# Does anyone here know anyone personally who has been diagnosed, or has been yourself?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone
**Tags:** covid-quarantine
**Created:** [March 21, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941 "2020-03-21T06:01:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/802 "2022-01-27T21:07:54Z")
Mine is the same. I am not sure if it comes and goes, or I am better at ignoring it and I only notice when it is real quite and I am not concentrating on anything.
Whatever the case, it sure is annoying.
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### Author:  [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/803 "2022-01-27T22:06:38Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> Yep I posted a separate thread about it a few weeks ago. I got tinnitis for the first time after being sick. It seems to be better now or I’m better at ignoring it.
Oh yeah. I did read that thread. Glad it’s getting better.
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### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/804 "2022-01-27T22:42:54Z")
> [@SoToasty](#):
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> Mine is the same. I am not sure if it comes and goes, or I am better at ignoring it and I only notice when it is real quite and I am not concentrating on anything.
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> Whatever the case, it sure is annoying.
That was my level pre-vaccination except during high stress times when it would ramp up. My baseline has raised quite a bit. I hope it decreases at some point since it can be overwhelming at times.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/805 "2022-01-28T02:52:15Z")
My neighbor says he’s experiencing worse tinnitus since he had Covid. He said he had it a bit before Covid but now it’s bad.
Seems like a lot of people who got it are experiencing exacerbation of previous conditions.
My boyfriend and his brother had it, which I have mentioned. They both felt better and tested negative and went back to work. But now a few days later his brother is feeling bad again and tested positive. So I dunno what’s going on over there.
I said if he’s still feeling this bad after 3 weeks (he’s definitely got a fever) he needs to see a doctor. Let’s hope he sees (or calls) a doctor.
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### Author:  [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/806 "2022-01-28T03:27:28Z")
> [@Lancia](#):
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> WE’RE IN THE CLUB!!! Does that mean I’m finally one of the cool kids?!?
I clearly had not read the tone of the room before posting this and realize that my post was frivolous, thoughtless, and disrespectful, especially in light of the recent losses that many posters have experienced. Joking about being “in the club” when people are sick and dying was uncalled for and I apologize for being so flippant.
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### Author:  [@SoToasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoToasty)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/807 "2022-01-29T21:37:04Z")
My daughter and S.O. have tested positive. Along with Granddaughter and S.O. Fun time in our house.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/808 "2022-01-31T12:14:55Z")
Positive (home test), along with my mom. Thankfully she’s just had a little cough and congestion.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/809 "2022-01-31T12:21:42Z")
Best wishes.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/810 "2022-03-20T02:34:47Z")
Of those around me, 3 people at my office including Boss twice; one longtime political activity collaborator, several uncles and aunts.
Two former co-workers, lost.
And just now, coming around to counting myself!
Ruled positive by PCR late on Friday, after 2 negative PCR and 2 negative home antigen tests earlier in the week, last negative mid-afternoon Thursday.
The daily testing resulted from first getting tested on Monday after arrival from work travel as a now routine action; then later that day learning I could have been exposed on Saturday, then on Tuesday morning learning there were two positive tests at the workplace on Monday. So I was alternating the tests as the office counted days to allow people back in.
By late Wednesday had a bit of dry throat, by Friday had what would be best described as a mild seasonal allergy. Right now under advice to monitor myself and report of any turn for the worse, am well stocked for a few days of quarantine. I’m Moderna 3-shotted as of November, so let’s see what this ride’s like.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/811 "2022-03-20T02:58:30Z")
Fingers crossed you come through it uneventfully. Keep us updated!
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/812 "2022-03-22T20:37:42Z")
Thanks, it looks that way so far. Fingers crossed indeed.
> [@hajario](#):
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> I had mild vertigo for one day during my mild bout
Huh, you and me both… just momentary episodes, early on.
That three-shot Mod did its job, it seems. Very mild fever spanned only the weekend; body aches and cough lasted until Monday. Cold-like symptoms fading away, save for moderate congestedness. Most debilitating effect was disrupted sleep, couldn’t seem to get more than 2 hours at a stretch since Thursday until last night.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/813 "2022-03-22T21:10:53Z")
My best friend and everyone in her house (6 people). Acquired from a daughter’s boyfriend.
Everyone had been fully vaxxed, including the booster. Seems to have been mild and so far they haven’t reported any after effects. I hope that remains the case.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/814 "2022-03-24T02:42:02Z")
I’m thinking we might need a new thread:
**Does anyone here NOT know anyone personally who has been diagnosed with Covid?**
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/815 "2022-04-07T00:49:03Z")
One of my best friends’ wife is currently cooling her heels in a hotel room in Venice because she tested positive just before the flight home.
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### Author:  [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/816 "2022-04-07T21:37:13Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> I’m thinking we might need a new thread:
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> **Does anyone here NOT know anyone personally who has been diagnosed with Covid ?**
Indeed. It’s no longer particularly exceptional.
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### Author:  [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/817 "2022-04-14T01:30:39Z")
My girlfriend tested positive yesterday morning. She and I are both double-vaxxed plus a booster; we also don’t live together. We’d seen each other on Sunday evening; I’d tested negative the night before and she’d tested negative that morning. She was a bit wheezy, but she gets tonsilitis once a year anyway and she figured that’s what it was. Because of her cold, we didn’t kiss at all on our date.
So she texts me Tuesday morning that she’d woken up feeling worse than usual, used a home test and it came up positive. I immeditely went online to see if any nearby pharmacies had the take-home kits (sidebar for people outside Ontario, our useless Premier made a big deal about home kits being widely available. Just go to the Shoppers Drug Mart site, punch in your postal code, and see a handy list of the forty-odd nearest branches all with a red bar stating they don’t have any. Thank Buddha the election is right around the corner…), and miraculously, the drugstore in my office bulding had some left. I picked one up, and did the swab at my desk. It came up negative.
By that point, I’d told my manager about my GF, so I informed said manager that I was in the clear. Twenty minutes later, after she’s met with _her_ manager, I get a phone call telling me to go home, probably for the rest of the week. I guess the company is still in “better safe than sorry” legal ass-covering mode. Which I understand. So despite having no symptoms, doing another test at my place this morning which was also negative, I won’t be back in the office until after the holiday weekend.
My girlfriend is doing fine, knock wood. She says it feels like a bad cold, which considering her vax status, sounds about right. Meanwhile, I feel like a schmuck for missing a bunch of work when we’re so busy there, but it wasn’t my call.
Another sidebar…a few weeks ago I lost a relative down in the U.S. to COVID complications. She was unvaxxed for the predictable political reasons that so many other Americans aren’t. So the past month has been a rollercoaster of diagnoses hitting close to home.
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### Author:  [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/818 "2022-04-25T11:11:06Z")
Anti-vax “friends” dropped off the radar last year. Just found out their kid spent 16 weeks in the hospital, was on a vent, but eventually survived Covid. They’re still anti-vax.
I wonder what “survived” will actually look like in the future for this poor kid.
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### Author:  [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/819 "2022-04-25T15:02:25Z")
My entire family has managed to avoid it by being very cautious and vaccinated. My daughter (20) wears a mask everywhere, even with the removal of mandates. She said this morning, she has a sore throat so I said she should take a test. The first one I got from Amazon was inconclusive but I saw it had an expiration of 3/2022. So I told her to use one of the ones we got from the government. Positive.
Real problem - Friday is her Aunt’s (my SIL) wedding. She is a bridesmaid and my wife is the matron of honor. They’ve been planning for over a year and the timing could not be worse. My SIL was over at our house yesterday along with her son and her mother who flew in from Mexico for the wedding. What a disaster!!!
She has been super careful. She is a nanny for 2 year old twin girls in the neighborhood and has wanted to protect them and my 80 YO mother who also lives with us. It could have been any one of us who caught it and she is just feeling it first. I’ll be taking a test later today.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/820 "2022-04-27T00:05:18Z")
> [@PackerMan2](#):
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> Real problem - Friday is her Aunt’s (my SIL) wedding. She is a bridesmaid and my wife is the matron of honor. They’ve been planning for over a year and the timing could not be worse. My SIL was over at our house yesterday along with her son and her mother who flew in from Mexico for the wedding. What a disaster!!!
[I can relate.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-weddings-off/950761)
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-know-anyone-personally-who-has-been-diagnosed-or-has-been-yourself/849941/821 "2022-04-28T07:56:36Z")
One of my students was diagnosed. I had been in contact on Friday and he tested positive on Monday so it’s not clear if he had it in class.
It’s starting to spread like wildfire now. My wife’s cousin and her child have it also light cases.
The number of cases has been so low in Taiwan so these are the first time we’re starting to see a real outbreak of significant numbers.
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