Coronavirus: COVID-19

The Batlord · 10-21-2020, 05:43 PM

Jokes still on you cause I'll be taking your place when you croak.

**Exo** · 10-21-2020, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Jokes still on you cause I'll be taking your place when you croak.

I have a "no bats" clause in my will.

The Batlord · 10-21-2020, 06:53 PM

Good thing I'm a fat guy and not a bat.

**Exo** · 10-22-2020, 10:31 AM

Small symptoms started. Light cough. Feel weird. Test results won't be for a few days. Her family is trying to find every excuse in the book that we don't have it. False positives, it's the flu, we did nothing wrong...

Like, dudes, leave me alone now. I would like to suffer in peace.

OccultHawk · 10-22-2020, 11:50 AM

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Her family is trying to find every excuse in the book that we don't have it. False positives, it's the flu, we did nothing wrong...

The power of denialism is staggering.

From the beginning up to the present. The narrative of right and wrong and supposedly doing things safely. We can open the schools. We can go out to eat. We can get haircuts. We can play baseball. It’s ok if I’m wearing a mask.

The stupid ****ing stories we tell ourselves mean nothing. Without a host it’s basically a withering protein. And like so many things that we pretend are nuanced it simply is not. It infects a living cell and it replicates. If it doesn’t it dies. There’s no in between. From the beginning people from every political camp treated this like it’s a negotiation. There’s no gray area. Seeing a gray area and having a tempered response and all that hoopla doesn’t make you wise. It doesn’t even require any wisdom. We know it needs a host. Right from the goddamn start all we had to do was to stop hosting this thing. It’s not easy but it’s simple as ****. It’s simple and it’s indisputable but still I feel like I’m the only one that really gets it.

I ask myself is it me or everyone else. It’s everyone else.

The Batlord · 10-22-2020, 03:53 PM

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Like, dudes, leave me alone now. I would like to suffer in peace.

Denied.

**Exo** · 10-22-2020, 08:02 PM

I tested negative today.

That's...good?

I'm not leaving Dana so either..

A - I'm immune. Had it already.

B - false negative

C - have it and it's still incubating.

D - i miraculously don't have it yet but she does somehow.

Don't get it. I'm staying put though.

The Batlord · 10-22-2020, 08:13 PM

If you didn't get the test where they jam the sticks up your nostrils you could very well still have it but the viral load just isn't enough to get picked up by the basic test.

OccultHawk · 10-22-2020, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I tested negative today.

That's...good?

I'm not leaving Dana so either..

A - I'm immune. Had it already.

B - false negative

C - have it and it's still incubating.

D - i miraculously don't have it yet but she does somehow.

Don't get it. I'm staying put though.

As long as you self-isolate / quarantine without fail until iirc 14 days after she has no symptoms and no fever at all for 3 days straight that’s ethical. I agree with bat about the test though but testing negative actually extends the time you need to need to quarantine because you have to assume that you either have a false negative or caught it after the test. She should be insisting that she remain isolated from you the best you can but as long as you’re really willing to keep it in your house that’s between you two.

If I were a health care provider I’d really resent treating someone who knowingly let themself get infected.

**Exo** · 10-22-2020, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

If you didn't get the test where they jam the sticks up your nostrils you could very well still have it but the viral load just isn't enough to get picked up by the basic test.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

As long as you self-isolate / quarantine without fail until iirc 14 days after she has no symptoms and no fever at all for 3 days straight that’s ethical. I agree with bat about the test though but testing negative actually extends the time you need to need to quarantine because you have to assume that you either have a false negative or caught it after the test. She should be insisting that she remain isolated from you the best you can but as long as you’re really willing to keep it in your house that’s between you two.

If I were a health care provider I’d really resent treating someone who knowingly let themself get infected.

It was a self administered test. They told me to rotate the nostrils but I shoved that ****er up there as much as I could to get s good swab. I'll go deeper Monday.

We are NOT going anywhere until we are cleared. Her clock started. Mine is more difficult. I'm almost hoping for an early positive test to get the ball rolling faster. I was kind of disappointed I tested negative because I'm not leaving her by herself during this. She's already experiencing lethargy and headaches. I'm not abandoning her and we have a small ass apartment.

We're in this together.

No way am I going out unless it's to test or I'm cleared. Might be a month.

10-22-2020, 10:31 AM	#2984 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,359	Small symptoms started. Light cough. Feel weird. Test results won't be for a few days. Her family is trying to find every excuse in the book that we don't have it. False positives, it's the flu, we did nothing wrong... Like, dudes, leave me alone now. I would like to suffer in peace. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

10-22-2020, 08:02 PM	#2987 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,359	I tested negative today. That's...good? I'm not leaving Dana so either.. A - I'm immune. Had it already. B - false negative C - have it and it's still incubating. D - i miraculously don't have it yet but she does somehow. Don't get it. I'm staying put though. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE