While it is too early to tell for sure (hence prediction) reports like these leave open the possibility that something is going on. Sure no guarantee but this is the novel route anyway: what is more prevalent is that reinfection happens either once the antibodies to the current strain of the virus have dissipated - I'm not aware that we have any real knowledge of the time period for covid19 - or when the virus mutates, which they do virulently (pun intended) in general - darwinian rules willing - but once again I am not aware the we have any real knowledge yet of how prone this particular strain is to mutation just that it is a feature common to viruses.
You haven't taken like, a lot of biology classes, have you?
https://twitter.com/mslopatto/status/1236321363498921985?s=19
Those little shits are apparently smart enough already. Excellent work, children.
At what point does this stop being bungling and clearly become malice, where they're clearly throwing all the little people under the bus in an attempt to kill any news about this until after the elections?
Nope. That's the normal state of the US. She's a worker, and therefore deserves to die, because protecting people from dying costs money.
I guess my question was really this: unless you are preemptively putting people in the ICU when they get COVID-19 versus say influenza, why does it matter if you get tested for it or not*? If you think you have it, can't you self-quarantine? That is - what did the nurse in that story want to have that she didn't have, that she could have only received with a positive COVID-19 result?
Or is this a manufactured situation where if you will potentially get employment-punished by doing such unless you get the "doctor's note" that you have a positive COVID-19 diagnosis?
*EDIT: excepting perhaps the statistics-gathering and letting other people know aspect.
People are dicks and they'll keep working with the symptoms, because it may not be Covid-19. You have to test. Here, we had a doctor who came back from the USA, had runny nose etc, and then still saw 70 patients. Turns out he had it, but didn't think it was bad enough to stop seeing patients. Now they have to contact all patients of this guy and those patients will have to contact everyone they've been in contact with. So we'll probably have an outbreak here in two weeks, because that guy didn't think being in the USA and getting sick was a reason to self-quarantine or get tested, and he just happened to be a medical professional who sick people trusted and came to.
The thing is, those lockdowns and testing are needed, because you also have unwitting carriers who think "surely it can't happen to me? It's just 'the sniffles' "
You also have the issue of being fired or being held responsible for missing work, even if you have a good reason not to be there. Many employers like to punish employees for being sick, because the employer makes less money when employees are sick. This brilliant plan does cause a lot of other people to get sick, but unfettered capitalism isn't smart.
Like. It can't be overstated at this point. The U.S. is massively fucking up response to covid-19.
Agreed, but also to the possibility of people being sick to begin with.
Edit: Haha, my shitty workplace is advising people to use an alcohol-based sanitizer to kill the virus, because they don't know/don't care about the difference between viruses and bacteria.
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