Good news: this variant is very weak and unless you are high-risk, you are unlikely to have anything more than a few mild symptoms, if any at all.



The problem with the PCR test is that it's also not accurate. The CDC knew they were unreliable from the beginning:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678...eased-it-anyway

In the following study it shows that on day 1 the PCR test has an false-negative rate of 100%, which decreases only to 67% on day 4, and even once *symptomatic* can be incorrect 20-66% of the time.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-1495

And in this meta-analysis (34 studies) from Europe, there was an average false-negative rate of 54%:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0242958

And this doesn't include anecdotal evidence from many doctors who reported that they had patients symptomatic for COVID receive one or more negative PCR tests. I can add one of my family members to this.

The past summer the CDC told people to stop using them at the end of the year:

https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/..._Testing_1.html

So, if you are thinking that as long as you and your Domme/client have a negative PCR test that you're not infected, that just might not be the case.

Best thing is if you're high-risk, do what you normally do: be very effing careful. If you're not, and are otherwise healthy, take general precautions and you are likely to come out fine.