(Slams money down on the table)
I’M OUT!
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No COVID here unless I got a truly asymptomatic case. I have not felt the least bit sick since January 2020 (except for after the vaccine and booster).
- Was extremely cautious until I got vaccinated. No restaurants, no shopping, no friends. (I think like 5 indoor shopping instances total and 2 outdoor friend visits).
- Once vaccinated went back into the world but wore a mask.
- Come Mid May I stopped wearing a mask everywhere and went out to restaurants again. Went on vacation to crowded indoor areas.
- September comes around and I’m wearing a mask again. I still am seeing friends indoors and shopping and all that good stuff.
- Did a lot of traveling around new years. KN95 on while in airports/plane though I did eat and drink in the airport. Saw a bunch of friends and family. I was boosted by this point and never got sick and neither did anyone I interacted with (at least around the time I saw them they didn’t get sick).
TL;DR: I loosened up a lot after getting vaccinated and still haven’t gotten sick. I’m somewhere inbetween COVID recluse and COVID denier in my behavior. Happy to be part of the club
yeah I don’t even open that thread 
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I loosened up some since getting vaccinated, but the whole “not having a life” thing prior to the pandemic helped to continue not catching covid. Was thinking of tightening up a bit with omicron, and then my sister got it and recovered so easily, but now my mother has it, so imma wait to see how my mother does with it first.
Don’t think I have had it, although I had a dryish throat for a few days here and there the last few weeks that could have been a nearly asymptomatic case, and resulted in no other symptomatic infections in the house. I was boosted about the perfect time for the Omicron surge, so who knows, but I assume I have never had it.
I have no idea how my kids avoided bringing it home. Their seasonal viruses have been almost nothing for two years now.
I had groceries delivered for most of year 1 until vaccinated. Have dined indoors just a few times, mostly wore masks in stores, and was fine with small indoor gatherings once vaccinated, without asking for vax status.
My kids act like they are about the last ones left in their class to never have had COVID. I still expect that could change in the next week or two, although cases have dropped 50% from last week in their district.
We’re all still negative here but know several local people who have tested positive. Nobody we know has had serious complications but everyone we know is vaxxed.
We’ve been very careful the whole time. Haven’t eaten at an indoor restaurant, always wear N95 masks when shopping etc.
Expect we’ll get it eventually since our kids are all in school and there are tons of kids out sick every day
I don’t have kids, and that’s indeed a big risk factor for catching basically any bug that’s going around. Daycare might be worse than school.
So… how would we know?
I mean, I sneeze every so often, but I don’t get tested (why would I? I’m not going anywhere, and I don’t have any serious symptoms) … it sounds like the antibodies go away after a certain time, and, besides, I’ve had two different vaccines (though it sounds like those wear off, too).
So… how would we even know if we ever got it, if we never got serious symptoms?
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I think i’d know. My father, sister, and mother got it, and they all knew. Sure, some people are asymptomatic or have so mild symptoms that they don’t know, but I kind of don’t think I’m in that category. I don’t go out a ton and think the times I did go out, just got lucky and didn’t catch it. Also, the people I was with the few times I did go somewhere social didn’t get sick either. I’d think someone would have to trace back to me if I had it at some point, but nothing.
I think I’d know, too. I though i might have caught it at the very start of the pandemic, and it’s possible that i did, and the antibodies had faded by the time i finally got tested. But there are lots of other bugs with similar symptoms.
None of which I’ve had since I’ve been hiding from covid.
See https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/resources/antibody-tests-guidelines.html
Scroll all the way down to the “Interpretation of anti-S and anti-N antibody results based on vaccination status” section.
If you’re not producing Anti-N antibodies you haven’t been infected.
This, of course, means you’ve got to go get your blood tested which, while informative, doesn’t seem to serve a make-your-health-better-purpose…imo.
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the few times i thought i had symptoms, i tested, and was negative.
I have a dry throat - kind of like returning home from somewhere loud where I was screaming a lot. The stairs winded me a bit but that could also be because I’m fat and lazy atm. I don’t know which club to post in.
The kids have given me at least 3 non-COVID colds in the past 2-3 months, so it could also be that. Mucus is still continuously, but slowly, clogging my throat from at least one of those things lingering. The two of them have been tested like 47 times - once with the 1 COVID test we had in the house. Friggin’ kids man.
This was my first symptom. 
I’m still skeptical, but only because if I get this thing it will be 100% because the short people brought it over with them and they’ve been clear as far as we’ve been told. 13 had a sinus infection that lasted so long he got meds for it on.. Thurs.. no.. yesterday? Very recently anyway.
I should probably go get tested sometime but I don’t even want to leave the house for that.
I have some sinus problems year round due to allergies, so it’s possible if I had an extremely mild COVID case (or asymptomatic) I might not notice. However, my wife has been tested a lot and hasn’t had it, so I think odds I haven’t had it yet are high.
Did your next symptom happen to be itchy lungs? I feel like I’m getting bronchitis, and ain’t nobody got time for that.
Also, who TF gets bronchitis (or in the kid’s case, sinusitis) in the age of COVID? I’m going down with tuberculosis before I ever see COVID.
I can’t say as I’ve ever felt like I had itchy lungs. Itchy throat, sure, but not itchy lungs.
For me:
Phase 1: shortness of breath
Phase 2: GI stuff. (I don’t mean General Insurance. Enough said.)
Phase 3: body aches / headache, fatigue, coughing
Phase 4: body aches, fatigue, elevated temperature, chills
Phase 5: body aches, fatigue, severe congestion, sneezing, sore throat from post-nasal drip
Phase 6: sweet relief
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Yikes that sounds really unpleasant for on the spectrum of mild.
I’ve felt like I had itchy lungs, but not for many years. It’s pretty unpleasant.