Still a covid virgin. I have tested a lot, and even got an antibody test (testing for antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, which you develop of you catch covid, but not from the American vaccines) after caring for my mom when she died of covid. So I’m pretty certain i haven’t had it.
Yet.
It does seem inevitable at this point. Still, I’d rather get it every three years than every year. I’ve had flu several times, and still try to avoid catching flu.
I made it to about a week ago. Working in a grocery store, I’d expected to get it much sooner, but apparently my low-level near constant interactions with people didn’t involve as much interaction with sick people as I might have expected. And while I was pretty cautious for the first 15 months or so of the pandemic, I’ve gradually reached a point of worrying more about what I’m missing out on rather than whether there’s Covid around every corner. (Plus you take a few risks, nothing bad happens, you take a few more risks . . . )
But, a little over two weeks ago, my parents came back from a trip to visit family, one of whom developed Covid while visiting. We’re now up to eight people infected directly or indirectly by that person. And one of them is me.
Annoyingly, I had the worst case of the three of us. I mean, I’m happy neither of them had worse cases than they did-- and mine was upper respiratory crap but nothing super serious, but it was still annoying.
So far, no one here seems to have been infected in January-June 2021.
As far as I know, I have never gotten COVID-19, but I’m pretty sick right now. I’m at work because of the push to get our student population registered, but it is possible that I shouldn’t be here. I may leave to get tested today.
Really interesting how many people got infected in 2022 vs. other timeframes. I guess this is because Omicron is so much more spreadable, but without the crush of death or serious illness, people aren’t being as cautious.
When my wife finally got it in June, I just sort of resigned myself that I’m not masking in my own home, and I’ve had 4 shots now, so if I get it, it’s fate. I got it, and I’d say it’s like in the top 30% of severity of colds that I’ve had in my life, but just for 2 days. My wife only had 3 shots and she was absolutely wrecked for 5 full days.
I’m pretty sure I caught it in the metro in mid-July. Wearing a mask in public transport stopped being obligatory here in late May but I kept on wearing one until about three weeks ago.
Covid-free so far. I’ve had all four shots, and have never shown any symptoms. I’ve been tested occasionally during doctor and ER visits, and always shown negative. I was possibly exposed last December, when I attended a convention and was later informed that someone I had spent time with had tested positive. However, I did a home test which showed negative.
Wife and I are both covid free. As I mentioned in another thread, no members of our extended families have had it either. We are spread out all over the US, everywhere except the southeast.
Got it in Feb (fully vaxxed) when the younger kidlet (only partly vaxxed) picked it up from school and brought it home. Slight sore throat for just a day or so, and nothing as bad as a winter cold.
I’ve never, to the best of my knowledge, had Covid19. There wasn’t an option in the poll for that.
AFAIK I’ve never had Covid. I’ve tested myself every time it turns out I have been near a person who tested positive shortly after we were in proximity. Always a negative result.
I held out until about mid-July, when we were on vacation. We have always been diligent maskers, but on the tour in Alaska, that just wasn’t nearly as feasible as we thought it would be. So we ended up stopping the masking, since it was turning out to be a super-colossal pain in the ass to wear masks, and yet eat with everyone, etc… It was bad enough that it was actually starting to detract from the whole vacation experience.
So we stopped… and me and my children promptly got it right at the end of the tour. Thing was, it wasn’t much. One kid- the 11 year old, coughed for like a day, and never complained. The younger one never complained, but he had a pretty good cough for about a week. I had a mild cough, and some cold-like symptoms, but nothing that I’d have stayed home from work for, and certainly nothing that I’d have attributed to big, bad COVID. I really didn’t know I had it until I ended up in the hospital with an infection in my arm, and they told me I had COVID… about 9 days after my symptoms began, and about 2-3 after they’d ended.
Compared to the Influenza-A I had back in April, COVID was a whole bunch of nothing. Of course, that’s because I am vaccinated and boosted, I’m sure, and so are my kids. My wife had basically the same experience, but in June, but we (me and the boys) didn’t get it. She didn’t get sick this time around at all.
I have not had COVID. Had a test yesterday because I’m having a hospital procedure tomorrow. Negative. I’ve been vaxxed with 2 boosters.
I may have been. It is completely unconfirmed but in second week of March 2020 I had a “chest cold” - Sore throat>super-runny nose>significant (but not severe) chest congestion<>very mild fever for one day. The advice nurse at that time thought it unlikely due to a lack of a persistent “dry cough”, headaches, persistent fever, no difficulty breathing and other stereotypical 2020 Covid symptoms. Because of that I isolated but wasn’t okayed to be tested when tests were still scarce.
But the timing is very suspicious and I hadn’t had chest congestion like that for more than a decade. I figure odds are a little above a coin flip that I did.
I’ve been surrounded by people at work who came down with Covid, all in one surge about three or four weeks ago. But I didn’t get it, and I recently took an antibody test to see if I’ve had it in the past, and that came back negative.
I’ve been masking at work, but now I’m starting to slack off, as the surge has ended.
Still haven’t gotten it, although I live in a fairly rural state and was able to avoid areas of high infection rates for the most part. However, I did fly to California twice, obeyed all of the masking requirements, and still didn’t get it. I was fully vaccinated and boosted, which probably helped.
our household has somehow steered clear all this time.
I have never tested positive for COVID and as far as I know I’ve never contracted it. I received the two-shot vaccine but never got it boosted, and I habitually wear a mask at work and in public, but don’t take any other measures.
Similarly to the best of my knowledge the rest of my immediate family has never had Covid, but they go out in public even less often than I do.
It seems like a lot of people have not tested positive for COVID yet. I added a new poll to add data that is missing in this one.
My extended family has generally been careful. Aside from my father-in-law who is a doctor in a Pediatric hospital, all of the seniors are retired, the adults were largely working remotely, but the kids (7 under 18) were in school mostly.
From December 2021 until July 2022, every single one of us (about 30 people) has had Covid with the exception of my 75 year old mother-in-law and my 14 year old daughter. This weekend we received a call from the camp doctor to say that our 14yo had a runny nose, sore throat, and red eyes. They have taken the position that unless you need to go to the hospital, they are NOT testing for Covid. So I guess that just leaves my MIL 