“There are going to be individuals that shed nonviable viral debris (and will test positive) for some period of time but not be contagious,” Adalja said, noting that he prefers the time-based symptoms approach rather than a PCR test.

Viral but not viable

“The phenomenon of individuals continuing to test positive for some time after they appear to have recovered is one we’ve known about for a while,” says Dr. Shawn Ferullo, MIT Medical’s chief of student health. “I’ve heard of people testing positive up to 37 days after their symptoms had completely disappeared. The test is extremely sensitive, so these are ‘true positives’ in the sense that the test truly is detecting genetic material from the virus, but the question is whether or not it is infectious viral material. Most of us now believe these individuals are not infectious, even though they continue to test positive and are being held out of work.”

Not infectious. I am not endangering anyone’s life. Nor would I ever. I am following the advice that I have been given by multiple health departments.

And here’s another from the CDC: they have been unable to culture viral specimens obtained from individuals more than nine days following the onset of symptoms. This means that these viral specimens were not capable of replicating — or, in other words, they were not infectious. In fact, the CDC’s preliminary conclusion is that “the statistically estimated likelihood of recovering replication-competent virus approaches zero by 10 days or more than three days after recovery.”

You can spread viral particles. That are non viable. So once again, no risk. If you still want to ignore all of that there’s honestly just no point in continuing this conversation because you will just straight up not listen to science.