Neither my wife nor I have been tested. Pretty sure my wife had the original version in the late spring of 2020. All of the symptoms, including loss of taste for about a month. Both of us had cold-like symptoms in early December 2021. We seem to have survived okay without running out for a test. Maybe we had it, maybe not. I guess we really don't care.
Also keep seeing pictures and video of lines of people waiting to get tested. Don't know how many, if any, of those people actually are ill. I keep reading about people who get a sniffle and they run out to get a covid test.
So, how many of you guys have never bothered to get tested for the covid?
28 times for me. I'm in critical infrastructure and it's required for most job sites. Also been fully vaxxed. No issues. Probably had Covid 4 weeks ago (did not get tested to confirm), but mild (although 102.6 fever) and over it in 2 days.
Just to get in and out of Canada for a moose hunt. Otherwise operate under the assumption if I’m healthy enough to wait inline for the test I’m healthy enough to take my ass to work!
I imagine a lot of those folks aren't sick, they just need a negative test to go back to work or whatever..
I've had just one test (negative), a requirement for surgery couple months ago.
Wife tests weekly in the caregiving business.
I can understand getting tested for job related reasons. I'm 61, and retired from the Michigan judiciary a little over 5 years ago. If I hadn't already retired, I might have been ok with testing. I would have retired before getting the shots. I feel bad for the younger crowd with families and mortgages who work for companies that require the shots. Rock and hard place.
Might have had it in December, cold symptoms, lethargic, sinus pressure. Popped pseudoephedrine like candy and kept on keeping on.
Our area is pretty much done with Covid, in fact we were pretty much done before it ever started. Yet I see these drive through testing places popping up in a few towns. To prove what? Go home and eat chicken noodle soup unless you get really bad and need to go to the hospital?
So far my wife and I have not been tested and have escaped the “death sentence”.....though, all of our kids and their kids have had covid. I guess that being anti-social a$$’s has it’s benefits! 🤔 memtb
Nope, never needed to. When I had covid it was pretesting for it in Feb 2020. Almost needed it before a hernia surgery and once more before a trip but both requirements were dropped before I had to do it. Not that I wouldn't, just never had to yet
Neither my wife nor I have been tested. Pretty sure my wife had the original version in the late spring of 2020. All of the symptoms, including loss of taste for about a month. Both of us had cold-like symptoms in early December 2021. We seem to have survived okay without running out for a test. Maybe we had it, maybe not. I guess we really don't care.
Also keep seeing pictures and video of lines of people waiting to get tested. Don't know how many, if any, of those people actually are ill. I keep reading about people who get a sniffle and they run out to get a covid test.
So, how many of you guys have never bothered to get tested for the covid?
I reckon I have had it 3 times... maybe a fourth a few weeks ago for an couple of hours.
Don't know much about it, but I gather (from all the folks I know that have had it)... natural antibodies really work to make the "next" variant hardy anymore than a mosquito bite.
Of course other may have differing opinions...
This is America... at least for a short bit longer.
Why bother to get tested? They aren't going to administer anything to help even if you have it. It's just adding to their numbers to pump the media BS and line pockets with money. Fugg 'em and their free tests.
I've had it, but hadn't been tested till I checked into the hospital a few months later for Carpel Tunnel Surgery. They insisted that they couldn't check me in without it for the safety of their staff. An hour after going through several stages of prep with 4 different staff including the Surgeon, they finally shallow swabbed my nose. Just before heading into surgery they came back and said it was negative. Since nearly everyone I was to come into contact with had already spent time with me before the test, you can't convince me it was for anything other than payment from .gov
My buddy is an ER doctor. He told me that there is so much of Omnicron out there right now that if you have the symptoms, you should assume that you have it. Don’t even bother doing a test.
And the vast, vast majority of people get over it without any big issues.
Far as I know, they merely treat symptoms if you do have it. I don't really see the point in getting tested unless somewhere requires it for entry or some such.
Not tested....and wont' be. The only test I would consider is for antibodies. Mostly out of curiosity and, if positive, at what level I am at.
I'm pretty sure I've had covid twice, about a year apart. The fatigue the second time, hit me pretty hard for about a week, on opening week of elk season, last year. It was a struggle just to lace my boots....and my energy level was very low. I am SURE that's why I didn't kill my elk until the second week!
So why wear “never been tested” like a badge of honor?
Why play the Liberal Socialist Democrats bullschit game and make it easier for em to bounce your status as vaxxed or unvaxxed off other data they already got on ya???
After witnessing the boy get a positive and then a negative in the same day, from the same test site, I figured it was further proof of the BIG PHARMA LIE.
Not me . I figure if I get it it wont be long before I know it without being tested , Not vaccinated either. No plans to do either. Never had but one flue shot and that was the year I ended up getting the crap that was going around . Didn't get one the next year and went 17 years straight without missing a sick day from work .
Also keep seeing pictures and video of lines of people waiting to get tested. Don't know how many, if any, of those people actually are ill. I keep reading about people who get a sniffle and they run out to get a covid test.
There's no data on the home tests but right now the lab tests done by our in-state health care providers are running right at 25% positive, the highest we've seen for COVID so far.
For whatever that's worth ...
And yeah, I did get tested and came back positive. I was pretty sure I would. Symptoms were fading by the time I could get tested, curiosity was an itch that needed scratching so I scratched.
No reason to. Haven’t been sick in years; only go out in public when necessary, which isn’t very often. If I start to feel sick, I’ll chug some Ivermectin.
Why bother to get tested? They aren't going to administer anything to help even if you have it. It's just adding to their numbers to pump the media BS and line pockets with money. Fugg 'em and their free tests.
Yup, this.
I wouldn't believe the results anyway.
But doesn't matter, no tests to be had around here.
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