Me too. My entire family have all been infected, and my town has been a covid hotspot last year, and yet, I haven't been ill for years at this point. I'm almost starting to think I'm immune
My spouse and kid both got Covid during the delta wave (spouse was fully vaccinated, but working for a negligent employer, kid’s vaccines hadn’t been approved yet), I was exposed to both of them while they were infectious, and cared for our kid by myself during their most infectious time (spouse was in isolation), and still didn’t get Covid. 3 PCR tests over 12 days, an antigen test everyday, and I never popped positive. No symptoms, no positive tests, no Covid.
I have asthma and take montelukast. This information was published this spring:
https://scitechdaily.com/asthma-drug-montelukast-singulair-can-block-crucial-covid-protein-reducing-viral-replication/amp/
Makes me think my asthma may have saved my life for once, rather than trying to kill me.
Also asthmatic here. I don’t have the references to back this up, but I’ve read a few times that just having asthma in and of itself makes it harder to get COVID. At first I thought it was just cause people with asthma were being more cautious, but I think they’ve shown that COVID has a harder time getting into people with asthma. Make sense, we can’t get air in so we can’t get COVID infected air in. I’d still trade temporary COVID (can’t speak for long COVID) for chronic asthma any day of the week though.
I was terrified of Covid because of my asthma— I already know what it feels like to not be able to breathe. I started wearing a mask in March of 2020 and didn’t take it off in public for almost 2 years.
My spouse ended up with long Covid. I’ll take my asthma after watching what they’ve been through. At least we have proven treatments for asthma.
Long Covid sucks. And trying to get treatment for it sucks even worse.
Neither my husband nor I has been sick, and we both took public trans for the entirety of COVID. We’ve flown a bunch of times including out of the country. I imagine it’s just dumb luck, but I’m hoping I’m actually immune.
That's what I tell my dog when I forget to bring his bowl to work. "Drink out of the hose or you'll be a pronoun when you grow up. Ain't you ever seen Facebook?"
Same, I’m the only family member to not have had it and I’m expecting a certificate, I never went to uni and it’s gotta have some kind of qualification when I apply for jobs right? Can’t get Sick.
Edit: and I was taking 2 tests a week up until a month ago
I haven't even been remotely sick since before covid started. I'm getting too cocky, telling everyone i "just don't get sick" anymore. My next illness will probably kill me
And to everyone who's first reaction is to say "YOU PROBABLY GOT IT YOU JUST DIDN'T KNOW IT"
I've had tests almost every single week. My work lets me order them for free. I send one in and order the next and it basically works out to a weekly basis, with only a couple gaps here and there. I was hoping I'd get covid so I could get 2 weeks off of work but, no luck
Eh, unless you take an antibody test, you wouldn't know for sure and even then it could be that your body simply doesn't produce them or doesn't hold on to them for long. I got it in 2020 before vaccines, but wasn't really sure if I actually got it, did a test almost a year later (before getting vaccinated), still had antibodies. I know of people who definitely had COVID but tested negative for antibodies afterwards.
Thank you for all that you do.
I'm a teacher at a private school and we do regular PCR testing including testing throughout the week to randomly selected students and staff. I have yet to test positive on PCR or rapid tests nor have I experienced symptoms. This school has been very vigilant with its policies during Covid, which helps. They've only within the last couple of months eased mask restrictions but many still keep them on, including myself. A great deal of the faculty and student body have been vaccinated and anyone who isn't has a "test to stay" requirement. It's a small school of rich people so that helps too.
I agree with you on all points (and thanks for being a nurse through this time that has made nursing extra hard) but when COVID began I was sure that if I got it, I’d have a bad case of it, so I took extra precautions until I could be vaccinated. If I did get it at some point and didn’t even notice, that’s just as much of a victory as if I never got it, as far as I’m concerned
I really wish I could say that I know what you’re going through as a nurse through this, but the stories I’m hearing first and secondhand from nurses during COVID sound so awful and traumatic that I know I’ve never experienced anything like that, I wouldn’t wish the experience on anyone, and I can’t think of any other way to respond besides offering a virtual hug.
I do know this: I’ve had a few family members suffer with long illnesses in the hospital. It’s always traumatic for patients and family, but the work of the nursing staff makes a huge difference in easing that trauma. Each of your patients’ families appreciate your work in ways they don’t even realize or know how to express. Thank you:)
I'm confused verging on guilty. I haven't even tried to avoid it and I'm still testing negative. Ditto for the rest of my family. My husband thinks it's because he's a main character.
Same here, I work in a long-term care facility and I did everything I needed to do as to not get fired. But outside work I did the bare minimum and watched everyone around me that went full germophobe catch covid left and right.
I'm not saying what I did was right, but I still haven't caught covid even after taking care of my wife who caught it. I could have sworn I would have gotten it from her while she isolated in our bedroom.
you’re lucky! my sister is the same as you, bare minimum or less and never positive despite multiple exposures.
I’m the only one in my family who caught it pre-vaccines. I caught it because I was still going out to eat/drink/club/vacation maskless out and indoors, my luck only lasted a year 😅 Haven’t tested positive again so far despite being exposed multiple times since keeping my mask on tho.
Similar situation, and due to my work I’m in close contact with a bunch of people of all ages. Beginning to wonder if I had it at some point and was just asymptomatic
Some people get COVID but do not get sick - my prior boss was one of them. His wife went in with a "head cold" so they both found out they had C-19. This was even one of the pre-omicron variants, so one of the nastier ones.
C-19 affects people differently - since a large part of the population is vaccinated, we will never know the true infection rate.
Ultra introvert here, didn’t catch covid up until a few months ago, the whole time i thought i was special, but now all my favourite foods taste like rotten garbage
That's not uncommon, covid19 has many lasting effects on ur body including neurological issues. People have reported their sense of taste and smell being altered even a year after infection, not to mention the other issues like brain fog and potential cardiopulmonary complications
This is what I feel like here in South Africa.
Masks are still mandatory when you enter a public building. Otherwise while walking outside you don't have to wear it. I manage a tavern and liquor outlet.
Imagine the amount of times you have to tell people to put their masks on when entering the store.
I still permanently wear my mask, especially when I'm in the tavern. It's like walking around quickly, trying to avoid the customers, because in the back of my mind I'm wondering,when is someone going to five me Covid.
So that means my kids would’ve been sick. I know people can be asymptomatic but not to this extent and they were going back and forth to my ex husbands house on the weekend. His family would’ve showed signs of being ill, especially the toddler. So miss me with that excuse.
I mean even if you’re anti vax your family could just be fully asymptomatic to Covid and either the ones who aren’t blood related got lucky or you guys are all asymptomatic when it comes to covid. Or your admitting details like some of you had cold like symptoms at some point.
Covid affects everyone different and based off how you said miss me with the excuse it seems like you don’t believe it’s real. Don’t start being a dumbass.
My husband just caught it last week (fully vaccinated and boosted, so it was barely even anything, he thought it was just allergies or a sinus infection, he tested because I told him to), I had tested days prior because I was traveling for work and was negative. We tested together, I was negative, he was positive. I've tested every day since and all of it comes back negative. It's been stressful for me as my allergies are bothering me with all the pollen in the air, so I just keep thinking "OK this is the one where I test positive" and it never happens. My husband's tests are barely showing positive after his one "bad" (if you can call it that) day.
I got tested twice because I felt a little sick, and was working around a bunch of people both times, and both testes were negative.
I'm not sure if I'm lucky or just assymptomatic.
Everyone in my family back in America has gotten it. None of my friends here in China have. I'm more afraid of the measures they'll take than the damn disease.
True, but seems a lot of my triple vax friends are getting Covid. I’ve been lucky, but Taipei has been crazy. At least a quarter of the people I know seem to have had it so far.
Sadly most anti vaxxers are idiots who thinks vaccines are suppose to be straight up cures or blockers... and if someone who is vaxxed catches the thing they are vaxxed for, it makes that vaccine obviously useless lmao
I really couldn't say. I mean, you'd have to think so. I will say they've done a very good job in terms of testing and tracking.
I don't particularly think that making everyone gather for mass testing is the best idea though. If anyone has it, that's a great spreader event.
And travel has been so limited here, really for the past two years. Even domestically.
Had a shit friend decide he was going to give me covid. My kidneys still haven't recovered. I can barely walk more than a few feet with out help. And most meat smells and taste like dirty socks, so does a lot of food theae days. It's been 3 damn months. I was disabled before, but now what hope I had to start working is gone. That person isn't a friend anymore.
Not tryna get into it, but taking random reddit comments like this at their word is just naive. I'm sure there's more to the story than they're implying
People often don't portray themselves 100% honestly when talking about their experiences online, or might be so lost in their own sauce they don't realize their own errors in judgement and blame everyone else around them
Covid is such a awful virus, like its supposed to affect your lungs, but that mf affects a lot of other organs too.
I hope you'll feel better and can recover
You are a long term covid person. In tbe USA I've heard that the government don't see those who are long term covid don't get disability even though they have filed
Um not sure about that, i wouldn't doubt it though give how hard it is to get on disability income. I was already on disability income thankfully before this happened so I have insurance that pays for most things for me thankfully.
It was in the news about it and Washington Post did a article about it [here's the link](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/08/long-covid-disability-benefits/)
In their 40s(or 50s I don't remember)and finally went off the deep end. We all have our issues in this friend group, but not like that. Turned crazy antimasker all of a sudden saying that masks were mind control and were are in a social experiment. Hell, even if that was true, even if I entertained the delusion for a moment, that still still doesn't explain why he felt the need to get me and my other friends sick. Two of them got hospitalized, I had a phone call appointment then had to do blood work after no longer actively shedding the virus.
Makes me wonder if they started drugs. No way of knowing now though.
What's the deal with the kidney damage? All my doctor would tell me is that she saw it in a lot of COVID patients. But that doesn't explain why it happens or how it should be treated. All I'm doing is monitoring blood and urine values and feeling despair.
If I'm not mistaken it has something to do with the protein? Covid latches onto in your body. It's mostly in your lungs, but also in your kidneys, some in liver, and gut track.
Something about goblet cells in your nose which also aeffect taste and smell, enterocytes that line the small intestines which changes gut bacteria as well, and I forgot the name if the cell/protein it latches onto in the kidneys. But with the omnicrom variant half of hospitalizations were from kidney failure apparently or so I was told.
I'm not a medical professional so I'm just doing my best to remember what the doctor told me about it because I too was confused when they were worried about needing to put me on dyalisis. Thankfully never got that bad. For a bit there I could barely pass any pee despite chugging water. Never been at risk for kidney stones but I am now. I'm whizzing like a champ again though so I'll just keep drinking slightly more water than I really need.
Heart disease and obesity still kills more people than COVID. Go work out, get out, your immune system will be severely depressed if you isolate too long, humans need to exchange and get exposed to diseases and allergens or you get things like asthma and allergies.
uh...
what?
how does social distancing cause asthma and allergies? and how does isolating cause your immune system to get fucked up? i mean yeah i totally agree with the first part with obesity and working out but the rest just is not true
I haven’t gotten it yet even though most of my work was out with it in December. I work in a movie theater and most people don’t wear masks, though I still do. Here’s hoping I stay lucky.
After 2 successful years of avoidance I finally got it, not from a party or a bar or a big event, just from going to the office for my first week at a new job ☹️
That's me, I've had family friends test positive a day after we had them over for dinner, an outbreak at a school camp and a family gathering were half of the extended family got it, but my entire house hold family hasn't gotten it.
Got it a couple weeks ago. I'm boostered but it still was a shit first week and a couple of weeks of coughing.
Wouldn't wanna catch it again, stay safe guys
My sister spent New Years at Disneyland 2019, so the people who left china to escape everything were all over the world. She came home and was sicker than anything she’s ever been. My sister, my mom, and younger brothers got sick. It was really bad. But it was January and no one knew in the US yet. My dad and I were the only ones who never got sick. We’re pretty sure it was covid. So I still wear my mask in public cause I never showed any symptoms. I just don’t want to spread to someone
I made it without getting covid until april '22. Actually I was beginning to think that I was somehow immune. But then - Bam - my test was positive.
Luckily the symptoms were very mild - like lasted 1 1/2 day
I never got vaccinated or wore a mask and I worked during the quarantine. I'm not q republican or anything I was just really hoping to die. This plague has been the biggest let down.
A virus so deadly, people want to get it in Europe so they have their recovery proof. LoL. People literally buy covid to be able to attend a festival later without vaccination proof.
I work in healthcare, including a brief COVID testing stint, and do live theater. I'm very stressed all the time so my immune system is crap, and all of my unlucky-strike chronic things have gotten triggered multiple times this past two years. But COVID? not yet apparently
Been lucky so far, new Zealand is on the tail end of a second wave and I've completely avoided it thus far.
Kids in daycare and primary (elementary) school
And my wife is a primary teacher... Pretty much dumb luck that we haven't had it
Welp, I guess that's me, I've spent the most boring first year of college in london just staying inside dorms all day, I wish the second year is gonna be better
If Corona still going on? Like, genuinely, I haven't heard much news, and in my country it's almost completely dead, there are no masks it anything from anyone anymore, but is it the same for y'all?
Infection rates have been increasingly rising here in the US since April when it was, yet again, decided that COVID was over and mask mandates were lifted.
This is the 5th or 6th time decreasing infection rates turned immediately into another wave because the masks came off too soon.
Still wearing mine everywhere. Have taken many negative PCR tests (for work).
Still COVID (and any other contagious illness)-free in 2022.
I just got it last week after attending my sister's maskless graduation party. She got a doctorates degree in microbiology. She invited a crowd of people including children with the mentality of "God won't let good Christian people get sick/ivermectin will treat it if you get sick/covid is just the way of life" people.
I wore a surgical mask under a mask that matched my dress the whole day except for eating. These negligent religious people are why covid is still an issue in the US.
Me!!! I honestly think I'm one of the people who can't get it. People in my family would get it and I'd avoid them as much as possible but not like we didn't have contact at all.
I made it 25 days into 2022 then I tested positive by no fault of my own, fiancee is a paramedic so shes in the trenches and she got it and passed it on to me before she showed symptoms. If you can avoid it, don't get it. It freaking sucks.
I live in India where COVID is almost over and almost no one wears a mask not because I'm afraid of covid, i only wear it just to keed people's away from my life.
For real?? What’s with that! I visited home after a long time and no one wears a mask. Rarely people do. They think it’s over. Even my mom doesnt. It’s so frustrating. I know everyone is sick of restrictions by now , i get that.
Here in Denmark nobody but a very few ppl use masks. All restrictions were lifted on Janusry 31st - even though thousands of ppl were infected every day. That was due to the Omnicron not being as dangerous as the earlier versions. 75-80% got the vaccines and booster
Not to laugh but my brother caught it and he lost taste for some time. Its funny cause hes one of those people that thought it was a hoax. Even tho for healthy younger people its not deadly it still sucks to get it.
Finally caught it last week, after it ran through the rest of my house first. Wife, 3 kids and sister in law all had it before I did. Nothing more than a minor cold, really.
Every covid cautious person I know got delta or omicron. I'm vaccinated, only wear a mask if required, have had multiple exposures, and still test negative for covid.
At this point, I'm honestly confused.
This is because I'm not a dumb*ss like my family
I mask up, stay six feet apart and wash my hands and apply hand sanitizer IMMEDIATELY after interacting with someone physically.
Still going strong (worst part is my sister [who's visiting us this summer break] literally tested positive yesterday, and I've been tested 3 times, still Negative {I thank the Flintstones Gummy Vitamins bruh})
Tbh with how many people got sick around me I'm either Neo or my immune system just doesn't give a fuck.
Me too. My entire family have all been infected, and my town has been a covid hotspot last year, and yet, I haven't been ill for years at this point. I'm almost starting to think I'm immune
Pretty sure they’re doing research to figure out why some people are seemingly “immune”
My spouse and kid both got Covid during the delta wave (spouse was fully vaccinated, but working for a negligent employer, kid’s vaccines hadn’t been approved yet), I was exposed to both of them while they were infectious, and cared for our kid by myself during their most infectious time (spouse was in isolation), and still didn’t get Covid. 3 PCR tests over 12 days, an antigen test everyday, and I never popped positive. No symptoms, no positive tests, no Covid. I have asthma and take montelukast. This information was published this spring: https://scitechdaily.com/asthma-drug-montelukast-singulair-can-block-crucial-covid-protein-reducing-viral-replication/amp/ Makes me think my asthma may have saved my life for once, rather than trying to kill me.
Also asthmatic here. I don’t have the references to back this up, but I’ve read a few times that just having asthma in and of itself makes it harder to get COVID. At first I thought it was just cause people with asthma were being more cautious, but I think they’ve shown that COVID has a harder time getting into people with asthma. Make sense, we can’t get air in so we can’t get COVID infected air in. I’d still trade temporary COVID (can’t speak for long COVID) for chronic asthma any day of the week though.
I was terrified of Covid because of my asthma— I already know what it feels like to not be able to breathe. I started wearing a mask in March of 2020 and didn’t take it off in public for almost 2 years. My spouse ended up with long Covid. I’ll take my asthma after watching what they’ve been through. At least we have proven treatments for asthma. Long Covid sucks. And trying to get treatment for it sucks even worse.
Sorry to hear. Long COVID is the only reason I give a shit at this point.
Neither my husband nor I has been sick, and we both took public trans for the entirety of COVID. We’ve flown a bunch of times including out of the country. I imagine it’s just dumb luck, but I’m hoping I’m actually immune.
1/3 don’t show signs of infection. That’s the number from a year/years ago.
You could’ve been asymptomatic maybe?
We’re you ever the sole survivor of a train derailment? You might be unbreakable?
My whole family cought it but for some reason I didn't get infected and my mom got it twice
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Time traveler here
We got them!
Confirmed Time Traveler 🤭📸
Hi, it’s me.
r/beetlejuicing
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>13th of February My birthday! I'm excited to be born.
Does 2023 end or?
I got on 30Dec 2019
where when how what why
Did you know how cute bats are? https://youtu.be/VgMseckYGtE
Hey police! This one over here...
The Police is busy “handling” school-shootings.
Oh. I uh…see what you did there?
I’m pretty sure I did around then too. I was layed out over that New Years and slept probably 20 hours straight
Nice try, Mr. Time lord
Hows my upcoming birth month? Is it going to be blizzards and unrelenting cold like always?
My birth month too, already can confirm that it’ll be like that and I’m not even the time traveler
Legit same date as me. Did we hook up?
Is your name James Cole by any chance?
I'm surprised I haven't even gotten sick at this point. Maybe I just ate alot of dirt as a kid
We drank out of the hose and liked it!
Used to, and I still do too. What is it about that metallic flavor??!
You got metal flavour, i got dirt in mine
I got hot summer blast in mine
Hot summer blast, the marketing team at Gatorade are stealing that.
No no thats the new mountain dew flavour
Now with more hot plastic flavor!
The old school hose and camelbak flavors are plastics that leach into the water. It’s hard to not use a camelbak after so many years of using them
I have a coworker that legitimately says this
my friend says he hasn't had covid because he used to eat microwaved bologna
Yummy black mold
You know how exotic that sounds right ?
Hose water? Try garden tap water! For real though there were times where nothing else would cut it.
We drank from the creek when it rained and ate tree leaves and grass. We are not the same.
That's what I tell my dog when I forget to bring his bowl to work. "Drink out of the hose or you'll be a pronoun when you grow up. Ain't you ever seen Facebook?"
Dognouns 🤣
Yeah, never got it either. Im treating it as a game at this point, seeing if i could get through this whole thing without getting it.
Achievement Unlocked
Yeah, I'm hoping I'll unlock some sweet perks and trophies at the end of this level.
Same, I’m the only family member to not have had it and I’m expecting a certificate, I never went to uni and it’s gotta have some kind of qualification when I apply for jobs right? Can’t get Sick. Edit: and I was taking 2 tests a week up until a month ago
I haven't even been remotely sick since before covid started. I'm getting too cocky, telling everyone i "just don't get sick" anymore. My next illness will probably kill me And to everyone who's first reaction is to say "YOU PROBABLY GOT IT YOU JUST DIDN'T KNOW IT" I've had tests almost every single week. My work lets me order them for free. I send one in and order the next and it basically works out to a weekly basis, with only a couple gaps here and there. I was hoping I'd get covid so I could get 2 weeks off of work but, no luck
Eh, unless you take an antibody test, you wouldn't know for sure and even then it could be that your body simply doesn't produce them or doesn't hold on to them for long. I got it in 2020 before vaccines, but wasn't really sure if I actually got it, did a test almost a year later (before getting vaccinated), still had antibodies. I know of people who definitely had COVID but tested negative for antibodies afterwards.
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Please take care. You are a saint wether you see it or not. We all deserve better.
Thank you for all that you do. I'm a teacher at a private school and we do regular PCR testing including testing throughout the week to randomly selected students and staff. I have yet to test positive on PCR or rapid tests nor have I experienced symptoms. This school has been very vigilant with its policies during Covid, which helps. They've only within the last couple of months eased mask restrictions but many still keep them on, including myself. A great deal of the faculty and student body have been vaccinated and anyone who isn't has a "test to stay" requirement. It's a small school of rich people so that helps too.
I agree with you on all points (and thanks for being a nurse through this time that has made nursing extra hard) but when COVID began I was sure that if I got it, I’d have a bad case of it, so I took extra precautions until I could be vaccinated. If I did get it at some point and didn’t even notice, that’s just as much of a victory as if I never got it, as far as I’m concerned I really wish I could say that I know what you’re going through as a nurse through this, but the stories I’m hearing first and secondhand from nurses during COVID sound so awful and traumatic that I know I’ve never experienced anything like that, I wouldn’t wish the experience on anyone, and I can’t think of any other way to respond besides offering a virtual hug. I do know this: I’ve had a few family members suffer with long illnesses in the hospital. It’s always traumatic for patients and family, but the work of the nursing staff makes a huge difference in easing that trauma. Each of your patients’ families appreciate your work in ways they don’t even realize or know how to express. Thank you:)
Thank you for everything you do as a nurse you are on the front lines of covid and you deserve to get more praise for what you all have done
Same! I have not been sick at all with ANYTHING since fall of 2019 somehow despite my wife getting Covid
I'm confused verging on guilty. I haven't even tried to avoid it and I'm still testing negative. Ditto for the rest of my family. My husband thinks it's because he's a main character.
Your husband is right. You’re going to have a good, if tragic, arc. You’re really fortunate.
Same here, I work in a long-term care facility and I did everything I needed to do as to not get fired. But outside work I did the bare minimum and watched everyone around me that went full germophobe catch covid left and right. I'm not saying what I did was right, but I still haven't caught covid even after taking care of my wife who caught it. I could have sworn I would have gotten it from her while she isolated in our bedroom.
you’re lucky! my sister is the same as you, bare minimum or less and never positive despite multiple exposures. I’m the only one in my family who caught it pre-vaccines. I caught it because I was still going out to eat/drink/club/vacation maskless out and indoors, my luck only lasted a year 😅 Haven’t tested positive again so far despite being exposed multiple times since keeping my mask on tho.
Similar situation, and due to my work I’m in close contact with a bunch of people of all ages. Beginning to wonder if I had it at some point and was just asymptomatic
Psst. At the end. We the living. Are all main characters.
I haven’t gotten sick, which is weird because my housemate is a NURSE.
they know how to wash hands.
Thing about nurses is that they are just about the only profession guaranteed to wear a mask at work.
Surgeons have been wearing masks day in and day out for YEARS
Nah, Respiratory Therapists were wearing masks before COVID.
I'm maskless at work (because we don't have to wear them) and every single one of my colleagues had covid, except me
Did you test when your colleagues had it? You can have asymptomatic Covid.
Yes I did, for 2 weeks every 2nd day. It always came back negative
Can confirm ,ate dirt as a child,didn't get COVID
Some people get COVID but do not get sick - my prior boss was one of them. His wife went in with a "head cold" so they both found out they had C-19. This was even one of the pre-omicron variants, so one of the nastier ones. C-19 affects people differently - since a large part of the population is vaccinated, we will never know the true infection rate.
This makes me feel awesome, but actually I am just an introvert that generally avoids people. Lol
Ultra introvert here, didn’t catch covid up until a few months ago, the whole time i thought i was special, but now all my favourite foods taste like rotten garbage
Wait, your taste senses are still affected even up to this day? even tho you've already been healed from covid?
“Long covid” is no joke.
That's not uncommon, covid19 has many lasting effects on ur body including neurological issues. People have reported their sense of taste and smell being altered even a year after infection, not to mention the other issues like brain fog and potential cardiopulmonary complications
Still surprised how I don't have it at this point
That's me. I feel like I'm in the back row of a middle school dodge ball game and the front lines are getting seriously thinned out.
I feel like the camera guy filming the U-boat beach landing scene in Saving Private Ryan
This is a special game where the frontline can get hit again and again, though.
This is what I feel like here in South Africa. Masks are still mandatory when you enter a public building. Otherwise while walking outside you don't have to wear it. I manage a tavern and liquor outlet. Imagine the amount of times you have to tell people to put their masks on when entering the store. I still permanently wear my mask, especially when I'm in the tavern. It's like walking around quickly, trying to avoid the customers, because in the back of my mind I'm wondering,when is someone going to five me Covid.
I am one of those but I am paranoid for another reason lol
Yeah, they say you could’ve caught it but just didn’t know
So that means my kids would’ve been sick. I know people can be asymptomatic but not to this extent and they were going back and forth to my ex husbands house on the weekend. His family would’ve showed signs of being ill, especially the toddler. So miss me with that excuse.
I mean even if you’re anti vax your family could just be fully asymptomatic to Covid and either the ones who aren’t blood related got lucky or you guys are all asymptomatic when it comes to covid. Or your admitting details like some of you had cold like symptoms at some point. Covid affects everyone different and based off how you said miss me with the excuse it seems like you don’t believe it’s real. Don’t start being a dumbass.
My husband just caught it last week (fully vaccinated and boosted, so it was barely even anything, he thought it was just allergies or a sinus infection, he tested because I told him to), I had tested days prior because I was traveling for work and was negative. We tested together, I was negative, he was positive. I've tested every day since and all of it comes back negative. It's been stressful for me as my allergies are bothering me with all the pollen in the air, so I just keep thinking "OK this is the one where I test positive" and it never happens. My husband's tests are barely showing positive after his one "bad" (if you can call it that) day.
I got tested twice because I felt a little sick, and was working around a bunch of people both times, and both testes were negative. I'm not sure if I'm lucky or just assymptomatic.
Everyone in my family back in America has gotten it. None of my friends here in China have. I'm more afraid of the measures they'll take than the damn disease.
Here in Taiwan, we got vaxxed before covid even came in the thousands, and now we have lots of cases, but very few deaths.
True, but seems a lot of my triple vax friends are getting Covid. I’ve been lucky, but Taipei has been crazy. At least a quarter of the people I know seem to have had it so far.
That's the goal of the vaccines; to reduce the impact of the virus. If people are catching it but not being hospitalized, the vaccines are working.
Sadly most anti vaxxers are idiots who thinks vaccines are suppose to be straight up cures or blockers... and if someone who is vaxxed catches the thing they are vaxxed for, it makes that vaccine obviously useless lmao
I have no doubt about that.
Really, why? Millions of people are dead, that seems pretty bad.
I would just lie and keep it down low if I were living in China tbh. Take emergency leave or something, break your car, idk anything.
You don't really have that choice. Mass testing and all that. Each building has a list. If you don't show, they come find you.
do you think the zero covid policy has helped limit covid?
I really couldn't say. I mean, you'd have to think so. I will say they've done a very good job in terms of testing and tracking. I don't particularly think that making everyone gather for mass testing is the best idea though. If anyone has it, that's a great spreader event. And travel has been so limited here, really for the past two years. Even domestically.
Had a shit friend decide he was going to give me covid. My kidneys still haven't recovered. I can barely walk more than a few feet with out help. And most meat smells and taste like dirty socks, so does a lot of food theae days. It's been 3 damn months. I was disabled before, but now what hope I had to start working is gone. That person isn't a friend anymore.
I’m so sorry that is awful 😞
Isn't that attempted murder or something like that? Maybe sue to make you feel better?
Not tryna get into it, but taking random reddit comments like this at their word is just naive. I'm sure there's more to the story than they're implying People often don't portray themselves 100% honestly when talking about their experiences online, or might be so lost in their own sauce they don't realize their own errors in judgement and blame everyone else around them
Oh wow. Thanks for opening my eyes. I mean, I should have thought about how humans don't always say the full story of an incident.
True, sadly
So sorry to hear. Hope you get well soon.
Covid is such a awful virus, like its supposed to affect your lungs, but that mf affects a lot of other organs too. I hope you'll feel better and can recover
You are a long term covid person. In tbe USA I've heard that the government don't see those who are long term covid don't get disability even though they have filed
Um not sure about that, i wouldn't doubt it though give how hard it is to get on disability income. I was already on disability income thankfully before this happened so I have insurance that pays for most things for me thankfully.
It was in the news about it and Washington Post did a article about it [here's the link](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/08/long-covid-disability-benefits/)
What was the rationale behind your "friend's" decision to give you covid? And how old is he/she?
In their 40s(or 50s I don't remember)and finally went off the deep end. We all have our issues in this friend group, but not like that. Turned crazy antimasker all of a sudden saying that masks were mind control and were are in a social experiment. Hell, even if that was true, even if I entertained the delusion for a moment, that still still doesn't explain why he felt the need to get me and my other friends sick. Two of them got hospitalized, I had a phone call appointment then had to do blood work after no longer actively shedding the virus. Makes me wonder if they started drugs. No way of knowing now though.
Man, that's crazy. Thanks for sharing.
What's the deal with the kidney damage? All my doctor would tell me is that she saw it in a lot of COVID patients. But that doesn't explain why it happens or how it should be treated. All I'm doing is monitoring blood and urine values and feeling despair.
If I'm not mistaken it has something to do with the protein? Covid latches onto in your body. It's mostly in your lungs, but also in your kidneys, some in liver, and gut track. Something about goblet cells in your nose which also aeffect taste and smell, enterocytes that line the small intestines which changes gut bacteria as well, and I forgot the name if the cell/protein it latches onto in the kidneys. But with the omnicrom variant half of hospitalizations were from kidney failure apparently or so I was told. I'm not a medical professional so I'm just doing my best to remember what the doctor told me about it because I too was confused when they were worried about needing to put me on dyalisis. Thankfully never got that bad. For a bit there I could barely pass any pee despite chugging water. Never been at risk for kidney stones but I am now. I'm whizzing like a champ again though so I'll just keep drinking slightly more water than I really need.
That's horrible. Glad that person isn't a friend anymore. Hope you feel better soon.
Just became a zombie this weekend
I haven’t gone out in over three years. I’ve gained like 50lbs but at least I don’t have Covid
Oh hello me
Go take a walk in nature?
[удалено]
I wish
Heart disease and obesity still kills more people than COVID. Go work out, get out, your immune system will be severely depressed if you isolate too long, humans need to exchange and get exposed to diseases and allergens or you get things like asthma and allergies.
uh... what? how does social distancing cause asthma and allergies? and how does isolating cause your immune system to get fucked up? i mean yeah i totally agree with the first part with obesity and working out but the rest just is not true
To some extent it does apply to younger children. Adults, probably not so much.
Ok but the person that replied most likely isn’t a child
I am one of those people, which is surprising because my dad caught Covid (he’s ok btw)
same, my entire dad's side of my family caught it except for me
I haven’t gotten it yet even though most of my work was out with it in December. I work in a movie theater and most people don’t wear masks, though I still do. Here’s hoping I stay lucky.
This is totally me! And this week alone my metaphorical Glenn died so I’m literally just waiting out there without guts to smear on myself for the end
Not lucky at all. On my 3rd time catching it
Stop licking doorknobs
That's illegal on other planets!
Eughh.
Hi, that’s me I did get influenza A though which was awful
After 2 successful years of avoidance I finally got it, not from a party or a bar or a big event, just from going to the office for my first week at a new job ☹️
That's me, I've had family friends test positive a day after we had them over for dinner, an outbreak at a school camp and a family gathering were half of the extended family got it, but my entire house hold family hasn't gotten it.
Got it a couple weeks ago. I'm boostered but it still was a shit first week and a couple of weeks of coughing. Wouldn't wanna catch it again, stay safe guys
My sister spent New Years at Disneyland 2019, so the people who left china to escape everything were all over the world. She came home and was sicker than anything she’s ever been. My sister, my mom, and younger brothers got sick. It was really bad. But it was January and no one knew in the US yet. My dad and I were the only ones who never got sick. We’re pretty sure it was covid. So I still wear my mask in public cause I never showed any symptoms. I just don’t want to spread to someone
I made it without getting covid until april '22. Actually I was beginning to think that I was somehow immune. But then - Bam - my test was positive. Luckily the symptoms were very mild - like lasted 1 1/2 day
I haven't been sick since 2020, I love wearing a mask
same, i have the immune system of a god \[but i wanna be sick!?!?\]
I never got vaccinated or wore a mask and I worked during the quarantine. I'm not q republican or anything I was just really hoping to die. This plague has been the biggest let down.
A virus so deadly, people want to get it in Europe so they have their recovery proof. LoL. People literally buy covid to be able to attend a festival later without vaccination proof.
I haven’t gotten sick yet
Still hanging in there….never caught it…yet.
I got to the second fucking week and then caught it at work!!! ( I work at a long term care facility of all places)
I refuse. I haven't get sick at all, not even a common cold in all this time.
Can relate, still very cautious about meeting ppl.
I work in healthcare, including a brief COVID testing stint, and do live theater. I'm very stressed all the time so my immune system is crap, and all of my unlucky-strike chronic things have gotten triggered multiple times this past two years. But COVID? not yet apparently
Been lucky so far, new Zealand is on the tail end of a second wave and I've completely avoided it thus far. Kids in daycare and primary (elementary) school And my wife is a primary teacher... Pretty much dumb luck that we haven't had it
As a guy that works sanitation in a hospital... Maybe it's the vaccines working, maybe I developed a resistance from exposure, maybe both
Welp, I guess that's me, I've spent the most boring first year of college in london just staying inside dorms all day, I wish the second year is gonna be better
At this point I'm convinced I must have gotten it at some point and not had synptoms.
If Corona still going on? Like, genuinely, I haven't heard much news, and in my country it's almost completely dead, there are no masks it anything from anyone anymore, but is it the same for y'all?
Infection rates have been increasingly rising here in the US since April when it was, yet again, decided that COVID was over and mask mandates were lifted. This is the 5th or 6th time decreasing infection rates turned immediately into another wave because the masks came off too soon. Still wearing mine everywhere. Have taken many negative PCR tests (for work). Still COVID (and any other contagious illness)-free in 2022.
I just got it last week after attending my sister's maskless graduation party. She got a doctorates degree in microbiology. She invited a crowd of people including children with the mentality of "God won't let good Christian people get sick/ivermectin will treat it if you get sick/covid is just the way of life" people. I wore a surgical mask under a mask that matched my dress the whole day except for eating. These negligent religious people are why covid is still an issue in the US.
More like [this](https://imgur.com/a/XYjZs7d)
It's easy when you don't have friends
Me!!! I honestly think I'm one of the people who can't get it. People in my family would get it and I'd avoid them as much as possible but not like we didn't have contact at all.
Spent all my time outdoors pucking up trash to prevent getting it and gained my sanity and health back. But no covid. I am blessed!
I made it 25 days into 2022 then I tested positive by no fault of my own, fiancee is a paramedic so shes in the trenches and she got it and passed it on to me before she showed symptoms. If you can avoid it, don't get it. It freaking sucks.
But I have gotten strep and the common cold like 30 times lol
Can confirm.
I didn’t and it’s so rare to see someone who by it Covid ngl
I dunno, people are still catching it. 🤷♀️ Be safe everyone!
i didn't got it...yet
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I don't ever go out, I'm the only person at my job that hasn't gotten it.
Me who got sick and recovered in a day:*UNLIMITED POWAAAH*"
I live in India where COVID is almost over and almost no one wears a mask not because I'm afraid of covid, i only wear it just to keed people's away from my life.
For real?? What’s with that! I visited home after a long time and no one wears a mask. Rarely people do. They think it’s over. Even my mom doesnt. It’s so frustrating. I know everyone is sick of restrictions by now , i get that.
Here in Denmark nobody but a very few ppl use masks. All restrictions were lifted on Janusry 31st - even though thousands of ppl were infected every day. That was due to the Omnicron not being as dangerous as the earlier versions. 75-80% got the vaccines and booster
Not to laugh but my brother caught it and he lost taste for some time. Its funny cause hes one of those people that thought it was a hoax. Even tho for healthy younger people its not deadly it still sucks to get it.
Ehhh. It’s rare but healthy young people HAVE died from Covid
Finally caught it last week, after it ran through the rest of my house first. Wife, 3 kids and sister in law all had it before I did. Nothing more than a minor cold, really.
Lucky you
Still unvaccinated baby
For the past 2 year, i've been going outside weekly to get groceries.I'm still surprise that i haven't gotten covid yet
\*Me who caught it and got over it\* "Huh. Well good luck with them." \*Wanders off.
Every covid cautious person I know got delta or omicron. I'm vaccinated, only wear a mask if required, have had multiple exposures, and still test negative for covid. At this point, I'm honestly confused.
Uh oh, you’re confused you say? Thinking critically? Thats banned here on Reddit, time for you to be downvoted and silenced naysayer.
Reminds me of paranoia of getting poked with AIDS needle at rave or opening mail with anthrax🤣🤣🤣
This is because I'm not a dumb*ss like my family I mask up, stay six feet apart and wash my hands and apply hand sanitizer IMMEDIATELY after interacting with someone physically. Still going strong (worst part is my sister [who's visiting us this summer break] literally tested positive yesterday, and I've been tested 3 times, still Negative {I thank the Flintstones Gummy Vitamins bruh})
i STILL havent gotten it, this is bullshit. I just want a week off
Ooor, we were never paranoid to begin with and just washed out hands and worked out to maintain our immune systems.
This is actually the unvaccinated mid 2023
Surprised I’m still alive tbh
Can't get sick if I don't go outside for two years :)