Current Events > I'm confused about coronavirus testing

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Who is it actually for? If you have symptoms, then you either have it or probably the regular flu. Either way, there's nothing you can do except isolate and wait it out in both cases. If you don't have it.. you should be distancing yourself from others anyway. Also, you could contract it in the window between testing and your results. So then what happens? You go back for another test?

Wow it's as if testing for it doesn't really make a difference and we should all just quarantine ourselves as effectively as possible.

You can only get tested if you're either:

Rich
In very critical condition (cannot breath)
Or dead

21WIVES_CHILL posted...

You can only get tested if you're either:

Rich
In very critical condition (cannot breath)
Or dead

really? Seems like there are ordinary people getting tested in those drive-thrus, but maybe i'm wrong.

I will have to get tested on the 31st. Not looking forward to having a swab stuck into my brain basically. Think we have to do it on the airplane as well.

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MuayThai85 posted...

I will have to get tested on the 31st. Not looking forward to having a swab stuck into my brain basically. Think we have to do it on the airplane as well.

Why are you being tested?

rattlesnake30 posted...

Why are you being tested?

I'm returning back to China. I fled China to Thailand back on February 6th. Now we need to return due to work. Leave on the 31st. China tests all arrivals into the country. Some cities/provinces are doing mandatory 14 day quarantine in a hotel (which you have to pay for), rest of the country allows for home quarantine. We have a 3.5 year old child so that will pretty much guarantee home quarantine (people over 70, under 14, pregnant, etc can apply for home quarantine).

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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html

The CDC says;

Not everyone needs to be tested for COVID-19. Here is some information that might help in making decisions about seeking care or testing.

• Most people have mild illness and are able to recover at home.
• There is no treatment specifically approved for this virus.
• Testing results may be helpful to inform decision-making about who you come in contact with.

CDC has guidance for who should be tested, but decisions about testing are at the discretion of state and local health departments and/or individual clinicians.

• Clinicians should work with their state and local health departments to coordinate testing through public health laboratories, or work with clinical or commercial laboratories.

I found this today.

you get tested if you're working in a field where you cant just up and quit, everyone else is just wasting time right now.

in a perfect world, everyone could get tested so epidemiologists could accurately track the disease.

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MuayThai85 posted...

I'm returning back to China. I fled China to Thailand back on February 6th. Now we need to return due to work. Leave on the 31st. China tests all arrivals into the country. Some cities/provinces are doing mandatory 14 day quarantine in a hotel (which you have to pay for), rest of the country allows for home quarantine. We have a 3.5 year old child so that will pretty much guarantee home quarantine (people over 70, under 14, pregnant, etc can apply for home quarantine).

Yeah fuck all that. What is your job?

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Teacher. Need to get back to work (2.5 months off unpaid basically). And tbh at the moment it is probably better to be in China than Thailand.

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