Mountaineer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:24 pm
I appreciate your view, it was quite similar to mine. I always ponder ‘what am I going to do with this information’. Then I had a couple of friends who tested for Covid immediately after a few symptoms. They tested positive and contacted their doctor who prescribed paxlovid. They took it and had minimal additional symptoms and recovered quickly. I changed my mind about testing promptly. I think the few minutes to test and do something else while waiting the 15 minutes to get the result is definitely worth it. Vinny has apparently been sick for over a week. That is on the long side for a regular cold in my experience. YMMV.
Several years ago I did come down with symptoms of a cold. Normally I'd do nothing about it but this time I was going to be going to a music festival several days later and did not want to be a germ spreader at it. So I went to my doctor to see how bad it was. He showed me a chart on his wall that showed me that cold symptoms generally carry on for a week or two. Luckily in that particular case mine all left in a few days so I went to the music festival with a clear conscience.
With this current round I think it peaked at a 3 on a scale of 10. But only for a few days. Since then it'd continued to linger around 0.0 to 0.5 --- really quite minor.
I'd say all told it'd probably one and one-half hours from when I left my house to when I got home so as to get tested. It's not only the 1.5 hours all that consumes. It breaks up my day and affects the things I will not do because I know I do have to leave my house.
I'm extremely time conscious and protect my time to the utmost. There always too much I want to do and I resist any unnecessary time robbers.