Got 100% on the 20 question version, seemed too easy but maybe it's just because I work in healthcare
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I think it's because the options are mostly this:
A) I'm a dumb antivaxxer
B) The government is in on it!
C) This sounds reasonable
D) I heard this on Fox News
Which is exactly why this test won't change views. They'll simply say the right answers are wrong.
Also some of the questions are just sort of obvious lol. The three options for ivermectin except “does not help COVID” are basically “cures every disease” “cures all covid cases” and “prevents covid from ever happening again” rather than more nuanced alternative answers
Sadly, I've met a couple people who work in healthcare and would have failed, at least if they chose answers that matched their real opinions. I misread the one about antibody tests, and I tend to mix up the test names because I don't work in healthcare. And I didn't know Vitamin D was at all helpful, good to learn. My vulnerable spouse and I have so far avoided infection and hope to stay that way.
You’d be suprised the number of specialists who are confidently incorrect on the Long COVID stuff. Believing its psychosomatic or overblown or “only affects anxious women”.
So I'm an... "Anxious woman".
Well okay I'll roll with it 👠
I'm 135 kilos of strongly-built man (yes, that includes a beer gut. I'm not a bodybuilder, but I used to do powerlifting, but never stopped eating like a powerlifter). I haven't really had any form of anxiety since high school, which was several years before COVID. Long COVID still hit me like a freight train, because it was after COVID that I started getting weird chest pains and high blood pressure. Had to get medicated for it even, for a while at least.
Similar voyage here, tall/big in shape, got a sort-of long COVID, taste for spicy things went away, got like a plastic film on my eyes, except it wasn't on my eyes or eyesight but on my brain (bad metaphor but IDK how to better explain it). Lasted up til this spring... Re-got COVID and when it went away, so did the "film" (or brain fog). I'm better but it was harsh times, especially for work. People are such jerks.
I'm trying to get all sporty now :-) but when I'm sick it's hard not to get weirdly anxious... (🫦 <= This icon is proposed for "anxious" 😂 wtf).
Hope you're doing better, it's worth it!
Oh yeah, COVID made my ADHD brain fog even worse. It's slightly starting to improve, but not a whole lot. Tried Concerta and Elvanse (Vyanse), neither of them help too much.
Getting all sporty may help too. Before COVID, I'd often go for walks listening to a podcast (since I can't walk or do any other cardio without something to focus on other than the grueling exercise) and afterwards I'd feel almost like a new person with motivation helping me pierce through the fog. Temporarily, at least. Lately I just am finding it harder and harder to find time for everything and I only take walks when I'm trying to get my toddler to take a nap, I should definitely be doing it more.
Having young kids is life on hard mode, good luck!
Sheesh, sounds like it's past you though? Hope so. Back to that relaxing beer gut!
Have started being more active again for various reasons, so that's helped a bunch with the heart health, yeah. Mind you, I'm not even 30 yet, so it was totally unexpected to have my systolic blood pressure shoot up by 70 or 80 mmHg pretty much overnight. If I had any free time whatsoever, I'd try to start exercising again, but my kid's too young for daycare. When I can have something resembling a schedule again, I'll use my extremely flexible work schedule to my advantage and start going to the gym when pretty much everyone else is at work or school. Till then, it's stroller walks!
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a great plan!
I knew I was anxious, but the woman part is new to me. I guess I'm glad my wife is demi.
It's also a multiple choice test. Those tend to guide you via phrasing, etc. "Never" and "Always" are really strong words that should be taken with caution and are often wrong, etc.
I got the same result, though I thought I'd had something wrong when difficulty started decreasing.
I have a history of getting way too good scores on multiple choice tests and it always makes me wonder if other people don't catch on to the clues or what's going on lol
I'm not too bright and jam on multiple choice. Had many teachers growing up who taught me how to work them.
It's more about eliminating wrong answers than knowing the correct one. And of 4, 1 or 2 are always obviously wrong. If you're totally bamboozled, go with your guy instinct, whatever your first answer was.
The IT world has been the only place I was presented with 3 or 4 close answers. Anything from MS, or derived from them, is frustrating as hell because you have to answer the "Microsoft way". A completely correct answer can be wrong.
I guess in those cases, you just have to learn to recognize the "Microsoft way". I luckily haven't had to. I came close to working with one of their ERPs (I believe they have or have had multiple), but the company ended up reorganizing and didn't hire anyone that round. Went to work with Odoo instead, which is an open source competitor, sorta (in both cases I'm talking about custom module developments at a consultancy; I don't work for Odoo itself and was never gonna work for M$). Now there's a nonzero chance I might start my own consultancy sometime in a year or 2, in which case I'll have to take the Odoo certification test and find 2 employees (friends at first most likely) to do the same, one of the criteria for silver level partnership which gets more visibility.
"That doesn't sound right" and "it can't be anything else but this one" I think I spotted for some of the questions.
I got 100% and I didn't even understand what they were asking for some questions. The answers show the creators opinions and it makes it too easy.
Agreed
I don't work I healthcare. I also got 100%
Some questions I was certain about and were obvious.
On the ones I had no clue, all the wrong answers seemed like bad memes. So I chose the least meme-y one.
Some I chose the least specific/assertive/concrete one. Because humans, health and biology varies so much.
Wait, am I an adult now? Shit
Got 94% on the short test, didn't know about Swedens handling of the disease. I have no medical experience whatsoever.
I got 94%, only one question wrong, but it was about another country's covid statistics so I'll count that as me being good for where I live anyway. Dunno how variable this quiz is so not getting too specific.
Same, the only question I got wrong was about Sweden, I had no idea what they did differently haha
They went full-on "herd immunity" mentality at first and closed down nothing. Here in my corner of Europe (Sweden being directly across the Baltic lake from us), it was pretty big news, but obviously people in other corners of the world would've had different information spheres.
Yeah I lived under the rule of Desantis in Florida under the first Trump administration. Keeping track of what happened in other countries was near impossible. (Can't say I upgraded much either, as now it's Bill Lee here in Tennessee)
Way I see it, US states are pretty much equivalent to EU countries anyway. There's a lot of them, they're big, and they can have quite differing politics.
Few Europeans know what's going on in each different US state. Few Americans know what's going on in each different EU country. It's fine. I bet neither of us know what Ghana or Kenya did for their COVID response.
Florida allowed rules that bars and clubs could stay open so long as they served food. So the nightclub near me at the time put a hot dog roller downstairs and told people to try not to grind on each other when dancing.
That was most of our lockdown.
I like the hot dog roller in the night club. Not a fan of letting a bunch of people get together during a pandemic and a bunch of people dying, but oh well, you win some, you lose some
I only remembered that one because talking heads on Fox News were comparing the US to Sweden for a while, in an effort to be more like them. Yet even then it was showing Sweden was doing worse in this regard.
Got the antibody question wrong because I didn't read it properly.
Got the shed question wrong because I had never heard the term in that contact, kinda guessed.
Most of these are easy because even if you don't know the answer, the other three are obviously wrong.
100% on the quick one, though it wasn't hard to tell with a lot of them.
Missed one, I said that Vit D had no relation to COVID. I thought about picking the right one but figured that it wasn't specific to COVID.
17/20. I missed Sweden, PCR test accuracy, and COVID death count factor. But those were also largely things with variable reports during the pandemic from top health sources, so I feel fairly confident at least.
I guessed correct on the Sweden question only because the other 3 seemed worse. No idea why that one was in there.
18/20 - Sweden and PCR test specificality here
I missed the one on false positives from PCR tests, I was thinking false negatives.