Mmm yes and our approach of sweeping it under the rug is working? COVID doesn't exist if we don't test :suspicious:
All we have to do is say it's fine, say there's no risk too Canadians, reopen things then it will magically go away. :rukidding: greatest 2022 ever! Set a reopen date and magic will tell the virus to go away.

This is how we get another mutation.

The mutations will happen regardless of what we do, Covid is global. If you hate your job just do something else with your life and stay home.

I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems omicron ain’t one

I think you meant to say "kids 5 - 11 can only get Sinovac" for now, and there is talk of the government pushing for the administering of the vaccine at elementary schools, and talks of doing it through negative consent for those who wishes to opt out.

Oh my bad I got it mixed up.

Sinovac is developing an Omicron specific vaccine and it sounds promising. They expect to be able to use it by May.

Personally I don't care who makes the vaccine as long as it's safe and effective. Sinovac is safe, but not really effective for Omicron, and doesn't last as long

Convoy truckers...if they think covid isn't a big deal...they should all demonstrate by sharing a drink with someone who test positive and how being unvaccinated doesn't affect them and it's like a common cold....lol

Finally got the Covid. Positive test this morning. Was starting to feel left out. Only a slight fever but the body aches are next level. Skin kinda hurts too, it's weird. Not what I was expecting. Oh well, antibodies here I come.

Yeah I had the sore skin thing. I get that every time I get sick though. I kinda feel like I’m on fire (but not just fever related)
Rest up and catch up on arrested development on Netflix.

How did you get a test?

the coughs are tough. lots of cough suppressants from over the counter cuase it's impossible to stop and try to sleep.

if u're front line worker, show ur badge.
if u're high risk a) have infant / baby b) lives with family who are senior, they will reluctantly provide u with it.

We have a home antigen test. Throat swab, positive test came back quick so just assuming it's accurate.

Should I be looking at getting a more recognized test (PCR?) for assurance and for proof of recovery/antibodies? Is that even a thing? Or just chill for the required 5 days and resume activities when I feel better?

I believe you can speak to a doctor and get them to recognize your rapid test, or have them watch you do another. I’d try and contact someone over Telus health.
It’s bullshit cause I had to pay for a test to go to Seattle, but with a positive test you are exempt from testing for 180 days after recovery. Considering that they would have told me to eat a dick if I tried to get tested when I was sick, it was impossible for me to get that.

You can still go to lifelabs and pay to get a PCR, while you have it. That way you're good to go for like a year or something lol.

Yeah that’s fuckin bullshit though. Testing is the healthcare systems responsibility.

Yeah. They really need to scrap the PCR thing for travel, I think we're way past the point of that being useful now.

A friend at work just got back from Vegas

He said CVS offers free PCR down there but you may not get the results in 48 hours, so some of his buddies went to CVS didn’t get the results before they were leaving so they panicked and where they were staying at, the Venetian has a clinic in the basement doing PCR tests, $250 for 3 hour results, $400 for 1 hour.

He said they let you do the nose swap in private and all his buddies were like lol we didn’t even do it bro! We just swabbed the rim of our nostrils! We’re all clear!

After they’d been partying and clubbing non stop for 3 days everyone tested clean and hopes on the plane lol

Lol the swabs probably melted when it touched their nostrils from the meth and drywall dust mixture that was passed off as blow.
*hands the nurse back a plastic stick*

Least they didn't hand back a brown stick

"sir, this is a nasal swab"

The PCR thing is such a block to travel mindset wise for me right now... like I don't feel like I'm really at risk even if I got Covid (or who knows if I had it already anyway?!) but who the fuck can afford for their 4 day Vegas weekend to turn into 14 days... and seems pretty bloody likely you'd get in there.

The thing is unless you got it on the plane ride down, there’s no way you’d even test positive or show symptoms yet. That’s why it’s so stupid. If you got it in Vegas on that trip you wouldn’t test positive until the day after you got back at the earliest, if you got it the first day you were there. It’s not protecting Canada from covid. I’m as likely to get it at the canucks game as I am in Vegas shooting a money gun at the strip club while maskless.
Like I said before, I’m down with restrictions that are truly preventing transmission. I’ll wear masks for the rest of my life and continue enjoying telling people to fuck off under my breath unnoticed, or get my 27th booster if it even reduces the chances of someone’s elderly parents getting sick by a thousandth of a percent, but if you are going to allow people to travel, don’t try and make a $250 dollar barrier that only punishes poor people that have to worry about that cost.

My $65 Manulife insurance police, in theory should cover $200 a day quarantine for both my wife and I on a Mexico trip.

Whether your company will be happy with that or not may be different but #YOLO

Lol. You can tell I’m a square because that didn’t even cross my mind, and now it seems so obvious LOL

To my knowledge Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan still don't take visa free entry right? Or tourist visa.

Day 2 and feeling about 80% better. Slept most of yesterday with only an awake break for lunch. Slept on the couch to avoid the kids. High red zone fever last night at around 7pm but slept through most of the night and woke up this morning with the fever gone, muscle soreness mostly gone, and no real symptoms others than my lower back being sore from the couch sleeping and just some general fatigue. Ate breakfast and feel even better now. Will still chill as I've heard it can come in waves. Surprised how hard and how fast the symptoms came on and now how quickly they have gone away. Definitely a unique sickness experience.

Agreed on the flawed testing methods and safety protocols. Don't you need proof of vax to board a plane or boat or cross the border anyway? So why test all the vaxxed people? And, more importantly, with a 2 day incubation period it makes testing all useless no? And putting insane prices on testing based on the speed of the result? I mean come the fuck on with that nonsense. Not even trying to be a hater, more thinking it's not in the name of safety anymore.