candyman93 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 minute ago, BobbyPhil1781 said: @candyman93 @ramssuperbowl99 What's going on in your worlds? Y'all good? I feel perfectly fine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 11 minutes ago, BobbyPhil1781 said: @candyman93 @ramssuperbowl99 What's going on in your worlds? Y'all good? Finally feeling better today, test result was negative. Not sure I believe it, but I'll take it for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission27 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 20 hours ago, BobbyPhil1781 said: W/ vaccines coming out and news like this, we can be optimistic about the future: https://www.kcrg.com/2020/12/18/iowa-reports-no-additional-covid-19-deaths-as-hospitalizations-continue-to-decrease/ Anyone heard from Iowa lately? Are we sure they aren’t just all gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Fascinating first person recount about getting a positive test but being asymptomatic. Some of it sounds like what I would do. Though she seems much more rational about everything. Also CT numbers? You learn something new everyday. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/18/947407917/i-felt-fine-but-tested-positive-for-the-coronavirus-whats-that-really-mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ty21 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Guy lied about having covid and went on a united airlines flight and died on the plane. So he’s dead now and everyone that will hear his name will think of him as a bastard for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyPhil1781 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 35 minutes ago, candyman93 said: I feel perfectly fine Good deal. Last you updated, you said you were declining and the body was aching a bit. Glad that's all it came to. Let's enjoy a victory today lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyPhil1781 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 25 minutes ago, ramssuperbowl99 said: Finally feeling better today, test result was negative. Not sure I believe it, but I'll take it for sure. Guess you can always donate blood and get an antibody test lol. Good stuff! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyPhil1781 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 23 minutes ago, mission27 said: Anyone heard from Iowa lately? Are we sure they aren’t just all gone The sites a use to look at R values suggest Iowa has been under 1 for well over a month so this would make sense lol. I don't take their findings to heart bc both contradict each other but both say Iowa has been doing great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucsfan333 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 One of the potential side effects is being struck by lightning. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire12 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, bucsfan333 said: One of the potential side effects is being struck by lightning. Makes sense. I haven't been struck by lightning nor have I gotten the covid vaccine. Pretty strong correlation it appears 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucsfan333 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 minute ago, squire12 said: Makes sense. I haven't been struck by lightning nor have I gotten the covid vaccine. Pretty strong correlation it appears Same for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 28 minutes ago, BobbyPhil1781 said: Guess you can always donate blood and get an antibody test lol. Good stuff! I'm planning to. Let's me confirm it without specifically getting the PCR test re-done, so if I'm negative I'll know for sure and if I'm positive I'm going to give as much blood as I can anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVScout Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, jetsfan4life51 said: WHO Finally Admits COVID19 PCR Test Has a 'Problem' | Principia Scientific Intl. (principia-scientific.com) Thoughts? ERROR 500 - INTERNAL SERVER ERROR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 52 minutes ago, Xenos said: Fascinating first person recount about getting a positive test but being asymptomatic. Some of it sounds like what I would do. Though she seems much more rational about everything. Also CT numbers? You learn something new everyday. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/18/947407917/i-felt-fine-but-tested-positive-for-the-coronavirus-whats-that-really-mean The discussion on Ct needs note that the higher the Ct count, by definition the more unreliable the assay. A PCR test works by exponentially replicating the DNA in the sample each cycle, so that at the end you can start with a sequence of DNA with only a few copies and end up with a billion of them by the 30 or 40th replication. But each time you do a replication, you have to heat the sample to biological temperature, let some biochemistry happen for a while, let it cool, and then repeat. 40 repetitions is a lot of room for enzymes to make potential errors and more importantly for those errors to be exponentially amplified in subsequent cycles. A validated PCR test for this should have a maximum number of Ct cycles before which the result should be listed as a negative. That's the type of thing you'd find in the SOPs of any analytical lab. Why this matters is because the article is talking about a difference in the number of cycles to the strength of the case, but neglects to mention a the impact of the positive correlation between the number of cycles and the percentage of false positives that will be incorrectly tabulated as asymptomatic confirmed cases. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Ron Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Christmas in the UK is cancelled. No in laws over so seeing it as a win. Edited December 19, 2020 by Mega Ron . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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