Could it be possible??

[Queenie6655]

Covid in jan

First jab in feb
Now this weekend feel so rough
Lack of taste, headache , very sore throat

Thought at least I would have immunity for three or four months

Hmm 😢😢

@JenerationH It's common sense to get tested if you have symptoms so that you know for sure and can inform your close contacts, why is that so hard for you to understand?

@JenerationH

Good response! Some people really do just like to act as if covid doesn't matter.

What part of what I said is acting like covid doesn't matter?!

You need a test to confirm yes or not positive and if you are you can alert track and trace

Also you need to let work know

Why do you need a test?*

Err, where have you been for the last yr 🤣

Is it not possible to just stay away from everyone until you feel better?

And how does that impact testing?

@JenerationH It's the responsible thing to do and for some people without a positive test result they may be at risk of not getting paid. Test and trace only works through getting actual test results and I think we're far more likely to face areas being lockdown if people don't get tested.

I'll ask again - what does getting a test do that you can't just do anyway?

Why do you think we even have testing in the first place then?

So your argument is that should any cold/flu symptom appear one should self isolate & contact anybody they were near regardless if they have covid or not.

And testing is a complete waste of time 🤔

So track & trace & asymptotic testing is pointless?

And as I said one should self isolate (even though the may lose money, miss trips, school, etc ) regardless of whether they have covid or not?

@JenerationH - I’ve had civic symptoms approx 300 times this winter, I have two young kids in nursery with constant coughs & fevers. If we didn’t test we’d have been house bound 24/7 & nursery permanently closed.

We test to allow us to know if we do or dont have covid. 99% of the time we don’t, so life can go on. We’ve all had it once.

*covid even

I hope your okay OP x

The SIREN study showed that a previous covid infection gave you about an 85% reduced risk of future symptomatic covid within 7 months (and counting...)

It's easy to think that the vaccine on top would improve on this, but that's not necessarily the case.

So not that unusual to be reinfected so quickly.

It's true that long covid can manifest after infection, but the loss of taste and the time since infection, for me, suggest against that.

It could just be a cold though - 'tis the season and all!

Sensible to get tested, I hope you get a -ve result.

@JenerationH

Now we know that the chances of asymptomatic spread are so low (0.7% chance of passing it on to someone you live with, even lower for casual contacts) it's really only people with symptoms that we have to worry about.

Where ON EARTH did you read this nonsense?

🤯

I’ll be amazed if you test positive. Must be another variant if so. Where shoots in the country are you?

@JenerationH

So your support for the claim beginning "Now we know..." is a small scale study carried out right at the start of the pandemic, when contagion was often so limited that the WHO had difficulty determining if H2H transmission was actually possible....

More importantly, this is one of the few studies to properly differentiate between TRUE asymptomatic cases (ie never develop any symptoms) and individuals asymptomatic at a particular point in time, e.g. when tested, sometimes referred to as pre-symptomatic

The current consensus is that the pandemic is DRIVEN by symptomless infection - i.e. BOTH asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals.

A more recent paper for example:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33647516/
These data reveal that the high asymptomatic incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Bahrain and subsequent positive contacts from an index case were more likely to be asymptomatic, showing the high "silent" risk of transmission

Another one here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774707

@JenerationH

The PCR test cannot distinguish between a 'live' infection and a recent one: and lateral flow tests do not distinguish live virus.

More garbage.

So, testing positive after an infection could quite possibly just be detecting the old infection still.

Theoretically possible within a few days of an infection. Totally impossible months later. This total nonsense incidentally was the argument used by those who declared the second wave didn't exist - it was all down to false positives. Most of those involved in this idiocy have had the sense and decency to stay out of the news ever since.