Within 3 days, 3 people I know have tested positive

[Ms. Toad]

32. Heart attacks are not contagious. COVID is.

Regardless of how mild your symptoms are personally, you can kill someone it hits harder by pretending anything but death is insignificant.

We need to treat EVERY COVID infection as potentialy deadly, and take every step possible to not be a link in the chain of transmission.

I'm literally sick of people ignoring the consequences of acting as if a mild case is insignificant.

I don't leave my house without a mask. I don't leave home with symptoms of cold/headache/allergies without two days of negative tests. (I have had my mask off indoors in the presence of people I don't live with 4 times since September.) I have had both doses of the vaccine and a booster. My employee was equally cautious - although she was not yet eligible for her booster when some jerk gave her COVID despite her precautions. She gave it to every other member of her family - at least one of whom has lingering symptoms more than a month later.

It is very possible that I have COVID right now. I tested negative this morning - but my symptoms have worsened since then, including starting what - for me - is a fever.

I have to have lung scans every three months to ensure my very aggressive cancer (diagnosis one year ago) has not metastasized to my lungs. Those are scheduled for Wednesday - and most likely will need to be cancelled. Unless they can fit me in during the last week of the year, the delay will be more than a month because of hassles starting Medicare.

Cancer kills too - and delays in diagnosis or treatment becuuse of mild COVID cases can mean the difference betweeen life and death, even if COVID doesn't kill me directly.

Asymptic cases spread to others who are not similarly asymptomatic also kill patients with other diseases by filling up the hosptals. Just because you are asymptomatic does not mean the 8 or so you spread it to will be asymptomatic.

So yes, even asymptomatic cases are critical at this point.