(B Varient) Covid
 

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.

"Not reading current local news about this issue."

Yes, Covid still seems pretty bad, but seems to be not as newsworthy as Ukraine and SCOTUS decisions have preempted the health news. Best wishes and be safe.

Everyone can order home covid tests at no charge.

COVID.gov/tests - Free at-home COVID-19 tests

Thank you

We both had covid last month happily not a very severe case but no idea which variant. Easy to get test kits for at home testing.

So did you find out you were positive from your home test kits?

Yes. Took a few minutes to figure out how to do it but after that a piece of cake.

Well, they are probably not reporting it because most cases are with the vaccinated, as the new variant is not affected by the vaccine and they still want everyone to get the shot. However, they are rolling out a new booster to supposedly work against the Omicron variant. Don’t shoot the messenger, just reporting the facts. Get well.

Facts??????? Just whose "facts" are those???? Who is "they"?????? Sorry, but those statements belong on the editorial page.

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!

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.

Better hop right off and get another booster shot, right? Isn't it odd that the vast majority if those now getting Covud or the Variant have all been vaccinated and boosted? Isn't it odd that before the vaccine and boosters, we never had Sudden Adult Death Syndrome but now we see people every single day under the age of 50 dying aith "no cause of death" listed and recently a 25 year old who supposedly died "from natural causes"? Who ever heard of a 25 yr. old dying from natural causes? Just saying.

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.

Covid home test
 

We received our home tests made by IHealth a week ago. As a retired RN I checked the expiration dates on the box. They all expire 8/6/22 or 8/11/22. My inquiries about this as it’s only 6 weeks away,ended with the FDA who informed me that the shelf life is extended until November. There was no information about this with the arrival of the test kits. She also said there are a total of 6 different kits with an extended shelf life. So, check your test kits.Interesting!

We got the vaccine and booster and when we finally got covid it was a mid case. The people getting it now are typically not dying or being hospitalized so to me the vaccine has done its job.

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.

Common sense tells me not to believe anything the cdc says?

Isn’t it amazing some people still believe what the government and government agencies say?

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'm sick right now. It started with headache, earache, sore throat. Next day I also got weird itchy painful rash under chin. Today congested sinuses/blowing nose. Took at home Covid test and it came out negative. Maybe just a normal cold, but that rash has supposedly been seen with Covid. Whatever it is, I'm staying home until symptom free.

There’s no such thing as a free test. These tests are paid for with our hard earned tax dollars and our staggering National debt.

Please start a thread about the new "variant booster shot" if you find out it's available. That's the one I'm waiting for.

Last year my 78 year old father in law had a mandatory covid test before a dental procedure. It was positive. He had not one single symptom at all. They monitored his home isolation and gave him monoclonal antibioties. SMH. Crazy times.

What study or source is this from? Are you all epidemiologist? Unless an opinion comes from someone who is experienced or educated in a subject, it is not reliable. There are some people who will believe what they read!

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

Could be the new Covid/Monkeypox/Shingles/Ebola variant:smiley:

It’s the flu
 

Thank God there isn’t any longer the incessant fear mongering propaganda about a flu. I think most people are have awakened, no longer duped, no longer buying their lies. It’s just the flu- weaponized, monetized and intentionally treated ineffectively but just the flu. The COVID “test” is just a trap and is NOT sensitive just for the SARS virus- it was intentionally made overly sensitive to even the tiniest amount of SARS virus and lots of things other than COVID can make the test pop positive- the bigger the number the easier to scare us into giving up our liberties. Plus, the test swabs are sterilized with carcinogenic agents- so obsessive testing not only doesn’t tell you anything, it’s dangerous.

For effective and inexpensive preventative and therapeutic treatment protocols- check out Frontline COVID Critical Care Alliance website- flccc.net This is a group of clinicians world wide that are not bought of by Big Pharma. They meet every Wednesday night via zoom, to discuss what is and isn’t working in their communities and then make the appropriate changes to their protocols. This is how medicine used to be- providers doing what’s best for their patient and sharing this information with other providers. NOW, providers abandon their patients, virtue signaling “out of an abundance of caution” refusing to see or treat patients, waiting for Big Pharma to tell them how to treat patients. FDA, CDC, NIH,NIAID get 75%+++++ of their funding from BIG PHARMA. Virtually no research trials are done that aren’t biased, I mean funded exclusively by Big Pharma.

Since when did we become a society of obsessively worrying and testing over every cold and flu and allergy symptom??? I remember the days of parents throwing “chick pox parties” for preschool kids so they got immunity and wouldn’t be sick during school.

The whole “testing” craze is just a trap to condition us into believing we have to jump thru hoops to get our freedoms back.

My 83 yo mom and I (61 yo) live in The Villages and have not once modified our life for the PLANNEDemic. We never wore masks, didn’t socially distance, never locked down. We don’t wash our hands any more than we did before this latest distraction crisis. We have lived and loved life normally and encourage. We take our Vit D3 and some supplements recommended on the FLCCC protocol- all over the counter and inexpensive. We finally got the flu (never tested cuz it’s bull poop, thought it was a cold but when I lost sense of taste and smell, realized it was this flu) about 6 months ago and thankfully I found a REAL DOCTOR from the FLCCC website, in Ocala that prescribed HCQ- and changed from the preventative protocol to early symptom onset home treatment protocol and felt better within 25 hours.

FOLLOW the money - who has benefited and continues to benefit from continuing the hysteria for a flu that has a 99.8% survival rate, for a flu that once you remove the exaggerated and mislabeled deaths to COVID, this flu actually kills less that the usual seasonal flu.
Who benefits from a jab that doesn’t prevent the disease they are pushing it for while causing significant adverse reactions and death with any benefit?

If 60% of the population is vaccinated, and the vaccine does not work at all on the current strain, it would be logical for the majority of positive cases to among the vaccinated.

There is a comment often made by vaccinated people who get covid, " Thank God I am vaccinated or the symptoms would be so much worse!" Is there a study to back this up.
From my personal experience (very small sample) those at my office (602 people in the office complex) who are not vaccinated seem to experience similar symptoms to the vaccinated. I would be interested in reading more about it. Anyone into very dry, boring reading may be interested in reading the released documents from Pfizer.

Couldn't that be due to the current strain being not as strong as earlier variants?

Based on the advice of the company doctor, I ask employees to stay home for five days past showing symptoms then to wear a mask for five days once they return. Not sure the mask does anything other than calm the fears of others.
Hope you feel better soon.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

"...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...