I would have said the same. 3 and a half years working retail during the pandemic and last week was the week it knocked me on my ass. Be careful.
Same! I work in healthcare and had to test nearly daily (using the antigene tests) and didn't catch COVID until last week. If I didn't work in healthcare I probably wouldn't even know I had it, since the symptoms were rather mild. I only tested, because I had to work with people on chemotherapy and didn't wanna risk them. At this point, I think there's lots of people who catch the virus and don't even know about it since we mostly stopped testing.
What did you do to avoid it for three years?
I dunno, wore a mask in public during the worst of it and used hand sanitizer regularly? I think it helped more that I'm a homebody with no friends.
All it took was a wedding for me to finally catch it last week. Sons of bitches
That's me. I stayed home, avoided events, and waited to go to restaurants until cases were down. When I did go places, I went when it wasn't busy and sat outside. Avoiding COVID wasn't rocket science, all you had to do was follow the basic principles of disease prevention.
Now try it with kids or a partner who works in health care. Personally I was quite strict like you, but had it a couple of times due to external factors becoming internal factors.
At this point it's highly unlikely that there remains a human in an urban center that has not caught covid once. Maybe they didn't have symptoms, maybe they didn't notice, but they've had covid.
That or they're a hermit.
Hermit reporting for duty, sir!
There are plenty of immunocompromised folks who have continued to be vigilant and likely haven't caught it.
But generally, yeah. If you are in a city and haven't been taking precautions you had it, you were just asymptomatic.
I live in one of the largest US cities, attend concerts, use public transit, and fly internationally. No covid in this house, and we go through a box of RATs a week. Not immunocompromised, we just don't want covid.
The secret: we wear respirators everywhere and use nasal spray before & after risky situations.
I’m basically a hermit.
Yeah. You'll win nothing. :-D
Just like the guy whose name was Peter Ninth, born on 9.9.1999, who was living in flat number 9... On his 19th birthday he bought a ticket on horse race for the horse number 9.
The horse ended up ninth.
I really should. I haven't had the 'rona and also survived a stroke and two rounds of brain surgery in 2022. I'm one lucky bastard.
I'm one of those who still haven't caught covid. But every time I leave home, I still wear a mask. I vaccinate whenever a booster's available. And i still wash my hands all the time.
that you know of. I'm sure there are sections of the population that were silent carriers. you fuckers got us sick!
meanwhile i got vaccinated 4 times and still caught it twice - is there a prize for that end of the spectrum?
Your prize is still being alive!
What a rip off!
Feel like I had very covid-like symptoms a couple of times. Not quite like a flu, similar, but a little different.
Tested myself every time, always negative. Not sure if it's a false negative, or a variant that doesn't get a result on those tests tho. Almost hard to believe i never caught it tho, as I have been exposed a couple of times too.
I worked retail through the worst parts of the pandemic, there is no chance I didn't get it, but I never had symptoms.
I'm one of them! It has been in the house three separate times and I've managed to make out without a single positive test. I don't even bother with masks outside the house
This is me so far
I am sure, at this point, for some people the tests don't work. I have lupus and take immune suppression medication and my only means of transportation is public transport. Normally, I collect every germ possible. But somehow not COVID? Nah.
I haven't ever had COVID (that I'm aware of, and I tested regularly for the first two years of the pandemic), because I never stopped following the science and taking precautions.
I recognize that I was and am able to consistently take those precautions only because of a lot of privilege.
That fucker got me in april. Even with precautions. Thank god i got vaccinated or my immunocompromised ass would be six feet under.
I just got my first positive covid test a few minutes ago. My luck has run out.
Damn, please turn in your badge and gun. You're off the case.
I realized a latent autoimmune disorder instead! Winner!
I've probably gotten it at least once, since most people are asymptomatic. I've never had symptoms and never tested positive. Still, I feel like there's a good chance I just got it and it was never detected.
I totally thought I was never gonna get it and then I got it a month ago and was so sick.
My immunocompromised wife is now on day 3 of her 3rd case. She's a preschool teacher, and one of her students is always sick at any given time.
So far I'm lucky and only had it once (after the first time she had it) and it was barely more than a tickle in my throat. I'm still coming up negative despite still sharing a bed with her (I keep the windows and bedroom door open and ceiling fan on high hoping to dissipate the germs).
Thankfully my 6yr old has been rolling negative tests all week too. Crossing my fingers we get through the next few days clean.
You might have, but it could have been asymptomatic.
I suspect that I had an asymptomatic case at some point, my dad was testing positive and was not showing symptoms and my mom and sister were both showing symptoms but tested negative (even though given the circumstances, I don't think that result was correct)
I never showed symptoms or took a test as I wasn't showing symptoms so hard to know
I wonder if I’ve had it. I got tested the few times I felt sick and always negative. But it seems a lot of people have been asymptomatic so it is probably more prevalent than we know.
I kind of hope I am just immune at this point. I'll probably get it randomly in a few years when I least expect it.
Didn't get it until July this year. The kids brought it through the house in 2021, by some miracle of vaccination the wife and I didn't catch it then. Then the wife brought it home. Was pretty mild for both of us. We've kept our boosters up and we're in Australia so it didn't go nuts here until omicron
You mean there weren't a bunch of insane morons running around screaming that N95 masks are basically the same as concentration camps and eating livestock de-wormer by the handful? That must be nice.
Ugh, this would've been me but I succumbed to covid in April this year due to being at a wedding... The one time I didn't wear my mask 😷
Still can’t believe I’ve avoided it this long. Responded super strongly to the vaccine so I can’t imagine I would be asymptomatic. I was also traveling all over during the worst of it.
I work with the public and I didn't catch it until 2021. I felt slightly groggy for a day, and coughed a bit.
Felt fine the next day but tested positive
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