Alternate Post Titles are: "That Nasal Swab wasn't too bad" and "San Francisco Department of Health For the Win"
Now that renovations are done at the house, Onions and I are ready to head up to Seattle to see Mom, Marlene and Oliver. Taking precautions, we went to get tested for COVID-19 to make sure that we don't bring it into the house in Seattle and endanger my Mom, who is in the high risk category.
So, we drove down to Pier 30/32 between Oracle Park and the Bay Bridge. We entered and lined up to get checked in. To begin, the person in PPE with and iPad asked us to put our ID's against the car window. This was an appointment site and we came without an appointment. I didn't make one because neither of us is an essential employee nor did we have one of the symptoms, but I heard this was a site where there was minimal contact, so I decided to try anyway and see what happened.
Seeing that we didn't have an appointment, the person had us pull us off to the side and she registered us. I'm not sure if she was nice because that's what the do or that the testing site was relatively empty as we were one of two cars in the check-in line. After looking at our ID's, we had to roll down the window simply to provide our phone numbers.
After check-in, we snaked through the cones (no line) and were assigned to one of four testing lanes. We got line A and drove to the front and waited about a minute until the car ahead us was done. We pulled in and two people were working together. The first one checked us in by asking our names and phone numbers and confirming consent. Then the check-in person opened up a plastic bag, handed the nasal swab to the second person. This swabber then put the swab up my nose. I had heard horror stories of how some described the swab as "touching your brain", but in reality it went right past where it was naturally comfortable, but nothing like waht I was expecting. It was a couple rotations of the swab, then the other nostril and done. The swab was then inserted into a tube and I was given a card with a bar code.
Then they went over to Onions side, did the same thing. And we were done. Total time from entering Pier 30/32 to driving out? 15 minutes. We will get a text in 1-3 days to tell us to go online to check our results. Kudos to the City and County of San Francisco for making this painless and efficient.
Now that renovations are done at the house, Onions and I are ready to head up to Seattle to see Mom, Marlene and Oliver. Taking precautions, we went to get tested for COVID-19 to make sure that we don't bring it into the house in Seattle and endanger my Mom, who is in the high risk category.
So, we drove down to Pier 30/32 between Oracle Park and the Bay Bridge. We entered and lined up to get checked in. To begin, the person in PPE with and iPad asked us to put our ID's against the car window. This was an appointment site and we came without an appointment. I didn't make one because neither of us is an essential employee nor did we have one of the symptoms, but I heard this was a site where there was minimal contact, so I decided to try anyway and see what happened.
Seeing that we didn't have an appointment, the person had us pull us off to the side and she registered us. I'm not sure if she was nice because that's what the do or that the testing site was relatively empty as we were one of two cars in the check-in line. After looking at our ID's, we had to roll down the window simply to provide our phone numbers.
After check-in, we snaked through the cones (no line) and were assigned to one of four testing lanes. We got line A and drove to the front and waited about a minute until the car ahead us was done. We pulled in and two people were working together. The first one checked us in by asking our names and phone numbers and confirming consent. Then the check-in person opened up a plastic bag, handed the nasal swab to the second person. This swabber then put the swab up my nose. I had heard horror stories of how some described the swab as "touching your brain", but in reality it went right past where it was naturally comfortable, but nothing like waht I was expecting. It was a couple rotations of the swab, then the other nostril and done. The swab was then inserted into a tube and I was given a card with a bar code.
Then they went over to Onions side, did the same thing. And we were done. Total time from entering Pier 30/32 to driving out? 15 minutes. We will get a text in 1-3 days to tell us to go online to check our results. Kudos to the City and County of San Francisco for making this painless and efficient.
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| Results exactly 24-hours later! |
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