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Finally someone said it
Dec 29, 2021, 10:29 AM
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If you have symptoms of COVID-19, skip the test, assume you’re infected, and go directly to isolation.
That’s the new guidance from Cobb’s health director, Dr. Janet Memark, who urged residents to avoid straining test sites which are already “completely overwhelmed” by the latest surge in cases.
“If you got called, and you are a contact, and you’re showing symptoms, you probably have it. Just go home and isolate at this point. You don’t need to get in the line and confirm that. You need to isolate anyway,” Memark said in a county-produced video released Tuesday evening.
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By the quote you showed, that's not exactly what he said....
Dec 29, 2021, 10:43 AM
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he said that if you have been exposed to a positive case and you have symptoms, assume you are positive and quarantine and skip the test. You should be quarantined if exposed anyway, so it doesn't make as much of a practical difference if you have a positive test or not.
He didn't say (at least in the quote you posted) for everyone that has any kind of symptoms to assume they are positive and quarantine without a positive test result.
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It's a she.
Dec 29, 2021, 10:48 AM
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What she said is correct. If you have symptoms you don't need a test, assume you have it. Tests should be for people who are required to get one to get back to work. Yes some places are requiring a negative test to go back to work after the holiday.
Only residents who “absolutely have to” get tested should go seek one out, Memark added.
Cobb Chairwoman Lisa Cupid said that while she understood that directive was “a very difficult message to receive,” it was coming from dire circumstances.
“My recommendation is really hunker down right now with your families, and let’s let this kind of blow through,” Memark said.
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So we're listening to women now?...
Dec 29, 2021, 11:19 AM
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this pandemic is having all kinds of serious ramifications!!
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That makes a lot of sense. Now if employers will respect
Dec 29, 2021, 10:46 AM
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that: "Hey boss - I have the sniffles and I'm kind of achy. I don't think I'll be coming in for at least 5 days". I have a feeling that many, if not most employers want to see that positive covid test from a doctor, plus the employee wants it to show their absence is legit. Remember, most people have shiddy jobs where that kind of stuff is required.
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Re: That makes a lot of sense. Now if employers will respect
Dec 29, 2021, 10:49 AM
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I was thinking the same.
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I guess she coulda said,
Dec 29, 2021, 11:20 AM
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"don't bother getting a test if you have symtoms unless you have a shiddy job."
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Sho 'nuff....
Dec 29, 2021, 11:22 AM
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we certainly require people to be tested if they're out for symptoms. Not sure how one would run a manufacturing operation otherwise.
I don't think an employer needed verifying someone is positive when they're out of work indicates that it's a shiddy job.
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I had it. The test meant almost nothing. By the time I could
Dec 29, 2021, 11:49 AM
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get tested, I was already three days into it. By the time I got the results - the next day - I was over it, no symptoms. Had I gotten a rapid test on the very first day, I would have been out of quarantine (per the cdc guidelines) the day after I got my positive result yesterday. IE, today. I am symptom free.
This is everybody who gets a cold getting tested to see which cold they have. The information is too slow to match the speed of spread and the length of the illness. So, she is right. Assume you have it and proceed. If the effect of this proves to be as mild as it appears, we will soon drop quarantining. Or should.
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Right. I tested positive Monday. Based on new guidelines, I
Dec 29, 2021, 12:37 PM
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can go back to work this coming Monday, assuming I'm symptom free. So far it's been like a mild flu, so I would have avoided close contact with other people until then anyway.
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