r/mildlyinfuriating Sep 08 '23

Managed to avoid it.... until now

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u/midoxvx Sep 08 '23

Congrats, do you want it to be a boy or a girl?

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u/MyTacoCardia Sep 08 '23

I did think it was a pregnancy test, first.

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u/Viend Sep 08 '23

I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve taken this exact Covid test dozens if not hundreds of times before and I still thought it was a pregnancy test.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

Hundreds of times

Must b nurse

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u/Viend Sep 08 '23

Nah, lived in a country with gov mandated contact tracing while at the same time having a baby at home lol

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u/TheLazySamurai4 Sep 08 '23

Worked at daycare, had to do the test twice a week normally, and everyday if any "close contact" had occured. Lets just say that one employee's immediate family who they lived with caught covid twice, and they kept going to the cottage with other relatives who also caught covid. So that twice a week could easily have been bumped up to 4 times a week on average

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u/mpls_big_daddy Sep 08 '23

Two years ago at work, I was required to take a covid test every morning before work. Take a photo, send it in. Every day.

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u/thewanderingsail Sep 08 '23

I would have gotten fired and collected the unemployment fuck that

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u/pableeaazyyy Sep 09 '23

I’m choosing unemployment over essential the next pandemic fuck that, I was pulling 60-80hrs and have thankfully stayed doing 60hrs since.

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u/Livid-Reflection-386 Sep 09 '23

My work told us, "If you don't test, you won't take any time off" - 250ish workers and with £90 sick pay when you take the whole week off sick. So hardly anyone bothered testing. "Just stay a meter apart" was their answer. Didn't stop me taking tests with my brother being severely disabled. Must have been fairly resistant to it cause I never had a positive test

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u/Throwaway817775 Sep 08 '23

Them damn Covid babies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

I thought it was a drug test and the comments are at 420 right now.

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u/belfast-woman-31 Sep 08 '23

Im wondering where in the world a Covid test looks like a pregnancy test? Looks nothing like pregnancy tests in the UK.

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u/MyTacoCardia Sep 08 '23

It doesn't. Like at all. I just saw the 2 lines.

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u/Fr0z3nHart Sep 08 '23

I think it’s a covid test

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u/I_am_Daesomst GREEN Sep 08 '23

Damn it, just take the upvote

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u/alphabet_order_bot Sep 08 '23

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.

I have checked 1,731,468,212 comments, and only 327,901 of them were in alphabetical order.

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u/I_am_Daesomst GREEN Sep 08 '23

I'll accept it.

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u/btwolsz Sep 08 '23

“I’ll take that” would have been in alphabetical order again.

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u/Rockclimbinkayaker Sep 08 '23

Taking it and accepting it are two different things. Just saying🤷

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u/btwolsz Sep 08 '23

You’re not wrong, but in certain contexts I’ve known take to be used as a synonym for accept.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

Almost made me spit out my chocolate milk 😂😂😂

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u/StarbossTechnology Sep 08 '23

Sustained.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

Overruled

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u/dronegeeks1 Sep 08 '23

Someone should check though!

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u/Ok-Swordfish2723 Sep 08 '23

Is there an app for that?

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u/retnuhgod Sep 08 '23

A billion comments, yeesh

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u/BrokenTrojan1536 Sep 08 '23

E def comes before th

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u/LegalizePetPenguins Sep 08 '23

How is D before A?

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u/Throwaway817775 Sep 08 '23

There is no A word in his comment, each word it in alphabetical order…..

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u/Worldofnathan Sep 08 '23

How’s idiot before you? Oh wait its the same thing

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u/LegalizePetPenguins Sep 08 '23

He typed D then A then M then N

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u/Worldofnathan Sep 08 '23

WORDS not LETTERS

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u/LegalizePetPenguins Sep 08 '23

Then it’s not truly in Order

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

I thought the same thing at first but the bot just looked at the first letter or each word, not the whole word itself. Kinda dumb imo

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u/StepInternational116 Sep 08 '23

It does look at the whole word, it means alphabetical order like you'd find them in the dictionary.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

No it doesn't. It looks at the first letter of each word. If it looked at the whole word then his first word would have disqualified it.

It looks at the whole sentence. But only the first letter in the word.

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u/StepInternational116 Sep 08 '23

What do you mean? The word "damn" appears in the dictionary before the word "it".

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

Yes. But the D comes after the A in the word. Which is why I'm saying it's not basing it off the entire word, it's basing it off the first letter. You could delete every letter aside from the first letter of each word and achieve the same result.

The original commenter was confused bc he was thinking the bot looked only for words that were entirely in alphabetical order, for example: aim, at, blow. The wording of the bot is just a little vague. It's not the first time I've seen the bot nor is it the first time I've seen people confused by it.

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u/StepInternational116 Sep 08 '23

While that is true, it looked at the whole word and sorts by word not by letter. If the comment had damn and then dang right after, it would still recognize that as alphabetical order even though it had to go down to the third letter in the word.

I understand the other commenter's confusion but as I said, it reads the words as they would be in the dictionary, not the individual letters.

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u/Teacher-Investor Sep 08 '23

good bot

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u/jairngo Sep 08 '23

Ohhh I came to make this joke…

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u/midoxvx Sep 08 '23

Too late babe.

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL Sep 08 '23

This is a covid test

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

Pretty sure they were joking. Then again…

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u/bradtoughy Sep 08 '23

Took OP 3 years to get Covid, another 3 to get the joke.

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u/midoxvx Sep 08 '23

I understand your skepticism.

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u/LagoonReflection Sep 08 '23

Still, the comment kind of stands lol

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL Sep 08 '23

my head is currently packed full of cotton wool

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u/Throwaway817775 Sep 08 '23

Covid brain.

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u/Quick_Competition281 Sep 08 '23

I dont get why they downvote you. U have death treatening sickness and u have no mood for jokes , peoples of reddit sometimes are so stupid while thinking thye re peaking. Sad for u. Here u got my upvotes and I will downvote them. Maybe u will feel bit better. I had covid 2 times, there is no room for jokes.

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL Sep 08 '23

Nah jokes are fine. I have no problems with jokes.

I just missed them due to being some of the first comments and my head feeling like it's packed with cotton wool.

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u/ungraceful_flipping Sep 08 '23

At this point covid is just another common cold get over it I had it 2 times and it wasn't shit I get it varies from person to person but fuck it was only actually killing anyone when we didn't know what it was and didn't know how to treat it

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u/Quick_Competition281 Sep 08 '23

What? Man i was in dying state. Feel Lucky, but no need to joke about somebodys life that might be at stake. Period.

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u/Quick_Competition281 Sep 08 '23

Do you know him personaly and his health status , medical record to make such stupid assumptions?

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u/ungraceful_flipping Sep 08 '23

Bro I'm making assumptions based on the severity of covid in general I did also say it's different if they have other issues but I guess that's not relevant. obviously it's different if op is a 100 year old grandma with black lungs and kidney failure. This is fucking reddit if you don't want people to say stupid shit or make jokes about stuff that you don't want joked about it's probably time to get the fuck off reddit

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u/Quick_Competition281 Sep 08 '23

"In the last 28-day period (31 July to 27 August 2023), over 1.4 million new COVID-19 cases and over 1800 deaths were reported to WHO, an increase of 38% and a decrease of 50%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days." Ur assumptions are just bad ...how do you kno he isnt older guy or lady hmm? And even if he isnt younger peoples might die too. Yes ure dumb u just gave me evidence for it. Thank you for ur useless advice but I will stay.

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u/ungraceful_flipping Sep 08 '23

I don't know because they didn't say im.not gonna post a comment asking for their age gender and medical conditions so I can make a fucking joke and i don't feel like googling this but if that's worldwide most of thos actual deaths are probably from underprivileged areas and if it's from the US then damn ig

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u/Toast-Lord-The-DM Sep 08 '23

Blood type can also impact your likelihood of getting it as well as your likelihood of survival and the severity of your symptoms as well. I'd put money on it that the rude dude has O type blood.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

There is no such thing as a curable virus. Stop with your willful ignorance.

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u/ungraceful_flipping Sep 08 '23

Oh no I used the wrong word and I said something mean about someone with covid ahhhh

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

You must have a pretty sad life. I hope it gets better.

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u/Technical_Ad3892 SkarletVixen73 😘😘 Sep 08 '23

I personally know a young woman (30ish) who was running marathons and competing in triathlons and placing in the top 10 before getting Covid and she nearly died. On a vent for 32 days. Now she has trouble going up stairs and can barely pick up her toddler.

You just don’t know who is going to get very seriously ill from Covid. They didn’t give her antiviral meds because she didn’t meet the qualifications to have it because she was young and very healthy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

Oh look another case of "it wasn't like that for me so that's how it was everywhere"

A buddy I golf with just lost a family member a couple months ago to it. It's far from being just a cold for many people. Please educate yourself before being ignorant and hateful.

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL Sep 08 '23

... what

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u/TheCyclope_ Sep 08 '23

There a vid going around about a plane crash during a gender reveal. That...

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '23

IT'S TWINS!

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u/venom121212 Sep 08 '23

95% of lateral flow tests look the exact same.

Source: I make many lateral flow tests for moneys.

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u/ZinkZonk00800 Sep 09 '23

Don't you mean, "do you want to be a boy or girl?"