Food for thought: you may very well have had Covid, multiple times. Plenty of people have no, or extremely minor, symptoms. My son has had Covid twice and both times his ONLY symptom was a bit of a stomach upset. We only found out he had Covid by sheer coincidence.

[–] VR20X6 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If only there were some sort of rapid covid test you could take to check instead of just headcanoning whether or not you have covid.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you don't have any symptoms, why would you use a RAT? I'm not sure what they cost where you are, but they aren't all that cheap in Australia.

[–] shottymcb@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Feels weird to dunk on someone else's healthcare system as an American, but I have a shit ton of rapid tests that the US government gave me for free.

[–] Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Haha yeah but the reason we have to pay for them now is that we have 90%+ vaccination rate so Covid really isn’t a big deal here any more. The vaccines are free. The RATs were also free until a year ago.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

As someone working in a public place, I used the ten they gave me already (they only did it once iirc). Where do I stock up on these other shit ton of free tests? I had to pay out of pocket the last four, and that gets fucking expensive.

[–] Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A lot of the rapid tests had problems with false negatives, no?

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/understanding-covid-19-testing.html

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19/navigating-false-negatives-covid-rapid-tests

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I've wondered that. Thankfully I've not tested positive at work the first year and neither time the gf was sick. We get plenty of free rest kits still up here so we usually test at the sign of anything. I think that's how I've been able to avoid getting it with the gf as she has been religious about testing right away at the first sign of a tickle.

But still if neither of us are sick or showing symptoms we don't test so it could have come and gone without knowing.

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I'm one of those who have extremely mild symptom. Just one. A minor sore throat. No mucus build up, no coughing, no fever, etc etc. In my line of work it's not terribly uncommon to finish a random day with heavy circular saw use and have worse symptoms than covid (for me). I consider myself very lucky but it sure was strange when my job site all got it and I was seemingly unaffected.