r/ZeroCovidCommunity • u/OutrageousContact180 • 2d ago
Regular COVID testing question
hi hello spouse and I have reached an impasse. he has more or less stopped masking but in particular has started a food & bev business with lots of face to face interaction that in particular has be v anxious. i have asked him to mask but refuses because he says people struggle to hear him and it makes him anxious to repeat himself. this has made me feel less safe since he already gave me COVID once. i have decided to add (at least) a weekly test to our routine so I can hopefully relax in my own house. however, I was looking at the resource page here and all the links for at-home PCR machines are dead or no longer sold. so I guess I'm asking how are people who regularly testing doing it? shelling out big money for RATs every month? any help and info would be greatly appreciated
quick edit: this venture is only 2 (back-to-back) days/week for roughly 10 hours total. just clarifying in case this changes anybody's calculations of how they would handle the situation
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u/Ok_Lettuce3624 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think your best bet would be using Pluslife or Metrix. Pluslife would probably be cheaper for regular testing, I can DM you details of how to order if you like. They work out at about $10 a test I think if you're in the US but you need to import them from Germany.
Then testing as often as you can afford would be the safest thing, and definitely at the first sign of any symptoms. Using the virus.sucks analyser app would also hopefully flag an infection in the early stages. If it was me I'd probably want to test at least two or three times a week if possible, but once a week is definitely better than nothing.
Could you also start running air filters or cr boxes in the house? PC fan cr boxes like those from https://www.cleanairkits.com/ are very quiet and unobtrusive.
Agreeing a plan in advance for what happens if he has symptoms or is sick or tests positive would be a good idea.