If you have never tested positive for COVID...

[Anonymous]

I do not think I got it.

I work at home. I double masked from the start. Only see friends outside and often wear masks outside with them, too.

[Anonymous]

I am close to 50, I don’t think I’d be so lucky as to not notice a Covid infection. So assume I didn’t get it, and hope that I make to my turn for the vaccine before I do.

[Anonymous]

I seriously doubt I've had it, but if I did it was in February 2020, when I had a cough, fever, and weird rattling sound in my throat when I was lying down. But that could have been anything; I have young kids who were perpetually sick back when they attended school.

My husband, kids, and I hardly go anywhere. He works from home, I homeschool, we rarely go into stores and only briefly when we do, the only people we see indoors are my sibling and vaxed parents, all of whom also hardly go anywhere even now... in short, we'd have to be exceedingly unlucky to have gotten it.

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of believe I've had an asymptomatic case. It's now 1/9 in my area that have had it. We've been EXTREMELY cautious, but have had too many unavoidable instances of things like unmasked repair people coming in to places we couldn't easily ventilate.
I also had a week long bout of gross digestive issues worse than anything I've had in my life, but had no other symptoms whatsoever. I wasn't going into stores at all at the time here. Due to my city having a huge huge outbreak we really isolated, but I suppose I could have picked it up somehow. (My partner is high risk before someone feels the need to come in screeching about how locked down I said we were).

[Anonymous]

In my family, we had a 'bad cold' (so we thought) go through the family end of Feb/early March last year. My parents were mildly ill for about a week. Dh and adult kids down for a day with a fever, then better. Little dd threw up and then was hot for about 12 hours, then ok (which is typical presentation for kids).

I was coughing and tired from 'allergies' for several days, and got pinkeye, then fever spiked and I had diarheea for 12 hours. I am almost never ill and hadn't taken a sick day from work for 7 years!

At the time, we were just hearing about covid, and didn't think we had it since it was more 'mild' than what we were hearing. I guess we will never know if it was that or not. None of us have gotten covid (that we know of) and Dh and I are essential workers who have worked every day of this, USPS, and my kids are in in person school. So I'm assuming we've been exposed more than once.

[Anonymous]

We have a 2 year old in daycare. We go to the grocery store. DH gets haircuts. So I wouldn't be totally surprised if we've had it, but I don't think that we have. Young children don't transmit the virus very readily. I was really sick all winter before the pandemic, potentially from other coronaviruses (eg the common cold), picked up from daycare, so maybe I had some protection going in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a 2 year old in daycare. We go to the grocery store. DH gets haircuts. So I wouldn't be totally surprised if we've had it, but I don't think that we have. Young children don't transmit the virus very readily. I was really sick all winter before the pandemic, potentially from other coronaviruses (eg the common cold), picked up from daycare, so maybe I had some protection going in.

This is what I think too- I never get sick and before 'rona I had a horrific virus that knocked me out for 10 days, with horrible coughing and fatigue and even a bonus treat of pinkeye at the end. I think perhaps we also have protections gained from these illnesses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a 2 year old in daycare. We go to the grocery store. DH gets haircuts. So I wouldn't be totally surprised if we've had it, but I don't think that we have. Young children don't transmit the virus very readily. I was really sick all winter before the pandemic, potentially from other coronaviruses (eg the common cold), picked up from daycare, so maybe I had some protection going in.

Interesting, because my 9 year old niece gave it to her parents. Got it in school in NY - hybrid program.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a 2 year old in daycare. We go to the grocery store. DH gets haircuts. So I wouldn't be totally surprised if we've had it, but I don't think that we have. Young children don't transmit the virus very readily. I was really sick all winter before the pandemic, potentially from other coronaviruses (eg the common cold), picked up from daycare, so maybe I had some protection going in.

This is what I think too- I never get sick and before 'rona I had a horrific virus that knocked me out for 10 days, with horrible coughing and fatigue and even a bonus treat of pinkeye at the end. I think perhaps we also have protections gained from these illnesses?

My BIL runs his own company and one of him employees came back from Wuhan really sick from something in Nov 2019. He got it as did other staff members. Now we are finding out that indeed, the virus was known in Wuhan then and hidden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: In my family, we had a 'bad cold' (so we thought) go through the family end of Feb/early March last year. My parents were mildly ill for about a week. Dh and adult kids down for a day with a fever, then better. Little dd threw up and then was hot for about 12 hours, then ok (which is typical presentation for kids).

I was coughing and tired from 'allergies' for several days, and got pinkeye, then fever spiked and I had diarheea for 12 hours. I am almost never ill and hadn't taken a sick day from work for 7 years!

At the time, we were just hearing about covid, and didn't think we had it since it was more 'mild' than what we were hearing. I guess we will never know if it was that or not. None of us have gotten covid (that we know of) and Dh and I are essential workers who have worked every day of this, USPS, and my kids are in in person school. So I'm assuming we've been exposed more than once.

DH and I had all this at the same time, as did colleagues. But we all tested negative in June or so for antibodies. So I'm assuming it really was just allergies, or something picked up from the kids' daycare. (It wasn't flu -- despite the flu shot, 2 out of 4 in my family had mild flu in January 2020. Felt very different.)

[Anonymous]

I believe I haven't been exposed. I give blood every 8 weeks and they started testing for antibodies last summer, and I've come back negative every time.

I work from home, don't have any kids in school, and am still mostly doing curbside/delivery/online orders. The biggest points of potential exposure is my DH works in an office with about 8 people, but he has not gotten sick and also continues to test negative when donating blood, and I have gone to the chiropractor once a week. But I've been wearing N95s most of the time, we had a small number of them in our emergency prep kit (which we've had for 8 years). Plus it is at most 10 minutes in and out.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been heavily exposed to at least three people people who tested positive (close, intimate contact for extended periods) a few days later. I was tested several times, and always came back negative.

I suspect I have a level of natural immunity.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think we’ve had it. We’ve been very careful, but not 100% strictly locked down. Eg., kids at home DL, dh wfh, I go out to shop and do essential errands but don’t do anything “extra”, don’t browse, don’t shop for “fun”, pick up takeout but don’t eat out... kids do a sport regularly and see friends regularly, only outdoors. I had the first dose as a teacher getting ready to go back, no symptoms. Interesting bc I had not heard the correlation of exposure to symptoms.

[Anonymous]

I wonder about us, specifically my DS. The week of lockdown last year his school had an outbreak of a "stomach bug" that mimicked the symptoms of Covid in kids. He kept telling us that his food tasted funny. I had pinkeye for three days that just went away a few days after he got sick. Otherwise, no, I don't think we have had it. Have we been exposed? Maybe. I just don't know.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a 2 year old in daycare. We go to the grocery store. DH gets haircuts. So I wouldn't be totally surprised if we've had it, but I don't think that we have. Young children don't transmit the virus very readily. I was really sick all winter before the pandemic, potentially from other coronaviruses (eg the common cold), picked up from daycare, so maybe I had some protection going in.

Interesting, because my 9 year old niece gave it to her parents. Got it in school in NY - hybrid program.

9yo =/= 2yo.
Daycares have been open nearly this entire time, and there are not a ton of cases of widespread outbreaks in daycare settings that are vigilant about taking appropriate precautions.