Evidence of absence

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray! Out into the world again.

I'm so grateful that MyGuy had an easy time, that maintaining adequate isolation wasn't that onerous, and that I didn't get it (yet).

Now I can go back to the pool (full of highly vulnerable people, so I was super cautious).

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[susanreads]

Hurrah!

I thought the picture looked familiar - Flowflex are the brand I'm using. So much easier to use than the ones available 2 years ago.

There have been a parade of different manufacturers

[jesse_the_k]

These are easy to read, but stripping the tiny foil cap off the saline tubes is annoying.

I hope you've never seen a positive one in your house :,)

Re: There have been a parade of different manufacturers

[susanreads]

I have indeed never seen a positive one. (I take them before some face-to-face gatherings, including going to my 94-year-old neighbour's, and before and after cons.) I haven't had symptoms that seem likely to be Covid, but asymptomatic transmission is a thing, so.

With the original NHS ones I was supposed to snap or twist the end off a capsule. I usually used scissors. Out of 14 attempts I had 3 failures, because I couldn't get enough liquid out of the capsule and into the extraction tube. Peeling the foil cap off the extraction tube is an easier dexterity challenge for me, and I haven't had any failures.

Re: There have been a parade of different manufacturers

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, the ones where I had to cut though a plastic tube were over the top.

I may whine, but I do have a two pairs of lightweight needle nose pliers in my kitchen drawer, and they come in very handy for grabbing thing things. Woman is a tool-user! (And also crows, to my astonishment.)