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Anonymous Wed 23 Dec 18:34:31 2020 No.12499748 View Reply Original Report

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I have a question regarding covid. I tested positive 9 days ago and had extremely mild symptoms. The CDC recommends quarantining for 10 days after you begin showing symptoms. I got my results the same day I started showing symptoms. My gf has obviously been exposed because we live together in a one bedroom house but never tested positive. The CDC recommends those exposed to covid quarantine for 2 weeks, but she never tested positive and we have been tested 3 times now. Does that mean she has to quarantine for 4 days longer than me? Am I still contagious 10 days later? Is it possible that I give it to her on day 10 of being contagious so she now has to quarantine for an additional 2 weeks? When did I stop being contagious? Am I now immune temporarily or could I give it to her, and then have her give it back? This shit is very confusing as I don't know how viruses work.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Dec 2020 18:39:04 No.12499758 Report

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If you got it very mild, then you got a mild strain so by spreading it you are helping to turn the virus into a harmless cold.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Dec 2020 18:40:50 No.12499761 Report

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>>12499748
the cdc guidelines are confusing.
just quarantine for 2 weeks
that's what we're recommending for everyone
if you have difficulty breathing or notice anything worsening see a doctor
covid reinfection is possible and some cases have been documented so you might not be immune at all
transmission is different than immunity
the only way to know if you have a low risk of transmitting the virus to your gf is to check your nasal viral load which people usually don't have access to
so the safest thing is to use a mask and socially distance
I know it sucks but I'd say quarantine for 4 more days at least
and then if she develops any symptoms like cough, fever, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle aches and pains, headache, runny nose, loss of taste and smell, nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, etc get tested

sorry but basically nobody knows all the details about what's best to do and so much of the science is clouded by political nonsense

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Anonymous Wed 23 Dec 2020 18:55:00 No.12499795 Report

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>>12499748
>My gf has obviously been exposed because we live together in a one bedroom house but never tested positive
Exposure doesn't guarantee infection especially on a (weak virus like covid) due to various reasons, it's possible she just didn't get infected in the first place (you don't want to trust not having symptoms but with the multiple tests that's likely)

>The CDC recommends those exposed to covid quarantine for 2 weeks
This is basically the 10 day guarantee to recover + few days before the virus would show symptoms, essentially for people who might get infected but show no symptoms.

>Does that mean she has to quarantine for 4 days longer than me?
Technically yes, practically no considering the tests you have been doing, provided those tests have been evenly distributed over the period and not 3 tests on the first day for instance as then she could have been infected after the tests.

>Am I still contagious 10 days later?
10 days is just a number, you might have stopped being contagious on the first day or never been contagious or you could still be contagious 20 days in. Considering the CDC probably over shoots their values by quite a bit and you had mild symptoms you should be fairly safe after 10 days (unless you have had continuous symptoms or your condition has worsened over the period)

>Is it possible that I give it to her on day 10
Yes but quite unlikely if you have been interacting normally pre and post infection. If you separated yourself somehow after learning about it and then continue normally after the 10 days then you could infect her at that point, if she began showing symptoms now then she would require the 10 day quarantine herself.

>When did I stop being contagious?
It's safe to assume you stop after 10 days but it's always case by case with disease.

>Am I now immune temporarily
Yes, you should be essentially immune against it for about a year which is the time these flue viruses take to mutate enough to reinfect.

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Anonymous Wed 23 Dec 2020 19:16:41 No.12499860 Report

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>>12499758
Most people are asymptomatic. This doesn't follow.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 05:43:48 No.12501717 Report

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>>12499748
I supervise covid case investigators calling hundreds of people a day after they test positive.

You wrote some confusing stuff so it the timelines are not clear.

If you were exposed, then you should quarantine for 14 days to reduce/slow the spread. You may or may not become infected.

You were exposed. The amount of time it takes to get infected and develop a case varies a lot. Many people are exposed, there is a longer incubation period and then they have no symptoms but are contagious.

When was your test ? Don't tell me, just think it out. Your positive test result is shows you were infected when the sample was collected, not the date it was reported. If you are symptomatic or test positive you should isolate for 10 days. note the diff between qurantine and isolate.

If you show symptoms (day one) you were infected and are now a case and you were potentially spreading it before you became symptomatic. But now that you are symptomatic you are infectious for about 10 more days (some more than some less than) and should not be contagious after 10 days of showing symptoms.

One of the symptoms is reduced intelligence. Looking at how your write you have a sever case. And, your girlfriend is definitely cheating on you because of your reduced mental state.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 05:49:27 No.12501731 Report

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>>12501717
>If you were exposed, then you should quarantine for 14 days to reduce/slow the spread.
If you're infected, this does nothing to help you personally. Slowing the spread to others also doesn't help you in any self interested way. The opposite really. You should have incentive to make as many people sick as possible so the urgency for more treatment is heightened.
>but muh deaths
The more boomers and old people that die, the better off the younger generation will be. That means more jobs and capital flowing around.

Give me one good reason to isolate if I get COVID-19. So far, you have failed miserably to back up your suggestion other than trying to moralize and pontificate from the public health pulpit.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 05:55:37 No.12501740 Report

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>>12501731
>Give me one good reason to isolate if I get COVID-19.
I don't give a shit if you kill yourself right now. The toilet you live in would be better off the faster you flush yourself down it. I was just offering a few comments to the person's questions. I have talked to many old people with the coof and they have not had any problems and are as happy as can be. I talked to younger people who died a few days later. Mostly it hits the older, weaker, sicker ones, but sometimes it kills younger people who seem to be just fine and you would think would never have an issue.

I don't care what you do.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 09:29:20 No.12502204 Report

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>>12499748
what would you do if its wasnt "covid" but the flu or just some cold?

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 17:36:17 No.12503365 Report

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>>12499758
no you ass.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 17:37:20 No.12503368 Report

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>>12501731
you're an idiot. never post again.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 17:40:41 No.12503381 Report

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>>12499758
That's not how this works. We all get the same virus but react differently dependent on gene x environment

Yes there is evidence of genetic drift and new strains being selected but 99% identical overall, and the strain is much less likely to influence symptom phenotypes than your own personal gene x environment

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 18:42:58 No.12503574 Report

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>>12499748
>Is it possible that I give it to her on day 10 of being contagious so she now has to quarantine for an additional 2 weeks?
On the side of caution, this is correct. You're considered contagious until the last day of your quarantine, and her quarantine wouldn't start until her last day of exposure to you during your contagious period.

With that said, it's generally believed that you're most contagious in the 2-3 days prior to developing symptoms, along with the first couple of days of symptoms. Starting from that date would end her quarantine much sooner, but there's still some risk she could have been infected later, so it's not advised. Even the 10 day rule was shortened from 14 days, and that was a compromise based on something like 98% of cases, with the other 2% remaining infectious for longer. The CDC's basically trying to toe the line between safety and acceptable risk.

In summary, based on current guidelines, and without a positive test or symptoms for her, she's expected to quarantine for 10 days from the final day of your quarantine (which started on the day you began exhibiting symptoms).

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 18:48:09 No.12503583 Report

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>>12502204
>what would you do if its wasnt "covid" but the flu or just some cold?
Influenza has a shorter incubation period and infectious period, so it can't be treated quite the same. That said, almost my entire office had the flu three years ago. It started with a few idiots who insisted they weren't sick and came to work anyway. Over the next month it spread throughout the office, and after the first few assholes, people were better about not coming in while symptomatic. It had to be spreading before people developed symptoms. One week of telework would have likely prevented 50+ cases.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Dec 2020 21:33:48 No.12504098 Report

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>>12499748
1. Taiwan say, from all evidences they saw, most confirmed patients of the virus will no longer be able to transmit the virus after ten days counting from their symptom onset days, with a few exceptions but even those exceptions have limited virus transmission capabilities, hence they're considering to allow confirmed patients entering Taiwan if 30 days have passed after their original positive test and their symptom have dwindled. So it is still not impossible for the virus to be transmitted on day 10 if you didn't properly isolate yourself
2. The 14 days quarantine period shoyld only start counting from the day when one last have contact with the infected patients, since the meaning of that 14 days is some takes 14 days after infection to show symptoms/be tested positive. (Some fringe cases take even longer but they're ignored for practical purpose) So if she's staying with you all day lomg then she cannot be said as observing the quarantine and have to start counting 14 days from now
3. As for temporarily immune, maybe, but it's not reliable, as there are different strains in the wild. But in the situation that if your gf caught CPVID from you, then she should have a strain similar to you, and thus you don't need to worry about getting infected from the same strain again.

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Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2020 05:00:22 No.12505342 Report

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>>12499795
>Yes, you should be essentially immune against it for about a year which is the time these
flue viruses take to mutate enough to reinfect.
More likely be is immune for three to ten years

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Anonymous Fri 25 Dec 2020 06:12:15 No.12505482 Report

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covid isn't even real

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