Conavirus......

[frugal-one]

Here in Texas on tv they are telling people if they test positive at home…. they don’t have to report it. So, what are the numbers really?

[Rogar]

Here in Texas on tv they are telling people if they test positive at home…. they don’t have to report it. So, what are the numbers really?

I'm able to find recent Covid hospitalizations and deaths by county. Those seem like as relevant as anything, anyway.

[bae]

My daughter's partner, in the UK, just came down with covid. Vaxxed-and-booster, super healthy/fit, ~25 years old. Symptoms were a several-day bad cold and fatigue, then a bit of fatigue lingering for at least a week now after the peak symptoms calmed down. Self-quarantining to avoid killing elderly relatives they were going to be visiting this week.

[Yppej]

First over half the covid hospitalizations in my state were revealed to be incidental, now today the state admitted that over 4,000 people they said died of covid died of something else.

And the FDA was forced to release damning information showing over 1000 people died from the Pfizer vaccines in a 3 month period. Austria has pulled it off the market.

I wonder how long it will take for someone here to come out of the darkness and join me in the light as the covid paranoia house of cards crumbles.

[bae]

Facts:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...054-8/fulltext

Or Yppej:

Soviet agit-prop. (and badly mixed up at that, must be some corruption to the signal)

[ToomuchStuff]

Here in Texas on tv they are telling people if they test positive at home…. they don’t have to report it. So, what are the numbers really?

I am ignorant on these kits.
How accurate at the test at home kits?
Are they the same thing that the government was giving out free, or is this an over the counter one that was developed?

Also what threats/punishment would they have to make people report it and how would they do the follow through? (medical staff, they can suspend licensing)

[jp1]

I am ignorant on these kits.
How accurate at the test at home kits?
Are they the same thing that the government was giving out free, or is this an over the counter one that was developed?

Also what threats/punishment would they have to make people report it and how would they do the follow through? (medical staff, they can suspend licensing)

I would assume that there's nothing that health authorities can do if people don't report their at home positive test. I assume that the omicron wave was waaaaaay bigger than the reported numbers because so many people are doing home tests rather than going to the doc or a testing site. In the small kansas town where my cousin lives the health department a few weeks ago had to run a notice in the newspaper begging people to pick up the phone when they called. That they weren't trying to do anything nefarious, they were just calling to check and see how people were doing. The health department had also completely stopped doing any testing or reporting because the staff are all moonlighters from their day jobs at the hospital who were plenty busy with their day jobs at the time. (they were sending people as far away as denver (200 miles away) because their hospital and every other hospital in the area were overflowing with people seriously ill with covid.)

My anecdotal thoughts on the home covid tests (yes, the government home tests are the same ones you can buy at the drug store) are that they tend to have more false negatives than false positives. I know several people who had them show negative more than once but then tested positive when they went to a medical facility. I don't know anyone that thinks they had a false positive.

[Yppej]

I am ignorant on these kits.
How accurate at the test at home kits?
Are they the same thing that the government was giving out free, or is this an over the counter one that was developed?

Also what threats/punishment would they have to make people report it and how would they do the follow through? (medical staff, they can suspend licensing)

Maybe you should threaten and punish Biden. His test to treat program is going to create a one stop shop at pharmacies. This empowerment of people to deal with covid outside traditional channels is obviously very frightening for you. Oh no, we're losing control!

[saguaro]

My anecdotal thoughts on the home covid tests (yes, the government home tests are the same ones you can buy at the drug store) are that they tend to have more false negatives than false positives. I know several people who had them show negative more than once but then tested positive when they went to a medical facility. I don't know anyone that thinks they had a false positive.

Just before Christmas, I was notified of a close Covid exposure at work and to get tested. The drug store home test I used was negative but was still advised to to get a PCR test to be sure because of concern over false negatives in particular. PCR also negative but the turnaround was longer due to the surge in testing at the time.

[Yppej]

In England there are now more flu deaths than covid deaths because of 1) vaccinations and 2) omicron being less deadly.

The US should follow shortly if it isn't already there. Therefore we shouldn't have any covid mandates unless there is a corresponding flu mandate. (I believe in certain medical professions flu shots are mandated.) But covid is being exaggerated because that benefits certain people and entities.