I didn’t think I could, yet it’s been a minute since I’ve had to call on the mods.
“Flag?”
I was real sick this summer with a cold but it wasn’t covid (I tested). The sneezing is a good indicator of it NOT being covid. Took me forever to get over it tho.
(I did get covid already tho. I don’t qualify for this thread)
At your service!
And I’m pretty sure i haven’t had covid yet. But we are going out more, so i suspect it’s just a matter of time.
I don’t know if I have ever had it. I have had plenty of exposure to it. I suspect I had it once but the only symptom was terrible itching that lasted a few days. I read that about 10% of a British strain react like that.
Sorry about my grammar, it’s an essential part of a smores!
I got tested in test centers maybe 6 times in 2020-2021, and maybe 8 or 10 times at home since then, and the results were always negative. All these tests were triggered by vague symptoms, but I never observed anything major.
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Just what I said. I never displayed any symptoms so I never tested. So, if I got it, I didn’t know.
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Same here. My husband was chosen for a year-long survey being done by Emery University, early in the pandemic and did test a few times but was never positive. Neither of us ever had symptoms as far as we could tell.
I’ve never had it. I’ve been tested at least 20 times, both by professionals and at home. My wife got it once (very mild case) and we isolated as best we could for a few days until she tested negative.
Last month when I had a doctor’s appointment, I asked him if there was a test that could determine if an individual had ever had Covid. He told me that the test would indicate the presence or absence of antibodies. But the antibodies could come from contracting Covid or being vaccinated. I’ve had four shots (soon to be five) so the test would not be helpful for me.
If I had it, it was in January of 2020. Two homies came back from a road trip which included a stop in NYC, and I got sick as a dog about a week later. Worst cold of my life, and it lasted a month. Epidemiologists will tell you it wasn’t here yet. I’m not convinced.
A couple of years later and all three homies got full COVID, positive tests and all. I tested daily throughout, never positive. I kept my bedroom windows open and masked in the shared areas of the house. They masked too.
One homie was so convinced I must have it that she took me through the drug store drive through for the more sensitive test three times during the course of it. Negative. I did feel kinda logy though, like I was fighting something off. I guess that’s the whole point of vaccines. It’s not that zero bugs got into me, it’s that they never managed to set up housekeeping. I was successfully fighting them off.
Negatory here, fully and religiously vaxed as soon as the newest shots have come out, for the most part. I am admittedly a hermit, but did spend more than a year tutoring in a relatively small building until April ‘21. Masked regularly until the middle of last year, did go to some concerts here and there. I still try to do the 6’ thang. Not even a cold in all that time. Note I am also a regular and consistent user of hand sanitizer.
Same here. It helps that I live a semi-hermit life, work from home, don’t socialize much, and stay away from gatherings of people if at all possible. Since the start of masking I’ve had only a couple of minor colds – for which I tested and was negative. I’m too old to be taking any chances.
Me. Just got shot #5 (?) last week. Never been that flavor of sick, never tested positive. Been socializing more or less “normally” the last 18 months or so, but for us that’s still quite infrequently relative to most people even pre-pandemic.
My youngest daughter still hasn’t had COVID, even though she was living with three of us who did and did not really keep away from her (I masked and sequestered myself, but then got sloppy about it, and the others barely tried. She tested the week we were sick and a week after. Negative both times. All of us were vaxxed.) My parents who are afraid of the vaccine, and thus unvaxxed, also have never gotten it. That said, I’m not entirely sure I believe it. They were pretty sick for like two weeks, but they tested negative over and over, so who knows. I don’t think my brother has gotten it, either. His wife had it just before Xmas, but as far as I know, he and his daughter have managed to not catch it. My guess is about 15-20% of the people I know haven’t had it knowingly.
Nope, it never caught me or my husband although we continued working throughout the pandemic. The vaccine kicked my butt every time I got it, though.
I hope no one gets it around here. Mr. Wrekker was our only victim. He was able to be banished to the lake house. He never really felt awful he said just never felt great. Upper respiratory stuff, mostly. (He’s vaxxed)
He went on the Paxlovid immediately testing positive.
You cannot get it around here anymore. My pharmacist said the stuff they could get costs $1300. Not covered by our insurance or much of any insurance.
Whereas when I had it, sneezing was the primary symptom. Well, and a bit of fever, but I would never have noticed that if it weren’t for the sneezing.
I’ve never tested positive for covid, but one time my doctor said he suspected I had it because I’d lost my sense of taste. Ironically, later that day I got it back. So, I dunno.
My mother has had covid twice.
It’s quite possible to have it without knowing it. Some people have asymptomatic cases, or cases with such mild symptoms that they can easily be taken for something with other causes; especially if they’ve got other conditions causing such things as fatigue, shortness of breath, coughing, diarrhea.
To the best of my knowledge I’ve never had it. But I do have other reasons to exhibit some of the symptoms; and had them even more so before testing was readily available. I’ve never had a positive test, but I’m testing only if I feel a bit dubious and I’m also going somewhere, which is a combination that doesn’t happen very often.
I don’t think there’s any test that can tell if you had it months or years ago; especially if you’ve been vaccinated – I’ve had all five, or is it six now? I’ve lost count.
I live alone, go places less often than most people, and avoid crowded places. Maybe I’ve just been lucky so far, and less exposed than most.
I don’t think I’ve had it. At the very beginning I had something that made me feel like crap for about a day. Haven’t had any illness since, except this last November, which was a pollen cold.