The Picard ManeuverI should buy a lottery ticket
IzzyDataI kind of hope I am just immune at this point. I’ll probably get it randomly in a few years when I least expect it.
ChaisThat’s where updated vaccinations come in handy.
SheDiceTodayNever caught it, or never tested positive… or even bothered to be tested. I’m pretty sure I just had one of the mild cases, because I’ve had ‘generic respiratory illness’ with sniffles and congestion a few times since COVID-19 became a concern. I’m betting there is a large group of people who fit into my category.
rockerface 🇺🇦I’m fairly sure I also fall into that category, but I’ll probably never know for certain
Me, I’ve not had covid and its been in the house 3 times. I also have 100% attendance at work
Semi-Hemi-DemigodI was never officially diagnosed, but I had something that looked a lot like COVID in late February 2020. Glad I got that out of the way before lockdown started.
same. Kid and I had the same symptoms, our doctors had no clue what it was. It went away in a few days. I was at an international conference late January and was sick a little over a week after that, so it lines up pretty well. I was WFH for two years before it was cool, and am pretty much a hermit otherwise, so we’re all pretty sure it was COVID.
I would have said the same. 3 and a half years working retail during the pandemic and last week was the week it knocked me on my ass. Be careful.
Same! I work in healthcare and had to test nearly daily (using the antigene tests) and didn’t catch COVID until last week. If I didn’t work in healthcare I probably wouldn’t even know I had it, since the symptoms were rather mild. I only tested, because I had to work with people on chemotherapy and didn’t wanna risk them. At this point, I think there’s lots of people who catch the virus and don’t even know about it since we mostly stopped testing.
What did you do to avoid it for three years?
I dunno, wore a mask in public during the worst of it and used hand sanitizer regularly? I think it helped more that I’m a homebody with no friends.
All it took was a wedding for me to finally catch it last week. Sons of bitches
DUDE SAME
I got it for the first time at the beginning of September. I was so pissed, my 2.5 year streak of avoiding it gone. It was pretty brutal too, the fever and muscle soreness was no joke.
At this point it’s highly unlikely that there remains a human in an urban center that has not caught covid once. Maybe they didn’t have symptoms, maybe they didn’t notice, but they’ve had covid.
That or they’re a hermit.
There are plenty of immunocompromised folks who have continued to be vigilant and likely haven’t caught it.
But generally, yeah. If you are in a city and haven’t been taking precautions you had it, you were just asymptomatic.
I agree for the immunocompromised, but I’d say they just isolated.
synae[he/him]you had it, you were just asymptomatic.
A distinction without a difference, in my mind. I’ll take it
I live in one of the largest US cities, attend concerts, use public transit, and fly internationally. No covid in this house, I test multiple times per week as does my family.
The secret: we wear respirators everywhere and use nasal spray before & after risky situations.
HubertManneMy wife and I just mask up and not n95's. She wears gloves to but I just wash my hands often. No covid, no regular flue, no cold, no food poisoning. We have not had anything behind headaches and allergies in the last 3 or 4 years. And for those who are going to ask how we know its allergies. Well its because allergy medicine clears it right up and its usually something that would set off allergies.
surface transmission seems to be extremely rare so I wouldn’t worry about gloves.
Thats why I don't wear them but my wife is a bit more cautious and she should be given her medical issues. Her biggest threat is likely me. That being said in the long run we have been more impressed with how the precautions have kept all the other stuff as well as covid away. I keep worrying restaurants will stop using the light plastic gloves but luckily they seem to be keeping them. I would not be surprised if they looked at the data and saw a marked reduction in online complaints about eating there and then getting sick and decided it was worth the cost. That being said wearing the mask, to me, is nor more and maybe a little less annoying than wearing a hat. But gloves, especially disposable type, does not pass the value vs nuissance factor for me. Granted I live in the north so half the year I am wearing some kind of glove outside. I still hand sanitize and wash though.
I haven’t been to an indoor restaurant since 2020
Yeah and I don't do it often or unnecessarily but I don't really close myself off all that much. I just use a mask when in an enclosed public space or outside space with inadequate distancing when I don't otherwise need to utilize my pie hole. So im not zero risk by any means but from my anecdotal data of the last 3 or 4 years its amazing how much it helps. Im wondering how long I can go without getting sick.
i think the handwashing is a much bigger thing than a lot of people realize. wash your damn hands people!
Yeah people are confusing subclinical disease with not ever having it. Outside of total extreme isolation you had it at some point. You didn’t know you had it. You were in denial about having it. But you had it.
Tests are not 100 percent sensitive. Or many people just chose not to test themselves. But if you were interacting with the general population in the past 3 years you have had covid.
But also is cross-immunisation. So…one could have had something other than Covid-19 and still be immune to it. Then there are also the genetic outliers that are just naturally immune to the attack-vector of the virus.
Spliffman1I have always been an outlier i don’t get shit, never even had a headache or a broken bone. I think I might be the reluctant messiah
This is just multiple ways of saying what I said. Outside of some extreme outliers every person has come in contact with the virus. But that doesn’t always translate to extreme illness or even mild illness. As you said some people are naturally resistant or have other means of a defense that doesn’t lead to a significant illness after exposure.
So really the more accurate thing to say is that you never got sick from your covid exposure. Again you have to divide this further into those who genuinely have never had cold like symptoms since 2023 and those who are just in denial about it. I’ve come across a few people who proudly claim they’ve never had it but have shown up to work coughing and hacking. Lol sure you haven’t.
Whats extreme isolation to you? The person at the grocery store still wearing a mask and cleaning with hand sanitizer at the car?
I think that depends on what you mean by “having it”. Does having any amount of the covid-19 virus flowing through your body automatically mean you have it? Because the amount of the virus you have been exposed to is an important factor in whether or not you are impacted by it. Also if you aren’t impacted at all, but had what basically amounts to a microdose of the virus did you had covid?
It would be good to know what the medical definition is for this. I don’t actually know personally.
I don’t think my entire family that spans from toddler to elderly would all be asymptomatic and show false negatives on RATs, but I guess it’s possible.
I see this assertion all the time and while there is a fair bit of underreporting this line is just plain wrong but said with 100% conviction every time.
Estimates using late 2022 data assumes about 25% of Americans 16 or older have not caught COVID. 50+% believe they have not caught COVID, so unless I’m missing something drastic then if you are like me and lived as a hermit for 3+ years, followed all the reasonable precautions, and never had symptoms there is more like a ~50% chance you caught it and were asymptomatic.
How many Americans still haven't caught COVID-19? CDC publishes final 2022 estimates
In the most recent data, 77.5% of Americans ages 16 and older have antibodies from at least one prior infection.
It’s only an estimate. It’s closer to only 20 percent not producing antibodies. Some percentage of that is people having immuno compromise and not developing humeral immunity even though they’ve likely been exposed. Then there’s testing failure. None of these tests are 100 percent sensitive.
I do believe though like what. Ten to fifteen percent of people have isolated for three years and not gotten it. I’d buy that for sure. And there are a lot of places where you just don’t encounter people often. People that naturally were distanced from others just sort of…kept doing what they were doing.
Hermit reporting for duty, sir!
eezeebeeI’m basically a hermit.
Hermits unite! Metaphorically… Stay away from me
kamenladyI like where you stand on this
VoyajerI never got it, and I’ve been tested a few times due to coming into contact with people who did and always tested negative.
Negative test, especially negative rapid-test do not mean you don’t have covid. And positive tests don’t necessarily mean you’re visibility sick/contagious.
Not a hermit, just mask everywhere, don’t go to big things, and ask my friends what they’ve been doing recently if I want to take off my mask around them.
I had it once and it was after a family gathering and every member of my family had it, except my mom. She didn’t have it till now and barely reacted to the vaccine. She seems to be immune or something
happybadger [he/him]I wouldn’t have gotten it if not for a libertarian roommate who didn’t believe it existed. They tested positive, said it was a false positive, took no precautions whatsoever at home, and then went back to work at their nursing home a day later.
GranixoThat’s me!
High five! (from a safe distance)
HubiMe too. Though I’m wondering if I ever caught it and just ended up being asymptomatic. I can’t say that I’ve been particularly careful and pretty much everyone in my social circle had it at some point.
I thought about that to but I usually got sick with something every year before 2020 and I have not been sick since either late 2018 or early 2019. Its been so long I can't remember. The masking is working for everything else so likely I don't think my wife or I have caught covid ever.
Me too!
I wonder if I’ve had it. I got tested the few times I felt sick and always negative. But it seems a lot of people have been asymptomatic so it is probably more prevalent than we know.
meanwhile i got vaccinated 4 times and still caught it twice - is there a price for that end of the spectrum?
Your prize is still being alive!
Altima NEOWhat a rip off!
The vaccines were never intended to prevent you from catching it.
Probably they got it but they didn’t notice. At a place I worked in recently several people had cold like symptoms and I got same but immediately knew it’s corona because I got it last year. But almost everyone describes it as cold or allergies.
Somehow I haven’t even had the sniffles in 3 years. But I’ve worked remotely for a lot of it.
Same here
SpitzspotSO and I still remain infected.
AshuGet well soon 🤞🏻
Oops…edited😁