Poll: Have You Caught Covid?
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> My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously
China? Seriously though, you might better to look for places where you can interact with others mainly outdoors. e.g. we often socialise at the beach, outdoor seating at restaurants/cafes.
China? Seriously though, you might better to look for places where you can interact with others mainly outdoors. e.g. we often socialise at the beach, outdoor seating at restaurants/cafes.
Unfortunately strong outdoor transmission is documented for Omicron.
38+ people infected by a runner in a park in China, of ~256 he passed that were identified.
https://twitter.com/rdmorris/status/1596978503429525504?s=20...
I’m not sure how divergent evolution of strains is, but there’s enough travel that we probably can’t rule out the threat from a strain that exists anywhere near an active airport.
38+ people infected by a runner in a park in China, of ~256 he passed that were identified.
https://twitter.com/rdmorris/status/1596978503429525504?s=20...
I’m not sure how divergent evolution of strains is, but there’s enough travel that we probably can’t rule out the threat from a strain that exists anywhere near an active airport.
Boosters are extremely effective to stop the spread. A large percentage of those with at least 2 boosters experience no symptoms when exposed. However it is still important to continue to mask to protect yourself and others as boosters may not stop transmission, even if you never experience symptoms. Again, for most people covid will exhibit mild to no symptoms. It's our most vulnerable who are at risk from the unmasked and unvaccinated. So please, get your boosters and wear a mask.
You've got to be kidding. People aren't going to wear masks. The virus is never going away so we just have to live with it regardless of the risks. I'm certainly not going to spend the rest of my life wearing a mask in public.
Why do you think it is still important to continue to mask? What days is there to back that statement up?
It would be interested to see what % of those with at least 2 boosters experience no symptoms.
My wife and I have a very similar situation and concern with you. One thing I'm sure is that we can't recall much from 2020-2021. It all seems like a black out to us where we went through extreme isolation.
And because of that I actually got some other health problem, related to the inactivities during isolation.
I think in the end we just need to think in terms of harm reduction. Mental health, as well as other health issues besides contracting COVID are also important. If we reduce the risk in one area too much, we increase the harm in other areas.
One thing that we need to be careful is not to swing to another extreme. Some would start giving up on mask. But to me having masks on us make me feel safer to go out which makes me goes out more. But we have teared down some extreme level of precaution that makes us very tired of getting outside (to be specific a small quarantine zone which is time consuming and troublesome.)
And because of that I actually got some other health problem, related to the inactivities during isolation.
I think in the end we just need to think in terms of harm reduction. Mental health, as well as other health issues besides contracting COVID are also important. If we reduce the risk in one area too much, we increase the harm in other areas.
One thing that we need to be careful is not to swing to another extreme. Some would start giving up on mask. But to me having masks on us make me feel safer to go out which makes me goes out more. But we have teared down some extreme level of precaution that makes us very tired of getting outside (to be specific a small quarantine zone which is time consuming and troublesome.)
> I'm really not sure what to do – we don't want to keep getting it, but we really want some sense of social life back.
Why bother doing anything different? Are you at specific risk or is this just general fear of some catastrophic outcome? Were you equally fearful of the common flu prior to covid?
> My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously.
Considering the overwhelming evidence that it's not statistically an issue for the vast majority of otherwise healthy people, and even more so if you factor in vaccination, what does it mean to "take this infection seriously"? Do you expect the world to wear N95 masks 24/7 and stop hugging each other just to assuage your personal fears?
Why bother doing anything different? Are you at specific risk or is this just general fear of some catastrophic outcome? Were you equally fearful of the common flu prior to covid?
> My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously.
Considering the overwhelming evidence that it's not statistically an issue for the vast majority of otherwise healthy people, and even more so if you factor in vaccination, what does it mean to "take this infection seriously"? Do you expect the world to wear N95 masks 24/7 and stop hugging each other just to assuage your personal fears?
> Considering the overwhelming evidence that it's not statistically an issue for the vast majority of otherwise healthy people
Don't be an overdebunker. We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term. Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying. Especially for people who seem to keep getting repeat infections.
Don't be an overdebunker. We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term. Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying. Especially for people who seem to keep getting repeat infections.
> We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term.
The flip side of that coin is we have no knowledge that it has catastrophic long term damage. And even it if does we have a critical mass of people infected to justify research to solve it.
> Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying.
Sure but worrying to the point of living as a recluse for years to come? For an otherwise healthy person that’s frankly absurd.
The flip side of that coin is we have no knowledge that it has catastrophic long term damage. And even it if does we have a critical mass of people infected to justify research to solve it.
> Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying.
Sure but worrying to the point of living as a recluse for years to come? For an otherwise healthy person that’s frankly absurd.
Ok but if it turns out to be fine, being overly careful means you didn't get to be as social as you otherwise would be. An inconvenience, sure, a degradation of your quality of life, yes, but nothing too major.
If it does turn out to have long term consequences, you could be losing years of your life, and making the years towards the end have a much lower standard of living.
I'd much prefer to isolate more than normal now when I'm healthy and have that turn out to have been unnecessary than to not, and end up forced to isolate due to poor health limiting my ability to live my life. For the record, I'm not a recluse or anything, but I'm not going to concerts or things like that, and am still wearing a mask.
If it does turn out to have long term consequences, you could be losing years of your life, and making the years towards the end have a much lower standard of living.
I'd much prefer to isolate more than normal now when I'm healthy and have that turn out to have been unnecessary than to not, and end up forced to isolate due to poor health limiting my ability to live my life. For the record, I'm not a recluse or anything, but I'm not going to concerts or things like that, and am still wearing a mask.
>We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term.
and neither have the vaccines
and neither have the vaccines
Since you trust the long-term safety of the vaccines 100%, I guess it's reasonable to trust long-term predictions of the effects of covid 100% for you then.
Early in the pandemic, covid was much worse than the common flu.
Part of the reason covid was so confusing is that the outcomes are extremely variable. Even among the earliest infections, many people were completely asymptomatic. Also, some young, healthy people end up dying from it. It's hard for a lot of people to understand that kind of risk.
I've tested possible on 2 occasions now, pre- and post-vax, and can confidently say I'm much more concerned about flu than covid (for me).
I've tested possible on 2 occasions now, pre- and post-vax, and can confidently say I'm much more concerned about flu than covid (for me).
Outcomes are extremely variable for most illnesses.
For the old. For the not-old, it was a lot like the common flu, and for the very young, it was much milder. For nursing home residents (the old who are pretty bad off) it was like a coin-flip death sentence.
For the not old, the death and morbidity rates were still higher than the common flu. Only for young children was it less bad than the flu.
Would male fertility impacts worry you?
https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1596922071786741760
https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1596922071786741760
Yes, while in hospital in Jan 2021.
I was in hospital for non-Covid reasons, in an 'airy' open ward with only 6 spaced-out beds, but the usual plethora of hospital staff coming and going.
The patients were tested for Covid frequently and one day [Edit: By this time I had been in hospital for about 2 months, one of those in ICU - long story!] the Ward Manager let me know I had tested positive and I was wheeled off to a 'red' ward.
I was sent home after 2 weeks, but came back in a week later with a mild chest infection, so I had another 2 week stay for oxygen, observation and antibiotics.
My sense of taste was out of whack for about 6 months afterwards and many of the foods I enjoyed beforehand tasted 'rank'. I lived on mostly acidic things such as fruit, beetroot, prawn cocktails, tomatoes (OK, they are a fruit too); I couldn't stand any form of meat, bread, rice or plain pasta.
I was in hospital for non-Covid reasons, in an 'airy' open ward with only 6 spaced-out beds, but the usual plethora of hospital staff coming and going.
The patients were tested for Covid frequently and one day [Edit: By this time I had been in hospital for about 2 months, one of those in ICU - long story!] the Ward Manager let me know I had tested positive and I was wheeled off to a 'red' ward.
I was sent home after 2 weeks, but came back in a week later with a mild chest infection, so I had another 2 week stay for oxygen, observation and antibiotics.
My sense of taste was out of whack for about 6 months afterwards and many of the foods I enjoyed beforehand tasted 'rank'. I lived on mostly acidic things such as fruit, beetroot, prawn cocktails, tomatoes (OK, they are a fruit too); I couldn't stand any form of meat, bread, rice or plain pasta.
There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.
Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore.
I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.
I find people taking this strategy interesting, especially as we approach the 3 year mark. Do you plan on doing this forever? Is there something you expect to change that would lower your/the risk thus allowing you to live a more normal social life? ("Normal" for lack of better word)
For context, I've been back in the office for more than a year at this point (haven't worn a mask in a year either). I'm pretty sure people come to work sick like they always did and don't even get a covid test most of the time any more. It feels kind of like flu/colds were prior to Covid; where it's an honor rule with no benefit of being honest and staying home when sick. I'm pretty indifferent towards people still taking the extra measures (your choice) but it does seem like an inconvenience with no end in sight (IMO).
Edit: They added more context to their comment after mine. "Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out." is all there was previously. I can't comment so maybe I got flagged. No ill intention, you do you and I'm sure you have reasons that are none of my business but we're here to talk. I'm mostly just curious because I see this a lot online and it seems like there's a whole class of people that intend to just be hermits forever now (my assumption) and it intrigues me on why you'd just give in to it like that; unless you already had hermit tendencies or some increased risk factors.
For context, I've been back in the office for more than a year at this point (haven't worn a mask in a year either). I'm pretty sure people come to work sick like they always did and don't even get a covid test most of the time any more. It feels kind of like flu/colds were prior to Covid; where it's an honor rule with no benefit of being honest and staying home when sick. I'm pretty indifferent towards people still taking the extra measures (your choice) but it does seem like an inconvenience with no end in sight (IMO).
Edit: They added more context to their comment after mine. "Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out." is all there was previously. I can't comment so maybe I got flagged. No ill intention, you do you and I'm sure you have reasons that are none of my business but we're here to talk. I'm mostly just curious because I see this a lot online and it seems like there's a whole class of people that intend to just be hermits forever now (my assumption) and it intrigues me on why you'd just give in to it like that; unless you already had hermit tendencies or some increased risk factors.
I would like to see a lot more masking in general. In asian societies it has long been normal to see people masked up in public, not sure why we can't have that in the west other than a culture of extreme individualism. Why can't people who come to work sick just wear a mask? I kind of enjoy wearing the mask though so a bit biased. Just feels pretty rude to knowingly expose other people when you are/might be sick.
For someone who is hearing impaired masks are awful. I hope that wearing of masks is never normalized.
Why are people going to work sick. That is the issue.
Of course masks don't really do much for COVID.
Maybe get a hearing aid.
People go to work sick because their job doesn’t give them sick days. Or because they want a promotion and figure perfect attend next is how to get it. I don’t think it’s reasonable to stop people from coming to work sick unfortunately.
People go to work sick because their job doesn’t give them sick days. Or because they want a promotion and figure perfect attend next is how to get it. I don’t think it’s reasonable to stop people from coming to work sick unfortunately.
An N95 mask or better protects maybe. The other common masks are useless against Omicron.
Maybe a respirator type mask?
COVID is here with us just like the common cold/flu. It's never going away.
Maybe a respirator type mask?
COVID is here with us just like the common cold/flu. It's never going away.
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> like flu/colds were prior to Covid; where it's an honor rule with no benefit of being honest and staying home when sick
no benefit, except for your own health? If you have the flu, Covid or any other serious infection, you should definitely stay at home and get some rest - not for others, but for yourself.
no benefit, except for your own health? If you have the flu, Covid or any other serious infection, you should definitely stay at home and get some rest - not for others, but for yourself.
Sure, but without mandated paid sick leave, people don't stay home. When it's the difference between going to work to scrape by, or stay home and have trouble making rent or buying food, most folks choose to go to work sick.
We're a society that doesn't value collective health very much.
We're a society that doesn't value collective health very much.
You should add a qualifier that you are from the USA. Where I live it's completely frowned upon to go to work sick, to the point where you will be told off by your manager, your colleagues will think it's rude and disrespectful, etc.
I simply do not understand how the USA doesn't provide sick leave for workers, does that stem from a lack of trust between employers and employees? It seems to me that the only reason to make it difficult for people to get paid leave when they're sick is that employers feel it'd be abused and hence treat their employees as children, perpetuating the cycle of mistrust. I cannot see another reason for such a basic need for the general health of society to be missing...
I simply do not understand how the USA doesn't provide sick leave for workers, does that stem from a lack of trust between employers and employees? It seems to me that the only reason to make it difficult for people to get paid leave when they're sick is that employers feel it'd be abused and hence treat their employees as children, perpetuating the cycle of mistrust. I cannot see another reason for such a basic need for the general health of society to be missing...
That's fair that I should add a qualifier that I'm from the US.
The only reason I can think of is exactly what you pointed out: that it would be abused. It's really not. Most people want to work. Most people want to feel productive and that they're meaningfully doing something. It's why the myth of the welfare queen is so ridiculous or employees exploiting paid leave is equally ridiculous. The abusers are the exception to the rule, so don't punish the majority for the acts of an extreme minority.
The only reason I can think of is exactly what you pointed out: that it would be abused. It's really not. Most people want to work. Most people want to feel productive and that they're meaningfully doing something. It's why the myth of the welfare queen is so ridiculous or employees exploiting paid leave is equally ridiculous. The abusers are the exception to the rule, so don't punish the majority for the acts of an extreme minority.
They said they interact with old people - the group with the highest death rates. Not that anyone has to explain why they don't want an infectious disease to anyone else.
Personally, I have no issue with continuing to wear an N95 mask indoors for years to come.
I'll do it forever at the grocery store or any other place that has lots of people. I do plan on going to a maskless social weekend soon with a half dozen buddies, but everyone there will have up to date vaccinations and be tested
Plenty of people who got the covid were taking similar precautions. It's pretty infectious!
Not in my case. Been using the best masks I can get my hands on (KN95 from late summer 2020, switching to N95 last spring when those started to become available. Surgical and cloth masks have basically been cosplay since at least delta.
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I would 100% have caught it at least once if I was doing service work. I'm lucky to never have to be in proximity of others for work
Well, I was careful too trying to protect my elderly parents (86/87) - and then (in November 2021) I got it from my father! No idea where he managed to get it from, as he doesn't go out much, except when I drive hime somewhere - probably from a delivery guy (although I told him to wear a mask when going to the door - he was living on his own at the time). Needless to say I was worried sick, but, being vaccinated, he got through just fine. The way he tells it, he barely had any symptoms except for a sore throat (which was the reason why I insisted on testing him). My wife and I then both got it, were sick for ~ 5 days, nothing really bad, just losing your sense of smell is a bit scary...
Of course, this is all just anecdotal evidence, but it supports the point that vaccinated old people are generally not that much at risk anymore. What's bothering me most at the moment is that everyone's pretending things are back to normal, but to visit my mother in the nursing home I have to get an appointment, get tested, wear a mask the whole time, and, especially during wintertime, they will still regularly be in Covid quarantine for weeks.
Of course, this is all just anecdotal evidence, but it supports the point that vaccinated old people are generally not that much at risk anymore. What's bothering me most at the moment is that everyone's pretending things are back to normal, but to visit my mother in the nursing home I have to get an appointment, get tested, wear a mask the whole time, and, especially during wintertime, they will still regularly be in Covid quarantine for weeks.
It seems to be luck more than anything. After I got vaccinated in April of 2021, I've just lived life normally: Going bowling with friends, going to bars, etc. I only wore a mask if someone ordered me to. I still haven't gotten covid. Meanwhile one of my friends has been living like a hermit since March of 2020 and he got covid the one time he left his house. He was outdoors and wearing an N95 mask.
The mRNA vaccines do not prevent you from getting COVID or spreading it. All they do is prevent you from getting really sick and maybe dying. That's it.
Pfizer didn't even test if their vaccine prevents the spread of COVID because that's not what it was designed to do.
The politicians lied that if u got vaccine it would help prevent the spread of COVID. It does not.
Pfizer didn't even test if their vaccine prevents the spread of COVID because that's not what it was designed to do.
The politicians lied that if u got vaccine it would help prevent the spread of COVID. It does not.
Do you have a favorite vaccine?
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>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.
I'm one of those people.
I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2]
So why are you blaming the unvaccinated? Right now there are more excess deaths than any time during the pandemic.[3] Even people who were provaxx are questioning why it's happening now.[4] If the vaxx was so great less people should be dying or was that not the point?
[1] https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-cdc-buries-the-truth... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... [3] https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/159384008954467942... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZJfVR9-wo
I'm one of those people.
I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2]
So why are you blaming the unvaccinated? Right now there are more excess deaths than any time during the pandemic.[3] Even people who were provaxx are questioning why it's happening now.[4] If the vaxx was so great less people should be dying or was that not the point?
[1] https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-cdc-buries-the-truth... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... [3] https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/159384008954467942... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZJfVR9-wo
Same here, I handled covid fine, a full 2 years after it all started. Was 4 days of feeling lame with fever. Before I didn't take many precautions, stopped masking after it was obvious that the spread was mostly seasonal and cloth masks had no evidence behind them.
Now I've got an immune response based on the complete virus, rather than a no-longer-existing subunit of a single protein. I expect I'll fare better than the immune chaos of infinite boosters.
People at risk should take precautions of isolating, otherwise it's time to move on with life.
Now I've got an immune response based on the complete virus, rather than a no-longer-existing subunit of a single protein. I expect I'll fare better than the immune chaos of infinite boosters.
People at risk should take precautions of isolating, otherwise it's time to move on with life.
What do you mean by "during the pandemic"?
Do you have a favorite vaccine? If you had to get 1
BCG vaccine isn't a covid vaccine, but it works better than any genetic shot IMO.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/tb-drug-vs-covid
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/tb-drug-vs-covid
If you had to get a covid vaccine which would you pick
> So why are you blaming the unvaccinated?
Because the media did. Uncritically parroting what the media claims is a tried-and-true path to social acceptability.
Noting that the vaccines are non-sterilizing, and that their transmission attenuation was at best 15%, was a great way to get uninvited to the "right" kind of parties with the "right" kind of people.
Truth doesn't stand a chance against social conformity pressure, and it never has.
Because the media did. Uncritically parroting what the media claims is a tried-and-true path to social acceptability.
Noting that the vaccines are non-sterilizing, and that their transmission attenuation was at best 15%, was a great way to get uninvited to the "right" kind of parties with the "right" kind of people.
Truth doesn't stand a chance against social conformity pressure, and it never has.
>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.
I'm not the one making you wear a mask, you are. it's your choice to make yourself miserable and stupid looking. I can't believe there are still people like this, three years on. just get over it .. you're like those japanese soldiers who didn't know the war was over.
I'm not the one making you wear a mask, you are. it's your choice to make yourself miserable and stupid looking. I can't believe there are still people like this, three years on. just get over it .. you're like those japanese soldiers who didn't know the war was over.
Which war?
Haven't had it even once. I'm vaxed (original 2 doses of Pfizer) but not boosted. I still mask when I'm indoors (outside of home). Don't go out a lot, avoid crowded indoor venues, WFH, still kind of cautious.
I only had it once, lost taste & smell last December, after a trip to Chicago's Thanksgiving parade. Seemed to come down with the flu two weeks later.
By January, I was back on my feet, and I think taste & smell were fully back by March.
I haven't had it since, and I really haven't been cautious. I was at the parade again last week.
They are getting better at not ripping the floats.
https://i.redd.it/1lhbtkhv9yz11.png
By January, I was back on my feet, and I think taste & smell were fully back by March.
I haven't had it since, and I really haven't been cautious. I was at the parade again last week.
They are getting better at not ripping the floats.
https://i.redd.it/1lhbtkhv9yz11.png
> There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.
Weird, everybody I know has had it one or zero times.
Weird, everybody I know has had it one or zero times.
I only had it once. Have been out and about since the beginning of the year.
On day 6 of my first time.
I've only had it once, and I had it this year.
Had it, felt completely exhausted for 3+ weeks. Standing for more than a few minutes was hard. Recovery was very gradual.
Afterwards I developed a strong abnormal heart rhythm (PVCs). I had had these previously, but the ones post-COVID were really intense. They were on and off for a few weeks accompanied by acute fatigue.
If you're an athlete / active person pay attention to your heart after infection. I gradually ramped back up to high intensity activities.
Afterwards I developed a strong abnormal heart rhythm (PVCs). I had had these previously, but the ones post-COVID were really intense. They were on and off for a few weeks accompanied by acute fatigue.
If you're an athlete / active person pay attention to your heart after infection. I gradually ramped back up to high intensity activities.
Caught it from our young kids (2.5 and 0.5 years old - they are not great at social distance nor hand washing and happily cough and sneeze in your face). They were totally fine yet testing positive for days (we only found out they had it after my wife tested positive) and I was negative everyday for about a week.
Just as I was starting to feel invincible, I got the faintest possible line on a lateral flow test. All I had was a very minor sore throat for an afternoon - I would never had tested that on its own, but apparently it was COVID! (Tested positive for about 5 or 6 days after).
I suspect a lot of people saying they never got it probably have got it but never realised.
Nice thing now is I don't worry about it. 4 jabs now I think, plus natural immunity from infection. The main thing though was the kids were 100% unimpacted by it all so there feels like there is nothing much to worry about. We regularly get way way way worse infections from nursery - COVID was literally nothing compared to some of the stuff we've had from nursery that has totally floored us for days and weeks!
Just as I was starting to feel invincible, I got the faintest possible line on a lateral flow test. All I had was a very minor sore throat for an afternoon - I would never had tested that on its own, but apparently it was COVID! (Tested positive for about 5 or 6 days after).
I suspect a lot of people saying they never got it probably have got it but never realised.
Nice thing now is I don't worry about it. 4 jabs now I think, plus natural immunity from infection. The main thing though was the kids were 100% unimpacted by it all so there feels like there is nothing much to worry about. We regularly get way way way worse infections from nursery - COVID was literally nothing compared to some of the stuff we've had from nursery that has totally floored us for days and weeks!
Not that I'm aware of for neither my wife nor I. I've been working from home and I always mask up when I leave the house, my wife worked in the patient facing part of the medical field (including long duration close contact with paatients), but she always masked up and neither of us have had symptoms matching COVID. Outside of the usual allergies I've been remarkably healthy.
We were SUPER careful until recently. Then we sent our kids back to school in September w/ no masks, and caught it within a month.
We got the newest boosters two weeks before testing positive. Le sigh.
We got the newest boosters two weeks before testing positive. Le sigh.
Pretty much the same story for our family.
Covid wasn't really any worse than the flu for us, but the following week or two after getting Covid we got hit with something way worse. Unsure if it was just Covid in a lingering state, or whether our daughter brought home something new from school. Whatever it was kicked our butts.
We're all still in a hazy state ever since. Having trouble waking in the mornings, thinking straight, sometimes even forgetting where we are. I guess this is what they're calling "long covid"?
Covid wasn't really any worse than the flu for us, but the following week or two after getting Covid we got hit with something way worse. Unsure if it was just Covid in a lingering state, or whether our daughter brought home something new from school. Whatever it was kicked our butts.
We're all still in a hazy state ever since. Having trouble waking in the mornings, thinking straight, sometimes even forgetting where we are. I guess this is what they're calling "long covid"?
We caught it for the first time a week ago (my entire family). Theoretically I was patient zero, but the preceding week I had only left the house once, which was go to to a doctor appointment where I wore a n95 mask (and the rest of the office was masked as well.)
Very frustrating.
Very frustrating.
I had it. It was nasty. Fatigue, mental fog, and phantomsia (cigarette smoke in my case, lucky me...) persisted for months after. I also had abnormal heart rhythms and an increased frequency of ocular migraines (1-2 per year is "normal" for me, I had 4 in the 2 months immediately after getting over COVID and have had 2 since).
Going into it, I was in extremely good physical condition. Coming out of it, it took me about 4 months of training to get back to baseline.
I'm only now (~10 months later) back to where I was, in terms of my aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, speed, endurance, etc. FWIW, my strength didn't take much of a hit.
Going into it, I was in extremely good physical condition. Coming out of it, it took me about 4 months of training to get back to baseline.
I'm only now (~10 months later) back to where I was, in terms of my aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, speed, endurance, etc. FWIW, my strength didn't take much of a hit.
I still haven't caught. Vaxed 4 times, traveled internationally over the Pacific twice since the pandemic started first time during delta wave and second time more recently and have traveled domestically 3 times.
no.
vaxed with all boosters, work from home, don't go out much, regular testing and all negative and no symptoms. When I did go out, I'd mask and distance. Now, easing up on that but still avoiding crowded areas and places. I have asthma so I've been as reasonably cautious as possible.
vaxed with all boosters, work from home, don't go out much, regular testing and all negative and no symptoms. When I did go out, I'd mask and distance. Now, easing up on that but still avoiding crowded areas and places. I have asthma so I've been as reasonably cautious as possible.
Felt lousy last year, trouble breathing, went to hospital and got in via their special "If You Think You Have Covid" entrance...
They checked me out and were sure I had it because everyone "coming in here has it". Brought me up to the Covid ward, my own room...
Next morning test came back negative. Just a respiratory infection. They sent me home. Other than that, I haven't really been sick in the last two years, despite working two jobs, exposed to multiple people that had it. Seems strange but oh well.
They checked me out and were sure I had it because everyone "coming in here has it". Brought me up to the Covid ward, my own room...
Next morning test came back negative. Just a respiratory infection. They sent me home. Other than that, I haven't really been sick in the last two years, despite working two jobs, exposed to multiple people that had it. Seems strange but oh well.
Got it in summer 2022. The worst things were rapidly changing fever (temperature between 37° and 40°C) for two days and loss of smell for a couple of weeks when I felt otherwise healthy again. No fatigue or memory trouble worse or longer than a medium cold AFAICT, luckier than some people I know. Three shots of Moderna at the time, recently got a Pfizer omicron booster. The latter won't help for long, but I'll meet vulnerable older family members over the holidays, so...
I had a mild infection right at the start, and developed Long Covid as a result in April 2020.
I feel like my life has been shortened by at least a decade, maybe 2. I find it incredibly hard to focus on any task, and haven't really be able to do anything productive since.
It's only the grace of being barely within retirement that has saved me and my family from going homeless, so far. If I can just make it to partial social security, at the end of 2025, we'll be ok.
I feel like my life has been shortened by at least a decade, maybe 2. I find it incredibly hard to focus on any task, and haven't really be able to do anything productive since.
It's only the grace of being barely within retirement that has saved me and my family from going homeless, so far. If I can just make it to partial social security, at the end of 2025, we'll be ok.
I got it in June this year for the first time. (It must have been when I was at work as this was a period where I did little other than wake up and go to work.)
I'm still masking and even wearing gloves and otherwise taking any/all precautions to not get it again. The anti-vax around me seem to have all gotten it multiple times. (They would likely report they never had it despite whether or not they owned up to it at the time they were sick.)
I'm still masking and even wearing gloves and otherwise taking any/all precautions to not get it again. The anti-vax around me seem to have all gotten it multiple times. (They would likely report they never had it despite whether or not they owned up to it at the time they were sick.)
Yep. Avoided it for a while. Managed to go to week long dance camps and never get it. Then I spent a few days in NYC and got it in July of 2022. Convinced I got it from the subway or something of the sort. It’s possible I got it elsewhere of course.
It was quite ironic. Then went on a 3 month trip across Europe meeting hundreds of people and spending lots of time dancing with them. No masks or anything either. Didn’t get Covid then either.
Subways in nyc, man.
It was quite ironic. Then went on a 3 month trip across Europe meeting hundreds of people and spending lots of time dancing with them. No masks or anything either. Didn’t get Covid then either.
Subways in nyc, man.
No Covid, even with some pretty intensive traveling over the past year. My rule is to always wear a well-fitted N95 mask indoors, and to not take it off even for an instant. (Exceptions made when hanging out with friends I'm fairly sure aren't sick.) The main downside is having to always eat outdoors when going out, but it's rarely an issue in CA.
I got one dose of the J&J back in 2020 and to my knowledge never had Covid (never had symptoms, never been tested). Never wore a mask, regularly hang out in packed bars, and spent a week sitting next to my cousin who had Covid while on vacation. Just lucky? Some sort of natural immunity? Or an asymptomatic case? Hard to say.
We live in NYC. Beginning of 2020, my partner and I entertained a friend who flew in from France. Shortly afterwards, we both got sick with what was the most persistent "flu" that we ever had (lasting 3 weeks or so). No tests available, so no confirmation if it was Covid.
3 times
October 2021 - Delta - 2 weeks of fewer without break, loss of apetite, first few days fatigue I could hardly move around apartment, though only relatively mild coughing, 3 weeks without smell. wife caught it from me just days later, she was quite the opposite, almost no symptoms besides pretty horrible cough for more than a month, we have both extremely healthy BMI, no chronic issues
~June 2022 and September 2022 - Omicron - <12-16 hours of fatigue, headache and mild fewer, next day already fine
I am fully unvaccinated and I'm grateful to my own immune system and mother nature for opportunity it provides for us to feel safe, if you take care of your body.
October 2021 - Delta - 2 weeks of fewer without break, loss of apetite, first few days fatigue I could hardly move around apartment, though only relatively mild coughing, 3 weeks without smell. wife caught it from me just days later, she was quite the opposite, almost no symptoms besides pretty horrible cough for more than a month, we have both extremely healthy BMI, no chronic issues
~June 2022 and September 2022 - Omicron - <12-16 hours of fatigue, headache and mild fewer, next day already fine
I am fully unvaccinated and I'm grateful to my own immune system and mother nature for opportunity it provides for us to feel safe, if you take care of your body.
Pretty sure I had it once. Was too sick to leave house to get tested. better to stay home.
Flipside, I'm also dealing with daycare syndrome. It absolutely exists, seems to be related to if the daycare does a poor job at cleaning everyday.
Flipside, I'm also dealing with daycare syndrome. It absolutely exists, seems to be related to if the daycare does a poor job at cleaning everyday.
I had symptoms of "long COVID" weeks after testing negative.
My coughing fits were fixed when my RMT re-adjusted my ribs. My "heavy fatigue after one activity" was fixed with acupuncture.
Take it with a grain of salt, but there are options out there.
My coughing fits were fixed when my RMT re-adjusted my ribs. My "heavy fatigue after one activity" was fixed with acupuncture.
Take it with a grain of salt, but there are options out there.
No vax. No masking. No precautions. Never caught it, never had any symptoms.
I think I got it early to mid February 2020 when testing wasn't widely available. There wasn't a lot of news about COVID at the time and I caught something that wasn't the flu (tested negative) and hit me like a ton of bricks. I was having a hard time breathing, even when taking Mucinex. It wasn't bad enough to go to the hospital so I stuck it out at home. I managed the other symptoms well with Tylenol and Advil. I'm personally convinced that I caught it way earlier than most but its purely anecdotal.
A month ago, I got the same symptoms I got after getting vaxed (I got AstraZeneca, Biontech, and Moderna) just a bit more intense. Only took like 4 days and it was gone.
Did some tests but never got a positive result.
Did some tests but never got a positive result.
Back in mid March 2020 I flew back from USA to Finland and had symptoms starting next day, but the official policy was only to test those with severe symptoms so I never got confirmation.
Unvaccinated, never had any symptoms (actually, haven't been sick at all since covid, really strange), was working in public with lots of contact for the entire period before the vaccines were released. I never got tested for antibodies.
Mostly the same for me (without lots of public contact).
Similar for me (except I had vaccines for covid and flu). Even have been in prolonged contact (in one household) with people that had covid.
I used to be sick with flu almost every year before (but I did not had vaccine against flu before).
I used to be sick with flu almost every year before (but I did not had vaccine against flu before).
I haven't had COVID or any other respiratory disease since early January 2020 (when COVID did not have any cases in my state).
I believe I'm the missing binary state. I've tested positive (antigen) but I don't think I've had it.
Never had a positive test. Feels extremely silly to be concerned about this disease two+ years in.
5) No symptoms, never tested.
Is there any way to tell, after having had a vaccination?
I got unusually sick in February of 2020; felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Went to the hospital, and there were so many people there with the same symptoms we were a line past the ER and down the hallway. No one was thinking covid at the time. I remember the nurse checking me in asking if I'd had the flu shot (I had), then shrugging and guessing it must not be that effective that year. Was sent home after receiving fluids.
That being said, I never lost my sense of smell, nor did I have the brain fog, covid toes, any of the other supposed tells. Did take a solid month to feel fully human again in terms of energy levels, though.
Haven't been sick since, that I am aware of.
I got unusually sick in February of 2020; felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Went to the hospital, and there were so many people there with the same symptoms we were a line past the ER and down the hallway. No one was thinking covid at the time. I remember the nurse checking me in asking if I'd had the flu shot (I had), then shrugging and guessing it must not be that effective that year. Was sent home after receiving fluids.
That being said, I never lost my sense of smell, nor did I have the brain fog, covid toes, any of the other supposed tells. Did take a solid month to feel fully human again in terms of energy levels, though.
Haven't been sick since, that I am aware of.
You can have your antibodies tested. If you had the vaccine, you will only have spike antibodies. If you had the disease, you will have other ones as well.
Good to know, thank you. Is this something a lab like Quest would offer, or do you have to ask your GP about it?
Quest does offer it, don't know if you'll need a doctor's order or not because that's not an issue for me - I can order it myself or have my wife (also a physician) order it. You want a nucleocapsid antibody test to find out if you've had the disease - the spike antibody test will tell you whether or not your vaccine "took".
Thanks again. Your help is appreciated.
I'm vaccinated and boosted (but never got the Omicron booster this fall). On day 6 of my first COVID-positive infection and while I never lost my sense of smell, I had a super high fever (104ºF-ish) and awful headache for 2-3 days, and have been having intermittent brain fog and fatigue and a cough since then but feel 65%-95% recovered at any given moment.
I also just finished my round of Paxlovid, which feels like it may have reduced my recovery time slightly, at the cost of an _awful_ constant metallic taste in my mouth and mild but increasing gastrointestinal upset.
I also just finished my round of Paxlovid, which feels like it may have reduced my recovery time slightly, at the cost of an _awful_ constant metallic taste in my mouth and mild but increasing gastrointestinal upset.
I got vaccinated and boosted once, and basically stopped being safe after that, because there was no longer a necessity to for my specific situation. I closely interacted with people I found out were covid positive for about an hour at a time and never got infected, even testing negative on a PCR. My girlfriend and I sat next to a family member for a family wedding rehearsal, and she caught it from him. I took her to the hospital for what we thought was strep (because that family member did not tell anyone they had covid until after the wedding because they took the conservative opinion that it wasn't an issue). After we found out it was covid I scheduled a PCR.
Two times positive. The first time was very painful
I have, to my knowledge, never had it. Nor has anyone in my family. I reached out to the team studying superdodgers [1], but never heard back.
It'd be useful if getting the kind of blood test that tells you if you EVER had COVID19 was not pay-out-of-pocket.
Fully vaccinated. If I had to self-rate my own mask habits, I'd give myself a B-.
[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/07/1121599...
It'd be useful if getting the kind of blood test that tells you if you EVER had COVID19 was not pay-out-of-pocket.
Fully vaccinated. If I had to self-rate my own mask habits, I'd give myself a B-.
[1] - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/07/1121599...
I got it first in May 20. I got over it in about 6 weeks and started getting my life together, and then my health plummeted. I was exhausted all of the time, I started getting palpitations, developed sleep apnoea and more. I caught it again in December 21 post vaccine and it was much more mild. I'm starting to get things back together now
It killed a healthy colleague of mine in Feb 20...
Edit: my wife was a 10k runner, and it has destroyed her running ability. She still can only run about a mile. She is getting heart rhythm issues to...bit worse than the flu I would say
It killed a healthy colleague of mine in Feb 20...
Edit: my wife was a 10k runner, and it has destroyed her running ability. She still can only run about a mile. She is getting heart rhythm issues to...bit worse than the flu I would say
I don’t know. I got Pfizer four times but never been tested. But I also haven’t been sick.
Yes. Double-vaxxed, no booster. Got omicron when everyone was getting omicron. Had an awful day when I thought I might be dying, and was too weak to keep my head raised. Went in for urgent care the next day although the extreme weakness seemed to be clearing out, they test everyone for covid; had covid. Didn't feel anything like a cold or flu symptom (not a cough or a sneeze) until the next day, which ended up maxing out at the level of a mild cold.
It seems like I was completely laid out by the immune reaction to the virus, not the actual virus, which was a pussycat after the over-attention from my internal defense force. Still assuming that was what "viral fatigue" feels like, and what (non-malingering) chronic fatigue sufferers live with every day. Also suspect that the next step after the feeling of fatigue I had would have been the covid-related organ failure that everyone used to talk about, i.e. the "cytokine storm."
It seems like I was completely laid out by the immune reaction to the virus, not the actual virus, which was a pussycat after the over-attention from my internal defense force. Still assuming that was what "viral fatigue" feels like, and what (non-malingering) chronic fatigue sufferers live with every day. Also suspect that the next step after the feeling of fatigue I had would have been the covid-related organ failure that everyone used to talk about, i.e. the "cytokine storm."
Yes, 83 years old. Had Pfizer and 3 boosters, Mid February it came with mild in 3-4 days. Antigen profile showed I had had it Then I got an omicron booster about 10 weeks later - nothing since, but I mask in crowds.
Was in Japan in late 2019 for a tourist trip with my wife -- I think that's as close to pushing our luck as we managed with COVID.
Managed to avoid it for years -- locking down initially, then slowly expanding our social bubble of trusted friends (not family). N95s when picking up to-go food from our favorite restaurants once they started reopening, while going to OB/GYN appointments, etc.
WFH was something I was already accustomed to, and working on the peripherals of public health government contracts, working on projects directly related to COVID surveillance and vaccination was quite humbling.
After hosting a vaccination pod in our living room in March 2021 (a pharmacist friend had J&J doses that were to be tossed by end-of-day -- and had multiple epipens on standby), and our social bubble also getting vaccinated, we collectively started to relax. After the Pfizer booster that fall, we at least felt better prepared should we get infected.
After a pregnancy of multiple OB/GYN visits, an emergency C-section, and a few business and leisure trips with airfare, we managed to remain unaffected as far as we could tell.
Then, after a short outing to a local bottle shop with some friends last week, we felt cold-like symptoms. After a few more days of worsening symptoms, and a couple at-home tests, there was the undeniable positive line for my wife and I. I had the brain fog and cough, she had complete loss of olfactory senses.
A week and change later, we're still waiting for that negative test to mark the end of our precautions. All symptoms but a few after effects are gone, and thankfully others in our group managed to avoid it, or were asymptomatic.
COVID is far from over, far from gone.
Much of society has deemed it endemic or irrelevant, and so for the masses, that'll be how it is until the next spooky variant, or similar virus exploits the lack of holistic societal changes that could still be employed.
I, for one, would have liked social distancing, masking when ill, innovative and sustainable packaging for to-go food from local establishments, and investments in public health infrastructure to remain.
Managed to avoid it for years -- locking down initially, then slowly expanding our social bubble of trusted friends (not family). N95s when picking up to-go food from our favorite restaurants once they started reopening, while going to OB/GYN appointments, etc.
WFH was something I was already accustomed to, and working on the peripherals of public health government contracts, working on projects directly related to COVID surveillance and vaccination was quite humbling.
After hosting a vaccination pod in our living room in March 2021 (a pharmacist friend had J&J doses that were to be tossed by end-of-day -- and had multiple epipens on standby), and our social bubble also getting vaccinated, we collectively started to relax. After the Pfizer booster that fall, we at least felt better prepared should we get infected.
After a pregnancy of multiple OB/GYN visits, an emergency C-section, and a few business and leisure trips with airfare, we managed to remain unaffected as far as we could tell.
Then, after a short outing to a local bottle shop with some friends last week, we felt cold-like symptoms. After a few more days of worsening symptoms, and a couple at-home tests, there was the undeniable positive line for my wife and I. I had the brain fog and cough, she had complete loss of olfactory senses.
A week and change later, we're still waiting for that negative test to mark the end of our precautions. All symptoms but a few after effects are gone, and thankfully others in our group managed to avoid it, or were asymptomatic.
COVID is far from over, far from gone.
Much of society has deemed it endemic or irrelevant, and so for the masses, that'll be how it is until the next spooky variant, or similar virus exploits the lack of holistic societal changes that could still be employed.
I, for one, would have liked social distancing, masking when ill, innovative and sustainable packaging for to-go food from local establishments, and investments in public health infrastructure to remain.
Not that I know of, nor did anyone in my family. Got the original vaccine when it came out, and then a booster in early Jan (so the original booster, not the bivalent one). I stopped with the masks altogether back in the spring (with the exception of the dr's office), and was only nominally doing it before that.
I had mild cold symptoms once that I thought could be omicron, but the home test came back negative. Kids have been sick occasionally but negative for them any time we tested too.
I had mild cold symptoms once that I thought could be omicron, but the home test came back negative. Kids have been sick occasionally but negative for them any time we tested too.
wow this poll shows how many standard deviations the hackernews audience is away from the norm
Am a doctor. Had a known-positive patient that I interacted with for maybe five minutes while wearing an N95. Developed symptoms five days later. I got it after three total doses of vaccine. Worse than a cold, not as bad as flu, but zero exercise tolerance for a while. Went back to work on day 6 after symptoms appeared (had not had fevers for 5 days, so was limited by how I felt rather than CDC recommendations).
Had it before vaccines were widely available. Currently have both doses but no boosters. (Not opposed but after the exhaustion from the first 2 I am only willing to take it on a friday afternoon and never remember.)
Symptoms were mostly mild. Fever, crazy exhaustion and a cough for a few weeks. My dad who caught it at the same time died from it.
Was never able to work from home and people unmasked as soon as they could here in Arkansas.
Symptoms were mostly mild. Fever, crazy exhaustion and a cough for a few weeks. My dad who caught it at the same time died from it.
Was never able to work from home and people unmasked as soon as they could here in Arkansas.
Never, as far as I know. All the vaccines and lots of masking, even still. But I can only attribute it to luck, since I've traveled quite a bit and even had some known exposures at different times, like at the gym. But I also work mainly remote and avoided public areas almost entirely, pre-vaccine and during the peaks of some waves. I worked out in a mask for months- awful.
I am unvaccinated and rarely wear a mask. I believe I caught the original strain very early on and had a fever for about four hours and loss of taste for about two weeks. There were no covid tests at that time. More recently I probably got what was the Omicron strain (conformed by a positive test) and was sick with cold-like symptoms for a week or so. Neither was any BFD.
We were really lucky in Australia, and didn't have a widespread outbreak (beyond Melbourne and Sydney) until after vaccines arrived. I've had three vaccine doses (need to sort out this year's booster) but never caught COVID (I'm also meticulously careful with mask-wearing and hand washing).
I vaccinated and got boosted once.
Been in giant festivals, meetups etc. Still haven't caught it. I can't tell if my luck just hasn't run out, or if I had an asymptomatic case.
Lot's of friends who hadn't had it yet have gotten it recently, so I am very confused.
Been in giant festivals, meetups etc. Still haven't caught it. I can't tell if my luck just hasn't run out, or if I had an asymptomatic case.
Lot's of friends who hadn't had it yet have gotten it recently, so I am very confused.
Have school-aged children, so have had COVID. It was, however, after my third vaccine dose (two + first booster). So symptoms were less bad than flu, but slightly worse than the common cold.
I know people who haven't had it, but they also don't have children.
I know people who haven't had it, but they also don't have children.
Got it through my preschool-aged daughter around last Christmas (2021), shortly after first booster. Everybody else in my family got it and tested positive (wife, son, daughter, parents in law) but strangely I never tested positive. I have to assume I had it though, since I had the exact same symptoms as my wife at the exact same time.
unvaxed, unmasked, untested, uninfected, unbothered
I've had it twice. I was double-vaccinated when I caught it the first time, and then later boosted and caught it a second time. Both times sucked and I was useless for about 15 days. The second time was worse.
Never. Haven't been especially careful since at least Delta. Got vaccinated and went back to normal (I'll cheerfully mask when asked, but never otherwise).
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Vaccinated, no booster, caught it and gave it to my friends who were vaccinated + boosted. All 4 of us were sick for a week and a half and tested positive.
I selected the last option but you don't have one for me: never had symptoms and never got tested. Got vaccinated though.
Never as far as I know. Vaccinated, not especially cautious, not masking.
We can lower risk, but it seems that no level of caution is truly enough, given that others don't care. I'm really not sure what to do – we don't want to keep getting it, but we really want some sense of social life back. My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection seriously. I suspect it will come down to small communities, rather than states or countries.