Thread: Covid Mk ll

Originally Posted by BradC

7 days in and I'm still returning a positive RAT. Admittedly it's a weak positive vs the original, but there it is.
I don't have symptoms, so according to the WA Health website I'm free to wander around in public without taking any other precautions.

Given a RAT is generally only sensitive enough to pick up a positive when you are pretty likely to be infectious, I'd take that to mean I'm still likely to be so.

We are seeing that a fair bit Brad. One of my crew just stopped getting a faint line 5 days after isolation was over and he had no symptoms at all. Mask make a lot of sense and hand washing rocks as well mate.


On being aloud to go out after ISO with positive rat test. We are legally allowed to do a lot of very silly things sir. The weak positives do mean your less infectious I hear

Yep. I had to duck out to the pharmacy, so it was mask and sanitise. Keep distance and minimise chance of infecting others.

Unfortunately I'm in the minority. It is what it is.

Just hold your breath while you're out.

Originally Posted by BradC

7 days in and I'm still returning a positive RAT. Admittedly it's a weak positive vs the original, but there it is.
I don't have symptoms, so according to the WA Health website I'm free to wander around in public without taking any other precautions.

Given a RAT is generally only sensitive enough to pick up a positive when you are pretty likely to be infectious, I'd take that to mean I'm still likely to be so.

I understood that with shedding even a RAT will show for some time after you are no longer infectious (which I understand is why Queensland Health don't recommend testing before leaving isolation). Family and I got it. Not a nice virus. We are all healthy enough and with high Vit D levels and triple vaxed but it still took 2 weeks to get over most of it. Headache and dry cough were the worst symptoms. One of us still has no taste. Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

I understood that with shedding even a RAT will show for some time after you are no longer infectious (which I understand is why Queensland Health don't recommend testing before leaving isolation). Family and I got it. Not a nice virus. We are all healthy enough and with high Vit D levels and triple vaxed but it still took 2 weeks to get over most of it. Headache and dry cough were the worst symptoms. One of us still has no taste. Cheers

Leading with the chin there, Scott!

In my opinion, Covid appears to work in mysterious ways.
My wife and her sister work together, in Health and share their daily commute.
A fortnight ago, the sister phones up and informs us that she is infected. Two days later, her hubby gets it. Three days later, its got their adult, non-evictable son.

Helen has, so far, now been in close contact with at least four known cases and general contact with several others. She has returned a negative outcome on each occasion tested ( and not by dodgy RAT, either). Has she had it? We don't know.
If she has had it, why haven't I had it? Perhaps I have. We don't know. Will we ever know?

Indeed it does work in very mysterious ways, I know 2 healthy middle aged families that are the typical anti vaxxers and will never take the covid vaccine, both families got it, went through all of them, nothing more than a sniffle for a day or 2 with any of them adults and kids all the same, one of the parents was a little crook for 3 days.
So much for the opportunity to say told ya so

I had a strange episode a couple of weeks ago. I was with a mate for a couple of hours who tested positive the next morning. Two days later I got a mild sore throat that lasted for five days, but no other noticeable symptoms. The couple of RATs I did were all negative. No one else in the house caught anything. No idea whether I had a very mild dose of Covid or just had one of the other seasonal colds floating around...

Originally Posted by Saitch

Leading with the chin there, Scott!

In my opinion, Covid appears to work in mysterious ways.
My wife and her sister work together, in Health and share their daily commute.
A fortnight ago, the sister phones up and informs us that she is infected. Two days later, her hubby gets it. Three days later, its got their adult, non-evictable son.

Helen has, so far, now been in close contact with at least four known cases and general contact with several others. She has returned a negative outcome on each occasion tested ( and not by dodgy RAT, either). Has she had it? We don't know.
If she has had it, why haven't I had it? Perhaps I have. We don't know. Will we ever know?

. I really did. Thanks for being kind enough not to take advantage