Scooter
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Still in full effect here in NJ, every store, every restaurant until you sit down at 25% capacity.
That is gnarly. It's still the nose swap, right?
Yeah nose swab. Some request the anal swab tho.
Our county has fines up to $500. First offence $100, Second, $200, anything after that is $500 and it can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor if our DA so chooses.
Yeah nose swab. Some request the anal swab tho.
my question lately has been, if it's so deadly contagious, why is the testing so invasive? why couldn't you wear a mask around for a day and give that to them for testing? i mean hell, every test for a virus I've ever heard of only did a cheek swab
Because they figured out that the virus initially colonizes the part of your sinus where they swab. It's not the most comfortable spot to check but it's a good spot to find it if you have it.
That said they have been rolling out a saliva test recently that seems pretty effective. Just spit in a cup and off it goes to the lab.
Uh yeah, but it's so contagious, and the mask captures the virus for our safety, why not just pull a swab from that and culture it instead of shoving an 8" long q tip up a child's nose? It could've been done this way from the start since it's so contagious. Telling me the best way to get a sample is from way up in your nasal cavity is nonsense unless it isn't very contagious or communicable. See what I'm getting at?
if you'd like to take that road cool. It's so contagious, so we shove the swab all the way up a person's nose so we know the virus was from them and not someone in the waiting room.
...this is bullshit of course, but I wanted to satisfy your logic.
what I'm getting at is that it didn't have to be so invasive. it could be a swab from your cheek, but it's not, it's incredibly uncomfortable and imo keeping people from getting tested. so, why, if it's coming out my mouth and causing others so much harm, can't a cheek swab satisfy the amount of virus needed for the culture? it's incredibly contagious, but isn't airborne. It's so contagious that if i breathe on someone they get it:rolleyes:Yet you can't get a cheek swab tested accurately because there might not be enough virus to register on the test? Sounds fishy to me
it could be a swab from your cheek, but it's not
If covid was infecting cheek cells right away you would be right, but so far it appears this isn't the case.
Still doing the Corona thing in ca full force.
it's in the water droplets coming out of my mouth so they say. that is the reason for a mask:rolleyes:Therefor, if there's a very highly contagious virus in water droplets from my mouth, so much so that it is able to make others within close proximity to me to also be infected, then they should easily be able to detect the virus from a cheek swab. that is my point. no conspiracy theory. This is an actual real question.
If you have no symptoms, why are you getting tested? unless of course if you work in an environment where spreading it to others might be a huge health risk. obviously i get that. So if you have symptoms, and get tested, there's no need to go up inside your cranium to get a sample. There will be plenty of virus in the water droplets in my mouth to get a culture to grow. Especially considering how incredibly contagious it is...
From what I have read, once your infected, it doesn't start producing the max amount of germs right away. It has to ramp up like anything else. The first place covid builds up is in your lungs, throat, and nasal cavity. So swabbing the nasal cavity is supposedly the best way to make sure you catch infections in even the early stages.
I guess I'm more thinking of people that actually have symptoms needing testing. Sure the rna/dna testing can detect it earlier, but is known to be wrong 1/5 of the time. It also gives you results faster, which is good, unless it is wrong. A cheek swab would rule out false positives a little better, but you sacrifice time. I would think instead of visually diagnosing anybody, and letting it stick, they could visually diagnose with a sample taken for culture growth to confirm infection. This would also work for people dying from it, after their death the mucus would still be testable, and culture growth could be used to be sure putting covid 19 on the death cert is justifiable.
Anyway, just asking the questions that i know none of you can really answer about motives behind allowing certain methods to diagnose, but not doing actual testing to be 100% certain they were diagnosed correctly.
This would also help with getting a better idea on how contagious it really is, or could be. A cheek swab should tell them how easily the small amount they collect can attach and grow on new cells.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
my question lately has been, if it's so deadly contagious, why is the testing so invasive? why couldn't you wear a mask around for a day and give that to them for testing? i mean hell, every test for a virus I've ever heard of only did a cheek swab
My parents were tested on Monday and dad’s test came back positive. Mom’s still isn’t back but she is worse than my dad and had to go to the ER today. They both were around the kids and me on Saturday.
Sorry to hear. Take vitamins d and zinc. Kids seem bulletproof to it. Hope your folks kick it. Grandma got sick back in November and it lingered for two months. She's 76 an not healthy. How old are your folks? They fit?
I love how they believe they can control a virus.... so naive the big brains of our society can be.