Poll of the Day > If you self quarantine for two weeks and go back out in public, wouldn't

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you be at risk [of spreading] again and need two more weeks of self quarantine?

For someone supposedly in the medical field youre not very good at medicine.

Cacciato posted...

For someone supposedly in the medical field youre not very good at medicine.

I really dont know much about medicine other than radiation. It slows the spread, but people wont know that they arent spreading after they go back and touch things again.

It's good to know that some CEO is wasting 152k a year by keeping you employed in the medical field.

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what if everyone quarantines themselves, then when they mingle afterwards they all share unique and new diseases

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SunWuKung420 posted...

It's good to know that some CEO is wasting 152k a year by keeping you employed in the medical field.

Yeah, but he's not worried about it. He's going to make a fortune by putting all of that sweet salary into index funds at the top of the market and then using his non-existent cash reserves to buy badly timed puts that are extremely expensive because everything is hitting the fan already. He's got it all figured out.

SunWuKung420 posted...

It's good to know that some CEO is wasting 152k a year by keeping you employed in the medical field.

I mean Im in radiation therapy which is part of the medical field.

Even our physicians are offering opinions from give me a break its just a flu and youre not gonna catch it to this is a huge disaster Im not doing anything other than drive straight to work, straight home. No take out, only eat whats in the house.

reruns_revenge posted...

Yeah, but he's not worried about it. He's going to make a fortune by putting all of that sweet salary into index funds at the top of the market and then using his non-existent cash reserves to buy badly timed puts that are extremely expensive because everything is hitting the fan already. He's got it all figured out.

Im still indexing, and have overall lost money indexing since I just entered the market in 2018. And yes, index funds will make you a fortune on a long time scale. Exponential growth yo.

For puts part of my emergency fund could just be used and cut it back to 3-6 months. I dont keep a cash reserve other than my emergency fund which is split between a HYSA and my checking.

The two-week isolation period isn't to protect you, it's to allow symptoms to develop after a possible exposure. If you develop symptoms and subsequently test positive, you're infected and need to be quarantined further while being treated. If you don't, then you weren't infected and can (probably) safely return to society without infecting anyone. Once you return to society, subsequent exposures may indeed warrant another isolation period, yes.

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blu posted...

Im still indexing, and have overall lost money indexing since I just entered the market in 2018. And yes, index funds will make you a fortune on a long time scale. Exponential growth yo.

For puts part of my emergency fund could just be used and cut it back to 3-6 months. I dont keep a cash reserve other than my emergency fund which is split between a HYSA and my checking.

I can't tell if you have a developmental disorder, are simply dim or this is just part of your shtick. In either case, bravo.

reruns_revenge posted...

I can't tell if you have a developmental disorder, are simply dim or this is just part of your shtick. In either case, bravo.

I really dont know what youre referring to :/ I enjoy personal finance, partially as a hobby.

adjl posted...

The two-week isolation period isn't to protect you, it's to allow symptoms to develop after a possible exposure. If you develop symptoms and subsequently test positive, you're infected and need to be quarantined further while being treated. If you don't, then you weren't infected and can (probably) safely return to society without infecting anyone. Once you return to society, subsequent exposures may indeed warrant another isolation period, yes.

I shouldve spoke better in the OP, at risk of spreading*

Thanks adjl, but yeah it seems like once you return another isolation would be warranted unless the number of new cases really slows down.

I hear the number of cases in China has massively slowed down.

There is no excuse for your lack of knowledge concerning limiting the spread of an infectious disease given your supposed level of education, other than you being a total fraud.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

There is no excuse for your lack of knowledge concerning limiting the spread of an infectious disease given your supposed level of education, other than you being a total fraud.

SunWuKung420 posted...

There is no excuse for your lack of knowledge concerning limiting the spread of an infectious disease given your supposed level of education, other than you being a total fraud.

Im not sure what was said in this topic wrong about the spread. Once you go back out in public you have potentially caught the virus again and could be spreading. I also dont know why having a masters degree means you are obligated your free time learning about coronavirus. It doesnt really change what my job is other than I wash my hands more.

Self Isolation allows time for the virus to expire if you contracted it, but ideally you would also test to make sure you did before doing so. If you do have it, when you are done you should be immune from getting it again, and also shouldn't (naturally) spread it (although germs from others could still get on you, and then on others from you).

IF you don't have it and self isolate, then after you leave you might be more likely to get it, and possibly a stronger version of it, if it is mutating etc, but we don't know that is happening. Honestly best bet is if you don't have it, and/or don't know if you have it, to avoid large groups of people, wash your hands after touching anything and continue doing so until this blows over.

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blu posted...

Thanks adjl, but yeah it seems like once you return another isolation would be warranted unless the number of new cases really slows down.

If you're exposed again, yeah. At this point, the incidence of infection is low enough that you aren't tremendously likely to be exposed in your everyday life, particularly if you're following social distancing measures and avoiding large crowds, and those around you also self-isolate whenever they discover they've been exposed. If we hit a high enough incidence that merely going outside creates a high risk of exposure, that's when leaving quarantine makes it likely that you'll need to isolate yourself again, at which point officials will start recommending (and enforcing) quarantine measures that are a lot more stringent than two weeks of self-isolation.

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Right now theyre thinking that the most infectious period for this thing is before any symptoms develop

Were in for a ride with this one. Either they tell everyone not to leave their homes or pretty much everyone catches it and we wait for a vaccine

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Mead posted...

Right now theyre thinking that the most infectious period for this thing is before any symptoms develop

Were in for a ride with this one. Either they tell everyone not to leave their homes or pretty much everyone catches it and we wait for a vaccine

Or we wait for those healthy enough to survive and those not to die.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

There is no excuse for your lack of knowledge concerning limiting the spread of an infectious disease given your supposed level of education, other than you being a total fraud.

Remember when you said people can't get ecoli from other people?
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