Corona Tests

[Macca]

When did you last go out? When did you last meet or talk to someone you're not living with, or unsure of, at close quarters?

I have had tight chests in previous years - to be avoided at all costs. However, I think it doesn't automatically follow that if you have those symptoms you have CV 19. Now we are told that some people only have mild symptoms, or even no symptoms at all.
Without a reliable test (say at least at the 95% level) it's going to be hard to figure this out. What about a runny nose, or sneezing, which could be due to allergies?
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Went to the corner shop Friday morning. That was my last close contact with anyone - and it wasn't that close. No sneezing or runny nose. Just slight temperature and tight chest. Felt 100% when I went to bed last night. I was still going into work last week, finished on Wednesday (although there were only two of us in on Wednesday). So could easily have got it there and I'm only now showing symptoms.

Agree it may well not be the dreaded lurgy. No way to be sure without a test. I won't be bothering anyone unless it gets a lot worse. Right now just feel a bit off-colour.

[Made in 1968]

I think there is too much time wasting going on tbh..

[dave2010]

Agree it may well not be the dreaded lurgy. No way to be sure without a test. I won't be bothering anyone unless it gets a lot worse. Right now just feel a bit off-colour.

OK - take care. We've been pretty much isolated for weeks now - hardly any contact with anyone close up, though we didn't think we had the thing. Just get food dropped in and Amazon parcels, and swap food with the neighbour - but do the handover with plastic bags left in the drive. The last close contact with anyone we had from anyone outside was I think 3 weeks ago, though I'd have to check.

People who've been to work recently might still have picked it - or something else - up.

[Hudz]

I would quarantine all parcels if I were you, watch this tw*t

Words fail me!!

[struth]

yup ive been quarentining everything i can that comes in for 24/48 hrs. if i have to touch then i handle it like a bomb the wash 3 times...lol

[guy]

According to the Times yesterday, NHS staff testing will start next week. It will begin with critical care staff and gradually work through to social care and other key workers.

I agree it would be nice to know - my eldest daughter is an occupational therapist and has not been to work for the last week, bit of a temperature for a day then feeling completely worn out/sleeping lots for two days - but there is no point stamping your pretty little feet and demanding tests now, "it is what it is".
Anyway there seems to be a 10% chance of getting an incorrect result.

Having spent the last week and a bit "isolating" as a family (been rather good actually ) we are hoping that once our daughter is tested we will all have a better idea of where we stand.

I had a fever for a couple of days, aches like I have never experienced and difficulty breathing but that was over Christmas (had to go back to bed Christmas Day afternoon) but not sure whether that could have been this Corona.

[southall-1998_mk2]

I would quarantine all parcels if I were you, watch this tw*t

Words fail me!!

The nasty cunt!

S.

[Made in 1968]

That is utterly beyond words.

[walpurgis]

Assuming it's genuine. A lot of YouTube stuff is faked.

[Spectral Morn]

Went to the corner shop Friday morning. That was my last close contact with anyone - and it wasn't that close. No sneezing or runny nose. Just slight temperature and tight chest. Felt 100% when I went to bed last night. I was still going into work last week, finished on Wednesday (although there were only two of us in on Wednesday). So could easily have got it there and I'm only now showing symptoms.

Agree it may well not be the dreaded lurgy. No way to be sure without a test. I won't be bothering anyone unless it gets a lot worse. Right now just feel a bit off-colour.

I hope you feel better soon Martin.