I have the worst #OCD about #COVID.
I wonder if this happened to others before me. I keep thinking I test positive on lateral flow tests when seeing an extremely faint line, only when looking from certain angles from up close with a flash. Looking online ofc it says a faint line means positive.

But, I just noticed that when doing the same to an empty test, before I put any sample in at all - I can still see those lines around both the C and T.

So lost rn. Doctors??

@skaly

The faint line you see is the chemical placed there that reacts. You should be able to see it regardless.

what they mean by a faint line is positive they mean if the line is colored pink but light, not if you can see the discoloration at all.

You look good here.

By the way I have had COVID at least 7 confirmed times. It is a serious disease, and be mindful of course. But I wouldnt let it stress you too much. Not the end of the world if you get it.

@freemo

Thank you I appreciate that. I had it 4 times, I'm not stressed so much about getting sick, I'm stressed about infecting anyone else :/

I got Covid back in November 2019, before it was news. Land-lady and family had just got back from Beijing, and unwittingly infected the whole household. I was laid out for 3 months, the 1st of which was excruciating. I didn't need public health officials to force me to stay home, because that was just common sense. I didn't want my elderly friends or those with children to suffer for my desire to have a social life.

But with a bit of garlic, plenty of water, and rest, I got over it completely. Got Covid again a few times in the next year or two because of housemates being front-line workers, but thanks to having a functional immune system, the next bouts were successively more mild. Now, I can safely say Covid is completely a non-issue.

What's more troublesome and injurious is the violent public hysteria which continues to persist, in large part thanks to people who refuse to understand that "science" does not trump "ethics", and that big-pharma is demonstrably more interested in protecting their profit margin than they are in protecting public health. They spent over a decade developing that technology which was shown to be next useless, but had to create conditions to recoup their investment. Hence the plandemic. To say nothing of the military bioweapons angle. At this point (arguably from day one) the most dangerous thing about Covid is the NPC useful idiots who continue to shill this mRNA snake oil on behalf of big-pharma corporations and their bought and paid for gov't cronies.

@toiletpaper

There was no doubt an element of harmful hysteria. But to try to claim it as some evil conspiracy theory to sell some new tech of vaccines is a pretty absurd claim as well, just as bad if not worse than the hysteria.

@skaly

@realcaseyrollins

Less of a conspiracy and more people just acting a fool... But yea, there were plenty of pretty dodgy actions in the response because everyones paranoia was cranked up to 11 with the fear mongering as is usually the case, doubly so when someone becomes political.

So yea, agreed to some extent there.

@skaly @toiletpaper

The supposed science aside, my main concern here is "follow the money". When you do so, you see that basically every voice on the pro-mRNA side of the equation is directly indirectly funded by BMGF and their cronies. If that's not evidence enough to make you wary of the one-sided narrative, I honestly don't know what would be.
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@toiletpaper

Aside from not being remotely true, i guess that sounds nice or something.

The reality is most people who support mRNA vaccines as safe are oftne in no way connected with money or in any way being paid to show that support.

Myself being a research scientist who worked on COVID-19 for two years without receiving a penny associaterd with vaccines (my research was unrelated to vaccines) yet I clearly support them.

So you are literally talking to a counter-example that shows your supposed evidence is factually false.

@skaly @realcaseyrollins

The tech was developed by BMGF funded organisations, as are the "fact-checkers" who've censored the narrative accordingly. The fact that you fell for it, doesn't do much to change my mind. I personally know at least a half dozen doctors (a few now elderly) who've had their licenses revoked for conscientiously questioning the narrative or offering their patients alternative treatment regimes, and I'm not even remotely that well connected within the medical field.

It doesn't bother me that you reached a different conclusion. That's your right. Maybe I'm wrong about the viability of the technology. It's totally possible, as this isn't my field of expertise. But I can smell a load of one-sided bullshit a mile away, and this past several years has absolutely reeked of it.

Now to be fair, I'm also aware that there is an equal amount of bullshit coming from the opposing side. But it's mainly from people who've very rightly lost trust and faith in the establishment medical industry, and otherwise have no academic background by which to judge in any case. I lost that trust and faith long long before Covid was a thing because of my experience both with the incompetence of many of the doctors I've seen for personal health issues, and because of my experience with the natural health (ie. herbal medicine) industry and the ubiquitous regulatory capture involved. That and due to having a penchant for studying history. So much so that I was able to accurately predict that this was going to happen back in 2014 based simply on the social-media narratives which were popping up supposedly spontaneously all over the place misrepresenting and outright gaslighting people who opposed vaccines for whatever reasons. In IT it's called "reputation management" (an industry in it's own right), and was clearly a coordinated effort to lay the foundation for exactly the events which have since occurred. The value of science is it's predictive capacity, and on that basis, I think my claims on the subject are demonstrably as well founded as any of the contrary opinions, to say the least.

Other than wanting to preserve my human rights and those of my fellow citizens against medical/scientific tyranny, I don't have a dog in the race. I was even considering getting the vax to protect the elderly folks and parents/families whom I associate with, but only if it were a traditional vax, and not this experimental mRNA tech. However since then, I frankly won't touch anything to do with the establishment medical industry short of a situation which would place me in the ER. Even then, a large part of me would rather just accept it and let nature take it's course. The status quo medical industry has zero credibility in my view. Their only concern is profit. People who act as apologists to deflect from that reality, are arguably just as dangerous as the people who profit off this directly, and can aptly be characterised as useful idiots, who are at best suffering from an egregious level of conceit and myopia. Scientism is not science. Period.
Btw, in terms of "historical track-record" specifically with regards to Gates, here's one of plenty of examples.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
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