Have you been tested...

[Mikey]

...for the ‘Rona?

I was tested yesterday for the first time. No symptoms but I have a surgical procedure scheduled on Monday and the test is required. Fortunately it came back “not detected.”

Anything else would have been a huge surprise. After all, I haven’t been to any indoor gatherings attended by hoards of maskless MAGA morons.

[Screw_Michigan]

Nope.

Did they give you the "jam a giant q-tip up your nostril" kind or are they different now?

How long did you have to wait to get your test results?

[Mikey]

It was a drive- up testing station run by the UC San Diego Medical Group. I had to have an appointment. Got there about 25 minutes early and was fourth in line and done within 10 minutes.

They jammed the same swab up both nostrils. Told me it was a “mid-depth” swab or something like that. About 2 or 3 seconds on each side. It was still enough to make me wince, but not too bad . Wouldn’t want to try the deep sea probe.

It was at 1:30 yesterday afternoon and I got the results at about 6 am this morning. They used something called PCR or nucleic acid detection.

[Wolfman]

No here. See no need to. I guess being 81 gives one a certain perspective.

[Carson]

Had a throat swab when I flew back into Athens at the airport.

No news was good news.

[Mikey]

I guess being 81 gives one a certain perspective.

What does that have to do with it? You would only be tested if there were a specific reason. Like symptoms, or exposure to someone who was positive.

I would not have gotten tested except that the medical center I’m going to on Monday requires it.

Don’t let anybody knock you off your sanctimonious perch though. Just stay the fuck off my lawn.

[Screw_Michigan]

It was at 1:30 yesterday afternoon and I got the results at about 6 am this morning. They used something called PCR or nucleic acid detection.

That's good to hear. I had heard that Southern California had really good testing turn around times, because that's the whole point, duh. My colleague here in the District needed to get a test with a 72-hour turnaround and she could not find any place that could fit this time frame. The city is doing free testing but I have heard varying reports on how fast they can give you results.

Really infuriating that six months into this bullshit we don't have consistent testing standards and testing of reliable quality throughout the nation. Fuck you Donald Dump and fuck everyone who enables this piece of shit.

[Screw_Michigan]

Had a throat swab when I flew back into Athens at the airport.

No news was good news.

How long did it take to get your results? I heard that that the Istanbul airport gives you results in 60-120 minutes.

[Carson]

They told me to quarantine for 24 hours and if I didn't hear from them I was golden.

[Screw_Michigan]

No here. See no need to. I guess being 81 gives one a certain perspective.

What does this even mean? You are one sorry American.

[Mikey]

No here. See no need to. I guess being 81 gives one a certain perspective.

What does this even mean? You are one sorry American.

He thinks that the stupid Libtard sheep are all going out and getting tested for no good reason, because that’s what they’ve been told to do by their Commie Socialist masters.

The level of sanctimonious ignorance embedded so deeply in MAGA country is truly astounding. All praise be to Trump/Hannity/Tucker.

[Screw_Michigan]

Probably means that since there are so few cases where he is at and if he has little to no physical contact with anyone he doesn't need to be tested.

No, that's not what he means.

[Mikey]

No here. See no need to. I guess being 81 gives one a certain perspective.

What does this even mean? You are one sorry American.

Probably means that since there are so few cases where he is at and if he has little to no physical contact with anyone he doesn't need to be tested.

What does being 81 and having some kind of certain perspective have to do with that? Because that was the main gist of his post.

Have you been tested for reading comprehension?

[Screw_Michigan]

Maybe it means that as he is older he has a much smaller circle of people he comes in contact with

He could have said that. It would have made sense. But this is Wolftard we're talking about here. He's nonsensical.

[Mikey]

Nobody gets tested without a specific reason. Age would not normally be a reason either way.

[The Whistle Is Screaming]

Was tested after returning from our Utah trip, had results in 24 hours. Get another test in Nov a few days before my colonoscopy (yippee ).

[Mikey]

a few days before my colonoscopy (yippee ).

Those are always fun. I'm going this morning for a biopsy in...a very sensitive area.
Really looking forward to that.

[The Whistle Is Screaming]

a few days before my colonoscopy (yippee ).

Those are always fun. I'm going this morning for a biopsy in...a very sensitive area.
Really looking forward to that.

Good luck Mikey, hope it comes back clean.

[The Whistle Is Screaming]

Was tested after returning from our Utah trip, had results in 24 hours. Get another test in Nov a few days before my colonoscopy (yippee ).

I will NEVER get one of those....or Jelly fingered

The colonoscopy itself is no problem, you're knocked out and wake up in your room. It's the prep that sucks.

As for the annual anal check, my doctor has thin fingers and makes quick work of it.

In all seriousness, drop the homophobia act and get these done, don't want you dying of the ass cancers.

[Innocent Bystander]

...for the ‘Rona?

I was tested yesterday for the first time. No symptoms but I have a surgical procedure scheduled on Monday and the test is required. Fortunately it came back “not detected.”

Anything else would have been a huge surprise. After all, I haven’t been to any indoor gatherings attended by hoards of maskless MAGA morons.

Speaking of.....

I saw the photo of the SS agent in full hazmat gear. What will happen to any agent or military purpose who catches covid from Trump? What will happen to their careers? Is the permabanning from military service still in effect?


BSmack, how realistic are these anecdotes?

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comme ... _not_even/

PaulATicks

4h

I don't think that most people realize that he's not only putting the Secret Service agents lives at risk but also their careers. To be on the Presidential Service you have to be in top physical condition. If these agents get covid they'll likely have some lasting physical effects that disqualify them from the presidential guard team. Sure they'll probably get transferred to another division but the are the top agents that have worked their whole lives to reach that level and it's not easy to get there

E: My brother was in the Marines and after basic he was thinking about going into the presidential guard. Since he had seen a psychiatrist once as a teen and was prescribed a single round of meds he would have been disqualified, instead he went into Force Recon. These agents have basically had to be perfect their entire lives to qualify for the position.

dukerustfield

3h

I remember an incident when Bill Clinton invited a number of gay activist to the White House. And all the Secret Service members wore rubber gloves. Presumably, it was over concerned about HIV/AIDS which was still not very well understood at the time. Afterwards, Clinton essentially lined them up and berated them for embarrassing him and themselves and the White House.

But it’s insanely uncommon for Secret Service to actually speak out on anything. It’s basically instant termination if you’re caught. There can’t be any doubt about you or you’re essentially disqualified.

dukerustfield

2h

Gonna reply to my reply since this got some interest. I grew up around DC and EVERYONE worked for the Fed. It is by far the largest employer in that region. I am one degree of separation from people who worked in the White House. Not appointed, career people. So they are there administration after administration for 30 years. I'm one degree of separation from people who worked in the FBI, NSA, DEA, DOD, FDA, NASA, and damn near every agency other than CIA, which they don't tell you. But I know people who consulted for the CIA and they weren't under the same secrecy mandates.

Secret Service works like the military. Respect the uniform, not the person. They protect POTUS and the office of the President of the US, not Trump. When I said it was grounds for termination if they were biased, they wouldn't be canned. They'd be shifted elsewhere. Like doing anti-counterfeiting, which is also SS duty.

If you scroll around through history, you'll never see career people saying, "yes, as spokesperson for the FBI, we think that's a dumb idea and [president] is a fool." They can't do that. The career people are the actual ones who make govt work. Mick Mulvaney might say "do this and this and that," but he just has a big desk and corner office. He has no actual idea how the insanely complex and megalithic machinery works. Which is what they career people do. They're the boiler room operators on the enormous steam ship. But they don't get to pick sides like regular folks do. They can't do an ass job of running the govt just because they don't like who is steering the ship. That would be disastrous for the country. Deep State is an absurd concept. Because every 4 years, govt would alternately shut down or malfunction as partisan employees sabotage their bosses over differences of opinion. If it's not directly illegal, they do it. Which is why we need to protect whistleblowers. Because we will never hear about all the nuts and bolts and behind the scenes if they don't talk.

As another aside, this was more often during the Cold War, but very regularly, discrete guys would come walking around our neighborhood asking questions about our neighbors. What that means is someone was applying for increased security clearance. I was interviewed. And EVERYONE in the area was working for the Fed and EVERYONE would tell those assholes that our neighbors were awesome people who didn't do anything out of the ordinary. Because govt workers are just people. They have families and mortgages and car payments and they also have spies walking around to try and find out if they can be trusted with a promotion or they're talking shit (or talking confidential).

Both my parents had extremely high level clearance at one point or another. And I knew almost nothing about what they did. I saw a manual sitting out once on the apache helicopter and I asked if I could take it in to show and tell at school. No. We had a framed photo in the back corner of the den on the internals of a Tomahawk cruise missile. My mother told me a story about how when they were reporting on the casualties in Vietnam, she was handling internal memos that directly contradicted those numbers. And she wasn't a fan of Vietnam. But it was against the law for her to reveal that classified information and at the best she'd lose her job so she kept quiet.

The SS is a whole other level on that. And agents rotate out of duty protecting the first family very often to prevent burn out and reduce the liability of there being the few people who have direct access.

I've never seen this level of openness by the SS and it's pretty scary.

[Innocent Bystander]

You're not supposed to get sick, man.

[Mikey]

Sure hope you don’t have it Jsc.

94 is borderline from what I hear, and the ox level is supposed to be the first sign. Take care of yourself dude.

[Slap]

Something ain't right. Not assuming it is covid but it does seem like a possibility. Just did a pulse ox and it was 94, I'm breathing ok but you definitely want that number higher. Unless there is a substantial improvement by the morning, I'm making a phone call.

That sucks, dude. I've found that having your dick sucked is a tonic for just about anything that ails you. See if you can get that done. Good luck!

[Mikey]

Negative for covid, doc says I have pneumonia. Better that than covid.

Better than Covid, but still not good. Take care of yourself. I had pneumonia about 34 years ago and it was no piece of cake.

It didn't turn out all bad though. My GF at the time was an LVN and she took care of me in her apartment.
We weren't all that serious before that, but we've been married now for 33 years.

[Innocent Bystander]

Negative for covid, doc says I have pneumonia. Better that than covid.

Like getting syphilis instead of AIDS
Dude ... get well Lots of fluids and hot soup and rest.

[Innocent Bystander]

Went to ER this morning. No nose swab. unless i was passed put.

[mvscal]

I will NEVER get one of those....or Jelly fingered

The colonoscopy itself is no problem, you're knocked out and wake up in your room. It's the prep that sucks.

As for the annual anal check, my doctor has thin fingers and makes quick work of it.

In all seriousness, drop the homophobia act and get these done, don't want you dying of the ass cancers.

I'll take my chances with the cancer instead of having someone stick anything up inside my bootyhole

You are a total closet case. Get real. The only thing that worries you is that you will like it.

[Innocent Bystander]

Whatever helps you sleep. I'm not losing my water tight seal.

You don't trust physicians to keep it professional?

Ask for a female physician, then. If you get cancer, you'll sleep less because you'll always think that you could have caught it sooner.

[Innocent Bystander]

Did something happen? because it sounds like there's a reason... did you want to talk about it? or let it go?

[Softball Bat]

[Innocent Bystander]

Is Schmick black? Fear of loss of manhood, fear of violation, would make sense if so, due to the documented reality of the continual assault on black manhood in the United States, figuratively and literally.

Being put under is a loss of control. Combined with centuries long medical abuse of black bodies for profit and entertainment, maybe Schmick doesn't want to be added to that list?

Schmick, is this close?

[Kierland]

Shedick is obviously gay and protesting too much.

[Innocent Bystander]

Shedick is obviously gay and protesting too much.

It's not gay to not want to have your body violated by someone with ill intent, though. But it has to balance with trust. Every proctologist can't be a freak getting off on fisting dudes. If Schmick doesn't trust his doctors, there's a reason.

Schmick?

[smackaholic]

I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and rack him on trolling everyone.

If this really is his take on colonoscopies, he's a dumbfukk and deserves to have his shit pipe rot off.

I have had 2.

My memories of both are very pleasant naps.

Propofol is a hell of a drug. I understand why Michael Jackson was hooked on the stuff.

[Slap]

Schmick, is this close?

He was a closet faggot. Now he has outed himself.

[Kierland]

protest too much some more

[Mikey]

Born in 72

Theres no history if colon cancer in my family, Ill take my chances skipping the DRE until they can come up with a less evasive way of testing for it.

Do you know what “evasive” means?
Do you know that a “DRE” is not a test for colon cancer?

Do you have any idea how fucking stupid you are?

[Mikey]

Schmick is just intent on keeping his honeypot pure for his bff.

[mvscal]

...for the ‘Rona?

I was tested yesterday for the first time. .

How many preteens did you fuck before you got tested?

[mvscal]

Being put under is a loss of control.

You don't get put under for a prostate check, ffs. Schmick is just afraid that he'll pop wood.