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SlyPokerDog said:
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barfo said:
On the bright side, when he's older you can tell him the whole family got sick because he didn't get vaccinated.

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I'd save that for when he got uppity.
 
Are people wearing masks again back home in Oregon everywhere? When I left July 19th nobody was. What’s the situation?
 
Had my mask on every minute of the day basically except for my hotel room for the past 21 days. Kinda got used to it again. Just wondering what I should expect when I get home in 36 hours.
 
THE HCP said:
Are people wearing masks again back home in Oregon everywhere? When I left July 19th nobody was. What’s the situation?
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We wear ours and haven't broken the habit ever. I don't go anyplace very often except for my average four visits a week to the hospital. Everybody has to wear a mask in any medical facility. We went to Costco one time and while shopping, no one looked at me. Suddenly I realized I had forgotten to put mine on and left it in the car. Everyone I saw had a mask on. The guy who checked our Costco membership at the door was only too glad to give me one when I went back there prepared to beg for a mask.
 
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THE HCP said:
Are people wearing masks again back home in Oregon everywhere? When I left July 19th nobody was. What’s the situation?
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No. Most are not. Have to admit, even I stopped after the mandate was dropped. but getting back into the habit.
 
Phatguysrule said:
No. Most are not. Have to admit, even I stopped after the mandate was dropped. but getting back into the habit.
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We must travel in different areas of the city. Everyone in Lake Oswego has worn a mask even when the lifted the unofficial mandate. I'm always on the West side of the river and never on the East side.
 
THE HCP said:
Had my mask on every minute of the day basically except for my hotel room for the past 21 days. Kinda got used to it again. Just wondering what I should expect when I get home in 36 hours.
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Chipmunks spreading the bubonic plague in Oregon.
 
THE HCP said:
Had my mask on every minute of the day basically except for my hotel room for the past 21 days. Kinda got used to it again. Just wondering what I should expect when I get home in 36 hours.
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People are starting to wear masks more regularly again. Just depends on where you are, most indoor stuff and stores have more masks than not. Walking down the street is more not than masks
 
THE HCP said:
Are people wearing masks again back home in Oregon everywhere? When I left July 19th nobody was. What’s the situation?
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It’s about 50/50. Most business now are mandating the mask again but only to employees and not to the customer. I wish they would to everyone but businesses are afraid to loose customers if they do.
 
donkiez said:
People are starting to wear masks more regularly again. Just depends on where you are, most indoor stuff and stores have more masks than not. Walking down the street is more not than masks
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This is not yet the case in the Oregon City area.
 
Just wanted to pop in and see if anyone was still regurgitating their Facebook anti vax stories. Seems to have calmed down which is good to see.
 
So, Covid deniers get Covid. Ask for prayers to heal them but in reality it is ventilators and drugs created by evil scientists and applied by evil doctors and nurses.
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
Looks like my aunt's husband might be among the hundreds of thousands (millions?) up for this award. Dude just got put in the ICU. He and I don't particularly like each other, but I hope he pulls through.
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That has to be rough on your family. I hope he pulls through.
 
Interesting, if true....

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Interesting, if true....

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Labeled swabs in photo are for quality control, not a sign COVID-19 tests are fixed

More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation is still spreading online about the tests used to diagnose whether someone has the infection.

The latest claim comes in the form of a photo circulating on Instagram, which appears to show two packages of SARS-CoV-2 antigen test swabs, with one labeled as a "positive control swab" and the other a "negative control swab." (Antigen tests detect the presence of a specific viral antigen, which implies current viral infection.)

"Nothing to see here folks!" reads the post’s caption. "It’s perfectly NORMAL to have PCR TESTS that are labelled ‘Positive’ and ‘Negative!’ There’s no conspiracy involved at all! They aren’t trying to manipulate and control the test results in any way! Trust your leaders."

Text overlaid along the bottom of the photo says: "Picture taken secretly by a nurse on shift. Name not mentioned for obvious reasons."

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The image is authentic, but it doesn’t prove what the user claims. The key word in the label is "control," because the swabs seen are used for quality control to make sure the test is working correctly, not for patient testing. It says so in the instructions.

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

The test packages come from ACON Laboratories, a medical equipment company based in San Diego. Among the different types of COVID-19 tests it sells, ACON Laboratories has an antigen rapid test called the "Flowflex."

The Flowflex test’s documentation lists the materials provided in each kit, which includes both positive and negative control swabs, as well as the nasal swabs used for patient testing.

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The test’s instruction manual says that the control swabs "should be used to ensure that the test cassette and that the test procedure is performed correctly."

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(Screenshot from FlowFlex instruction manual.)

Other medical equipment companies, like Abbott, produce tests that include control swabs for the same reason.

In the documentation for its Panbio COVID-19 antigen rapid test kit, for example, Abbott also lists the negative and positive control swabs and specifies they are not to be used for "specimen collection" and are for "control use only."

Our ruling
An Instagram post suggests that COVID-19 tests are fixed because a photo shows two packages of antigen testing kits with the labels "positive control swab" and "negative control swab."

This is a misinterpretation of the labels. Positive and negative control swabs are routinely included in testing kits for quality control — to ensure that the test is working correctly — not for patient testing.

We rate it False.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...d-swabs-photo-are-quality-control-not-sign-c/

Our Sources
Instagram post, April 25, 2021

ACON Labs, Flowflex SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test, Accessed April 28, 2021

ACON Labs, SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Test Package Insert, Accessed April 28, 2021

Abbott Labs, Panbio™ COVID-19 Ag Rapid Test Device, Accessed April 28, 2021

AFP Fact-check, 'Positive' and 'negative' control swabs in Covid-19 test kits only used for quality control, experts say, April 21, 2021
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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I don’t recall ever having to inject anything into my body to walk into a bar, get a drivers license, or any of the other poorly thought parallels people are trying to draw in relation to the covid vaccine. These are false equivalencies. There are no medical procedures necessary to acquire a driver license or go to a bar. People don’t give a shit about a card, it’s the injection that they are opposed to. Amazing I actually have to explain this.
 
Anyone who has ever worked in clinical lab knows lab tests always have positive and negative controls. Standard science. Something antivaxxers and conspiracy mongers are notoriously ignorant of.
 
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