COVID, ~ 

I am beginning to wonder if the rapid tests are weighed towards false negatives over false positives, given that the latter hurts the """economy"""

But, that's five down, all negative. Whatever I got, it's most likely not that (thank God.)

Still feel run down, sadly, but I feel a bit better? One moment of fatigue that lasted half an hour aside.

re: COVID, ~ 

@SkunkyLass they are (but not for economy reasons)

re: COVID, ~ 

@noiob I feel they should be weighed towards encouraging people to stay home, to err on the side of caution. But what's the reasoning?

re: COVID, ~ 

@SkunkyLass it's just how the technology works, if you get enough of the virus on the antigens they trigger, if you don't they don't

re: COVID, ~ 

@noiob gotcha. I guess, since I got a stack of ten, I can play the odds and not depend on just the one.

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re: COVID, ~ 

@SkunkyLass it helps to get a throat swab as well

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re: COVID, ~ 

@noiob @SkunkyLass throat swab helps. theres also a hypothesis that its evolving to carry more rna copies in a single virion, which reduces the infectious dose (fewer virions than delta are required to create an infection)

more rna copies packed into each virion, fewer virions needed to start an infection, resulting in a viral load too low for rats to detect.

super granular, sorry :heh:

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