Swab test

Just got a swab test for Covid. No worse than a couple lines of mediocre crank (with the Ajax afterburn).

The fear that they will puncture something in your head is the worse part of the experience.

They come out to your car in full protective gear holding a swap and a test tube. The plastic handled thin swab itself is very long and flexible.  (It kinda reminded me of a big version of those little dental floss wands with the little brush on the end.) There is no shoving it in searching for your brain. It slides in rather smoothly.

But then they poke it around for a couple seconds which seems much longer as you realize there is something way up in your nose that shouldn't be. It pulls out fast. No blood or snot on the end of it.  Whew. That's over. You have that I'm gonna sneeze feeling combined with a mild sharp pain that recedes fairly fast.

But noooooooo. Then they use the same swap to do it again up the other nostril.

Whole thing takes 5 minutes or less.

Results in 4 - 7 days. Which seems..... unhelpful?

We stay pretty isolated around here and our zip code has 225 cases out of 20,000 people (and I feel fine), so expecting ok results.