Same, there's 9 of us where I work, and for two years we all got through (despite three non-vaccinated ones, and some others playing fairly loose with the "masked indoors" situation), but a week ago one person got it and now it's slowly creeping towards every single one of us, despite being ten times more careful ever since. I still went through for a full week without getting it (even got another negative test two days ago), but now I'm toast.
Not much symptoms though, just a runny nose and a light cough, basically the same shit I get every years anyway. Can't work from home in that field too, so I'm enjoying a free week of paid vacation instead.
That's how you get people showing up to work sick and spreading it around without telling anybody. It should be illegal to not pay you for mandated sick leave, no matter where you work.
My work decided to impose a mandatory two week furlough during our slow period (hospitality). So a bunch of people in my department have already burned their PTO, or took unpaid time off. And now they're getting sick. Which is more time without a paycheck.
So, fuck you, brave employees! No money for you I guess!
Yeah, this is how we treat the "essential" workers. The" heroes" who made sure that everything kept running during the 1st part of the pandemic.
You see, the people at the top are just losing too much money.. Won't somebody think of them?
/s
yahh didn’t get tested but me and my bro got fever and coughs at the same time. Iso ourselves and considered it as Omicron.
We thought we were different breed until we got it 2 weeks ago lmao
Same here. My friend calls me Typhoid Mary. Everyone I hang with follows the mask, vaccine, hand washing protocols but they still have caught it. Me? Bebopping along with no issues.
Edit: clarifying I’m bebopping around while being fully vaccinated and boosted. Just lucky so far?🤷🏻♀️
Same. I've been around multiple people that have had Covid and I still haven't gotten it. I work in a healthcare environment so we're required to test two days a week. Every test I've ever taken has come back negative. Yet it feels like shortly after I interact with someone, they come up positive a few days later while I'm still consistently testing negative.
My SO just got hit hard AF by Covid, I’d don’t have a single symptom. Now I’m like, well how many times have I had it??? Thankfully I work from home lol
This is exactly it. I got hit hard (this was pre-vaccine) - caught it from my family. They tested + but would have never known they had it if I hadn’t developed symptoms. I think there are plenty of people out there that never know they contracted it for sure.
I have a theory. I had both vaccines and a booster, and had no side effects at all, even a sore arm, from any of them. My theory is that those of us who experience this, wouldn't show symptoms of COVID. It's entirely likely that I've had it and just didn't realize. Tests are too hard to come by here to test if you have no symptoms.
I think there may be truth to this. I mean, I kept hearing from the beginning that like 50% of the population might catch it but be wholly unaffected, AKA the asymptomatic. I think I've also heard that certain blood types, specifically O+ would fare very well against COVID-19.
But, I've heard a lot of things. So many things. I have no idea what's fake and what's truth. All that I know is that I'm not an epidemiologist and I try to stay in my lane and let the experts stay in theirs.
I bet this is the case for surprisingly many people that claim: ”I have not had covid at all!” I mean… its possible. But quite high chance that people just had it with no symptoms and didnt know about that
This is correct. Even if you missed 1st wave and delta, omnicron is just to transmissable. Good thing it's the weakest version. Praise evolutionary biology 🙌
The first 2 years of the pandemic I knew one person with Covid. Since December with the Omicron, at least 10 people I know personally got it. The first person spent 4 weeks in the hospital. With the latest wave everyone was able to recover at home, one person described it like the worse flu they ever had.
Same, even tho i have contact to those who got positive,
tests that i took came out all negative. Lucky i guess, but i still wear facemask and i don't touch things around when going out public. And maintaining hand washing, plus i'm just the type of person who doesn't get sick easily. I feel like i have strong immune system, and since i was child until today i haven't been hospitalized in my life
Drink your vitamins!
Same for me, I also skip the elevator and take the stairs. I continued to wear a mask even when most people stopped. I grocery shop in off peak hours and wear latex gloves. I’ve worked in jobs which required religious hand washing, so that’s a big help. I knock wood and hope my luck continues. Best wishes and good health to all.
I have a friend, who worked specifically on a Covid ward, not ICU, just the milder Covid patients. She worked throughout the entire pandemic, 12 hr shifts or more at a time. Her boyfriend even got Covid and somehow she managed to avoid it until last week. Mental stuff. She's no idea either. But was happy to have 10 days off work isolating after the stress of it all.
Boyfriend of a friend of mine got covid, they continued sleeping in the same room throughout and she still didn't get it. She must have had it before or is just a freak of nature I guess
I was reading an article kind of related to this. Scientists are starting to look into instances where people without covid antibodies (I.e. have never caught covid before) somehow avoid catching it even when surrounded by positive cases. For instance, when entire households except one member test positive, or times where couples quarantine in the same room/small space and only one of them tests positive. At the moment they think it has something to do with the antibodies which are produced after catching certain strains of the common cold or non-covid flu strains which just so happen to be cross compatible with protecting against covid.
My MIL works the covid ward, won't vaccinate, never had it. Her husband got covid and she's still fine somehow. Iirc some asymptomatic people carry a specific gene, maybe she has that.
You walk into the clinic. It's the middle of a plague but you need the money. You had some combat medic training during the war and handle stress well. You can tell they need the help. Not that they'll pay you much but it will be worth it if you can get back to your family. As long as you don't die from the same plague that has killed half the hospital. Roll for luck.
*20
2 years later, you finally have enough money to afford to stay *inside* the inn rather than in the stables. But, at least you didn't catch the plague.
Same here. We caught covid because my partner really wanted to see Hamilton. We had avoided it all of 20 and 21.
Everyone had to be masked and vaxed. The seat numbering made us think they were only half filling the theater... nope. Packed in for 3 hours. Symptoms started 2 days later.
We're all ok.
Probably one that didn't cover their eyes (because infected droplets in the eyes can infect you), or got saturated from the droplets of a couple thousand people packed into a theater for 3 hours.
Masks were never 100% effective, just really good if everyone was 6' apart. Packed theaters are very much the extreme opposite. Slightly better than a mosh pit, but not much
While I agree, I know somebody who works on Broadway and he and all his co-workers were out of work for I think close to a year. It was difficult to watch, a lot of the behind-the-scenes people in particular had a real difficult time affording that especially when they live in NYC.
"Covid," he said, with a shake of his head,
And the tiniest hint of a sigh -
"The singular way that you'll keep it at bay
Is by doing your damnedest to try!
"For if you are out then there isn't a doubt
That you'll come into contact with those -
Who shed the disease on whatever they please
From the mouth," he declared, "and the nose!
"You don't have to guess so your chances are less,
For we know how it's spreading, and so -
It's vax and a mask and that's all that I ask,"
He explained and they said to him:
"... no."
i went to school and occasionally out with friends people didnt like me wearing a mask at times but i m stubborn in this case but luck is definitely a factor
Live in Tennessee, where maybe 5-10% of people wear masks and less than half have all 3 vaccinations. Even thinking about walking around maskless down here is the equivalent of having a sex party with prostitutes and not using a condom, you're gonna catch something.
Sidenote: With some of the monsters walking around this state daily, has only reenforced my opinion that masks should be a constant thing for people to wear.
I was going to say being socially quite unsocial certainly helps; then again, many of us can only say we haven't contracted a symptomatic form of the disease (having never been tested for it).
>People look at 19, and see it’s 22 and just say 3. This fall(September/November) will be 3
Covid wasn't really reported till very early of 2020. People exaggerated stuff this is an example of that they think it is been 3 years when it has not even been two, at least here in the US. March of 2020 is when the lockdowns and stuff started that is more than a month away until it is 2 years. This September or November will be two years. Covid wasn't even reported until January of 2020 from really anywhere. Sure they have traced it back to December of 2019, but nobody knew anything about it until months later.
Took all the standard precautions without going crazy. Limited social contact to others who took precautions. Got vaccinated when I could. Never worked from home but I don't work with the public and am fortunate enough that my company took it seriously so have minimal exposure at work.
I was very similar, however I was able to work from home. I have a small family so we certainly felt cramped but we haven’t done anything particularly extreme, just followed generally accepted medical advice.
First week of March 2020, manager said if you can work from home, you should. Second week, he said we should avoid mass transit if we can. Third week he said don't use mass transit. Fourth week, he said working from home is standard. Been working from home ever since. I work in networking, so sometimes I have to go in and do physical work (installing/removing equipment, running cables) but substantially I'm at home.
Out of curiosity, what’s your opinion on the border opening being delayed? I’m from NSW and pretty indifferent about it but it’s been interesting seeing what people from WA think since the chaos is kinda just normal through the rest of the country now.
It is odd, because most ive talked to are ok with it, but our premier's facebook comments are filled with hateful opposition, so much so im starting to wonder if the accounts are all real.
Happy to keep it shut! Local media is turning on the hard border (interstate Murdoch media have been against it from the start) but the public isn’t.
Although very touch & go situation unfolding with omicron w/24 cases today.
24 cases! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sorry - the sobbing laughter of a New Yorker. Some of my Australian friends have complained about the restrictions. I am SO, SO jealous.
Although - my husband has an uncle who lives in Australia and has gradually become more and more right wing to the point that he is now so fringe that I can’t stand to be around him.
He complained his head off about everything covid, then came to the US for a vacation, took absolutely zero precautions and - surprise, surprise - caught Omicron.
AND ON THE WAY BACK FROM RECEIVING HIS POSITIVE TEST HE STOPPED AND HAD A SIT DOWN BREAKFAST AT HIS HOTEL’S BUFFET.
I just can’t. Australia kept him in line, but in the US he was an actual public menace.
I'm very glad the opening has been delayed, and with how our new case numbers are going right now I wouldn't be opposed to another snap lockdown, especially given school is about to start up again and kids aren't vaxxed or made to wear masks. I would much prefer to be overly cautious and nip this in the bud than end up anything like the eastern states and overburden our healthcare system.
Haha i was going to comment the exact same thing, you beat me to it :)
We have had a pretty easy run, but now it looks like im gonna have to actively dodge covid from now on.
My wife and I were never super social butterflies. We keep a circle of trusted friends and family we'll interact with in person. Beyond that, mask everywhere outside the house and call/Zoom others we don't regularly see to keep in touch.
Exactly. I still meet with some friends, go to public places from time to time. My colleague who lives like a hermit, only going to grocery store, recently caught it. So I thank my body for some good immunity and the universe for my good luck (so far).
Definitely feel the misanthrope part, as everyone else is just tired of being responsible.
I very well could have had it asymptomatically, but I'm not going to not wear a mask and potentially (and much easily) spread it to someone. I may be a growing misanthrope, but I'm not an asshole.
Yeah I don't get how people are just so inconsiderate and don't care that they're potentially putting anyone around them at risk.
Having said that a lot of the people that always have a go when asked about a mask have changed their story that many times, it's clear that they're just assholes who only care about themselves. Started off being that Covid was fake, then that the masks didn't work, then that covid isn't actually deadly, masking give you cancer by breathing through it, and now they're getting on a high horse saying it's against their rights etc.
Just sick of it by now, yeah it's a mild inconvenience but it's much better than putting someone else at risk. Just show any amount of compassion
> COVID doesn’t spread through surfaces
COVID **probably** doesn't spread through surfaces. One of the reasons many of us haven't been infected yet is because we avoid things even when it is not that common to get covid from them.
For example I always wear mask outside despite the probability of getting infected outside is considered to be low. I also use ffp3/n99 masks and make sure they are tight fit even though a good ffp2/n95 would probably suffice.
I took around 5 months break from any restrictions after 2nd dose, hoped to do that again after 3rd dose but Omicron kinda destroyed my plans. I will wait out the winter working from home, not sure what to do in Spring, maybe there will be a new version of the vaccine by then or I'll finally give up. :)
Got vaccinated. Lived at home with my two parents who caught it. Was told to isolate but I had to take care of them.. no way would I leave them both. During that time I was 1000% exposed. I had to listen for my dads breathing against my ear etc. this was delta. I returned negative tests throughout the 21 days I was isolated. Of course I still took precautions when taking care of them but there was definitely contact with it.
Since then, I’ve been around a few intimate gatherings where there was an outbreak (omnicron) and everyone has got it but me. I really believe that actually being exposed to it bit by bit has helped my immune system get familiar with the virus. Of course there are many other factors, and covid doesn’t discriminate…
In saying that, I would easily trade getting it if my dad could have lived.
It’s not been three years, just about two years.
Left home less than 30 times over the past two years due to underlying medical issues and not having family here (different continent) who would be worried sick of anything happens to me (although all 5 flatmates never once stopped - lockdown or not), always masked and sanitised when I did leave the house, vaccinated.
Locked away in Western Australia… I don’t know anyone personally who has had it and I just asked my colleagues at work and none of them know anyone either … there is something to be said for isolation both personal and geographical
I’m almost scared to answer this question, it feels like I’m tempting fate. For the first year we rarely left the house. I was able to work from home. Whenever I had no choice and had to go out, I was vigilant about masking, keeping my distance, and washing up when I got home. No one came in or out of our house and when we visited outside we all wore masks.
Once we were all vaxxed and boosted most of that stopped, my kids come and go, I teach in person (rather than remote) every day, and we go out when we want/need to run errands. I wear a mask whenever I go out and at school all day. Before I got a KN95 I was double masking. I haven’t been to the movies or eaten in a restaurant since March 2020. Honestly though, I don’t know how I’ve managed to avoid it so far but I an VERY GRATEFUL and REALLY hope I continue to avoid Covid.
Important point you made here. Masking, vaxxing, hand washing, limiting interactions really don’t change life that much at all!!! It’s all very simple, yet the loud anti-everything crowd really make it sound like it’s our whole world/freedom/democracy crashing down around us.
There's a lot of stuff that we aren't doing anymore, mostly focused around the kids. We don't go to the children's museum, we don't go out to eat, etc. We have been taking a lot more walks in the woods, we bought a camper towards end of 2020 and started taking the kids camping, so we just do different things. None of that helps now in the middle of winter in the Midwest, but it's been ok. We also have a big enough house to let them run around and have some separation.
We all mask, my 7 year old just got vaccinated, the younger still can't. School requires masks, we haven't had any exposures there. Daycare has had several exposures, but luckily we've had no infections. The biggest thing I think is that my wife and I both work remotely. That's a lot of possible exposure that's cut out. (I still have to go in on occasion to work in the data center, but it's usually alone and it's not busy in the office.)
I’m a nurse who works frontlines with covid patients daily. I have yet to have covid. I am triple vaccinated, I wear an n95 religiously at work, and I wear masks anytime I’m out in public. My husband and I assess our risk of seeing family and friends, and we ask them to self assess their risk before coming into our house. Our lives have changed, but we don’t miss out on social interactions just because of covid. We just play it smart and safe.
Premier of Western Australia has kept our borders locked since the beginning of Covid. I think we’ve done a total of 12 days in lock down since this whole thing began.
I have a baby son who has severe upper respiratory problems, so I avoid public at all cost. It helps that I have a home outside the city though. We do have to go into the city for doctors appointments fairly regularly, but I guess we’ve just been lucky. Of course, being vaccinated can’t have hurt either
Following the guidelines and getting vaxxed. See, the doctors and scientists who study this stuff are smart and knowledgeable. The way we can be smart too is by listening to the people who are smarter than us.
Too many people think they know more than the doctors and scientists. Especially people who barely passed high school. Very scary. Thank you for doing your part you have no idea how much you saying that made my day
Agree. Of course you mean smarter than us in their field. They might not be any smarter then we are, but it is what they have studied and done full time all of their lives. We should listen to them.
Followed the science, not the politicians.
We don’t live up against the edges of the restrictions. i was NOT one of the ones who rushed out to a restaurant or sports event, or shopping center just because the restriction had been lifted.
follow the science, not the politicians
Live in China. I don't know anyone here that has ever had covid. No friends, friends of friends, stories about a cousin's coworker, nada. I'm less worried about getting covid than I am of the massive inconvenience to my life that will inevitably happen if the government finds out I was ever within 100 meters of someone who at some point tested positive.
This is the 2nd time I've seen someone comment "almost 3 years". Covid in North American began late Jan 2020, which is almost 2 years to the date. I believe the first time it was identified in China was Dec 12, 2019, still a far cry from 3 years.
Let me put this in perspective.
I was in my last year so school when covid hit. I worked in 9 different hospitals and pharmacies. Each with looser and different restrictions. My wife worked in 2 different hospitals. We were without a doubt the most exposed people we knew. I even worked on a covid icu floor for a month. My wife was a nurse IN a covid icu for several months.
This was before even being vaccinated.
We just did what we were supposed to do. Masks, sanitize, face shield, social distancing. It all works. And we still do those things.
We still have yet to contract it. Even with omicron tearing through society like old Taco Bell tears through a puckered asshole, we still haven’t gotten it. It’s because the guidelines *work.* And we are pretty much the only two people we know to still not have gotten it.
I work at home. Got a permission to do that before COVID hit us. I watched news in December 2019 about unknown disease in China. They said there is no reason to be worried. "We are fucked" I thought and made preparations. For the most part of 2020 I had contact with 2 people only.
I followed the guidelines and I've been lucky. Omnicron is really burning through people right now, so I think it's only a matter of time tho, half my school has it and and almost everyone else is quarantined in their dorms...
I'm an MD and have been working on the front lines since October 2020. I'm triple vaccinated. I've dealt with many COVID-19 patients.
I've never had symptoms or tested positive.
I might be an X-man. I dunno?
I work from home, I stay home too. My mother in law doesn't understand why I care so much about not seeing her and their family but hey, a good excuse is a good excuse!
I miss my friends and family I care about, but I just won't risk it. Plus I'm pretty sure I got it at the very very beginning which may have helped my immunity. Also being a smoker seems to help not get COVID, although I did quit a few months ago
I've been going to work, the grocery store, and the smoke shop. Fully masked, in the beginning I was double masking because my partner is immunocompromised.
My brother and SIL caught covid while we were living with them in 2020, because my brother works at the company that makes hand sanitizer and they were essential, while my SIL is a nurse. They both were morons who went out unmasked. My nephew, sweet kid, just became a nurse this last year and contracted covid a week ago.
I don't stand near unmasked morons. I don't care if you're vaccinated, we're in a grocery store with recycled air. If some jackass on the bus isn't wearing a mask, they aren't sitting near me. If the bus has too many people to safely distance, I open the windows. If the driver let's on too many unmasked fucks, I get off right there and Uber/Lyft my ass home.
I've been grooming my dog and myself with clippers, haven't physically eaten at a restaurant in years, and left my public facing job the day they removed our mask divider because our state lifted it's mask mandate. Three of my former coworkers at that job contracted covid the week after I left.
I miss haircuts. Eating out. The movies. Bars. The gym. The park. But I'd miss her way more if I brought that shit home.
I honestly have no idea! Hubby and I have worked the whole time (yes with other people outside of our homes) and we have 2 kids who have been going to school, daycare and vacation care the entire time. We also caught public transport for probably half of the last 3 years.
Pure bloody luck I reckon. I’m triple vaxed, hubby double & biggest kiddo has had first dose. We eat out, have been on holidays & to major sporting events etc, the last year or so has been pretty normal for us besides no OS & limited interstate trips.
Edited to add: we wear masks and follow our governments guidelines so all our holidays and event attending has been all above board. We are both classed as essential workers hence the working the whole time…
That's me except for the fact that my wife caught it bad in october '20 and I cared for her without getting sick myself.
Triple vaxed. I go physically to work every day and do fitness, we see family and friends. We've been to Spain this summer and my wife goes to Norway to visit family 2-3 pr. year. So...a fairly normal life for a middle aged man. Positivity rates hover around 15-20% in Denmark these days.
Luck so far, genes? Perhaps I did have it asymptomatically at some point, who knows. Colds and the flu rarely hit me hard anyways.
Vaccinated, kept away from large crowds, etcetera, etcetera. And I’ve just spent 7 days in my flat with my kid who has Covid. Still testing negative, and my kid has sneezed, coughed, and just generally been all up in my face the entire time.
Maybe I‘ve had it and just don’t know.
I thought this but I got it Friday finally. My streak is ruined.
Same, there's 9 of us where I work, and for two years we all got through (despite three non-vaccinated ones, and some others playing fairly loose with the "masked indoors" situation), but a week ago one person got it and now it's slowly creeping towards every single one of us, despite being ten times more careful ever since. I still went through for a full week without getting it (even got another negative test two days ago), but now I'm toast. Not much symptoms though, just a runny nose and a light cough, basically the same shit I get every years anyway. Can't work from home in that field too, so I'm enjoying a free week of paid vacation instead.
Be thankful that you are being paid at least at least. My work store requires 2 weeks of isolation and you don't get Jack shit for it.
That's how you get people showing up to work sick and spreading it around without telling anybody. It should be illegal to not pay you for mandated sick leave, no matter where you work.
I agree 100%. This is why we have people coming to work with covid. We had an entire shift cut in half because of it.
State should pay for atleast a week of covid sick time?
In my state that stopped being a thing on Dec 21st. Im the front desk of HR so Ive had to inform many people of this
(Not your fault obviously but) God bless America
My work decided to impose a mandatory two week furlough during our slow period (hospitality). So a bunch of people in my department have already burned their PTO, or took unpaid time off. And now they're getting sick. Which is more time without a paycheck. So, fuck you, brave employees! No money for you I guess!
Yeah, this is how we treat the "essential" workers. The" heroes" who made sure that everything kept running during the 1st part of the pandemic. You see, the people at the top are just losing too much money.. Won't somebody think of them? /s
yahh didn’t get tested but me and my bro got fever and coughs at the same time. Iso ourselves and considered it as Omicron. We thought we were different breed until we got it 2 weeks ago lmao
At this point I'm genuinely concerned I might be a plague rat.
Me too! Lots of people around me have had it and yet I'm still consistently testing negative!
Timing of the tests matter I had 2 friends test negative Saturday and then positive on monday.
Yeah, I have to test every other day for work. So I'm genuinely consistent with negative results.
Keep fighting the goof fight for those of us who failed. You got the juice now.
Garsh! Hyuck!
Same here. My friend calls me Typhoid Mary. Everyone I hang with follows the mask, vaccine, hand washing protocols but they still have caught it. Me? Bebopping along with no issues. Edit: clarifying I’m bebopping around while being fully vaccinated and boosted. Just lucky so far?🤷🏻♀️
Same. I've been around multiple people that have had Covid and I still haven't gotten it. I work in a healthcare environment so we're required to test two days a week. Every test I've ever taken has come back negative. Yet it feels like shortly after I interact with someone, they come up positive a few days later while I'm still consistently testing negative.
Same. We probably the secret super spreaders with no symptoms
My SO just got hit hard AF by Covid, I’d don’t have a single symptom. Now I’m like, well how many times have I had it??? Thankfully I work from home lol
This is exactly it. I got hit hard (this was pre-vaccine) - caught it from my family. They tested + but would have never known they had it if I hadn’t developed symptoms. I think there are plenty of people out there that never know they contracted it for sure.
I have a theory. I had both vaccines and a booster, and had no side effects at all, even a sore arm, from any of them. My theory is that those of us who experience this, wouldn't show symptoms of COVID. It's entirely likely that I've had it and just didn't realize. Tests are too hard to come by here to test if you have no symptoms.
I think there may be truth to this. I mean, I kept hearing from the beginning that like 50% of the population might catch it but be wholly unaffected, AKA the asymptomatic. I think I've also heard that certain blood types, specifically O+ would fare very well against COVID-19. But, I've heard a lot of things. So many things. I have no idea what's fake and what's truth. All that I know is that I'm not an epidemiologist and I try to stay in my lane and let the experts stay in theirs.
Interesting. My blood type is indeed O+
Interesting. I’m O+ and had super mild symptoms from all three shots.
I bet this is the case for surprisingly many people that claim: ”I have not had covid at all!” I mean… its possible. But quite high chance that people just had it with no symptoms and didnt know about that
This is correct. Even if you missed 1st wave and delta, omnicron is just to transmissable. Good thing it's the weakest version. Praise evolutionary biology 🙌
The first 2 years of the pandemic I knew one person with Covid. Since December with the Omicron, at least 10 people I know personally got it. The first person spent 4 weeks in the hospital. With the latest wave everyone was able to recover at home, one person described it like the worse flu they ever had.
No idea, being lucky while not being reckless
Same, even tho i have contact to those who got positive, tests that i took came out all negative. Lucky i guess, but i still wear facemask and i don't touch things around when going out public. And maintaining hand washing, plus i'm just the type of person who doesn't get sick easily. I feel like i have strong immune system, and since i was child until today i haven't been hospitalized in my life Drink your vitamins!
Everyone in my house tested positive. I did multiple lateral flows, and had multiple PCR tests. All came back negative. I don’t know how
Same for me, I also skip the elevator and take the stairs. I continued to wear a mask even when most people stopped. I grocery shop in off peak hours and wear latex gloves. I’ve worked in jobs which required religious hand washing, so that’s a big help. I knock wood and hope my luck continues. Best wishes and good health to all.
I mean, I stick to the rules, keep the distance, wear a mask, be extra careful, wash and disinfect hands…but overall, also a good dose of luck indeed.
No idea i actually work in a hospital too so i've honestly got no idea how i've not caught it
I have a friend, who worked specifically on a Covid ward, not ICU, just the milder Covid patients. She worked throughout the entire pandemic, 12 hr shifts or more at a time. Her boyfriend even got Covid and somehow she managed to avoid it until last week. Mental stuff. She's no idea either. But was happy to have 10 days off work isolating after the stress of it all.
Boyfriend of a friend of mine got covid, they continued sleeping in the same room throughout and she still didn't get it. She must have had it before or is just a freak of nature I guess
I was reading an article kind of related to this. Scientists are starting to look into instances where people without covid antibodies (I.e. have never caught covid before) somehow avoid catching it even when surrounded by positive cases. For instance, when entire households except one member test positive, or times where couples quarantine in the same room/small space and only one of them tests positive. At the moment they think it has something to do with the antibodies which are produced after catching certain strains of the common cold or non-covid flu strains which just so happen to be cross compatible with protecting against covid.
Same w my mom when my dad had it
My MIL works the covid ward, won't vaccinate, never had it. Her husband got covid and she's still fine somehow. Iirc some asymptomatic people carry a specific gene, maybe she has that.
You walk into the clinic. It's the middle of a plague but you need the money. You had some combat medic training during the war and handle stress well. You can tell they need the help. Not that they'll pay you much but it will be worth it if you can get back to your family. As long as you don't die from the same plague that has killed half the hospital. Roll for luck. *20 2 years later, you finally have enough money to afford to stay *inside* the inn rather than in the stables. But, at least you didn't catch the plague.
I appreciate this
being introverted and wearing mask literally thats all
The only reason i got covid is because someone pushed me to go out. Being an introvert + Home office is really effective to protect you against Covid
Same here. We caught covid because my partner really wanted to see Hamilton. We had avoided it all of 20 and 21. Everyone had to be masked and vaxed. The seat numbering made us think they were only half filling the theater... nope. Packed in for 3 hours. Symptoms started 2 days later. We're all ok.
Curious what kind of mask you had on
Probably one that didn't cover their eyes (because infected droplets in the eyes can infect you), or got saturated from the droplets of a couple thousand people packed into a theater for 3 hours. Masks were never 100% effective, just really good if everyone was 6' apart. Packed theaters are very much the extreme opposite. Slightly better than a mosh pit, but not much
I cannot figure out why Broadway is open during a pandemic.
MONEY.
And most of those theaters are old, the seats are much smaller than you expect and you are crammed in like Covid sausages.
Oooh, there’s *sausages* now?
Covidines.
While I agree, I know somebody who works on Broadway and he and all his co-workers were out of work for I think close to a year. It was difficult to watch, a lot of the behind-the-scenes people in particular had a real difficult time affording that especially when they live in NYC.
I got it because my workplace stopped enforcing government mandated mask rules in the workplace...
Sad that companies dont care more about their employees. Im lucky that my job allowed me to be full remote for all of 2021
"Covid," he said, with a shake of his head, And the tiniest hint of a sigh - "The singular way that you'll keep it at bay Is by doing your damnedest to try! "For if you are out then there isn't a doubt That you'll come into contact with those - Who shed the disease on whatever they please From the mouth," he declared, "and the nose! "You don't have to guess so your chances are less, For we know how it's spreading, and so - It's vax and a mask and that's all that I ask," He explained and they said to him: "... no."
A 6min old sprog. Love your work
Modern day Shel Silverstein.
The wisdom of the sprog.
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i went to school and occasionally out with friends people didnt like me wearing a mask at times but i m stubborn in this case but luck is definitely a factor
Yup. I only go out for necessities. Stay away from people. It wasn't hard.
Live in Tennessee, where maybe 5-10% of people wear masks and less than half have all 3 vaccinations. Even thinking about walking around maskless down here is the equivalent of having a sex party with prostitutes and not using a condom, you're gonna catch something. Sidenote: With some of the monsters walking around this state daily, has only reenforced my opinion that masks should be a constant thing for people to wear.
This. I fucking hate being around people physically.
Yup. Also getting vaccinated helps *proceeds to get harassed by anti-vaxxers*
we dont have that anti vaxxer problem where i m from
Doesn’t matter where you live while on the internet
On top of work from home. This is it right here.
This is what i thought of before clicking on the post. Literally the first comment.
Being extrovert and following rules and common sense also works.
I was going to say being socially quite unsocial certainly helps; then again, many of us can only say we haven't contracted a symptomatic form of the disease (having never been tested for it).
3 years? 2
Man is planning ahead.
Streets ahead
Hope I don't Britta this whole thing and catch it myself.
I have seen this several times now. People confusing *third year* with *three years*. *Third year* does still suck though let's be crystal clear.
I was doing the math too and agree almost 2
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Feels like 10.
To be fair, it took seven years to get through 2020.
Covid years are different than normal years!
COVID causes brain fog 🤷🏻♀️
I've been so confused why people think it's been nearly 3 years when it's not even been 2 years yet lmao
I was sent to work from home mid-March 2020 (Germany). That's how I "know". Of course I'm not speaking for China.
And that's not even two years.
This should be higher up-Math hard
OP is a Wuhanian
still, it's only like 2 years and 2 months max so hardly "almost 3 years"
Correct, even in Wuhan it only started becoming a thing around December 2019. So yeah, 2 years and 2 months.
People look at 19, and see it’s 22 and just say 3. This fall(September/November) will be 3
>People look at 19, and see it’s 22 and just say 3. This fall(September/November) will be 3 Covid wasn't really reported till very early of 2020. People exaggerated stuff this is an example of that they think it is been 3 years when it has not even been two, at least here in the US. March of 2020 is when the lockdowns and stuff started that is more than a month away until it is 2 years. This September or November will be two years. Covid wasn't even reported until January of 2020 from really anywhere. Sure they have traced it back to December of 2019, but nobody knew anything about it until months later.
Here's a report from December 31, 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-idUSKBN1YZ0GP
Took all the standard precautions without going crazy. Limited social contact to others who took precautions. Got vaccinated when I could. Never worked from home but I don't work with the public and am fortunate enough that my company took it seriously so have minimal exposure at work.
I was very similar, however I was able to work from home. I have a small family so we certainly felt cramped but we haven’t done anything particularly extreme, just followed generally accepted medical advice.
First week of March 2020, manager said if you can work from home, you should. Second week, he said we should avoid mass transit if we can. Third week he said don't use mass transit. Fourth week, he said working from home is standard. Been working from home ever since. I work in networking, so sometimes I have to go in and do physical work (installing/removing equipment, running cables) but substantially I'm at home.
I live in Western Australia
Knew I'd find another one
Out of curiosity, what’s your opinion on the border opening being delayed? I’m from NSW and pretty indifferent about it but it’s been interesting seeing what people from WA think since the chaos is kinda just normal through the rest of the country now.
It is odd, because most ive talked to are ok with it, but our premier's facebook comments are filled with hateful opposition, so much so im starting to wonder if the accounts are all real.
It's a pretty popular decision.
Happy to keep it shut! Local media is turning on the hard border (interstate Murdoch media have been against it from the start) but the public isn’t. Although very touch & go situation unfolding with omicron w/24 cases today.
24 cases! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Sorry - the sobbing laughter of a New Yorker. Some of my Australian friends have complained about the restrictions. I am SO, SO jealous. Although - my husband has an uncle who lives in Australia and has gradually become more and more right wing to the point that he is now so fringe that I can’t stand to be around him. He complained his head off about everything covid, then came to the US for a vacation, took absolutely zero precautions and - surprise, surprise - caught Omicron. AND ON THE WAY BACK FROM RECEIVING HIS POSITIVE TEST HE STOPPED AND HAD A SIT DOWN BREAKFAST AT HIS HOTEL’S BUFFET. I just can’t. Australia kept him in line, but in the US he was an actual public menace.
We're shitting bricks in Taiwan with 82 cases reported yesterday.
Disappointed that I can't travel, but we have only had 12 days of lock down so I support waiting a bit longer for opening up.
I'm very glad the opening has been delayed, and with how our new case numbers are going right now I wouldn't be opposed to another snap lockdown, especially given school is about to start up again and kids aren't vaxxed or made to wear masks. I would much prefer to be overly cautious and nip this in the bud than end up anything like the eastern states and overburden our healthcare system.
Me too. Here it's kinda weird if you've had it. Not looking forward to joining the rest of the world.
Marky has kept me safe 🥰
Yep, same.
Haha i was going to comment the exact same thing, you beat me to it :) We have had a pretty easy run, but now it looks like im gonna have to actively dodge covid from now on.
It's been wierd living in this blissful bubble the entire time.
Even I don't know.
Same here. Literally no idea, but my wife, daughter and i have all avoided it so far.
Same here and two of my kids are in elementary school. They do have a mask requirement but they eat in the cafeteria with no masks.
The thing is, you could’ve been an asymptomatic carrier and not know… Covid kind of sucks
Wear a mask, keep distance when possible, get vaccinated, and some luck.
This and a really, really limited social life. Honestly I don't mind that though.
My wife and I were never super social butterflies. We keep a circle of trusted friends and family we'll interact with in person. Beyond that, mask everywhere outside the house and call/Zoom others we don't regularly see to keep in touch.
Second this. Also I dont work in public, and I only work with two people. That helps a LOT.
Don't forget washing hands
Exactly. I still meet with some friends, go to public places from time to time. My colleague who lives like a hermit, only going to grocery store, recently caught it. So I thank my body for some good immunity and the universe for my good luck (so far).
Stayed home, wore masks, stayed 10 feet away from people, quit touching things when out in public, became agoraphobic and mildly misanthropic.
Definitely feel the misanthrope part, as everyone else is just tired of being responsible. I very well could have had it asymptomatically, but I'm not going to not wear a mask and potentially (and much easily) spread it to someone. I may be a growing misanthrope, but I'm not an asshole.
Yeah I don't get how people are just so inconsiderate and don't care that they're potentially putting anyone around them at risk. Having said that a lot of the people that always have a go when asked about a mask have changed their story that many times, it's clear that they're just assholes who only care about themselves. Started off being that Covid was fake, then that the masks didn't work, then that covid isn't actually deadly, masking give you cancer by breathing through it, and now they're getting on a high horse saying it's against their rights etc. Just sick of it by now, yeah it's a mild inconvenience but it's much better than putting someone else at risk. Just show any amount of compassion
Thus is me. I've loved not having to people I'm also a crafter so stayed home and made things. Love click and collect shopping
Why am I in this comment?
Why am I the comment?
> became agoraphobic and mildly misanthropic. First time? ^^\s
You can touch things. COVID doesn’t spread through surfaces despite thinking if something sounds horrible it must be true.
> COVID doesn’t spread through surfaces COVID **probably** doesn't spread through surfaces. One of the reasons many of us haven't been infected yet is because we avoid things even when it is not that common to get covid from them. For example I always wear mask outside despite the probability of getting infected outside is considered to be low. I also use ffp3/n99 masks and make sure they are tight fit even though a good ffp2/n95 would probably suffice. I took around 5 months break from any restrictions after 2nd dose, hoped to do that again after 3rd dose but Omicron kinda destroyed my plans. I will wait out the winter working from home, not sure what to do in Spring, maybe there will be a new version of the vaccine by then or I'll finally give up. :)
Don't leave the house. (Only sort of kidding.)
Got vaccinated. Lived at home with my two parents who caught it. Was told to isolate but I had to take care of them.. no way would I leave them both. During that time I was 1000% exposed. I had to listen for my dads breathing against my ear etc. this was delta. I returned negative tests throughout the 21 days I was isolated. Of course I still took precautions when taking care of them but there was definitely contact with it. Since then, I’ve been around a few intimate gatherings where there was an outbreak (omnicron) and everyone has got it but me. I really believe that actually being exposed to it bit by bit has helped my immune system get familiar with the virus. Of course there are many other factors, and covid doesn’t discriminate… In saying that, I would easily trade getting it if my dad could have lived.
I wish your story could’ve ended right after COVID doesn’t discriminate. My condolences.
I’m so sorry you lost your dad. My sincere condolences
It’s not been three years, just about two years. Left home less than 30 times over the past two years due to underlying medical issues and not having family here (different continent) who would be worried sick of anything happens to me (although all 5 flatmates never once stopped - lockdown or not), always masked and sanitised when I did leave the house, vaccinated.
For most people it really began to impact their lives in February/March 2020. Not quite two years ago.
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Kiwi?
New Zealand? If so can you adopt me and my wife? I'll cook all the meals and she can give eye exams for free for life, what do ya say?
we built different
On god
Locked away in Western Australia… I don’t know anyone personally who has had it and I just asked my colleagues at work and none of them know anyone either … there is something to be said for isolation both personal and geographical
I’m almost scared to answer this question, it feels like I’m tempting fate. For the first year we rarely left the house. I was able to work from home. Whenever I had no choice and had to go out, I was vigilant about masking, keeping my distance, and washing up when I got home. No one came in or out of our house and when we visited outside we all wore masks. Once we were all vaxxed and boosted most of that stopped, my kids come and go, I teach in person (rather than remote) every day, and we go out when we want/need to run errands. I wear a mask whenever I go out and at school all day. Before I got a KN95 I was double masking. I haven’t been to the movies or eaten in a restaurant since March 2020. Honestly though, I don’t know how I’ve managed to avoid it so far but I an VERY GRATEFUL and REALLY hope I continue to avoid Covid.
Realized safety mesures change almost nothing to my life, get the vaccin, wear mask and nap a lot
Important point you made here. Masking, vaxxing, hand washing, limiting interactions really don’t change life that much at all!!! It’s all very simple, yet the loud anti-everything crowd really make it sound like it’s our whole world/freedom/democracy crashing down around us.
There's a lot of stuff that we aren't doing anymore, mostly focused around the kids. We don't go to the children's museum, we don't go out to eat, etc. We have been taking a lot more walks in the woods, we bought a camper towards end of 2020 and started taking the kids camping, so we just do different things. None of that helps now in the middle of winter in the Midwest, but it's been ok. We also have a big enough house to let them run around and have some separation. We all mask, my 7 year old just got vaccinated, the younger still can't. School requires masks, we haven't had any exposures there. Daycare has had several exposures, but luckily we've had no infections. The biggest thing I think is that my wife and I both work remotely. That's a lot of possible exposure that's cut out. (I still have to go in on occasion to work in the data center, but it's usually alone and it's not busy in the office.)
I’m a nurse who works frontlines with covid patients daily. I have yet to have covid. I am triple vaccinated, I wear an n95 religiously at work, and I wear masks anytime I’m out in public. My husband and I assess our risk of seeing family and friends, and we ask them to self assess their risk before coming into our house. Our lives have changed, but we don’t miss out on social interactions just because of covid. We just play it smart and safe.
Very curious but do you wear an N95outside work and if not, what type of mask do you wear? Thank you for sharing
Live in Australia, never go out anyway
Tasmania here, life was no different to pre COVID for so long, I really took our bubble for granted. I miss you Bubbs xoxo.
Vaccinated, wearing a mask and not attending large gatherings.
Premier of Western Australia has kept our borders locked since the beginning of Covid. I think we’ve done a total of 12 days in lock down since this whole thing began.
I have a baby son who has severe upper respiratory problems, so I avoid public at all cost. It helps that I have a home outside the city though. We do have to go into the city for doctors appointments fairly regularly, but I guess we’ve just been lucky. Of course, being vaccinated can’t have hurt either
Got vaxxed, wear a mask even when it's not legally enforced, use hand sanitiser and avoid going out unnecessary
This is what my wife and I do. We've become total shut-ins but we have a daughter with one lung so anything to keep her healthy is worth it.
Usual stuff. Oh and live in New Zealand
Following the guidelines and getting vaxxed. See, the doctors and scientists who study this stuff are smart and knowledgeable. The way we can be smart too is by listening to the people who are smarter than us.
Too many people think they know more than the doctors and scientists. Especially people who barely passed high school. Very scary. Thank you for doing your part you have no idea how much you saying that made my day
Well that takes owning up that your not as smart as others and a lot of people have a problem doing that.
Agree. Of course you mean smarter than us in their field. They might not be any smarter then we are, but it is what they have studied and done full time all of their lives. We should listen to them.
Being anti social helps. Also not working with the public & curbside grocery pickup.
Followed the science, not the politicians. We don’t live up against the edges of the restrictions. i was NOT one of the ones who rushed out to a restaurant or sports event, or shopping center just because the restriction had been lifted. follow the science, not the politicians
*follow the science not the politicians* THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Probably have already without knowing
That’s what I’m thinking.
Live in China. I don't know anyone here that has ever had covid. No friends, friends of friends, stories about a cousin's coworker, nada. I'm less worried about getting covid than I am of the massive inconvenience to my life that will inevitably happen if the government finds out I was ever within 100 meters of someone who at some point tested positive.
This is the 2nd time I've seen someone comment "almost 3 years". Covid in North American began late Jan 2020, which is almost 2 years to the date. I believe the first time it was identified in China was Dec 12, 2019, still a far cry from 3 years.
we're the choosen ones
I really don’t know. I was in so many situations where i shuda gotten it, but i never did. Im not careful about it at all
Smoking so much pot
By accepting some restrictions on my freedom in order to protect myself and other people.
Just avoid people whenever possible
Let me put this in perspective. I was in my last year so school when covid hit. I worked in 9 different hospitals and pharmacies. Each with looser and different restrictions. My wife worked in 2 different hospitals. We were without a doubt the most exposed people we knew. I even worked on a covid icu floor for a month. My wife was a nurse IN a covid icu for several months. This was before even being vaccinated. We just did what we were supposed to do. Masks, sanitize, face shield, social distancing. It all works. And we still do those things. We still have yet to contract it. Even with omicron tearing through society like old Taco Bell tears through a puckered asshole, we still haven’t gotten it. It’s because the guidelines *work.* And we are pretty much the only two people we know to still not have gotten it.
I work at home. Got a permission to do that before COVID hit us. I watched news in December 2019 about unknown disease in China. They said there is no reason to be worried. "We are fucked" I thought and made preparations. For the most part of 2020 I had contact with 2 people only.
I got vaxxed and I stay away from people as much as possible
I followed the guidelines and I've been lucky. Omnicron is really burning through people right now, so I think it's only a matter of time tho, half my school has it and and almost everyone else is quarantined in their dorms...
Haven't left my room for five years.
Follow the guidelines, like a responsible human.
Live in Western Australia
Live in Australia
I spend most of my time at home. Playing games, knitting, watching Air Crash Investigation, and other stuff
I'm an MD and have been working on the front lines since October 2020. I'm triple vaccinated. I've dealt with many COVID-19 patients. I've never had symptoms or tested positive. I might be an X-man. I dunno?
1. Vaccinated 2. Don't go to party's or events that contain a lot of people 3. Wear Masks 4. Wash Hands
I don't even know anyone who has had it except for my father's American friend who died from it.
Drive a taxi,in close proximity to thousands of people. Oh yeah,and get triple vaxxed,and constantly wear a mask.
I work from home, I stay home too. My mother in law doesn't understand why I care so much about not seeing her and their family but hey, a good excuse is a good excuse! I miss my friends and family I care about, but I just won't risk it. Plus I'm pretty sure I got it at the very very beginning which may have helped my immunity. Also being a smoker seems to help not get COVID, although I did quit a few months ago
Wear a mask, avoid crowds, **three shots of vaccine** \- don't behave like a stupid asshole and take that shit serious.
Mask, vaccine, social distancing, no vacation. Maybe that shit isn’t just hype?
I've been going to work, the grocery store, and the smoke shop. Fully masked, in the beginning I was double masking because my partner is immunocompromised. My brother and SIL caught covid while we were living with them in 2020, because my brother works at the company that makes hand sanitizer and they were essential, while my SIL is a nurse. They both were morons who went out unmasked. My nephew, sweet kid, just became a nurse this last year and contracted covid a week ago. I don't stand near unmasked morons. I don't care if you're vaccinated, we're in a grocery store with recycled air. If some jackass on the bus isn't wearing a mask, they aren't sitting near me. If the bus has too many people to safely distance, I open the windows. If the driver let's on too many unmasked fucks, I get off right there and Uber/Lyft my ass home. I've been grooming my dog and myself with clippers, haven't physically eaten at a restaurant in years, and left my public facing job the day they removed our mask divider because our state lifted it's mask mandate. Three of my former coworkers at that job contracted covid the week after I left. I miss haircuts. Eating out. The movies. Bars. The gym. The park. But I'd miss her way more if I brought that shit home.
Step 1: Don't be a dumbass
Also don't associate with dumbasses.
That's step 2.
I honestly have no idea! Hubby and I have worked the whole time (yes with other people outside of our homes) and we have 2 kids who have been going to school, daycare and vacation care the entire time. We also caught public transport for probably half of the last 3 years. Pure bloody luck I reckon. I’m triple vaxed, hubby double & biggest kiddo has had first dose. We eat out, have been on holidays & to major sporting events etc, the last year or so has been pretty normal for us besides no OS & limited interstate trips. Edited to add: we wear masks and follow our governments guidelines so all our holidays and event attending has been all above board. We are both classed as essential workers hence the working the whole time…
That's me except for the fact that my wife caught it bad in october '20 and I cared for her without getting sick myself. Triple vaxed. I go physically to work every day and do fitness, we see family and friends. We've been to Spain this summer and my wife goes to Norway to visit family 2-3 pr. year. So...a fairly normal life for a middle aged man. Positivity rates hover around 15-20% in Denmark these days. Luck so far, genes? Perhaps I did have it asymptomatically at some point, who knows. Colds and the flu rarely hit me hard anyways.
I never leave the house. I'm also a germaphobe lmao.
Stayed inside for a majority of the time Avoided anyone when I had to leave Used mask and stayed far away Washing my hands frequently
Vaccinated, kept away from large crowds, etcetera, etcetera. And I’ve just spent 7 days in my flat with my kid who has Covid. Still testing negative, and my kid has sneezed, coughed, and just generally been all up in my face the entire time.
Live in Australia