What's The Truth? They Don't Even Know

I took the antibody test five days ago, with test results expected in three days.  Nothing yet.  If the test comes back positive, as I expect it will, what will it tell me?  There is much controversy regarding the test - who is doing it, what kind of test is being administered, at home kits and what reading will you get.  At a meeting I attended, the guest physician told us that her medical organization is not testing because the tests only reveal whether or not one has been exposed to Corona.  To understand this, you have to understand Corona.  Corona is the mother, COVID is one of its children.  Corona has about six or more children, the most recognizable besides COVID is SARS.  According to the Fact Sheet provided to me by Abbott Laboratories, Inc., the lab which administered my test, the test will "help you find out if you have antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19."  Read again, "the virus that causes..."  It doesn't specifically say antibodies for COVID-19.  Abbot goes on to say, "If you have a positive test result, it is likely that you have or previously had COVID-19.  Pay attention to the word, "likely."

"Anyone can get a test."  We have been hearing that and its refrain since March from the White House.  Not true then and not true now.  Most places require that you have had symptoms.  I didn't get a test until 44 days after I came down with symptoms.  A coworker called just yesterday to get a test and she was denied because she did not meet the requirements for testing.

Can I get COVID-19 again?  The jury is out on this.  Yes, some say.  No, say some.  A government official who was on a call with the premier authority on infectious disease, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says that Dr, Fauci believes those people who came down with COVID-19 after "surviving" had really not overcome the first episode.  It wasn't a new infection.  What's the truth?  

The official guideline is that you quarantine for 14 days after first symptom and three days of having no fever.  The fever may go in 14 days, but the infection doesn't.  I am witness to that and so are others with whom I have spoken.  How many people went back to work and passed the virus on to others?  How many doctors and nurses made their non COVID patients positive and/or dead, having gone back to work too soon?  The guideline needs to change.  Everyone needs to be tested, but at the minimum, people going back to work should be.  

Then there is the thermometer test.  Workplaces, businesses, doctors' offices, everyone is doing it.  However, to me it is inadequate.  Not everyone with COVID-19 has fever as a symptom.  So, what's the truth here?  Are we stopping one person with fever and letting two, three, four without a fever in?  What about the asymptomatic people?

Can an asymptomatic person become symptomatic?  Who knows?

COVID-19 was touted as the equal opportunity disease.  It turns out that it's not.  Blacks and Latino are the ones most affected by it.  I will talk about this in more detail in a later posting.

What about the children who were not supposed to be at risk and now their disease is being described as worse than COVID-19.  Is this a new disease?  Is it related to COVID-19?  Is this Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome one of Corona's other wayward children?

When this second wave comes, who is at risk?  Does anyone know?

Is COVID-19 man-made or escaped in a lab during an experiment?  Will we ever know the truth?

When will vaccines become available?  According to the White House, soon, possibly by the end of the year.  Others say no.  Maybe in a year or two.  What is the truth? 

COVID-19 bears the number 19 because it started in 2019.  Even though it didn't start here in the US till 2020, it had been a world disease with countries in the Middle East, China being the main one and Europe, Italy taking center stage.  The United States should have been on top of it.  The powers that be should not be spinning around trying to catch their tails at this time.  It's time for them to get their act together and time for us to know the truth.