when I had COVID I had very similar symptoms in the first couple of days, but the test lit up like the fourth of july. I'm four days in and still feel cruddy, but it hasn't gotten worse like it did back then, and the test is negative, so that's a pretty good sign. not 100% because these tests never are, but everyone else who got this con-flu after Revision is testing negative too, so I'm gonna call that a strong probability that it's not COVID.
@gsuberland i think the same plague spread around at the easterhegg (exact same time) as well. C19 negative, but all of us in this household feel like shit.
@asmcbain I'm chugging the vitamins, cold & flu meds, lucozade, tea, and plenty of water. also chicken, potato, and egg salad, because it takes about 3 minutes to make and is full of good stuff.
@gsuberland Gute Besserung!
While covid is down to a level I feel comfortable to ditch the mask in low risk environments such as scarcely populated offices, I invested some surprisingly small monies in a home PCR-alike test that can yield usable results with a medium-three-digit number of virus copies as opposed to 7-8 digit numbers necessary to trigger a lateral flow test. (classic PCR is an order of magnitude better but compared to lateral flow test that’s the same ballpark)
@gsuberland More about this here: https://virus.sucks/
It seems that this is one of the better advancements in in-vitro-science to come out of the pandemic. By now they have tests for a plethora of STDs and standard respiratory illnesses such as Influenza A/B, RSV or streptococcus. Quite useful to keep around for sound and solid self diagnosis.
@gsuberland Addendum:
“down to a level I feel comfortable” means “1% in the RKI sentinel respiratory survey” and “wastewater levels at the historic low of last summer”
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