[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by merrymini

Seems that most information about the shots and covid are malarky. I was supposedly exposed to covid and took the home test and it came up positive. Went to Urgent Care because of a sinus problem, they did a prc and I was negative. The home tests are unreliable and the continued hype about covid is BS.

I tend to agree. But, as with all "newsworthy" items, if it bleeds, it leads. I doubt many people are going to read/hear/watch GOOD news about COVID.

Fear is a powerful motivator, and irrational fear is dangerous. My daughter, a nurse in the Twin Cities, cited several incidents where parents of kids were bringing the kids to Urgent Care or the ERs, asymptomatic, for repeated COVID tests, some apparently on an almost daily basis, plugging up the health care system with people who didn't need to be there while those who really needed care often had to wait. I'm pretty sure we have people (a lot of people) in TV who are testing themselves at home routinely and running to their doctor, urgent care, etc. just to find out that their home test was a false positive.

Wouldn't it be better to wait until you actually have SYMPTOMS before you test yourself?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by rrtjp

I am a recently retired respiratory therapist. While working in a hospital here in Florida I saw many false positive and false negative tests with patients. These test were performed by trained healthcare professionals in a hospital setting. So I would not put too much faith in these free home test kits. If I thought I was exposed to someone that had COVID or thought I had COVID I’d make an appointment with primary care physician to get tested.

Do believe the majority of primary care physicians want no part of seeing a positive patient right now. If serious will send you off to a hospital.

[kendi]

Originally Posted by Fast Freddy

As the Mayo Clinic Covid map for Florida indicates The Villages area is in or very near the hot spot of Orlando.
I became ill with tons of post nasal drip recently, difficult nights, saw an M. D., penicillin RX for Sinunitis. I wasn't acutely aware of the new B Varient that hit England.
First Warning: My future golf scramble was just cancelled due to so many Villagers cancelling out due to Covid symptoms.
Not reading current local news about this issue.
I decided to home test, Bingo, both my husband and myself tested Positive for Covid.
Now I'm finding the so called "Free" Covid testing program is not free at the drug stores, they want your insurance card, if not the cost is $129. Everyone has indicated just pop over and get tested, not so when you actually research it.
Hope this message helps someone.

Sounds like nothing more than a cold. If you really are positive for CoVID then it’s no big deal if all you have us a runny nose. Sinus infection is secondary to your runny nose. All the hype and fear about CoVID is ridiculous. Lots of things can kill us, CoVID is just one of many, and not a big player in the grand scheme of life.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

I tend to agree. But, as with all "newsworthy" items, if it bleeds, it leads. I doubt many people are going to read/hear/watch GOOD news about COVID.

Fear is a powerful motivator, and irrational fear is dangerous. My daughter, a nurse in the Twin Cities, cited several incidents where parents of kids were bringing the kids to Urgent Care or the ERs, asymptomatic, for repeated COVID tests, some apparently on an almost daily basis, plugging up the health care system with people who didn't need to be there while those who really needed care often had to wait. I'm pretty sure we have people (a lot of people) in TV who are testing themselves at home routinely and running to their doctor, urgent care, etc. just to find out that their home test was a false positive.

Wouldn't it be better to wait until you actually have SYMPTOMS before you test yourself?

Unless you are about to leave on a trip do not see why anyone would test yourself unless you have symptoms.

[Wyseguy]

Originally Posted by rrtjp

I am a recently retired respiratory therapist. While working in a hospital here in Florida I saw many false positive and false negative tests with patients. These test were performed by trained healthcare professionals in a hospital setting. So I would not put too much faith in these free home test kits. If I thought I was exposed to someone that had COVID or thought I had COVID I’d make an appointment with primary care physician to get tested.

I took someone who had tested positive on three home tests to the doctor. Fever of 102, throat felt like they were swallowing glass. Their attitude was MUCH different than last year. They did a flu test, Negative, and several strep tests (different variants). These both came back negative. Her (the doctors) advice was to go home, drink fluids, and it will most likely go away in three to five days. No need to spend $135.00 on an in office covid test which will take 3 days for the result to come back. She said we will treat it as covid. She then mentioned there was medicine routine, but she would not recommend it in this case. According to her, they have been using the vertical horizontal test; only give the meds if the patient is horizontal. She described this as close to being hospitalized. If the patient is vertical they advise against it. In this case the person did feel better in two days. Sore throat was gone on day four.
Everything the doctor said came true. I was shocked by how much things have changed. My doctor had me on a list of receiving the IV treatment if "exposed" to covid. I go Thursdays to Florida cancer specialists so asked if I should have my doctor call and add the Covid treatment. My doctor said that that procedure has changed now as well; I will only get the treatment if tested positive myself.

[Wyseguy]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Unless you are about to leave on a trip do not see why anyone would test yourself unless you have symptoms.

Some companies have Covid Rules that require employees working in proximity to someone who tested positive to take a test (at the office) every day for one week after exposure. There has been so much fear last year followed by contradicting statements this year that companies are fearful of doing something wrong. My company attorney has now advised me NOT to have a covid policy. If someone gets covid, and it is shown that we missed one step or should have caught the positive employee earlier we may be held liable.

[MartinSE]

Originally Posted by kendi

Sounds like nothing more than a cold. If you really are positive for CoVID then it’s no big deal if all you have us a runny nose. Sinus infection is secondary to your runny nose. All the hype and fear about CoVID is ridiculous. Lots of things can kill us, CoVID is just one of many, and not a big player in the grand scheme of life.

This has all been said for the past 2 years or more. And still over a million Americans died, and our economy was one of the biggest victims.

In the last wave, over 90% of the cases clogging hospitals were unvaccinated.

We are just now learning about long-haul effects that are much more prevalent than previously thought, even for people with few or no symptoms.

So, you have the right, unfortunately, to put everyone else at risk if you don't want to get vaccinated. But it is NOT hooey, it is not malarky, and the other 7 billion people in the world disagree with this position.

[defrey12]

Originally Posted by Fast Freddy

As the Mayo Clinic Covid map for Florida indicates The Villages area is in or very near the hot spot of Orlando.
I became ill with tons of post nasal drip recently, difficult nights, saw an M. D., penicillin RX for Sinunitis. I wasn't acutely aware of the new B Varient that hit England.
First Warning: My future golf scramble was just cancelled due to so many Villagers cancelling out due to Covid symptoms.
Not reading current local news about this issue.
I decided to home test, Bingo, both my husband and myself tested Positive for Covid.
Now I'm finding the so called "Free" Covid testing program is not free at the drug stores, they want your insurance card, if not the cost is $129. Everyone has indicated just pop over and get tested, not so when you actually research it.
Hope this message helps someone.

If y’all believe what the fools on the news and CDC tell ya…I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale. This variant, that variant…it’s a cold at this point. If the masses actually knew how viruses work, they’d know that.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by defrey12

If y’all believe what the fools on the news and CDC tell ya…I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale. This variant, that variant…it’s a cold at this point. If the masses actually knew how viruses work, they’d know that.

Tell this to the million Americans who died from the virus

[Bobro44]

Originally Posted by me4vt

See, they have most of You living in fear! I mean seriously, you moved to Florida which is considered the Stairway to Heaven! They control you now with the home false positive sticks!

"...moved to Florida which is considered the Stairway to Heaven!" -- No! Wait! WTF? I'm already here, lock, stock and rain barrel, and NOW this stairway to heaven stuff? Whatever happened to Florida's Friendliest Home Town?" I thought that came with a 10-year warranty...

[clossonjunk]

Originally Posted by Marine1974

I personally have had 4 home
Covid test kits all negative .
4 PCR tests all negative.
Am I the only one ?

I have taken 4 home tests. Three times it was negative, which I expected because I have ridiculous allergies, but I was just being cautious. Once it was positive, which again I could tell before I took it that it would be positive because my symptoms were so different from my normal allergies. It was Omicron...cold & flu mix that came on fast but left fast. Thus, for me, 4 tests were spot on.

[MartinSE]

We have a couple free tests in our cabinet, and we only use them if we are going to visit someone, like kids or others. We are not very social people to begin with, so we don't need to often.

If we develop symptoms that might be COVID, we can go to the VA and be tested anytime we need/want to.

[Alto2548]

Originally Posted by Altavia

People afraid to get vaccinated should be thankful to those that took the risk and are largely responsible for bringing deaths from the pandemic relatively under control.

LOL... I wasn't "afraid" to get the jab. I did my own research and listened to multiple reknowned doctors (i.e., Robert Malone, Peter McCoullough, Ryan Cole, etc.) before & after social media outlets SILENCED them bc they were going against the propaganda of Saint Fauci and the MSM. What I heard about potential side effects from the shot (technically, it's NOT a vaccine) convinced me to wait & see what happens.

Now that most of the population (including children unfortunately) has been injected, reports of excess deaths and disabilities have PROVEN to me that I made the right decision.

For any of you left with an open mind on the subject, please check out the analysis done by Steve Kirsch on Substack and Dr. Naomi Wolfe on DailyClout.io. Dr. Wolf has a team of medical professionals and ananlysts scouring through the thousands of pages Pfizer was forced by a court to release regarding their emergency-use "vaccine (not)." What they have found so far will give you nightmares. Dr. Wolf also has a team of lawyers who are compiling all of the evidence with the goal of taking Pfizer, the FDA and the CDC to court.

And if you think you were safer taking the Moderna or J&J shots, think again. ALL of the mRNA shots are dangerous to your & your family members' health.

Bottomline: I'm tired of being lectured by people who rushed out and got jabbed without considering all of the facts so I'm NOT going to "thank you" for taking part in the largest human guinea pig medical experiment ever attempted. Why do you think so many career medical professionals and scientists have been censored? They are not crack pots, they are highly credenitialed and have been trying to warn everyone for over a year now. Unfortunately, their voices and those of us who refused the jab have been ignored and we're just beginning to see the devastating results.

[Ginmato]

Originally Posted by me4vt

See, they have most of You living in fear! I mean seriously, you moved to Florida which is considered the Stairway to Heaven! They control you now with the home false positive sticks!

I've tested several times with home test and it hasn't come up positive yet. So I guess "false positives" don't really happen.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Pessemist

The lower variants are making the rounds. Fortunately they are not as lethal as the first wave. The Village hospital is seeing a resurgence of the milder variants. One trick that may help is Zinc lozenges at the first sign of sore throat. That seems effective in early stages to knock down the virus load in the throat Works for flu as well but must be used first sign of irritated throat. Antibiotics are not effective against viruses and may lower overall resistance as it wrecks havoc in the gut flora.

You are correct---antibiotics are ineffective against viruses. What's amazing is the belief that "zinc lozenges" do anything at all---that myth was dispelled over 20 years ago.