Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Always do what you think is best Date:   4/29/2020 2:15:32 PM

If it is just a feel good measure, then why is the CDC recommending it?  I have recently asked some of my medical friends about testing.  We are told that massive increases in testing is the key. Yet:

You won't be tested unless you have symptoms.  But as is the case with a lot of contagious diseases, you can be contagious before you are actually showing symptoms.  So you have aleady spread contagions before it is confirmed with a test that just comfirms what you already know.  So how will increasing testing help?  You could test negative today and tomorrow be positive and throwing out contagians.  And that could be days before you have any symptoms.  

Taking temperatures is only going to confirm that you have one.  You know when you have a fever - even a low grade fever.  So if workplaces and retail venues start taking your temperature.  So you will be denied entry, but no one has said that if you just have a low grade fever that you will be immediately tested or confined.

Now they are saying that if you have COVID antibodies, there is no proof that it protects you from getting the diesase again.  Only confirms that you have had it.  

So at the end of the day, we are just left with solutions that aren't really solutions.  The best solution is to stay home and not get it at all.  At home you don't have to wear a mask.  

I understand that a lot of people on this forum don't agree with me and that's okay.  I'm going to do what I feel is right for me, even if I question some of the recommedations.  I don't clean my mail with disinfectant.  So far, I haven't disinfected any boxes.  I have friends that do.  I have a friend in NJ that washes all of her food with a mild bleach solution.  Not me.