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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by macintux on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:42PM (#29983747)
Flu, I believe, is most contagious when you’re feeling ill. That’s one huge difference between this pandemic and just your typical flu.

You can’t isolate if you don’t know you’re sick.

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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by Symmetry on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:16PM (#29984259)
That does seem to be changing now that we've all been vaccinated, though. It seems that training your immune system to recognize the virus leads to symptoms developing earlier in the course of disease, below the ~10^6 copies/mL threshold a rapid test can detect. I don't know if everybody who is vaccinated is getting early symptoms but anecdotally it seems to be pretty common.
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