I'm a healthy, unvaccinated, young adult. Wife left on a business trip earlier this week, and I developed cold-like symptoms a couple days ago. Told my wife about it and went to go get tested (twice), rapid and the 2-day test. Wanted to do this for my wife, since she'd have the opportunity to stay away from me with her parents if I was Covid-postive.
The rapid came back negative, still waiting on the longer one (the one I think CDC is recalling because it can't distinguish the flu and covid). But the doc said the rapid is accurate enough. As far as I'm concerned, negative means negative, so no covid. Hardly feels like a cold.
Instead of my wife being relieved, she's freaked out -- we both haven't been sick in years and she's having to interpret what's happening back home while on her business trip. She's talking to a bay area doctor tomorrow about getting the vaccine, and as politicized as this thing is, I know that bay area doc is not going to make any effort to help her make her own rational informed decision and will be pushing her into the vax.
I can't blame her. The television is pounding on the Delta like it's the end times. Feeling a bit defeated right now, because early on we both decided to let our immune systems work as intended, but my being cautious and deciding to test pushed her over the edge. In the end, this is her choice and not mine to make, and I can't help but feel the corner of my little world has been Fauci'd.
The rapid came back negative, still waiting on the longer one (the one I think CDC is recalling because it can't distinguish the flu and covid). But the doc said the rapid is accurate enough. As far as I'm concerned, negative means negative, so no covid. Hardly feels like a cold.
Instead of my wife being relieved, she's freaked out -- we both haven't been sick in years and she's having to interpret what's happening back home while on her business trip. She's talking to a bay area doctor tomorrow about getting the vaccine, and as politicized as this thing is, I know that bay area doc is not going to make any effort to help her make her own rational informed decision and will be pushing her into the vax.
I can't blame her. The television is pounding on the Delta like it's the end times. Feeling a bit defeated right now, because early on we both decided to let our immune systems work as intended, but my being cautious and deciding to test pushed her over the edge. In the end, this is her choice and not mine to make, and I can't help but feel the corner of my little world has been Fauci'd.






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