Anonymous wrote:I am sorry to hear you somehow managed to get sick. I am fortunately not sick, but I have been very vigilant. That said, just recently I started walking in an unpopulated neighborhoods without a mask. Every once in a while someone will jog or bike past me from behind me and I would not have a chance to cross the street as I wouldn’t see them coming from behind. UGG, I guess I’ll go back to wearing my mask even while walking in a quiet neighborhood.

Not sure why you felt it was safe to take it off, but yet, wear your mask. Everyone should be wearing a mask outside their yard.

What exactly does "sick" mean?

Fevers? Coughs? Vomiting? Sneezing?

Could it be you all got food poisoning from carry out?

Anonymous wrote:OP again. I've been dieting, which may explain why I would be susceptible to coming down with a hidden bug I may have been harboring, but doesn't explain why my kids would be feeling sick, too.

We're seriously doing this? You're taking medical advice from DCUM about latent viruses? OP, you picked up a virus. It doesn't make you a bad person or mean you "messed up." Stay inside and don't go out until your symptoms have been gone for 72 hours. Consider a COVID test if you have a fever or cough.

Why does everyone always try to convince posters that the sickness their family is experiencing all at once is allergies? Always. It's crazy. It's far more likely that OP and family got a bug than that they all came down w/ mysterious allergies at once.

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Anonymous wrote:So we've been socially distancing and wearing masks outside. I've been going out each night around 10 to 11 to exercise because there are fewer people out at night.

I've been getting groceries delivered for the most part but I went shopping at Safeway last week for a major shop. I went out exercising before dark several nights last week and had joggers and bikers blow past me at a mere foot away, not wearing masks.

Now we're sick. I don't think it's COVID but whatever it is, we got it because I went inside a store or because I got too close to people not wearing masks while jogging or biking (through no fault of my own). There is no other way.

Since we got this bug, whatever it is, it's clear you can also get COVID from these seemingly minor interactions with others. I'm going to go back to being super vigilant.

I don't understand stories like this. If people were really getting sick from these kind of very minor interactions, wouldn't EVERYONE be sick ALL the time? I mean, if you're getting close enough to 5 people per week now and you got sick from one of them, whereas before you were close enough to hundreds of people per week, how would one ever stay healthy???

My point is that these were the only interactions I had that could have caused me to pick up a bug. I got something, somehow, and those are the only ways.

Unless you have a fever, it is much more likely that you are experiencing allergies from exercising outside. I have had mild sore throats numerous times over the past few months and have not had COVID. I do work out outdoors almost everyday.

Anonymous wrote:So we've been socially distancing and wearing masks outside. I've been going out each night around 10 to 11 to exercise because there are fewer people out at night.

I've been getting groceries delivered for the most part but I went shopping at Safeway last week for a major shop. I went out exercising before dark several nights last week and had joggers and bikers blow past me at a mere foot away, not wearing masks.

Now we're sick. I don't think it's COVID but whatever it is, we got it because I went inside a store or because I got too close to people not wearing masks while jogging or biking (through no fault of my own). There is no other way.

Since we got this bug, whatever it is, it's clear you can also get COVID from these seemingly minor interactions with others. I'm going to go back to being super vigilant.

Your paranoia made you sick, not a passing jogger or biker.

Please get a COVID test if you haven't already OP. They are widely available now.

OP again. I've been dieting, which may explain why I would be susceptible to coming down with a hidden bug I may have been harboring, but doesn't explain why my kids would be feeling sick, too.

Anonymous wrote:I doubt it was a jogging running past you quickly.
Not trying to sound judgy, but if you're being so vigilant and had been getting stuff delivered, why did you go to the grocery store?

I've been out and about a bunch of times but haven't done a major in person shop like the one last week. I don't know why I told myself it would be fine. I went during the huge downpour, thinking there would hardly be anyone else in the store. But I was there for a really long time. I'm not good at getting in, getting what I need and getting out.

Regarding a virus "hiding" inside someone -- yes it is possible. Listen to this 8 minute This American Life on that topic.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/703/stuck/act-three-6

I doubt it was a jogging running past you quickly.
Not trying to sound judgy, but if you're being so vigilant and had been getting stuff delivered, why did you go to the grocery store?

Anonymous wrote:So we've been socially distancing and wearing masks outside. I've been going out each night around 10 to 11 to exercise because there are fewer people out at night.

I've been getting groceries delivered for the most part but I went shopping at Safeway last week for a major shop. I went out exercising before dark several nights last week and had joggers and bikers blow past me at a mere foot away, not wearing masks.

Now we're sick. I don't think it's COVID but whatever it is, we got it because I went inside a store or because I got too close to people not wearing masks while jogging or biking (through no fault of my own). There is no other way.

Since we got this bug, whatever it is, it's clear you can also get COVID from these seemingly minor interactions with others. I'm going to go back to being super vigilant.

I don't understand stories like this. If people were really getting sick from these kind of very minor interactions, wouldn't EVERYONE be sick ALL the time? I mean, if you're getting close enough to 5 people per week now and you got sick from one of them, whereas before you were close enough to hundreds of people per week, how would one ever stay healthy???

For the love of all that is holy, listen to yourselves and get a grip. We humans get sick every year. Literally hundreds of viruses are circulating at any given time--numerous strains of coronaviruses, adenoviruses, influenza, and countless others. We are constantly being infected. Sometimes we show symptoms, sometimes not. Sore throats, sniffles, coughs. And here's the problem--for the last six months, we've all been isolating. Our immune systems haven't seen anything, and immune systems need to be challenged. When they're not, we lose our immunity and get over-sensitive--hence all the hand sanitizer kids who didn't see a peanut until they were two have allergies. Any virus that is out there is poised to explode because we're losing our herd immunity (ooh--I said the bad phrase!)

Yes, you ran into a virus. They are literally everywhere. You could have gotten it anywhere. And you know what--you will get sick again. And again and again. You might even *gasp* get Covid. You'll get the flu, even with a flu shot. People, we cannot never get sick. I don't know when this mass hysteria crossed into Twilight Zone land, but we are certainly there. Wow.

And vis-a-vis masks, they don't protect you from viruses, unless you're talking N95 fitted professionally. You're still going to get colds. You might even get Covid.

CAN ALL THE PEOPLE WITH "Just a cold" PLEASE GO GET COVID TESTED???

Seesh.