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
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.
supposedly. not at the local grocery chain, according to them. at the pharmacy chain i can get one, but my teens will only get them if they are covered by state health insurance, which they aren’t. my income from my new job stopped that instantly, but my coverage doesn’t start until november. they’re in limbo.
edit - so i’m just waiting. i guess i could get mine at least.
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.
I mean I have grocery shopped one a week the whole time but I’ve literally not been sick, not even with a cold, this whole time (and I used to get colds all the time). I didnt even mask for awhile there though I decided to start again because of the surge and the fear of long covid.
I suspect that I had an asymptomatic case at some point, my dad was testing positive and was not showing symptoms and my mom and sister were both showing symptoms but tested negative (even though given the circumstances, I don’t think that result was correct)
I never showed symptoms or took a test as I wasn’t showing symptoms so hard to know
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.
It really just requires people not testing. A runny nose is technically symptomatic, but I doubt most people tested every time they blew there nose more than average.
I live in a house with four other people, all of which have had it at one point or another. Usually one person gets it and wears a mask around the house so it doesn’t end up spreading to anyone else. I’ve managed to not get it despite testing every few days for a couple of weeks after it has been in the house
I managed to avoid getting it for the longest time (and even when I got it, I’d gotten that worthless Pfizer vaccine by that point (talk about a waste of time THAT was)) and only got it because my brother is a very social person and got it from one of his friends.
I wish I could say this was me but there’s been a couple of times thst I’ve been knocked on my ass by something, but every test I’ve taken came up negative
I had suspected RSV last Christmas, given my experience of both, I’d rather have had COVID again. Well, I’d rather have neither but I don’t get to choose.
Didn’t get it until July this year. The kids brought it through the house in 2021, by some miracle of vaccination the wife and I didn’t catch it then. Then the wife brought it home. Was pretty mild for both of us. We’ve kept our boosters up and we’re in Australia so it didn’t go nuts here until omicron
You mean there weren’t a bunch of insane morons running around screaming that N95 masks are basically the same as concentration camps and eating livestock de-wormer by the handful? That must be nice.
News hysteria created feedback loops that drove a lot of shortages. At first, people are stocking up more than they would before because things are weird. Similar to a hurricane or blizzard. The news started reporting shelves were EMPTY and you probably are never going to get toilet paper again. People start panic buying because they’re scared. Or because they think they can take advantage of the situation and make money. This drives more news stories about shortages which drives even more fear and panic buying.
Probably Covid related supply chain issues factor in as well. I’m somewhat skeptical it was the main driver since the problem seemed to go away as soon as the grocery store started limiting how much an individual could buy.
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