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#2938736 6-Jul-2022 10:38

So we have two people in the house with a cough, my son and my wife. Both have tested negative twice. My son has all the other symptoms, running blocked nose, tired, dry throat (not sore).

We have already had to pull the pin on this weekends plans.

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#2938738 6-Jul-2022 10:42

johno1234:

blackjack17:

8 hours of parent teacher interviews this afternoon. If I don't have it already I will likely have it by the end of the day, just in time for the school holidays.

As a parent I'd be more than happy to do these on a Teams or Zoom call...

Not allowed to

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#2939739 8-Jul-2022 12:15

blackjack17:

johno1234:

As a parent I'd be more than happy to do these on a Teams or Zoom call...

Not allowed to

'Elff n safety, all practicable steps, blah blah.

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#2939743 8-Jul-2022 12:24

Tested positive yesterday. Surprised wife and I have avoided it this long. All of our kids and grandkids had it months ago.

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#2939772 8-Jul-2022 14:04

Tested positive mid June after having avoided it until now. Basically traced it back to spending a Saturday afternoon at a mates workshop getting some welding done. He'd had no symptoms prior or during the day but fell ill that evening. I felt fine until the Weds. So fine that I also completed an Xterra long course on the Sunday that included the Belmont Trig. So essentially all hill. Felt pretty good during it too, despite the stormy weather.

Weds I had what I thought was a head cold, decided to test and insta-double line.

Absolute bare minimum of symptoms which I consider to be incredibly lucky. Just a runny nose etc that was kept under control with Sudafed.

Retested on Day 7 and was still showing a strong positive but that's not uncommon apparently. Have had an occasionally slightly tight chest and a bit of a cough since but otherwise slowly ramping the training back up again.

First reaction from most people I know was "you never go anywhere, how did you get it?". Hermit life for the win I guess, except for that one time.

Biggest frustration compared to lockdowns was that I couldn't exercise and having to ease back into it to make sure I don't end up getting long covid by over stressing the cardio vascular system too soon.

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#2939777 8-Jul-2022 14:16

I did the Wellington Half Marathon in late June and had an absolutely terrible performance. I've been doing these types of events for 15 years and I've never had such a slow performance except when I've been sick or injured.

When I looked at my health data I could see some unusually low blood oxygen readings from my Apple watch in the three days leading up to the event - it was quite a noticeable anomaly compared with prior data.

It makes me wonder if I had a very mild infection, but it seems unlikely as I had no 'cold or flu symptoms'.

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#2939779 8-Jul-2022 14:20

Still testing negative here despite feeling crap and being near a positive test on monday. Started to be crap feeling on tuesday afternoon.

Keeps feeling like I have taken in a mouthfull of water when swimming and a swollen throat. Occasional cough but not much.

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#2939790 8-Jul-2022 14:39

Today is technically my day out (positive test was last Thursday). Still have a cough and croaky voice. Did a test this morning just to see even though it's not required and still shows a strong positive - much darker line than the initial positive test.

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#2939793 8-Jul-2022 14:43

invisibleman18:

Today is technically my day out (positive test was last Thursday). Still have a cough and croaky voice. Did a test this morning just to see even though it's not required and still shows a strong positive - much darker line than the initial positive test.

There is a pretty big opinion out there that the MoH guidelines are just plain wrong, and you should not leave your iso while testing positive

"Between 30 and 60 percent of people who are testing positive on a rapid antigen test are still infectious after that seven-day period. And of those who aren't still infectious but did test positive, they were still infectious yesterday," Emily Harvey, the co-lead of the Contagion Network modelling programme at Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa, told Newsroom.

In other words, even after seven days of isolation, a positive test result could well mean you're still infectious. That's why experts like Harvey have advocated for a test-to-release policy, in which isolation ends once you test negative, in lieu of the seven-day isolation timeframe."

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ministry-urged-to-update-mask-and-isolation-advice

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#2939798 8-Jul-2022 15:09

I get the feeling that the guidelines were more to "get people back on deck asap" than to prevent outright spread. Just like the push by management to get people back in offices.

Management where I work told us that "the floor is covid free again now" as though that was some kind of reassurance. I pointed out that "it's covid free until it isn't".

Just retested again just now to be sure and it's negative this time, three and a bit weeks after Day 0. Been basically continuing to avoid people and masking when shopping etc anyway.

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#2939799 8-Jul-2022 15:28

Sent someone home with something that is apparently not Covid yesterday. Relived to finally have a RAT that said negative but a) they shouldn't have been there and b) doesn't seem like they'd done one this week (had done one previously).

We really do deserve everything we get at this point.

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#2939809 8-Jul-2022 16:12

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Think my luck with avoiding Covid may have just run out. My workmate just returned from holiday in Vietnam and back at work yesterday and today, we went for a drive to visit a remote office and on the way back asked to be dropped home as he wasn't feeling 100%. Once back in the office I got a call on Teams from him saying he just had a positive RAT test.

Now I wait for symptoms...

... and just tested positive today.

Was at work for half a day also so waiting for the office-wide e-mail to say someone has tested positive.

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#2939812 8-Jul-2022 16:19

wellygary:

There is a pretty big opinion out there that the MoH guidelines are just plain wrong, and you should not leave your iso while testing positive

"Between 30 and 60 percent of people who are testing positive on a rapid antigen test are still infectious after that seven-day period. And of those who aren't still infectious but did test positive, they were still infectious yesterday," Emily Harvey, the co-lead of the Contagion Network modelling programme at Covid-19 Modelling Aotearoa, told Newsroom.

In other words, even after seven days of isolation, a positive test result could well mean you're still infectious. That's why experts like Harvey have advocated for a test-to-release policy, in which isolation ends once you test negative, in lieu of the seven-day isolation timeframe."

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ministry-urged-to-update-mask-and-isolation-advice

Not surprising. I work from home so not planning to go out while I'm not quite right anyway, but did a test just to see. This is why there is so much of it around - people still being sick but going out and being on public transport etc because they've done the required 7 days and don't care beyond that.

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#2939813 8-Jul-2022 16:20

invisibleman18:
Today is technically my day out (positive test was last Thursday). Still have a cough and croaky voice. Did a test this morning just to see even though it's not required and still shows a strong positive - much darker line than the initial positive test.

I was the same as well, I had freedom last week but still have really bad symptoms now on steroids for asthma . I still don’t feel right taking my hacking cough out . The doctor did say should be ok but I’m not sure

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#2939814 8-Jul-2022 16:20

Covid finally struck my house. (3/4)

The week before I go on my first holiday for the year and after moving heaven and earth to get leave etc, booking leave three months+ ago.

First holiday of the year. (Applications for dec jan time off are to be submitted next week)

Youngest unit of the household suspected as introducer of illness. Positive RAT test after 90s!!! The diffused fluid film baring made it to the T line and was screaming you've got no holiday sunshine !!

And yet employer moans about how much unused annual leave we have...

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