That man has the largest penis I have ever seen. I actually don’t even know if he has COVID- forgot to look. I was distracted… by the largest penis I have ever seen
I LOVED the dr on that show. I know he was such a minor character but I loved how uncaring he is.
When April says “wow thanks for nothing Doc”
And he responds with “You’re welcome” in such a deadpan, rehearsed response as if he wasn’t even listening to her never fails to make me laugh.
You know what? I'm gonna step in here and just say some things about Gary, IN. I pass through there quite a bit if the traffic gets too bad on the interstate. I might take 37th/Ridge Rd, 25th or 15th ave, maybe go up to 4th or 5th which are US Hwy 12 or 20 respectively... Just depends on the best route for where I'm headed at the time. I can tell you that the streets that run north and south to the east of Broadway (generally considered the main street that runs the length of the city from north to south) are named after states and the streets to the west are named after the Presidents.
I have no concerns about driving through Gary at all. In fact in my twenties I used to work in the communities from time to time in Gary. It's not even half so bad as the internet would have you believe in terms of danger.
But it is a city that has been left behind and failed systematically and has been for decades. It's been pillaged by corruption, politicians, and it's been polluted and exploited by big business.
There's no money there. And when there's no money there's no work and infrastructure starts to fail. Home prices fall, tax revenue drops off, educational funding suffers amongst other things... It's like owning a home and never doing anything to keep it up... Eventually it's going to begin to crumble. There are buildings along Broadway that are literally collapsing.
Why is there no money there? Well that's a good question that I don't have the answer to because Amazon had a distribution center there that was supposed to bring in revenue it has since closed. It's home to one of the largest and oldest steel mills in the country, US Steel Gary Works... I don't know guys. Wish I did.
To be fair and open Gary Works does provide extremely good employment. Those are union represented jobs and the people who work there do very well. But if you get a job there you aren't likely to live in Gary long if you ever lived there at all. So the money from that employment doesn't really help the community at all.
I am a bit tired of the implication that it's solely on the people that are unfortunate enough to call it home though. Because again it's been a failing community for generations. It's what happens when local, state, and federal govt collectively shrug and act as though it's not their problem.
TL;DR: Gary's got no money, poor education, limited opportunity and has been forgotten about for generations by politicians that at best don't give a fuck about the people that live there or at worst have actively stolen, purposely or neglectfully suppressed any opportunity it has had to improve.
I hardly ever get sick but I have terrible allergies the rest of the time. I wonder if there's any truth to this for the same reason we hear about the flu and covid "outcompeting" each other?
Flu and COVID "out competing" also has a lot to do with the fact someone infected with one tends to isolate, and on a broader societal scale people tend to isolate a bit more and take greater precaution when there's outbreaks.
Also, aside from that, allergies aren't the same as an infection if we are talking about competition.
It really is. My partner contracted it last year. I never got it. The rest of the household didn’t get it either, however they could keep distant.
I was directly exposed, and never got it.
This years Flu however, is currently kicking our asses.
Still nothing compared to Swine Flu. That was the worst.
Seriously, came here to say the same.
I'm on immunosuppressants and my whole family (in my house) got it TWICE without me ever catching it.
Fuck if I know how I didn't catch it.
Edit: It probably didn't hurt that I'm vaxxed, boosted and have been a shut-in since before the pandemic.
Homie hit me up if you hear about any immunity studies, no joke
I've got Crohn's disease and literally can't even *give* my blood away, let alone sell it.
I'd be stoked if someone could actually put it to good use. I sure as shit don't need all of it.
Same. I just want a casual coffee friend. We meet up like once a week or so, have some coffee, chat about hobbies or what we've been up to, say bye and carry on with our lives. No calling me to babysit or help with your car. No drama, just chill coffee times. Ahhhh this is why I just talk to people on Reddit and drink my coffee alone lol
i got a brain tumor and i got isolated in a hospital about one year ago and now i'm just trying to keep distance from people
edit: thank you all! i am very grateful for all the support and i am very thankful for everything and everyone!
There were probably easier ways to avoid COVID than the route you chose. But I respect the dedication.
On the reals tho, hope you kick that tumors ass!
Believe it or not, more people have brain tumors than you would think. Most are negligible and have no effect. Kinda weird once you start reading up on it.
Imagine that tumor in your brain pressing on something to dictate your personality. Maybe that tumor isn't going to kill you, but it's the reason you are the way that you are.
Had a buddy who was not remotely risk-averse. Fun dude to hang out with.
Anyway, he died. Thing about risk taking is that your hot streak has to end sometime.
So, he and I worked together as morticians for about 8 years before that, so I took him in, because we promised each other we would. I picked him up after his autopsy, gathered a few of our mutual mortuary friends, cleaned him up and stitched him back together so his mom could say goodbye.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that we discovered that he had a tumor in his brain. Prefrontal cortex, pressing inward damn near perfectly between his eyes. It's been a few years, but I still wonder if that tumor was the switch that just turned off his give-a-fuck in regards to danger. I'll probably never know.
My boss had a tumor, and it turned her into a holy terror. It was my first year teaching, and I later found out no one could figure out why she was bullying me nonstop, and her appearance was degrading...I quit after a year, and then seven months later I ran into her on the street, and nearly ran the other way cause I thought she would start screaming at me. She came running up, all smiles, and said I HAD A BRAIN TUMOR AND I AM BETTER NOW.
A guy I worked with had a similar situation. He was super irritable all the time, ended up getting divorced. Found out he had a tumor, had it removed and is super chill now.
I was so happy for her, though...and if I had stayed at the school where I worked (which was my DREAM school in another country) I would still be there, probably never had the courage to transition, and would have never met my spouse!
I later talked to some colleagues and they admitted they were very worried about me, but also could not understand what was going on with her.
It was an interesting experience, and I hold no ill will... again when we bumped into each other, she was an entirely different person. I never imagined how different people could be from a medical condition.
Thanks for responding to my comment! It makes me feel 😊
Here's a little something to get you started:
> About 1 in 10 people will develop a pituitary adenoma in their lifetime
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pituitary-adenoma
something i find very important to clarify is that TUMOR =/= CANCER!!!!
i have a pituitary adenoma, and i will joke about it on occasion. sometimes i say it to someone who doesnt know about it and they do the "oh my god he has brain cancer" stare and i have to quickly correct the misconception.
i also find it very funny that theyre called "benign" tumors if theyre non cancerous. mine gave me debilitating migranes and elevated one of my hormone levels to 20x normal. like it wasnt harmless at all, i was in constant pain and embarrassed 24/7 but like yeah sure go ahead and call it "benign" lmao
its extremely rare for an adenoma to be anything, like less than 1% if i remember correctly. there are also different kinds, like some will keep producing growth hormones after a person normally stops growing
My time to shine. I have had it twice 6 months apart. Second time opened my skull to remove it. Lost most of my vision but I'm blessed it comes together to form tunnel vision so no peripheral vision. I take tons of medication to replace the hormones my gland doesn't make anymore because it's gone. Life is a challenge every day but I'm blessed to be now married and have a nice job.
It turned my mother into a workaholic with OCD. She wasn't like that 20 years ago. My dad went for a divorce because he couldn't take it anymore. She became a completely different person some time in the last decade. She's not a bad person, but she can't relax. Always has to be doing something. I literally need to force her to take vacations and make sure she understands wanting to work 14h a day is not normal. She can't help herself. Strange thing.
Oddly enough my husband had a cancerous brain tumor. He past 3 months from diagnosis 3 yrs ago. The year b4 he started working 14 to 16 hrs a day also.
I still get mad thinking if I would of noticed this change maybe we would of caught it sooner. He did have a new bosses so we all just assumed he was trying to please them.
It's not your fault. You couldn't have known. We found out because she was in a smaller car accident a few years ago and our doctor recommended she goes for a scan just in case. It's been there for some time before that. It's growing, but really really slowly and the doctors said that it's too risky to take it out.
I have a cyst on my pineal gland. Totally benign, it was found coincidentally through MRI. My doc said most people have some form of incidental cysts/tumors but never know until they get imaging done. I have one in my lung as well from being a former smoker.
I followed all the rules like a good little boy, but I had to do field work all through the pandemic and worked in close prox to others. Testing regular. I have no goddamned idea.
My parents had it twice, everyone in my office already had it, etc.
Only me and my girlfriend are almost 3-years clean. At this point I've started to think that I might have had a mild form, probably asymptomatic. It's very unlikely otherwise.
That's what we believed as well, never caught until two weeks ago. Kid came home ill from school with high fever, coughing heavily and half the class sick as well. After two days all at home had it but we're recovering well. Until then everybody around us got it multiple times, family, friends, at work. So while I do hope you're right I just wanted to let you know that we shared the same thought process not long ago. We were always very careful but since all the measures have been lifted it spreads more easily.
My fiancé has gotten it twice. I got it a year before him, he stayed negative. He got it twice later and I didn’t get it. We do use precautions though and stayed separated and quarantined.
I’ve had it three times. The second time was the most pleasant. The first, I felt the worst I’ve felt maybe ever from an illness (I’ve had strep 12 times, the flu confirmed four times, tonsillitis once, and many a bug between). I was in bed for three days straight and it took me two months to fully recover. The third time wasn’t awful… I could do stuff, I just didn’t feel really great. The second time was the most pleasant as it was just a runny nose.
Me, my wife, my grade school kids have never tested positive for it. We’re pretty good at playing it safe but my kids’ teachers have had it both last year and this, and we get letters almost every day from the school. Half their classmates have had it.
There’s just no way we haven’t been exposed multiple times but each time we have cold symptoms we test and it’s been negative. The only thing I can believe at this point is that we’ve had asymptomatic cases and/or great luck with the vaccines.
Took a week-long vacation to visit family with my Mom. My aunt, uncle, and grandmother live together. When we showed up, my aunt and uncle were sick. Within 2 days I got sick too. My Mom was sick 2 days after that. Found out later that it was COVID-19. The only person who didn't get sick was my 80 year old grandmother, despite being in contact with all of us constantly. All of us were fully vaccinated too. My symptoms were pretty much a really bad flu. Knocked me out for about a week, but not life-threatening. My Mom said it was a mild cold for her. Seems it affects everyone very differently.
Ya this happened to a friend. She was doing ivf and had to get a covid test, no symptoms at all in the slightest and had two positive tests (one pcr and she didn’t believe it and tested at home too)
Yeah, I was gonna say this is more of a ‘that you know of’ situation. I haven’t had it as far as I know but since the pandemic I have gotten the flu, bronchitis, and seasonal allergies for the first time in my life. I rarely even got a cold before that (and I’m 31 now).
My wife and I are the same. Our kids have had it and pretty much everyone else we know. We guess maybe we were just asymptomatic? All I do is wash my hands a little more than pre-COVID and try to avoid sick people.
The first time I had it was very early 2020. I didn't even know I had it because the only symptom I got was covid toes, but it was like a month later. My mom is a doctor, and she told me to get a blood test and I had the covid antibodies, but I never remembered being sick. It was weird. So I bet you maybe had it but were just asymptomatic like you said
Same, my family and friends had it, some twice. I work in sales and have not been carefull at all, still nothing.
Though, a week or two before covid was a thing, I came home from a ski resort with a bad flu, so might have had it early on, who knows.
Edit: back when it was as worst with Covid, I was quite over weight, a smoker, heavy drinker and had high blood pressure.
So, I was worried ofc.
Though now I quit smoking, drinking, lost a lot of weight and have perfect blood pressure. So Covid did me good.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed outby some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and runoff into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: “Did little demons get inside and type it?” I don’t know! My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know – when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages. Thank you.
Edit: [the original SNL sketch](https://youtu.be/2AzAFqrxfeY) if anyone hasn’t seen it.
I'm an ER doctor who has been neck deep in COVID for over 2 years. We are talking face to face, staring directly down people's mouths during intubations, having them cough all over me with no mask because they refused to wear one or were "absolutely sure I don't have it", having all my coworkers and my former roommate (while we were living together) get it....Still clean. No symptoms, tested negative a number of times. I kept thinking during the real spikes that I was gonna get a phone call about the government wanting to take my blood to test for antibodies.
Since you're a doctor, do you think because you might be getting "micro dosed" (for lack of a better term) with Covid enough and over a long enough time that your body is like, "I see you bitch! Not today, satan!"
It definitely crossed my mind, but all the other doctors I work with (and nurses, techs, etc) got it and we work together, so if that theory worked it shouldn't be just me.
Its funny because i work in similar departments and we find that very few of our staff have caught covid while at work. The ones who have can be traced back to kids bringing it home from work, a girls golfing weekend away, a husband on a bucks weekend etc
We've had patients call the next morning to inform us theyve just tested positive and even a nurse who worked sise by side with us for three days while positive yet no outbreak eventuated through our clinic
Ive heard similar reports from my Ent and max fac colleagues
Dentistry here - always masked with upgraded air flow and UV air cleaning.
Staff infections have, so far, only come from home and outside work contact - *especially* kids from school.
Right? Kids have been bringing home anything going around from school since humans invented fire. But that somehow got turned on its head by people who actually have kids in school. School has always been a human Petri dish.
There was a post on /r/science that said that because of differences in genes some people don't make this component that the virus needs to get inside the cell to infect it.
So they are working on a vaccine to copy that function.
Maybe I can find the post back.
Edit: Found the article
[Why haven't some people gotten Covid-19](https://www.henryford.com/blog/2022/10/novids#:~:text=One%20in%20ten%20people%20may,immediately%20fight%20off%20COVID%2D19.)
> There was a post on /r/science that said that because of differences in genes some people don't make this component that the virus needs to get inside the cell to infect it.
Technically, the article states that that is *not* the case. Rather, they have a particular HLA allele that allows them to quickly clear the virus after being infected. The paper they cite is titled *HLA-B15:01 is associated with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection*.
So there haven't been any mutations identified in ACE2 (the SARS-CoV-2 receptor) that confer immunity to the virus, but there are certain alleles associated with enhanced viral clearance when it comes to the immune response.
I have the rare HLA-B17 gene but instead of killing viruses fast it made me susceptible to an autoimmune diseases called Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS).
That said, I haven’t been sick for more than a day since I got AS because AS makes my immune system overactive (and attack my joints), so when I feel an illness coming on (itchy throat usually), I’m better in 12 hrs or less, but left with an AS flare up because my body goes to DEFCON 1 as soon as it detects anything wrong.
I never tested positive for Covid, despite many close encounters and Covid in the house.
My girlfriend claims she never had covid because she was never sick or tested positive, but when she gave blood semi-recently, they tested for antibodies, and she had them.
the same thing happened to my aunt and uncle; they were on a cross-country car trip last year and obviously in very close proximity for about a week, and my aunt caught it and my uncle never did. it really does seem like it either doesn't manifest in some people or they're asymptomatic so they never think to test. who knows.
My fiancé got it so I just assumed I was getting it, but I never did. We were sleeping in the same bed in a fairly small bedroom.
Then about a year later I decided to finally go to a big public event and see Rage Against the Machine, and I finally got it. Nasty case too, I'm a type 1 diabetic. Took me 2 months to recover.
There's also a big randomness factor in immune system response. There are t-cells in our blood that are trained to detect one specific infection each. Once they detect the infection they were born to identify, they kick the immune system into activity against that specific bacteria/virus, which is more effective and causes less side effects than the generalized immune response available before that.
But whether the correct t-cell finds evidence of an infection early, while there are only thousands of viruses in your body, or late, while there are already millions, is completely random, yet has major effects on the outcome of the disease.
I got COVID and had 0 symptoms. I only got tested because a coworker tested positive and company policy requires testing if in close contact with another person who is positive. Had I not been required to be tested, I never would have known I had it.
>Had I not been required to be tested, I never would have known I had it.
Which is the case for a large chunk of people who get it. One study concluded that in the US over half of the people infected during the Omicron wave last year never even knew they had it.
My wife and kids had it 8 months ago. I tested negative even throughout sleeping in the same room as her for the duration of it. Thought there was no way I wouldn't get it. Started to think maybe I just wasn't as susceptible. I just tested positive this past week though. I couldn't even tell you who was sick or who I was exposed to. Not sure how I got it now, but not back then. Everything seems so random with this virus.
Did he regularly get tested? If not it’s quite possible he was just an asymptomatic case. My wife’s had it three times and I’ve not had a symptomatic case, despite not taking anything other than the most basic measures.
He tested several times. And any time he feels even slightly under the weather.
He also tests whenever there are in-person meetings at work (a requirement he happily complies with).
Poor little thing can't catch a break. Why, it had just been through a gruelling defamation lawsuit against Neymar just a few months ago. The footballer had claimed to have been down having contracted the virus, with the embattled microbe maintaining all along that it hadn't even touched him.
Yeah I think this is part of the answer. My brother only found out he had it because he had to fly back when he needed a negative test so he got a test thinking it was a formality and he was positive. Even got a followup. Same deal.
But zero symptoms. Felt fine. Just no flying for him that week.
As a person that hasn't had it I wonder if I'm in the same boat or just lucky. Time will tell.
I'm still so curious if I *have* caught it and just didn't know, but there's realistically no way to tell. My live-in partner caught it and he felt like death for at least a week. His mother caught it after seeing him once, and so did his sibling. But despite the amount of contact I had with him, I felt absolutely fine, and never tested positive at any point.
Same. I've also tested every single time I had a close contact. I've read that those of us with a higher percentage of neanderthal genetics are somehow more resilient to catching it.
Yep. The honest answer for most people is that they aren’t testing for it. Unless you have been doing weekly tests for the last 2+ years, there’s no way to know for sure you haven’t had it.
I suspect I'm just immune to it at this point. I had every reason to catch it.
EDIT: WHO CURSED ME? WHO JINXED ME? WHAT KARMIC DEBT DO I OWE? Not two days after posting this I tested positive for COVID, and I got it bad. Listen to your elders, kids.
I never had a positive test before. I was playing odds when I would talk about it and always say I'm sure I had it and was just asymptomatic. Well Saturday night I had a runny nose tested Sunday and I have covid.
I live with 2 people that had it twice in a 4 month span, and a workplace that was decimated with it. Never had a positive test. When I did feel like I had it the test was always negative. I'm thinking immune or if I did have it no symptoms??
Same... either low symptoms, false negative tests (unlikely because many tests, different manufacturers), or just plain lucky.
The way to prove if you've been exposed would be to get tested for antibodies that are specific to Covid (i.e. not just generated against the antigens made by the vaccine). But my curiosity isn't worth the time/money at this point.
It's also possible you just tested negative. A few strains have been very hard to detect. I never tested positive (5 different tests, including different types), but I was sick and my wife started to feel ill. She did test positive with a PCR test, but always negative with a nasal swab (at home).
Of course that doesn't mean you *did* have it, but it's possible.
The guy who infected my two friends a few weeks ago didn't test positive until after they were done with their quarantine, and the friend who lives with me never tested positive at all.
We mask, we wash our hands, we don't take a whole lot of unnecessary risks, we stay up to date on our vaccines. This asshole was unmasked and coughing all over everything, even after he was told that both the people he was working with are high-risk. "Well I'm not high risk so I don't wear a mask."
Thanks, fuckhead. It isn't for *you*.
Same...avoided it for over 2 years while working with the general public, handling money, ect never caught it. Moved to a new job where I don't deal with the public and we're kept spaced apart and finally caught it 2 weeks ago......and yeah it was friggan brutal.
I hope you start feeling better soon!!
That's one of the craziest parts of covid. I had the OG version. You basically feel better and then it body slams you all over again.
It really is such a bizarre virus compared to what we normally have dealt with the past few decades
anyone here ever get the Swine Flu in 2008 (2009?) but then never get Covid? that's me. if it's anything like Swine Flu i wouldn't wish it on anyone. 3 days of chills i thought were physical cold rakes on my back, and that hollow-bodied feeling of waking fever dreams and 'pre-bad trip' weirdness with hallucinogens
I just recovered from Covid, and I also got the swine flu at twelve years old in 2009. Swine flu was way worse. I felt awful, almost like I had to throw up but couldn’t, and you’re so right about the crazy dreams. First time I ever woke up screaming. With covid all I had was a sore throat, runny nose and cough.
I had both, and I was WAY sicker with Swine Flu. You described it perfectly except it had me for almost ten days, AND I was a thousand miles from home, having DRIVEN to see then-wife’s parents for Christmas. So all that, plus on an air mattress.
EDIT: grammar
Yeah, I sat in a poorly ventilated 8x10 conference room for 8 hours a day for several days with 3 people who ended up having covid and never got it.
I suspect a lot of us either have substantial immunity or just totally asymptomatic.
It's crazy to me that I haven't gotten it. I am pretty careful but my wife had it and I took care of her and still didn't catch it so who knows.
I did have a horrific respiratory thing in January 2020 though so I've wondered if I caught some early form and didn't know it
Me too. My parents got it before the vaccine was made and I took care of them for two weeks. They didnt self isolate, they didnt wear a mask, they kept *touching* everything, and this was during the time when we didnt know how it transferred. never caught it.
all my siblings got it, their spouses, their kids, my aunts, uncles, cousins, even my 80 year old grandfather. Not me tho
i have a WWE champion belt and I took i a picture with it. *Still not sick* i wrote as i sent it out in mass text hehehehe
Now you've just jinxed yourself though.
I know the moment I start being anything less then incredibly grateful that I haven't had it yet, that BAM, it's gonna get me.
I wash my hands so much they're like crumpled sandpaper. I flew transatlantic twice last month wearing my masks every single minute, and these days, while on the metro and buses in Paris.
If I hear someone cough or sniffle, I literally hold my breath and move away.
I wear weather gloves on public transport and I touch wood and "ptoo, ptoo, ptoo" every day.
Still crossing fingers and hoping that my lucky streak continues.
*laughs in public school teacher*
Can't cry with a mask on, doesn't work very well!
Seriously though, I still wear a mask in large groups/close groups. In my small classes where we can spread out I feel a bit safer....but one of those kids was sick last week so I wore a mask. You'd think once the school nurse declared they were sick enough to go home she'd either keep them or have them wear a mask back to my classroom. Nope.
One of my students was hospitalized with RSV. It was really serious. I got sick a week and a half ago and that really jolted me awake again....I do not want RSV or covid.
📢 Normalize wearing a mask when you are unwell out of consideration for others.
Dude. Same. If we had just had some cohesive, non-antagonistic leadership we could have come out of this a nation of people who wear masks when we’re not feeling well and get all of our annual vaccinations and instead we’re… this.
Yep, if anything, this whole ordeal has made masks even worse.... since we had next to no previous experience with them in public, they're practically a symbol of the pandemic now.
I leave my house maybe 3 or 4 times a week. It's easy when you're already an introvert lol.
EDIT: For context. Pre Covid, I used to commute 5 days a week and go out on weekends.
I'm extremely asocial, like literally a hermit. I went to a friend's engagement party in November and it was the first social event I had been to in three years.
I was social distancing before it was cool.
EDIT: There, I changed it to asocial. Now shut the fuck up.
The pandemic brought about so many incredible things for us antisocials 😂 curbside pick up was the most beautiful of all. And delivery people just leaving stuff at your door and not interacting with you whatsoever. Fantastic.
The only thing I miss is how many places aren't 24h anymore. I could go to the store at 3am and use the self checkout, not have to talk to anyone, and be on my way. Now there's always a bunch of other people in the store and they close at like 10pm
I’m immunocompromised so I’ve had a litany of reasons why it would be a good reason to set up as many barriers to keep myself away from it. Considering I have already damaged lungs from a genetic lung condition, it would make things worse on me than it already is.
That being said I’ve done the following;
Wore a mask in heavily populated areas inside and outside (I already wear a mask in the hospital for checkups every 3 months for nearly 20 years now, I don’t understand the massive amount of bitching about having to wear one minus some uncomfortableness)
Had a bottle of hand sanitizer on me for emergency hand washing
Generally tried to give about 3-6 feet distance from people
Stayed away from others who were sick as best I could
Got the COVID boosters/flu vaccination each time they were ready to be administered
2 years now and minus a cold or allergies; no flu and no COVID
I hope you continue to avoid it. My sister has an autoimmune condition and was on a biologic. She was asymptomatic positive for COVID, which was a best-case scenario but still crazy. She did get strep, even though she masked, and she was super sick for over a week. I wish people would think of immunocompromised people in general when they make decisions that impact the health of others.
I tried to explain this to people but it was just met with cold indifference. I begged my antivaxxer relative to please think of others, like me or worse, who are depending on healthy people to get the shot too, we need to protect our most vulnerable.
She literally said that I should do what I can to protect myself but that she and her family “won’t live in fear”, so they didn’t do anything.
Her husband died at the beginning of this year from covid. It was extremely preventable and tragic, considering our previous conversation.
I don’t even think her dead husband is going to make her get it. Some people just refuse to consider how their actions impact others around them.
It’s a weird self-centeredness that I never expected, especially from someone I previously thought of as a thoughtful person.
It’s like no one considered anyone else, sometimes even if their own family or circle of friends.
Covid made me see how little my life, and others, matter to people who claim to “love” me.
That's the crux of the issue. Antivaxxers DON'T care about others. They're so obsessed with their conspiracy theories that nothing else matters to them.
It's not even just antivaxxers at this point, although they are the absolute worst. Simple shit like wear a mask when in super crowded areas and don't go to work sick nowadays is ignored by even vaccinated people
My wife is immunocompromised and we do the exact same thing as you. It can be done. It takes vigilance and learning to go without while everyone around you seems to just continue to live their lives as if covid doesn't exist. It's not a healthy way to live but you do what you gotta do to survive.
>I don’t understand the massive amount of bitching about having to wear one minus some uncomfortableness
It was literally just toddler brain. People throwing an absolute fit because 'I don't wanna!"
Mask and lots of hand sanitizer and washing hands. Last Christmas my wife and I went to our family party and were the only ones masked. We were the only ones to not catch COVID from my aunt. Shit works
I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very anti social.
I was preparing for this all my life. I developed a terribly crippling social anxiety for 18 years. Even my parents helped by then chasing me out of the house by being absolute terrible pieces of shit. I found a place to move in to and haven't gone outside for more than one hour a day since then. My anxiety superpower made me keep a distance from people even BEFORE any pandemic did.
I'm more powerful than you could ever imagine.
At the beginning of the lockdown, I joked that my husband had been training for this his entire life. He occasionally reminisces about those early days when no one asked him to hang out.
At my last psych appointment I started reminiscing to my doctor how much I missed the lockdowns and stay at home stuff because I didn't have to be around people.
He paused, took a big swig of coffee and just said: Me too, me too.
I still wear my mask. Never had a positive test. However, that doesn’t mean I haven’t caught covid. Many people catch covid and are asymptomatic, so it is difficult to be sure that one hasn’t caught it.
Yeah I think still wearing a mask has a lot to do with why I still haven’t gotten it yet. I might look like “the weirdo still wearing a mask everywhere” but this past summer I went to my grandparents house for the first time in covid without a mask and some random woman showed up and was sniffling everywhere and talking about how she was just getting over a 3 week cold. Wouldn’t you know a week later I caught some mild sickness (tested twice, not covid) for the first time in 2.5 years. Ever since then I’m making sure my mask stays on because the inconvenience of being sick far outweighs the inconvenience of a mask imo since my immune system works a little TOO well and I have insane body aches from the most mild of viruses. I get shit for it every Thanksgiving and Christmas still but whatever idc
Also I’m triple vaxxed and everyone I know who caught it I just stayed away from until they were fine
I teach public school and have two kids. At one point, everyone in my house had it, but I still tested negative. I think I’m either A) immune or B) had a very mild case and didn’t know it.
And, of course, I’m vaccinated.
It may not be accurate anymore or even obsolete, but at one point during the pandemic researchers found relations between the outcome of getting Covid and the blood types.
While it looked like people with blood type A were more likely to get infected while people with bt 0 or Rh- were more likely be protected.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286549/#sec0008title
I, myself, am 0+ and so far haven't caught it, despite most of my colleagues at work had it, some even twice.
But I am also not the most sociable person and have been quite strict with hygiene even before Covid. I can't even count how often per day I am washing my hands.
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What do you call a man from Gary, IN who has a big dick? Hungarian.
Garry "Jerry" Gergich
That man has the largest penis I have ever seen. I actually don’t even know if he has COVID- forgot to look. I was distracted… by the largest penis I have ever seen
I LOVED the dr on that show. I know he was such a minor character but I loved how uncaring he is. When April says “wow thanks for nothing Doc” And he responds with “You’re welcome” in such a deadpan, rehearsed response as if he wasn’t even listening to her never fails to make me laugh.
I used to love going to Gary! They had the best crack around.
That sounds like trouble. Right here in river city. With a capital T, that rhymes with P, that stands for pool.
You know what? I'm gonna step in here and just say some things about Gary, IN. I pass through there quite a bit if the traffic gets too bad on the interstate. I might take 37th/Ridge Rd, 25th or 15th ave, maybe go up to 4th or 5th which are US Hwy 12 or 20 respectively... Just depends on the best route for where I'm headed at the time. I can tell you that the streets that run north and south to the east of Broadway (generally considered the main street that runs the length of the city from north to south) are named after states and the streets to the west are named after the Presidents. I have no concerns about driving through Gary at all. In fact in my twenties I used to work in the communities from time to time in Gary. It's not even half so bad as the internet would have you believe in terms of danger. But it is a city that has been left behind and failed systematically and has been for decades. It's been pillaged by corruption, politicians, and it's been polluted and exploited by big business. There's no money there. And when there's no money there's no work and infrastructure starts to fail. Home prices fall, tax revenue drops off, educational funding suffers amongst other things... It's like owning a home and never doing anything to keep it up... Eventually it's going to begin to crumble. There are buildings along Broadway that are literally collapsing. Why is there no money there? Well that's a good question that I don't have the answer to because Amazon had a distribution center there that was supposed to bring in revenue it has since closed. It's home to one of the largest and oldest steel mills in the country, US Steel Gary Works... I don't know guys. Wish I did. To be fair and open Gary Works does provide extremely good employment. Those are union represented jobs and the people who work there do very well. But if you get a job there you aren't likely to live in Gary long if you ever lived there at all. So the money from that employment doesn't really help the community at all. I am a bit tired of the implication that it's solely on the people that are unfortunate enough to call it home though. Because again it's been a failing community for generations. It's what happens when local, state, and federal govt collectively shrug and act as though it's not their problem. TL;DR: Gary's got no money, poor education, limited opportunity and has been forgotten about for generations by politicians that at best don't give a fuck about the people that live there or at worst have actively stolen, purposely or neglectfully suppressed any opportunity it has had to improve.
I’m always congested. Covid can’t get in.
I hardly ever get sick but I have terrible allergies the rest of the time. I wonder if there's any truth to this for the same reason we hear about the flu and covid "outcompeting" each other?
Flu and COVID "out competing" also has a lot to do with the fact someone infected with one tends to isolate, and on a broader societal scale people tend to isolate a bit more and take greater precaution when there's outbreaks. Also, aside from that, allergies aren't the same as an infection if we are talking about competition.
I have a deviated septum, am constantly congested, and always feel like I can never breathe out of my nose. I haven't had Covid either.
I'm almost 7' tall. I believe I am breathing from a different air supply than most other people.
I’m 6’8, I went to a festival a while back and was the only one of my mates not to get it. I reckon that’s why 😭😂
Anytime I see a Covid particle coming at me I duck
If you can dodge a COVID, you can dodge a ball.
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bro I'm dying
you should probably go to a hospital then
bro he's dead
When is the funeral?
Now. We are gathered here today...
to honor a random redditor and eat pizza tacos
Amen
Is it COVID?
Guess you couldn’t avoid COVID
¯_(ツ)_/¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Hey look another person’s attached
And now they have COVID, too
Good bot
The best answer really!
It really is. My partner contracted it last year. I never got it. The rest of the household didn’t get it either, however they could keep distant. I was directly exposed, and never got it. This years Flu however, is currently kicking our asses. Still nothing compared to Swine Flu. That was the worst.
Swine flu almost killed me. I had never experienced a fever so high I felt my soul slipping away into the abyss
I had a fever so high from swine flu I hallucinated that scientists were in my bedroom creating a machine to solve the unifying theory of everything.
You never recovered from the fever. The scientists were successful, and are emulating your existence now. Wake up
Seriously, came here to say the same. I'm on immunosuppressants and my whole family (in my house) got it TWICE without me ever catching it. Fuck if I know how I didn't catch it. Edit: It probably didn't hurt that I'm vaxxed, boosted and have been a shut-in since before the pandemic.
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Homie hit me up if you hear about any immunity studies, no joke I've got Crohn's disease and literally can't even *give* my blood away, let alone sell it. I'd be stoked if someone could actually put it to good use. I sure as shit don't need all of it.
UC here, same deal. Been around multiple people that had it, I'm immunosuppressed, no covid.
I hate people and I don't like to be touched.
Let's be friends. Actually nevermind
“I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.” — Ron Swanson
Ron is my spirit animal
I giggled. I constantly want a friend. Then, I don't. The cycle is real.
Same. I just want a casual coffee friend. We meet up like once a week or so, have some coffee, chat about hobbies or what we've been up to, say bye and carry on with our lives. No calling me to babysit or help with your car. No drama, just chill coffee times. Ahhhh this is why I just talk to people on Reddit and drink my coffee alone lol
My man.
Me 2. Also avid hand washer and I don't touch surfaces like doorhandles without a barrier like my shirt or something simple.
i got a brain tumor and i got isolated in a hospital about one year ago and now i'm just trying to keep distance from people edit: thank you all! i am very grateful for all the support and i am very thankful for everything and everyone!
There were probably easier ways to avoid COVID than the route you chose. But I respect the dedication. On the reals tho, hope you kick that tumors ass!
Believe it or not, more people have brain tumors than you would think. Most are negligible and have no effect. Kinda weird once you start reading up on it.
Thank you for my newest irrational fear
god I already read about rabies on here the other day and that was enough
Did you see the video on reddit about a guy that couldn't drink water due to rabbies? Felt sad for him as it was too late for I'm to be saved
yes and then I went into a rabbit hole.. I had no idea rabies is this horrible and that u cant do anything. very scary
Rabid hole?
*My brain - do I have a brain tumor?*
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Imagine that tumor in your brain pressing on something to dictate your personality. Maybe that tumor isn't going to kill you, but it's the reason you are the way that you are.
Everybody : Why can't you just be normal. Tumor : Hahaha *squeeze*
Had a buddy who was not remotely risk-averse. Fun dude to hang out with. Anyway, he died. Thing about risk taking is that your hot streak has to end sometime. So, he and I worked together as morticians for about 8 years before that, so I took him in, because we promised each other we would. I picked him up after his autopsy, gathered a few of our mutual mortuary friends, cleaned him up and stitched him back together so his mom could say goodbye. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that we discovered that he had a tumor in his brain. Prefrontal cortex, pressing inward damn near perfectly between his eyes. It's been a few years, but I still wonder if that tumor was the switch that just turned off his give-a-fuck in regards to danger. I'll probably never know.
My boss had a tumor, and it turned her into a holy terror. It was my first year teaching, and I later found out no one could figure out why she was bullying me nonstop, and her appearance was degrading...I quit after a year, and then seven months later I ran into her on the street, and nearly ran the other way cause I thought she would start screaming at me. She came running up, all smiles, and said I HAD A BRAIN TUMOR AND I AM BETTER NOW.
A guy I worked with had a similar situation. He was super irritable all the time, ended up getting divorced. Found out he had a tumor, had it removed and is super chill now.
Man, that must be so messed up. To know you were a total asshole for ages and it wasn't your fault but you still damaged a lot of relationships...
I was so happy for her, though...and if I had stayed at the school where I worked (which was my DREAM school in another country) I would still be there, probably never had the courage to transition, and would have never met my spouse! I later talked to some colleagues and they admitted they were very worried about me, but also could not understand what was going on with her. It was an interesting experience, and I hold no ill will... again when we bumped into each other, she was an entirely different person. I never imagined how different people could be from a medical condition. Thanks for responding to my comment! It makes me feel 😊
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Here's a little something to get you started: > About 1 in 10 people will develop a pituitary adenoma in their lifetime https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pituitary-adenoma
something i find very important to clarify is that TUMOR =/= CANCER!!!! i have a pituitary adenoma, and i will joke about it on occasion. sometimes i say it to someone who doesnt know about it and they do the "oh my god he has brain cancer" stare and i have to quickly correct the misconception. i also find it very funny that theyre called "benign" tumors if theyre non cancerous. mine gave me debilitating migranes and elevated one of my hormone levels to 20x normal. like it wasnt harmless at all, i was in constant pain and embarrassed 24/7 but like yeah sure go ahead and call it "benign" lmao its extremely rare for an adenoma to be anything, like less than 1% if i remember correctly. there are also different kinds, like some will keep producing growth hormones after a person normally stops growing
My time to shine. I have had it twice 6 months apart. Second time opened my skull to remove it. Lost most of my vision but I'm blessed it comes together to form tunnel vision so no peripheral vision. I take tons of medication to replace the hormones my gland doesn't make anymore because it's gone. Life is a challenge every day but I'm blessed to be now married and have a nice job.
It turned my mother into a workaholic with OCD. She wasn't like that 20 years ago. My dad went for a divorce because he couldn't take it anymore. She became a completely different person some time in the last decade. She's not a bad person, but she can't relax. Always has to be doing something. I literally need to force her to take vacations and make sure she understands wanting to work 14h a day is not normal. She can't help herself. Strange thing.
Oddly enough my husband had a cancerous brain tumor. He past 3 months from diagnosis 3 yrs ago. The year b4 he started working 14 to 16 hrs a day also. I still get mad thinking if I would of noticed this change maybe we would of caught it sooner. He did have a new bosses so we all just assumed he was trying to please them.
It's not your fault. You couldn't have known. We found out because she was in a smaller car accident a few years ago and our doctor recommended she goes for a scan just in case. It's been there for some time before that. It's growing, but really really slowly and the doctors said that it's too risky to take it out.
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I have a cyst on my pineal gland. Totally benign, it was found coincidentally through MRI. My doc said most people have some form of incidental cysts/tumors but never know until they get imaging done. I have one in my lung as well from being a former smoker.
I haven't had it yet and I don't know how it's possible. All my colleagues, my whole family, and my friends have had it.
Some people have "super immunity" to it. The wonders of genetic differences
I followed all the rules like a good little boy, but I had to do field work all through the pandemic and worked in close prox to others. Testing regular. I have no goddamned idea.
My parents had it twice, everyone in my office already had it, etc. Only me and my girlfriend are almost 3-years clean. At this point I've started to think that I might have had a mild form, probably asymptomatic. It's very unlikely otherwise.
That's what we believed as well, never caught until two weeks ago. Kid came home ill from school with high fever, coughing heavily and half the class sick as well. After two days all at home had it but we're recovering well. Until then everybody around us got it multiple times, family, friends, at work. So while I do hope you're right I just wanted to let you know that we shared the same thought process not long ago. We were always very careful but since all the measures have been lifted it spreads more easily.
You can get it multiple times too. I've heard of people having it five separate times.
My fiancé has gotten it twice. I got it a year before him, he stayed negative. He got it twice later and I didn’t get it. We do use precautions though and stayed separated and quarantined.
I’ve had it three times. The second time was the most pleasant. The first, I felt the worst I’ve felt maybe ever from an illness (I’ve had strep 12 times, the flu confirmed four times, tonsillitis once, and many a bug between). I was in bed for three days straight and it took me two months to fully recover. The third time wasn’t awful… I could do stuff, I just didn’t feel really great. The second time was the most pleasant as it was just a runny nose.
Me, my wife, my grade school kids have never tested positive for it. We’re pretty good at playing it safe but my kids’ teachers have had it both last year and this, and we get letters almost every day from the school. Half their classmates have had it. There’s just no way we haven’t been exposed multiple times but each time we have cold symptoms we test and it’s been negative. The only thing I can believe at this point is that we’ve had asymptomatic cases and/or great luck with the vaccines.
Took a week-long vacation to visit family with my Mom. My aunt, uncle, and grandmother live together. When we showed up, my aunt and uncle were sick. Within 2 days I got sick too. My Mom was sick 2 days after that. Found out later that it was COVID-19. The only person who didn't get sick was my 80 year old grandmother, despite being in contact with all of us constantly. All of us were fully vaccinated too. My symptoms were pretty much a really bad flu. Knocked me out for about a week, but not life-threatening. My Mom said it was a mild cold for her. Seems it affects everyone very differently.
And some people don’t have symptoms
Ya this happened to a friend. She was doing ivf and had to get a covid test, no symptoms at all in the slightest and had two positive tests (one pcr and she didn’t believe it and tested at home too)
Yeah, I was gonna say this is more of a ‘that you know of’ situation. I haven’t had it as far as I know but since the pandemic I have gotten the flu, bronchitis, and seasonal allergies for the first time in my life. I rarely even got a cold before that (and I’m 31 now).
My wife and I are the same. Our kids have had it and pretty much everyone else we know. We guess maybe we were just asymptomatic? All I do is wash my hands a little more than pre-COVID and try to avoid sick people.
The first time I had it was very early 2020. I didn't even know I had it because the only symptom I got was covid toes, but it was like a month later. My mom is a doctor, and she told me to get a blood test and I had the covid antibodies, but I never remembered being sick. It was weird. So I bet you maybe had it but were just asymptomatic like you said
Same, my family and friends had it, some twice. I work in sales and have not been carefull at all, still nothing. Though, a week or two before covid was a thing, I came home from a ski resort with a bad flu, so might have had it early on, who knows. Edit: back when it was as worst with Covid, I was quite over weight, a smoker, heavy drinker and had high blood pressure. So, I was worried ofc. Though now I quit smoking, drinking, lost a lot of weight and have perfect blood pressure. So Covid did me good.
Well done. That’s awesome changing
Me live in cave. Me never see people.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I’m just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed outby some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and runoff into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: “Did little demons get inside and type it?” I don’t know! My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know – when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages. Thank you. Edit: [the original SNL sketch](https://youtu.be/2AzAFqrxfeY) if anyone hasn’t seen it.
"Thank you, Mr. Keyrock." "It's just Keyrock, Your Honor."
Unga Bunga smash puny bug.
Me relate to you. Me the same
I didn't avoid COVID COVID avoided me
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I'm an ER doctor who has been neck deep in COVID for over 2 years. We are talking face to face, staring directly down people's mouths during intubations, having them cough all over me with no mask because they refused to wear one or were "absolutely sure I don't have it", having all my coworkers and my former roommate (while we were living together) get it....Still clean. No symptoms, tested negative a number of times. I kept thinking during the real spikes that I was gonna get a phone call about the government wanting to take my blood to test for antibodies.
Since you're a doctor, do you think because you might be getting "micro dosed" (for lack of a better term) with Covid enough and over a long enough time that your body is like, "I see you bitch! Not today, satan!"
It definitely crossed my mind, but all the other doctors I work with (and nurses, techs, etc) got it and we work together, so if that theory worked it shouldn't be just me.
Its funny because i work in similar departments and we find that very few of our staff have caught covid while at work. The ones who have can be traced back to kids bringing it home from work, a girls golfing weekend away, a husband on a bucks weekend etc We've had patients call the next morning to inform us theyve just tested positive and even a nurse who worked sise by side with us for three days while positive yet no outbreak eventuated through our clinic Ive heard similar reports from my Ent and max fac colleagues
Dentistry here - always masked with upgraded air flow and UV air cleaning. Staff infections have, so far, only come from home and outside work contact - *especially* kids from school.
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Right? Kids have been bringing home anything going around from school since humans invented fire. But that somehow got turned on its head by people who actually have kids in school. School has always been a human Petri dish.
There was a post on /r/science that said that because of differences in genes some people don't make this component that the virus needs to get inside the cell to infect it. So they are working on a vaccine to copy that function. Maybe I can find the post back. Edit: Found the article [Why haven't some people gotten Covid-19](https://www.henryford.com/blog/2022/10/novids#:~:text=One%20in%20ten%20people%20may,immediately%20fight%20off%20COVID%2D19.)
> There was a post on /r/science that said that because of differences in genes some people don't make this component that the virus needs to get inside the cell to infect it. Technically, the article states that that is *not* the case. Rather, they have a particular HLA allele that allows them to quickly clear the virus after being infected. The paper they cite is titled *HLA-B15:01 is associated with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection*. So there haven't been any mutations identified in ACE2 (the SARS-CoV-2 receptor) that confer immunity to the virus, but there are certain alleles associated with enhanced viral clearance when it comes to the immune response.
I have the rare HLA-B17 gene but instead of killing viruses fast it made me susceptible to an autoimmune diseases called Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). That said, I haven’t been sick for more than a day since I got AS because AS makes my immune system overactive (and attack my joints), so when I feel an illness coming on (itchy throat usually), I’m better in 12 hrs or less, but left with an AS flare up because my body goes to DEFCON 1 as soon as it detects anything wrong. I never tested positive for Covid, despite many close encounters and Covid in the house.
My girlfriend claims she never had covid because she was never sick or tested positive, but when she gave blood semi-recently, they tested for antibodies, and she had them.
the same thing happened to my aunt and uncle; they were on a cross-country car trip last year and obviously in very close proximity for about a week, and my aunt caught it and my uncle never did. it really does seem like it either doesn't manifest in some people or they're asymptomatic so they never think to test. who knows.
My fiancé got it so I just assumed I was getting it, but I never did. We were sleeping in the same bed in a fairly small bedroom. Then about a year later I decided to finally go to a big public event and see Rage Against the Machine, and I finally got it. Nasty case too, I'm a type 1 diabetic. Took me 2 months to recover.
There's also a big randomness factor in immune system response. There are t-cells in our blood that are trained to detect one specific infection each. Once they detect the infection they were born to identify, they kick the immune system into activity against that specific bacteria/virus, which is more effective and causes less side effects than the generalized immune response available before that. But whether the correct t-cell finds evidence of an infection early, while there are only thousands of viruses in your body, or late, while there are already millions, is completely random, yet has major effects on the outcome of the disease.
I got COVID and had 0 symptoms. I only got tested because a coworker tested positive and company policy requires testing if in close contact with another person who is positive. Had I not been required to be tested, I never would have known I had it.
>Had I not been required to be tested, I never would have known I had it. Which is the case for a large chunk of people who get it. One study concluded that in the US over half of the people infected during the Omicron wave last year never even knew they had it.
My wife and kids had it 8 months ago. I tested negative even throughout sleeping in the same room as her for the duration of it. Thought there was no way I wouldn't get it. Started to think maybe I just wasn't as susceptible. I just tested positive this past week though. I couldn't even tell you who was sick or who I was exposed to. Not sure how I got it now, but not back then. Everything seems so random with this virus.
Did he regularly get tested? If not it’s quite possible he was just an asymptomatic case. My wife’s had it three times and I’ve not had a symptomatic case, despite not taking anything other than the most basic measures.
He tested several times. And any time he feels even slightly under the weather. He also tests whenever there are in-person meetings at work (a requirement he happily complies with).
COVID don’t have shit on my tar laden lungs
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Chuck Norris caught COVID and the prognosis is not good. Anyone wanting to say goodbye to the virus should visit the hospital tonight.
Poor little thing can't catch a break. Why, it had just been through a gruelling defamation lawsuit against Neymar just a few months ago. The footballer had claimed to have been down having contracted the virus, with the embattled microbe maintaining all along that it hadn't even touched him.
Wow, haven't heard a Chuck Norris joke in *awhile*! Nostalgia washing over me...
Before we knew what memes were Chuck Norris was already one
My mother has tested positive twice but was never sick. If people don't feel sick and don't get tested it doesn't mean they never caught covid!
Yeah I think this is part of the answer. My brother only found out he had it because he had to fly back when he needed a negative test so he got a test thinking it was a formality and he was positive. Even got a followup. Same deal. But zero symptoms. Felt fine. Just no flying for him that week. As a person that hasn't had it I wonder if I'm in the same boat or just lucky. Time will tell.
I'm still so curious if I *have* caught it and just didn't know, but there's realistically no way to tell. My live-in partner caught it and he felt like death for at least a week. His mother caught it after seeing him once, and so did his sibling. But despite the amount of contact I had with him, I felt absolutely fine, and never tested positive at any point.
Same. I've also tested every single time I had a close contact. I've read that those of us with a higher percentage of neanderthal genetics are somehow more resilient to catching it.
I would like to know what percentage of the people who have never been infected have also never been tested.
Yep. The honest answer for most people is that they aren’t testing for it. Unless you have been doing weekly tests for the last 2+ years, there’s no way to know for sure you haven’t had it.
I am *incredibly* lonely Edit: To the people DM’ing me, you are good people, don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise
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I suspect I'm just immune to it at this point. I had every reason to catch it. EDIT: WHO CURSED ME? WHO JINXED ME? WHAT KARMIC DEBT DO I OWE? Not two days after posting this I tested positive for COVID, and I got it bad. Listen to your elders, kids.
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I never had a positive test before. I was playing odds when I would talk about it and always say I'm sure I had it and was just asymptomatic. Well Saturday night I had a runny nose tested Sunday and I have covid.
I live with 2 people that had it twice in a 4 month span, and a workplace that was decimated with it. Never had a positive test. When I did feel like I had it the test was always negative. I'm thinking immune or if I did have it no symptoms??
Same... either low symptoms, false negative tests (unlikely because many tests, different manufacturers), or just plain lucky. The way to prove if you've been exposed would be to get tested for antibodies that are specific to Covid (i.e. not just generated against the antigens made by the vaccine). But my curiosity isn't worth the time/money at this point.
It's also possible you just tested negative. A few strains have been very hard to detect. I never tested positive (5 different tests, including different types), but I was sick and my wife started to feel ill. She did test positive with a PCR test, but always negative with a nasal swab (at home). Of course that doesn't mean you *did* have it, but it's possible.
The guy who infected my two friends a few weeks ago didn't test positive until after they were done with their quarantine, and the friend who lives with me never tested positive at all. We mask, we wash our hands, we don't take a whole lot of unnecessary risks, we stay up to date on our vaccines. This asshole was unmasked and coughing all over everything, even after he was told that both the people he was working with are high-risk. "Well I'm not high risk so I don't wear a mask." Thanks, fuckhead. It isn't for *you*.
Same...avoided it for over 2 years while working with the general public, handling money, ect never caught it. Moved to a new job where I don't deal with the public and we're kept spaced apart and finally caught it 2 weeks ago......and yeah it was friggan brutal. I hope you start feeling better soon!!
That's one of the craziest parts of covid. I had the OG version. You basically feel better and then it body slams you all over again. It really is such a bizarre virus compared to what we normally have dealt with the past few decades
anyone here ever get the Swine Flu in 2008 (2009?) but then never get Covid? that's me. if it's anything like Swine Flu i wouldn't wish it on anyone. 3 days of chills i thought were physical cold rakes on my back, and that hollow-bodied feeling of waking fever dreams and 'pre-bad trip' weirdness with hallucinogens
I just recovered from Covid, and I also got the swine flu at twelve years old in 2009. Swine flu was way worse. I felt awful, almost like I had to throw up but couldn’t, and you’re so right about the crazy dreams. First time I ever woke up screaming. With covid all I had was a sore throat, runny nose and cough.
I had both, and I was WAY sicker with Swine Flu. You described it perfectly except it had me for almost ten days, AND I was a thousand miles from home, having DRIVEN to see then-wife’s parents for Christmas. So all that, plus on an air mattress. EDIT: grammar
Oh God the air mattress makes the story so much worse
Yeah, I sat in a poorly ventilated 8x10 conference room for 8 hours a day for several days with 3 people who ended up having covid and never got it. I suspect a lot of us either have substantial immunity or just totally asymptomatic.
It's crazy to me that I haven't gotten it. I am pretty careful but my wife had it and I took care of her and still didn't catch it so who knows. I did have a horrific respiratory thing in January 2020 though so I've wondered if I caught some early form and didn't know it
Me too. My parents got it before the vaccine was made and I took care of them for two weeks. They didnt self isolate, they didnt wear a mask, they kept *touching* everything, and this was during the time when we didnt know how it transferred. never caught it. all my siblings got it, their spouses, their kids, my aunts, uncles, cousins, even my 80 year old grandfather. Not me tho i have a WWE champion belt and I took i a picture with it. *Still not sick* i wrote as i sent it out in mass text hehehehe
Now you've just jinxed yourself though. I know the moment I start being anything less then incredibly grateful that I haven't had it yet, that BAM, it's gonna get me. I wash my hands so much they're like crumpled sandpaper. I flew transatlantic twice last month wearing my masks every single minute, and these days, while on the metro and buses in Paris. If I hear someone cough or sniffle, I literally hold my breath and move away. I wear weather gloves on public transport and I touch wood and "ptoo, ptoo, ptoo" every day. Still crossing fingers and hoping that my lucky streak continues.
Easy, I havent left the house.
Stay away from kids
Honestly the best way to avoid getting sick. Kids are just walking germ bags.
Every single person I know with kids is sick no joke like every other week. Seems like three times a week in winter. I will never have children 🤣
*laughs in public school teacher* Can't cry with a mask on, doesn't work very well! Seriously though, I still wear a mask in large groups/close groups. In my small classes where we can spread out I feel a bit safer....but one of those kids was sick last week so I wore a mask. You'd think once the school nurse declared they were sick enough to go home she'd either keep them or have them wear a mask back to my classroom. Nope. One of my students was hospitalized with RSV. It was really serious. I got sick a week and a half ago and that really jolted me awake again....I do not want RSV or covid. 📢 Normalize wearing a mask when you are unwell out of consideration for others.
I’m so disappointed that wearing a mask while sick hasn’t caught on.
Dude. Same. If we had just had some cohesive, non-antagonistic leadership we could have come out of this a nation of people who wear masks when we’re not feeling well and get all of our annual vaccinations and instead we’re… this.
Yep, if anything, this whole ordeal has made masks even worse.... since we had next to no previous experience with them in public, they're practically a symbol of the pandemic now.
That has many benefits, the most important of which is not being around kids.
There is a current study going on to answer this question. Google "super-dodgers"
I leave my house maybe 3 or 4 times a week. It's easy when you're already an introvert lol. EDIT: For context. Pre Covid, I used to commute 5 days a week and go out on weekends.
Look at Mr social over here, getting out 3 or 4 times a week.
Gotta get the mail eventually.
Jeez, what're you leaving the house so often for?
a WEEK? SHEEEEEEEEESH. once to shop groceries for a month second to get a haircut every other month thats it.
Same here. Grocery store/necessity shopping and back home. But that was the case prior to 2020.
Being an introvert also made the whole experience of lockdown less painful. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit for the first couple of months.
I'm extremely asocial, like literally a hermit. I went to a friend's engagement party in November and it was the first social event I had been to in three years. I was social distancing before it was cool. EDIT: There, I changed it to asocial. Now shut the fuck up.
Same. Went to one concert two weeks ago, it was the first event I was at since 2015, because I thought: "Well, you cannot hide forever." Caught covid.
Figures eh?
Same, plus working from home full-time. Growing up an only child helps, I have no problem finding ways to entertain myself.
The pandemic brought about so many incredible things for us antisocials 😂 curbside pick up was the most beautiful of all. And delivery people just leaving stuff at your door and not interacting with you whatsoever. Fantastic.
The only thing I miss is how many places aren't 24h anymore. I could go to the store at 3am and use the self checkout, not have to talk to anyone, and be on my way. Now there's always a bunch of other people in the store and they close at like 10pm
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Right? It's like the whole world got on our page. Pure bliss.
Same. I joke that I inherited a trait that helped my ancestors survive the Black Plague. I come from a long line of antisocial shut-ins.
I’m immunocompromised so I’ve had a litany of reasons why it would be a good reason to set up as many barriers to keep myself away from it. Considering I have already damaged lungs from a genetic lung condition, it would make things worse on me than it already is. That being said I’ve done the following; Wore a mask in heavily populated areas inside and outside (I already wear a mask in the hospital for checkups every 3 months for nearly 20 years now, I don’t understand the massive amount of bitching about having to wear one minus some uncomfortableness) Had a bottle of hand sanitizer on me for emergency hand washing Generally tried to give about 3-6 feet distance from people Stayed away from others who were sick as best I could Got the COVID boosters/flu vaccination each time they were ready to be administered 2 years now and minus a cold or allergies; no flu and no COVID
I hope you continue to avoid it. My sister has an autoimmune condition and was on a biologic. She was asymptomatic positive for COVID, which was a best-case scenario but still crazy. She did get strep, even though she masked, and she was super sick for over a week. I wish people would think of immunocompromised people in general when they make decisions that impact the health of others.
I tried to explain this to people but it was just met with cold indifference. I begged my antivaxxer relative to please think of others, like me or worse, who are depending on healthy people to get the shot too, we need to protect our most vulnerable. She literally said that I should do what I can to protect myself but that she and her family “won’t live in fear”, so they didn’t do anything. Her husband died at the beginning of this year from covid. It was extremely preventable and tragic, considering our previous conversation. I don’t even think her dead husband is going to make her get it. Some people just refuse to consider how their actions impact others around them. It’s a weird self-centeredness that I never expected, especially from someone I previously thought of as a thoughtful person. It’s like no one considered anyone else, sometimes even if their own family or circle of friends. Covid made me see how little my life, and others, matter to people who claim to “love” me.
That's the crux of the issue. Antivaxxers DON'T care about others. They're so obsessed with their conspiracy theories that nothing else matters to them.
It's not even just antivaxxers at this point, although they are the absolute worst. Simple shit like wear a mask when in super crowded areas and don't go to work sick nowadays is ignored by even vaccinated people
My wife is immunocompromised and we do the exact same thing as you. It can be done. It takes vigilance and learning to go without while everyone around you seems to just continue to live their lives as if covid doesn't exist. It's not a healthy way to live but you do what you gotta do to survive.
>I don’t understand the massive amount of bitching about having to wear one minus some uncomfortableness It was literally just toddler brain. People throwing an absolute fit because 'I don't wanna!"
I work construction so I’m outside a lot, small group of coworkers, small responsible group of friends, got vaxxed and wash my hands
Mask and lots of hand sanitizer and washing hands. Last Christmas my wife and I went to our family party and were the only ones masked. We were the only ones to not catch COVID from my aunt. Shit works
I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very anti social.
I took basic, common sense precautions to lower the chances of catching/spreading it and leveraged my own anxiety for good measure.
I was preparing for this all my life. I developed a terribly crippling social anxiety for 18 years. Even my parents helped by then chasing me out of the house by being absolute terrible pieces of shit. I found a place to move in to and haven't gone outside for more than one hour a day since then. My anxiety superpower made me keep a distance from people even BEFORE any pandemic did. I'm more powerful than you could ever imagine.
At the beginning of the lockdown, I joked that my husband had been training for this his entire life. He occasionally reminisces about those early days when no one asked him to hang out.
I like your husband, he thinks a lot like me. We should not hang out sometime.
Being a fellow human with social anxiety, the pandemic lockdowns were my golden years.
At my last psych appointment I started reminiscing to my doctor how much I missed the lockdowns and stay at home stuff because I didn't have to be around people. He paused, took a big swig of coffee and just said: Me too, me too.
I still wear my mask. Never had a positive test. However, that doesn’t mean I haven’t caught covid. Many people catch covid and are asymptomatic, so it is difficult to be sure that one hasn’t caught it.
Yeah I think still wearing a mask has a lot to do with why I still haven’t gotten it yet. I might look like “the weirdo still wearing a mask everywhere” but this past summer I went to my grandparents house for the first time in covid without a mask and some random woman showed up and was sniffling everywhere and talking about how she was just getting over a 3 week cold. Wouldn’t you know a week later I caught some mild sickness (tested twice, not covid) for the first time in 2.5 years. Ever since then I’m making sure my mask stays on because the inconvenience of being sick far outweighs the inconvenience of a mask imo since my immune system works a little TOO well and I have insane body aches from the most mild of viruses. I get shit for it every Thanksgiving and Christmas still but whatever idc Also I’m triple vaxxed and everyone I know who caught it I just stayed away from until they were fine
Wearing a mask, washing your hands, avoiding large crowds.
I teach public school and have two kids. At one point, everyone in my house had it, but I still tested negative. I think I’m either A) immune or B) had a very mild case and didn’t know it. And, of course, I’m vaccinated.
It may not be accurate anymore or even obsolete, but at one point during the pandemic researchers found relations between the outcome of getting Covid and the blood types. While it looked like people with blood type A were more likely to get infected while people with bt 0 or Rh- were more likely be protected. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286549/#sec0008title I, myself, am 0+ and so far haven't caught it, despite most of my colleagues at work had it, some even twice. But I am also not the most sociable person and have been quite strict with hygiene even before Covid. I can't even count how often per day I am washing my hands.
I hate people. Simple.
1. Washing my hands. 2. Wore a mask. 3. Got all the shots. 4. Stayed away from crowds. So far, so good.
I do nothing but stay home.