DamianQuantas

Your posting is confusing. An antibody test looks for prior exposure and is a blood test. Is that what you meant to say? Once you've developed antibodies, about 2 to 3 weeks after infection or immunization, you will no longer be contagious, as the Lancet study showed, regardless of what your nasal swab results are. If you have antibodies, you are usually either recovering from, or fully recovered from infection (or immunization).

I went for antibody test, but some how the doctor added both test, antibody and test for the virus. I had not antibodies by the time he got the results but I did had the virus.

Negative Covid tests provide a mostly false sense of security. The DFA test, which can be done same-day, is only 70% sensitive. The PCR, which usually takes 24 hours, is 90% accurate, but the results are at best one day old. A week-old test is pretty useless. People with Covid are usually only contagious the first 9 days of the infection. After that, the viruses get coated with antibodies and are not contagious. My designer had her son over for Thanksgiving, against my advice, after he was in a car for 30 minutes with 3 of his unmasked friends. On the Sunday of that week-end he got sick as a dog and tested positive. I told her that she and her husband would almost certainly get it, and advised her to be tested then, and again Friday if negative. To my surprise, Friday's PCR test was negative (next day), but both she and her husband were quite sick the next day and tested again, positive this time.

You can test negative and be contagious, and you can test positive and not be contagious. It is true, though, that people are usually at their most contagious in the few days before they get symptoms, and contagiousness drops off within days of getting symptoms.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/11/covid-19-most-contagious-first-5-days-illness-study-finds

"A study published yesterday in The Lancet Microbe shows that COVID-19 is most contagious in the first 5 days after symptom onset, underscoring the importance of early case identification and quarantine...

The study found no difference between viral load peaks in COVID-19 patients with and without symptoms, but indications are that asymptomatic patients clear the virus faster and therefore could be contagious for a shorter time. While the authors said that they can't recommend an optimal duration for quarantine because their study involved only confirmed cases rather than possible exposures, the results appear to indicate that people with COVID-19 can infect others for about 9 days. Most countries currently recommend that COVID-19 patients quarantine for 10 days...."

Note that this study was actually a compilation of 79 studies, so is fairly definitive:

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30172-5/fulltext

"79 studies (5340 individuals) on SARS-CoV-2, eight studies (1858 individuals) on SARS-CoV, and 11 studies (799 individuals) on MERS-CoV were included. Mean duration of SARS-CoV-2 RNA shedding was 17·0 days (95% CI 15·5–18·6; 43 studies, 3229 individuals) in upper respiratory tract, 14·6 days (9·3–20·0; seven studies, 260 individuals) in lower respiratory tract, 17·2 days (14·4–20·1; 13 studies, 586 individuals) in stool, and 16·6 days (3·6–29·7; two studies, 108 individuals) in serum samples. Maximum shedding duration was 83 days in the upper respiratory tract, 59 days in the lower respiratory tract, 126 days in stools, and 60 days in serum. Pooled mean SARS-CoV-2 shedding duration was positively associated with age (slope 0·304 [95% CI 0·115–0·493]; p=0·0016). No study detected live virus beyond day 9 of illness, despite persistently high viral loads, which were inferred from cycle threshold values. SARS-CoV-2 viral load in the upper respiratory tract appeared to peak in the first week of illness, whereas that of SARS-CoV peaked at days 10–14 and that of MERS-CoV peaked at days 7–10..."

(the Covid-19 virus is SARS-CoV-2, not the other two)

In other words, many people who test positive are not contagious (shedding can last 83 days), and a negative test can leave out people who are maximally contagious in their first few days. This study also explains why those who get Covid-19 after immunization or after a prior infection don't seem to be contagious.

I do agree on this. I went to have an antibody test and the doctor told me that I actually had the virus. I could not believe it even when I saw the results I was feeling so full of energy and no symptoms at all so I went to another place and I tested negative after a few days went to another place and tested positive again. That’s when I understood that you actually need to negative test to make sure that you don’t have the virus and I could confirm how important was wearing a mask all the time.

I’ve seen so many escort’s profiles announcing in almost capital letter that they already have the COVID vaccine and I was wondering if clients see this as a benefit to hire one or another person even when they are not protected at all?

I normally feel comfortable and I click better with people over 50 years old and I know most of that people can be at risk and even when I could be completely safe I try to make sure that they are already vaccinated since this is the only way I understand they’ll be really protected. Thanks.

Normally when a potential client send me a picture I know they are expecting to get my picture back and it will be just a few more messages until they ask for it. I never send pictures to people that I never met before. I found my pictures in other fake profiles so I only share my pictures with my clients.

rent.men asked me a list of my entire life for the last 10 year. I would give them the picture of license that they are asking. ? it’s just for verification purposes.

I would say that in my case 95% of the time is cash, so yes mostly everyone goes for cash.

Back to Chicago, I am glad that I made it to Palm Springs last weekend and got to enjoy some time with this amazing group of guys. It was my first time in there and I know for sure that I’ll have many more future visits. Thank you Oliver for hosting a lovely pool party.