Augie Ray
If you get #COVID19, please stay home until you're recovered (and ignore the new CDC guidance), if you can. Here's why:
YOU need rest. It's vital for recovery. Exertion can raise risks of rebound or chronic symptoms.
THOSE AROUND YOU need to avoid infection. We know people with COVID are typically infectious for 5–8 days.
THE WORLD needs to diminish COVID's pace of mutation. More infections mean greater risk of new, risky, immune-evasive variants.
Staying home, if you can, is a win-win-win.
Redish Lab
If you are sick at all, stay home.
It's not just #COVID. If you have the #flu, stay home. If you have a #CommonCold, stay home.
It's a #morality statement. If you are sick, do not transmit that illness to the community. If you are sick, you will recover faster if you stay home and rest. Staying home is a win-win-win.
Of course, from that #morality statement, we need to create social structures that allow you to stay home when sick. (Sick leave is a win-win, better for both the individual and the community.)
BWheatNYC
@augieray Absolutely right about this. I was still testing positive for COVID on day 12! @coffeetest
Scott
@ned @augieray This is what happens when the public health authority gives way to politicians who support the business rather than the citizen concerned for the health of self and others.
Ned Yeung
@augieray
When I caught #COVID I had to return to work after 10 days but even then I could barely crawl out of the house. I was still crippled by the illness, but I was no longer infectious so I had to work (or rather, couldn't afford not to). During the 10 days I couldn't even move.
Now they want us going to work during the time you're bedridden AND infectious? I can't even.
(Granted, I'm in Canada so we have our own health authority, but sadly what happens with the CDC tends to follow soon)
Gurre Vildskägg
@augieray
I'm pretty far from a covid-alarmist (or whatever they're calling you these days), but by the gods stay home til the symptoms are gone and tests are negative, and establised contagious period is over? That really ought to just be baseline advice for all contagious diseases ought it not?
Does require paid sick leave and (near) free healthcare, of course. But that's a basic need anyway.
RickRussell_CA
@augieray I’ve only had it once, but I tested positive 10 days after first positive test. The following week I finally tested clear. On my 2nd positive test, I called my dr office to warn them I would miss my annual checkup in 5 days. Their response: “do you want to test again on the same day and come in if you’re negative?” And I was like, “umm, no, the reason I’m calling you right now is that the CDC says to isolate for 5 days after a positive test”. I mean, even my doctor’s office couldn’t understand the plainly stated guidance, WTF?
jinnijoon
Sorry -- your doctor thought that echinacea was a prophylactic against Covid?
Ásbjørn 🏳️🌈
@wbpeckham @augieray I don't know where you're at but I was in Fort Worth during the pandemic and people were running around like chickens with their heads cutoff everytime the CDC said anything. I'm very allergic to fire ants, and I saw my doc, and he's like "nah, I know how much echinecea you drink. You're fine". Okay. I'll listen to my doc. Not the CDC
Ásbjørn 🏳️🌈
@wbpeckham @augieray I'm not saying ignore doctors. I'm saying ignore the CDC. Because the doctors were the ones saying stay home and drink tea. Not the CDC.
William B Peckham
@praetor @augieray I have a problem seeing "ignore the doctors and just drink tea" in the middle of an epidemic being a sensible thing!
Ásbjørn 🏳️🌈
@augieray @wbpeckham I'm kinda curious how much of that is just from people doing the sensible thing and just staying home and drinking tea under comfy blankies. At one point the CDC were "recommending"all sorts of crackhead things, and I think people just sorta got wise to it. They lost a lot of public trust after the pandemic esp cuz of Fauci. I'm a bio nerd and don't bother with the CDC.
Augie Ray
@wbpeckham @praetor Here is the data: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
Augie Ray
@wbpeckham @praetor I am not aware of any nations in the West taking precautions and providing good guidance. And the CDC still does count deaths--they've been dropping since mid-January and are declining toward 1,000 a week currently.
William B Peckham
@augieray @praetor when I go to the CDC covid tracker page the only numbers are in percentages up or down rather than numbers, and if you try to sign up for the summary email it responds with the message "The CDC News & Updates information you are trying to subscribe to is no longer available."
William B Peckham
@praetor @augieray I think that, in the USA, the CDC gave up. The only people following their epidemic protocols and best guidance don't need to hear it again, and the rest of the country isn't going to follow it anyway. The last numbers I could count on said 2,000 dead per week and increasing in the USA, but the CDC either stopped tracking it or stopped reporting it: good numbers are now hard to get. PS: my family still wears the mask.
Ásbjørn 🏳️🌈
@augieray Oh god. Do I dare ask what the #CDC is recommending NOW. Go to work, make money, contribute to the economy and buy a BMW? Rest and tea, bros. Rest and tea :)
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