There are so many people I come across now think of this as a cold, perhaps a bad one in the worse case. They have had it at least once to 3 times so there's nothing more that can be done in their minds.

My gf has had it 2 years in a row and I've dodged it there too.

I'm being told I'm a unicorn now as I'm the only one in my circles that hasn't had it yet.

Then I see the numbers above like this and recall almost 3000 died in 9/11 and how many were so moved by those senseless deaths which lead to a million more senseless civilian deaths while domestically these Rona numbers happening weekly, and there's nothing that can be done in a way worse than the lack of action for gun violence against children.

At least there are thoughts and prayers to be applied for gun violence. We won't even think of this minimum for those that have died from Rona..

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Food for thought: you may very well have had Covid, multiple times. Plenty of people have no, or extremely minor, symptoms. My son has had Covid twice and both times his ONLY symptom was a bit of a stomach upset. We only found out he had Covid by sheer coincidence.

[–] VR20X6@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If only there were some sort of rapid covid test you could take to check instead of just headcanoning whether or not you have covid.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you don't have any symptoms, why would you use a RAT? I'm not sure what they cost where you are, but they aren't all that cheap in Australia.

[–] shottymcb@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Feels weird to dunk on someone else's healthcare system as an American, but I have a shit ton of rapid tests that the US government gave me for free.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Haha yeah but the reason we have to pay for them now is that we have 90%+ vaccination rate so Covid really isn’t a big deal here any more. The vaccines are free. The RATs were also free until a year ago.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

As someone working in a public place, I used the ten they gave me already (they only did it once iirc). Where do I stock up on these other shit ton of free tests? I had to pay out of pocket the last four, and that gets fucking expensive.

[–] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A lot of the rapid tests had problems with false negatives, no?

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/understanding-covid-19-testing.html

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19/navigating-false-negatives-covid-rapid-tests

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

I'm one of those who have extremely mild symptom. Just one. A minor sore throat. No mucus build up, no coughing, no fever, etc etc. In my line of work it's not terribly uncommon to finish a random day with heavy circular saw use and have worse symptoms than covid (for me). I consider myself very lucky but it sure was strange when my job site all got it and I was seemingly unaffected.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I've wondered that. Thankfully I've not tested positive at work the first year and neither time the gf was sick. We get plenty of free rest kits still up here so we usually test at the sign of anything. I think that's how I've been able to avoid getting it with the gf as she has been religious about testing right away at the first sign of a tickle.

But still if neither of us are sick or showing symptoms we don't test so it could have come and gone without knowing.