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thanks fizz :)

i think relying on royal mail for pcr delivery might be a flaw in the plan. (didn't arrive overnight. and if it's anything like my birthday cards i could be past my 10 days before it appears)

(that's assuming the porch junkies haven't stolen it and sold it on some pcr test kit black market)

(i got a text 2 hours later saying it's coming today)

((reader, it never arrived))

Yet…

my pcr that i took this morning came back negative, despite my sharing an apartment with my covid-positive wife. we have been separating and masking in the apartment, which seemingly has worked so far. i did spend a lot of time unmasked with her on tuesday, the day she tested positive, so idk if i'm 100% out of the woods yet. i am thinking, however, that she might not be contagious anymore, in which case it might be safe to stop separating in the apartment, tho prob still not safe to interact with others? who knows! we have three (3) binax tests, which as we know are now as valuable as gold, and we're debating how to use them. should she take a test tomorrow to see if she's still infected? should we save them until after our next pcr test (scheduled for tuesday) to see when it would be safe to visit family?

for now tho, i'm just relieved i didn't catch it and hopeful that she is through with it.

when do you think she caught it and when did she last have a positive test?

she tested negative pcr on friday, went to dinner with a group of our friends (i was out of town), where she likely caught it. she tested positive with an at-home test on tuesday night, and then with a pcr taken wednesday afternoon.

i would save two binax tests for right before the two of you see family.

she should be over it in the sense of non-infectious around this weekend. maybe she takes the other test on sunday if you want to satisfy curiousity? but if you're planning to run errands this weekend you should probably take it.

BTW when did the US get flowflex tests? I just noticed we had them

xp we'll hopefully know for sure about whether she's fully recovered when we get our pcr tests on tuesday. i was thinking we'd have her take one this weekend and then save the other two for me over the next couple weeks if i'm still negative by tues.

one of the fun things about covid is how it makes regular life things like going to the grocery store and seeing family feel like answering an lsat question

you don't know what happens between now and seeing your family, so i would definitely save one for you for immediately before family time. arguably not necessary to save one for her for then assuming she's all clear on tuesday.

caek i’m not sure that’s right about contagiousness only lasting a week? unless i’m misreading you.

right. it often last longer, and official advice is to isolate for longer out of an abundance of caution, but if you want to know if you're no longer *highly* infectious without wasting rapid tests, a week is a reasonable amount of time to wait.

(before you deploy one of your rapid tests.)

so just to be clear: i'm not saying you're all clear after a week and you should hit the clubs/cough on your in laws. i'm saying if you're curious and you have a spare rapid test, a week is the *first* time it wouldn't be a complete waste to take the test.

That's such bastard luck Tracer. How are the symptoms?

10 weeks after my positive test and I'm still really struggling with tiredness and crippling headaches. I've been back at work but I'm a bit of a shell. Ffs. Hoping Christmas and lots of sleep will see it off for good.

All the best to Voodoo and Koogs.

I'm feeling fine, thanks, but going through the motions anyway.

the pcr test turned up. i checked at 6 and it wasn't there, checked at 9 and it was, but too late to do anything about it today. my 10 days isolation will likely be up* before i find out i didn't need to. so it goes.

(* Christmas Eve. i hope nobody was expecting any Christmas presents)

appreciate the advice, caek (and thanks chinaski for the well-wishes). it seems to be somewhat of a moot point because my parents have tested positive, likely from attending a wedding on saturday night where many of the guests have tested positive (everyone is mild so far).

not much to do but wait things out.

oooof

Best of luck to all of your family, vc.

ah damn vc.

i'm really sorry to hear that Chinaski, that's shit. 10 weeks ago must have been delta, right? i suspect i've got omicron and the symptoms have been mild. like a cold. i really hope you start feeling right.

Currently quarantined awaiting test results (negative rapid). I don't think what I have is covid, but whatever it is was enough to keep my son home from school the past couple days and I called out of work sick for only the second time since this all began. Then, just after getting home from the doctor, I got called to my daughter's school to pick her up because she had been identified as a close contact of another kid who did test positive. So the fun waiting game begins.

Got our boosters on Monday, negative covid tests on Wednesday, wife was feeling under the weather, we assumed it was the effects of the booster. Boarded the plane to Portugal, got steadily worse, took a test when we got to our place - wife has covid. Christmas cancelled, families on both sides that were going to meet us have to cancel flights and we don't even get to spend christmas at home with our cats. Not great.

Really sorry to hear that Daniel

fuck that sucks Daniel :(

ahhh fucking fuck Daniel.

Fuck’s sake, I’m so sorry Daniel

ughhh, that's so unfortunate. sorry to hear it.

Unbelievably shit :-(

Jesus, Daniel. Hope it's not to bad a case at least.

what horrible timing! hope you manage to have a decent, not-sick Christmas even if it's not what you planned.

sorry to hear this is ripping people up.

booster has me on my ass today

Solidarity, I had the booster yesterday and feel like I've been hit by a truck but... better than the actual thing.

So sorry to hear that, Daniel - is there a process to alert the airline you were on?

right. it often last longer, and official advice is to isolate for longer out of an abundance of caution, but if you want to know if you're no longer *highly* infectious without wasting rapid tests, a week is a reasonable amount of time to wait.

based on purely anecdotal data, i have a feeling that boosted folks don't spread omicron at nearly the rate of the non-boosted. my wife got infected eating inside at a restaurant (double-vax requirement, no booster requirement) and my parents got it at an indoor wedding (same deal). But: I still haven't gotten it from my wife despite spending the full day with her unmasked last tuesday (the day she tested positive), and my grandma didn't get it from either my parents or my wife last sunday, when they theoretically would've been infectious. my wife also spent time after her infection last friday with her parents and her aunt & uncle, none of whom have tested positive.

obv this is non-scientific, but the moral of the story is get boosted! and the other moral is that the federal government might've been able to prevent a shitstorm by not sitting on their hands when it was time to open boosters to all adults.

yeah my immediate family and mother in law were all sharing meals w me and moving on top of each other for a week and none of them appear to have gotten it despite my testing positive five days straight

lol uh… LIVING on top of each other

lol times then that 5-minute "edit" window might have been helpful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfIQxs0ZwE

At least it wasn't 'loving'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lOTh309ZY

my kid (no vaccs) has managed to avoid it despite his best friend (they are always whispering in each other's faces despite 18 months of me asking him not to) plus three others he is close with at school every day, testing positive - nearly all asymptomatic.

we've tested him and ourselves frequently, and he's picked up other bugs from his sibling, but has never had even a faint positive line.

just realised which thread this is - not bragging, I know it'll come for me eventually!

Currently quarantined awaiting test results (negative rapid). I don't think what I have is covid, but whatever it is was enough to keep my son home from school the past couple days and I called out of work sick for only the second time since this all began. Then, just after getting home from the doctor, I got called to my daughter's school to pick her up because she had been identified as a close contact of another kid who did test positive. So the fun waiting game begins.

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Our tests came back negative. Just a bad cold, which is what I had expected. Was going to take my daughter up to the clinic that my wife works at this morning so she could get a test clearing her to return to school. She's entirely asymptomatic so far. However, about an hour ago my wife texted saying that there were over 100 people registered there and people circling the parking lot looking for parking spaces. For perspective, the clinic probably has somewhere between 10-12 examination rooms. It's the busiest she's ever seen it in 10 years with the company and they are short-staffed.

Trace how bad was your cold with Omicron? I live in London and also have a cold (sinus headache, slight runny nose, tired and farty) but it’s so slight I’d ignore it on a normal December. I’ve booked a pcr anyway before seeing the folks on the weekend

don't be farting around your folks