# I have COVID! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-covid/982971 "2023-04-20T13:16:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-covid/982971/7 "2023-04-21T12:26:30Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > …and so does my family. This sucks big time. Among all the other possibilities the smell thing must be awful. I hope you all come out of it relatively easily and ok. I got it a week ago, from work I believe, and my wife shortly thereafter. I started a pit thread here: > [@I pit society's complacent attitude towards Covid (tested positive a couple of days ago)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-societys-complacent-attitude-towards-covid-tested-positive-a-couple-of-days-ago/982933): > > First, full disclosure - though my wife and I have been as diligent as possible wrt vaxxes and boosters, and almost as much regarding masks, I’ve been a bit complacent at work, where almost nobody wears masks. Having said that - it seems that every level of authority, administration, government, has tacitly decided that there is no longer any threat. Well here’s what can happen because of that (again I accept responsibility for my own complacency) - in a working group a couple of days ago, one … Anyway, best of luck. Regardless of what anyone says I still believe that it’s a threat and, regardless of how lightly one gets it, it’s still a gamble I would rather not participate in. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-covid/982971)._