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Originally Posted by Pierre
Why would you? unless you needed a test for specific reason.
I've had COVID symptoms several times over the past two years and never tested. The only time I tested was when I needed to on return from holiday.
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The thing is, what are exactly "covid symptoms", it does seem to change a fair amount, because they are nonspecific to begin with.
Right at the start of the pandemic it was a new cough and fever, they added loss of taste a bit later, they have been the main ones since, but there are also others, for example diarrhoea, runny nose, headache, tiredness, joint pains... Basically not a lot different from any other virus really.
With the omicron variant we also have a situation where the symptoms are very much easily confused with a cold though this could be simply that in vaccinated or previously infected people the virus is milder.
Really the only way to know if you have covid or a cold/flu virus now is to take a test. And of course, other coronaviruses can cause colds in humans.