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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

But it's even worse than that. By even considering the vaccinated "mask up" (idiotic term IMHO), they are essentially stating that they do not believe in the effectiveness of the vaccine. If they did, they would state that the vaccinated never need to wear a mask, never need to socially distance, and never need a COVID test. After all, the vaccine should prevent you from getting and transmitting the disease. Yes, yes, there is the CDC stated 0.007% (1 in 13,000) breakthrough rate, but that is miniscule.
And the every other day testing of the MLB teams and the Olympic athletes is ridiculous. Do we test our children for polio, diphtheria, measles, or rubella EVERY OTHER DAY after they get vaccinated? And if we did, what might we find? Do we test adults, even those that work in nursing homes, EVERY OTHER DAY for seasonal influenza after they've been vaccinated? NO, we just give the vaccine and pretty much forget about it
So therefore, I have absolutely no idea what "the powers that be" are thinking

And one more thing----John Rahm. Here is a pro golfer who tested positive about 3-4 months ago, was quarantined, then tested negative and returned to the tour. About 6 weeks ago he was exposed to a "case" of COVID (whether this means a sick person or just another "positive" test, who knows). He got the first dose of the vaccine, was tested every day at the following tournament, and then tested positive again, had to withdraw with a 6 shot lead (about a 2 million dollar loss). He subsequently got the second dose, and after quarantine tested negative. Now, he was tested prior to the Olympics, positive, and can't compete. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON? Nothing in my knowledge of virology and epidemiology would suggest that this is even possible----a person who has had BOTH the disease AND fully vaccinated can get the disease again. This suggest there is either something very wrong with the test or with the vaccine. Since almost all the "new" cases are among the unvaccinated, I suspect the test is overly sensitive with a huge false positive rate.

I have no knowledge of immunology or anything else to do with vaccines but, I have always thought these Covid tests are, as you said, overly sensitive and give way too many false positive results.

I've also been reading quite a bit about the fact that testing positive after being fully vaccinated does NOT mean the individual is infected with the virus. All it means is there is some virus that was picked up by the test but the body has not launched its immune response which will be forthcoming to knock out the virus.

GE......is that correct information?