days, and if symptoms arise within 14 days begin to quarantine and get in-home medical care.
yeah bot some won’t be able to afford gettign the tests a coupe times a week to prove they don’t have the virus-
We’re slowly easing into state mandated compliance in order to work or do anything in the country- one way or the other- not quite end times stuff- but gettign closer-
You obviously don't agree with this article statement above and is one of the reasons I mentioned the contradictions among our inept so-called medical experts, that will extend from the virus to the vaccine.
Confusion reigns about the virus and the vaccines. -Tom
“People with COVID-19 have an incubation period when the virus can’t be detected yet by tests but they can still transmit it.”
Yes, from the beginning too many public-health-medical bureaucrats have assumed that “infection” (as in he/she tests positive for an infection) automatically translates to “infectious”, yet that is not scientifically correct with most viruses.
A coin-flip would be just as accurate.
Cheaper, too.
I sure hope you wear your mask the entire 50 hours you will be in your car. You can’t be too safe.
What’s interesting is that nobody who has gotten the virus has been near somebody who was visibly ill and showing symptoms. I’ve checked with relatives and friends who have gotten it. They’ve asked their friends who have gotten it. It’s a small sample, but the finding makes sense because everybody is so scared and has such heightened fear of sick people nearby that they move away as soon as they can.
And everybody in the whole country is wearing masks. Yet it still spreads.
People around here (SF Bay Area) act as if there is COVID Poison Gas all around us.
So a 9% false negative and 4% false positive rate.
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If these numbers are accurate these are the most accurate tests out there. Most are 30% false positive.
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