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[–] [email protected] 90 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] konkonjoja 32 points 9 months ago

Same! I work in healthcare and had to test nearly daily (using the antigene tests) and didn't catch COVID until last week. If I didn't work in healthcare I probably wouldn't even know I had it, since the symptoms were rather mild. I only tested, because I had to work with people on chemotherapy and didn't wanna risk them. At this point, I think there's lots of people who catch the virus and don't even know about it since we mostly stopped testing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What did you do to avoid it for three years?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm just lonely, that's my secret :)

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] RedditWanderer 33 points 9 months ago (16 children)

At this point it's highly unlikely that there remains a human in an urban center that has not caught covid once. Maybe they didn't have symptoms, maybe they didn't notice, but they've had covid.

That or they're a hermit.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hermit reporting for duty, sir!

[–] foggy 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There are plenty of immunocompromised folks who have continued to be vigilant and likely haven't caught it.

But generally, yeah. If you are in a city and haven't been taking precautions you had it, you were just asymptomatic.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I live in one of the largest US cities, attend concerts, use public transit, and fly internationally. No covid in this house, and we go through a box of RATs a week. Not immunocompromised, we just don't want covid.

The secret: we wear respirators everywhere and use nasal spray before & after risky situations.

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[–] darthelmet 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hermits unite! Metaphorically... Stay away from me

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

No one in my family got it, and my kids are in public school, while I work in a restaurant. Precautions plus luck, I guess. That or we're genetic freaks.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow, glad you're still with us.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] betahack 19 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Kilamaos 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

meanwhile i got vaccinated 4 times and still caught it twice - is there a prize for that end of the spectrum?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your prize is still being alive!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

What a rip off!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I worked retail through the worst parts of the pandemic, there is no chance I didn't get it, but I never had symptoms.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

This is me so far

[–] whileloop 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've probably gotten it at least once, since most people are asymptomatic. I've never had symptoms and never tested positive. Still, I feel like there's a good chance I just got it and it was never detected.

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[–] Goldoad 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I made it to last week. Sorry guys.

[–] Sylvartas 8 points 9 months ago

Damn me too. These recent strains are contagious as fuck

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I am sure, at this point, for some people the tests don't work. I have lupus and take immune suppression medication and my only means of transportation is public transport. Normally, I collect every germ possible. But somehow not COVID? Nah.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Me too. Though I'm wondering if I ever caught it and just ended up being asymptomatic. I can't say that I've been particularly careful and pretty much everyone in my social circle had it at some point.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just got my first positive covid test a few minutes ago. My luck has run out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Damn, please turn in your badge and gun. You're off the case.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I haven't ever had COVID (that I'm aware of, and I tested regularly for the first two years of the pandemic), because I never stopped following the science and taking precautions.

I recognize that I was and am able to consistently take those precautions only because of a lot of privilege.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I realized a latent autoimmune disorder instead! Winner!

[–] hperrin 9 points 9 months ago

You might have, but it could have been asymptomatic.

[–] LaunchesKayaks 9 points 9 months ago

I totally thought I was never gonna get it and then I got it a month ago and was so sick.

[–] papalonian 8 points 9 months ago

I work in the medical field and was providing COVID testing and vaccines for a majority of the pandemic. During this time, all of my coworkers and two of my roommates have caught COVID at least once.

I still have never had it. Genuinely think I'm immune.

[–] Mr_Blott 8 points 9 months ago (12 children)

I work with the public and I didn't catch it until 2021. I felt slightly groggy for a day, and coughed a bit.

Felt fine the next day but tested positive

I felt like writing a strongly worded letter of complaint about false advertising but I didn't know who to send it to

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[–] CryptidBestiary 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ugh, this would've been me but I succumbed to covid in April this year due to being at a wedding... The one time I didn't wear my mask 😷

[–] pillars_in_the_trees 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

The mask isn't for you, it's for everyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

My immunocompromised wife is now on day 3 of her 3rd case. She's a preschool teacher, and one of her students is always sick at any given time.

So far I'm lucky and only had it once (after the first time she had it) and it was barely more than a tickle in my throat. I'm still coming up negative despite still sharing a bed with her (I keep the windows and bedroom door open and ceiling fan on high hoping to dissipate the germs).

Thankfully my 6yr old has been rolling negative tests all week too. Crossing my fingers we get through the next few days clean.

[–] theyoyomaster 8 points 9 months ago

Still can’t believe I’ve avoided it this long. Responded super strongly to the vaccine so I can’t imagine I would be asymptomatic. I was also traveling all over during the worst of it.

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