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> If you are sick, you have Covid

In the past 2 months, at least 3 non-covid illnesses have torn through my family (flu and cold, all verified as non-COVID with multiple tests, both antigen and PCR).

If we start treating every case of the sniffles like COVID, we're going to be in perpetual shutdowns...



The opposite. We have a lot of information that says Covid is flu-like for most of us. If you just assume it’s covid, and do what we all do with the flu (take sick days, eat soup, rest, try to stay away from people), that would be the common sense thing to do.

Things that are not common sense anymore:

1. Order an online test

2. Stand in line at a clinic for a test

3. Goto the hospital

^ Most of us don’t do that when we get the cold.




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