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RGB mofo, do you have it!
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![]() Btw afaik the rapid test is not really correct one to do with a person who is not showing signs of COVID 19 and proper way to test is PCR. I maybe wrong though but for both my sons we did PCR tests only. |
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RGB mofo, do you have it!
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![]() Well let’s hope he is truly not impacted and neither are you. |
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Raiding Curio's Stable
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![]() Still 100% here. Everyone by me got their tests back. I'm waiting on the CDC to call me now. ![]() |
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![]() Correct. Tests just look for bits of virus genetic code. Your body could have eliminated "living" viruses, but the particulate left over from dead viruses could still be embedded in mucus and potentially be coughed from deep in your lungs for weeks or maybe months yielding positive tests when there actually is no viral replication ongoing.
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Regardless, I won't dine in any restaurants until this whole thing is over. I wouldn't even do outdoor dining. Take-out only. |
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RIP Roxen
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I've dined in a few restaurants over the course of the last ~two months. There is a diner just up the road that I try to either order take-out or dine-in every other week or so. With the spacing of booths, reduced capacity, screens up to separate diners .. I don't think it's that big of a deal. There are plenty of statistics showing that restaurants and gyms have been among the lowest spreaders of COVID; it's been primarily schools if I remember correctly, but I'm going off the top of my head. Either way, I don't think restaurants should continue to be re-opened and closed when cases keep ping-ponging up and down. Restaurant owners were told, at least in NY: "Do X-Y-Z, and you can re-open", so owners invested thousands of dollars into doing X-Y-Z to be in compliance, and then what does NY do, after Thanksgiving, Christmas, and schools re-opening caused COVID cases to rise? Close restaurants down again, after tons of owners invested more money into their business to try and stay afloat. Constantly changing the gameplan and going into full panic mode every two months is ridiculous. Create a plan, stick to it. Re-open restaurants and keep them open rather than punishing these owners who have done everything in their power to comply with regulations. If the regulations make sense (which I think they do, I guess) then why the hell are you closing them down? The regulations have worked as far as we've seen, because again, restaurants have been shown to be a low risk of spreading COVID. The response from the government has been atrocious, I agree, but subsidy of every single restaurant is just not possible imo. Before anyone starts with the "BUT THE GOVERNMENT SPENDS TONS OF MONEY ON OTHER STUPID ****" -- I completely agree, but that doesn't change anything. |
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![]() They subsidized every restaurant/business in Canada with a 2000$ a month cerb/ui and 75% wage subsidy if you kept your employees on and a rent subsidy. Its doable but def something has to be done on the revenue side.
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![]() and now we have world war 2 levels of debt and still alot of those restaurants and service type business are going to go tits up |
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![]() All six tests are in. Only one positive, and that was the guy that had it. I have no idea how we didn't get it, but I'm not going to complain. Lesson learned. I'm not doing **** with anyone I don't live with until I'm fully vaccinated. The only thing I can think of is that he wasn't coughing or sneezing at all. He definitely had it based on all the symptoms he had plus his positive test. |
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![]() You dodged a bullet dude, congratulations! |
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What is my purpose?
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![]() Time to celebrate with a night on the town with the boys to play russian roulette again. |
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![]() Mexican president has it now. edit: just realized this thread turned a year old two days ago...
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We Do It!
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![]() did you try putting a dot after .com? https://www.nytimes.com./2020/03/13/...-estimate.html If that didn't work you can paste the link in private browser.
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This is SO much fun!!!!
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![]() We are having an outbreak where I work. Its a small but essential company where an outbreak could shut us down. One of our associates girlfriend tested positive, and he developed symptoms as well. However he was tested twice, and both times were negative ![]() |
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FCK Joebama/HeelsUpHarris
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![]() Very likely he tested too early. General rule of thumb is to wait 5 days after exposure or 3 days after symptoms appear in case you weren't aware of exposure (whichever happens first). I goofed and had a rapid test done only a few days after I was exposed and it tested negative. Fast forward a few days after that and I was positive.
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![]() If you are forced to wait in line/queue during this COVID pandemic, be on the look out for 'Chat-and-Cut' offenders ![]() Last edited by Quickstrike : Jan 25, 2021 at 04:57 PM. |
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Keep your pimp hip strong
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