• StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml
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    That’s me. I stayed home, avoided events, and waited to go to restaurants until cases were down. When I did go places, I went when it wasn’t busy and sat outside. Avoiding COVID wasn’t rocket science, all you had to do was follow the basic principles of disease prevention.

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      Now try it with kids or a partner who works in health care. Personally I was quite strict like you, but had it a couple of times due to external factors becoming internal factors.

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        I won’t pretend that luck wasn’t a big factor, but my wife worked at a senior living facility and I managed to avoid catching it. Hell my wife even caught it, but she moved into the guest room and we just treated it like a clean room

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        My wife is an ER nurse and I never got it. Funny thing is she didn’t get it until she was in the hospital getting her gall bladder out. We also had two kids in elementary at the time, and they never got it either.

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        I work in childcare so it was inevitable for me lol. I managed to go a whole 3 years though but caught it a month ago lmao

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    I would have said the same. 3 and a half years working retail during the pandemic and last week was the week it knocked me on my ass. Be careful.

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      I got it for the first time at the beginning of September. I was so pissed, my 2.5 year streak of avoiding it gone. It was pretty brutal too, the fever and muscle soreness was no joke.

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        I dunno, wore a mask in public during the worst of it and used hand sanitizer regularly? I think it helped more that I’m a homebody with no friends.

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          All it took was a wedding for me to finally catch it last week. Sons of bitches

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    Yeah. You’ll win nothing. :-D

    Just like the guy whose name was Peter Ninth, born on 9.9.1999, who was living in flat number 9… On his 19th birthday he bought a ticket on horse race for the horse number 9.

    The horse ended up ninth.

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      Did Peter Ninth bet that horse number nine would come in 1st or something? After all of those nines, he went against it regardless, and lost? Peter needs to pick another pony if he’s gonna gamble against all odds anyway

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        I’m… Not sure. It’s an old joke and I only remember the point, and I basically wrote it from scratch. :-D

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    I really should. I haven’t had the 'rona and also survived a stroke and two rounds of brain surgery in 2022. I’m one lucky bastard.

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    I’m one of those who still haven’t caught covid. But every time I leave home, I still wear a mask. I vaccinate whenever a booster’s available. And i still wash my hands all the time.

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    that you know of. I’m sure there are sections of the population that were silent carriers. you fuckers got us sick!

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    Feel like I had very covid-like symptoms a couple of times. Not quite like a flu, similar, but a little different.

    Tested myself every time, always negative. Not sure if it’s a false negative, or a variant that doesn’t get a result on those tests tho. Almost hard to believe i never caught it tho, as I have been exposed a couple of times too.

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      This is my speculation too. Been super-sick a number of times. Always swabbed negative. Anecdotally, I know folks that tested a lot more often and only came back with a positive on the 4th try or so when feeling ill. The fine-print of my at-home tests say they’re only something like 76% accurate. Maybe I need to play the odds.

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      The more that time goes by the more that I feel like I’m in this camp. Never got it, and never officially tested positive for it despite taking several over the years but there is just no way I didn’t get it. Even my roommate/family members did, and I didn’t? But yeah. Never had a single symptom.

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        I’ve only tested positive for it once, and that illness wasn’t even in the top 5 worst colds that year. I’ve had numerous shitty colds since, any one of them could have been Rona again, but I ether wasn’t infectious at the time I tested or it was after the point I stopped testing every sniffle.

        There’s a chance I have it right now, but I don’t know if I can be bothered to grab a test when it will be done in a couple of days.

        I’d take an updated booster if they offered me one, but my government is only offering them to over 50s.

        I’m of the opinion* that once the majority has spike protein specific antibodies, occasional exposure to small viral loads (incidental contact) is probably a good thing for refreshing an immunity that might otherwise wane and allow a serious case to take root.

        *I’m not an immunologist obviously, but I’ve previously read up on the clinical justification the NHS uses to recommend against widespread chicken pox vaccination

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    That fucker got me in april. Even with precautions. Thank god i got vaccinated or my immunocompromised ass would be six feet under.

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    I’m one of them! It has been in the house three separate times and I’ve managed to make out without a single positive test. I don’t even bother with masks outside the house

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    Avoid kids, don’t go outside unless you have to, don’t touch everything you see like you’re some kind of toddler; hands in your pocket. Don’t slack on basic precautions, gravitate towards old people and if you see a white girl cough, drop your path and reroute to avoid them.

    The first and last ones are by far the most important to follow; by far the biggest vectors of the disease.

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      The touching stuff is much less important for Covid. (It’s a huge vector for other things like the flu though.)

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    I’m going to guess that a lot of people ,like myself, who believe they never caught COVID actually have. A large percentage are likely just asymptomatic carriers. Or light symptoms that didn’t show up on any tests.