Circling the drain
Wonder what circle of hell a toilet bowl flush might land in
I have an update today on Hortense from:
They’re still doing it
I caught this exchange in a work chat room I sort of half lurk in. I think I am mostly amazed we’re still in this place after this many years. All characters have advanced degrees in a STEM discipline. Names changed to protect the test subjects.
Hortense is fresh from a week and a half off work “from covid”. It sounds like this was somewhat debilitating. She unusually dropped off the world in various group chats this past week.
At the start of a group meeting this week, where generally people bring up anything of note, like safety concerns, etc., she excitedly volunteered:
“And just for everyone’s information, the CDC now recommends three negative antigen tests before you’re considered clear of covid. I got my 3rd negative this morning, so now I can be here.”
Really the only thing I could come up without an expletive was:
“OK… Three strikes and back to work!”
But I don’t really know what else was going on in the meeting because I had to go find out WTF this was about.
Well, its about this (link if you click the thing):
So.
If you DON’T have symptoms, you’re supposed to give 3 chances at a false positive before you’re considered clean?
And if you DO have symptoms only two tries to be free?
I admit I’m struggling to understand this.
As all of us left the room following the meeting, she complained:
“You really don’t want this one. This is my third serious respiratory bug I’ve gotten this year, and was definitely the worst!”
I…
I suspect grabbing someone by the shoulders and shaking them while shouting “ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON!?!” is possibly considered some kind of workplace harrassment?
It sounds like Covid is the best thing that ever happened to her: all her legitimacy needs defined, asserted, and enforced (FOR her, not BY her) in one place—the CDC.
Well, as long as she lives to enjoy it.
where do people put all of these test kits? stack them up in their pantry?
My sister has had covid several times. She tests a lot, she has several test kits probably because she used to work at NIH in bethesda Md and she signed up to be in a "study" of vaxxed people a few years ago, so perhaps when she goes in for her regular examination for the study they give her a case full of tests. She has a boat load of illnesses now.
I have never tested myself for covid.