19 March

An important thing to look out for when you’re doing RATs. As our immunity grows through vaccination and infection, we’re starting to get Covid symptoms much earlier than we did before. Previously people often had Covid but had no symptoms, and so could infect other people easily. This is because symptoms are our immune system fighting the virus, and we had no immunity to Covid, so it often caused few symptoms when we were infected (making it very dangerous). Now so many of us have been vaccinated and/or have been infected, we’re starting to develop symptoms much earlier. That’s a good thing, because it’s alerting us that we may be infectious much earlier too, like colds and the flu do. But there are 2 risks that come with this: 1) if you do a RAT when you first feel symptoms, it may come back negative because even though you have symptoms, you may not be contagious YET. Because our symptoms are now happening earlier, our contagiousness may also be coming on more slowly. So don’t assume you don’t have Covid, isolate and wait another day or more to test again. 2) Because our symptoms are now coming on earlier it also means if we follow the (idiot) government advice to only isolate for 7 days, about 40% of us will STILL BE INFECTIOUS when we go back to school or work, on the 8th day. So wear a bloody good mask if you don’t have the option to isolate for longer, for that second week after you test positive. The old 14-day isolation period took care of all this, but of course it had to go so idiot politicians could protect their fairy tale economy.