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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got Covid for the first time, a month or so ago.

It bruised my ego. I thought I was one of the special few who would never get covid. Then I got it.

I recovered, and it's been fine. But my ego has never been the same.[/quote]

I think you know it is silly to assign moral value to having Covid or the lack of it, so I will not flame you on this. [/quote]

I'm not assigning moral value - I've lived my life 100% normally for the last 2.5 years, and probably did some "risky" things in the first year pre-vax (regular gym use, for example).

After a while, I thought I might have been genetically gifted or something! Nope, turns out I just hadn't met the right covid+ person to get infected by  :) [/quote]

These are the weirdest stories to me. Because I do think those of us who have never had it (myself included) start feeling like we must be immune. I know several people who slept in the same bed as their spouse all the way through spouse's covid illness (because they figured isolation was futile in the same house) and never got it. Testing the whole time.  But then some of those people eventually have gotten it. So weird. If not some natural born immunity, how did they (we) avoid it in so many "high risk" situations?![/quote]

This is exactly what DH did when I had Covid.

our DS brought it home, and he was mildly sick for about 8 hours.  A few days later, I started to feel lousy and then got hit HARD for about 7 days.

DH basically said "I probably already caught it from DS, and am maybe a day or two behind you.  I'm not going to sleep on the basement sofa when I'm certain I'll catch it anyway"

And we shared our bed the whole time I was sick.  And he never caught it.

So hard to understand[/quote]

I suppose stories about this odd virus are part of the reason some people become so resistant to continued COVID precautions. For many people, COVID is a blip, even if others get hit hard. It's hard not to form opinions about COVID measures without being influenced by personal experience. The CDC guidance for isolation early in the pandemic for both actual COVID cases and close contact exposures was extremely burdensome and disruptive. When we went through the Omicron phase, the vast majority of people weren't getting seriously ill (when you consider how many people had the virus during that time), and many people lost patience after that. Even now, the current guidance that COVID-positive people isolate for at least 5 days, while well-intentioned, is a burden for anyone who is unable to work or learn remotely. The same is true for the recommendations for close contact exposures. Even if you are COVID-aware and cautious, it's not easy to accept missing out on life for the greater good (protecting others you have incidental contact with) when so many people exposed to COVID in their households don't wind up getting sick. This virus is puzzling.[/quote]

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