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I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let

• sprior 4y ago
  Same situation as you and totally agreed.
• rootusrootus 4y ago
  Given that many people don't have any symptoms, how do you know that you haven't had it? The latest wave seemed to be very thorough at infecting every last person.
  • kitsunesoba 4y ago
    If one has been working remotely, gotten everything delivered, and not spent any time out and about since January it's reasonable to assume that they never caught it. Little to no contact with outsiders means little to no chance of contracting it.
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    • ramesh31 4y ago
      Good lord are people still doing that? I understand if you’re immunocompromised. But get over it. We have the shots. It’s just a flu now for healthy people.
      • freeone3000 4y ago
        I think this article, and the other "background noise", are evidence that it is a severe disease with lifelong consequences. Maybe the flu is as well! But these measures work for both.
        • timr 4y ago
          This article tells you nothing useful in terms of evaluating your own personal risk. They recruited people with symptoms, in order to see if they could explain the symptoms. It tells you nothing about the risk to any random person of experiencing the same symptoms. For all you know, you could have faced the exact same risk from myriad other viruses every year of your life before 2020; we simply never looked. Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. The only truly tragic difference is how many years of your life you might give up trying to hide from it in the meantime.
          • trention 4y ago
            >Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. You know you're full of sh*t when you still treat covid as a one-time infection when it's perfectly clear that it will reinfect you at best on a biyearly basis.
            • timr 4y ago
              I said nothing about reinfection, but you're right: you're going to get it multiple times in your life, just like any other circulating coronavirus, the risk of which you've completely neglected in every prior year you have been alive. You can't do anything about it. You have a choice: you can lock yourself indoors, keep your face hidden, and live in perpetual anxiety -- in a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable -- based on questionable research. Alternatively, you can accept that life comes with some level of risk. What you can't do, no matter how much you hide and curse at others, is avoid a respiratory virus.
      • diabeticApe 4y ago
        Idk, I have a brother that was double jabbed and boosted and he still got it. Granted most of my family with similar vaccination records never got it at all. Meanwhile an aunt who never vaccinated never got it either while other family members (many with pre-existong conditions) pre-vaccine passed away from it early on. Not sure if its worth worrying about to the extent that it seems out of our hands but still worth keeping tabs on in case something changes. Seems a little random sometimes but mostly consistent with the idea that people with pre-existing conditions are the most at risk but there could be other reasons why some that dont vaccinate dont get sick. If its diet related for example that would be very useful to know.
        • awiesenhofer 4y ago
          > double jabbed and boosted and he still got it. Thats not how vaccines work. They don't protect you from getting it, they protect you IF you get it!
          • osigurdson 4y ago
            Actually, that is how most vaccines work. Just not these vaccines.
      • spoonjim 4y ago
        A lot of us enjoy life better this way. I realized through COVID that I fuckin hate people.
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    • plutonorm 4y ago
      Covid is as catchy as measles. That means it's probably not just airborn but exceptionally so. It's in the air outside. It's in air in ventilation systems. It's in the sewers. There are cases where outbreaks have happened within buildings when the virus came up through the toilets, spreading from flat to flat despite complete lockdown. It's very likely that you have caught it already despite the precautions.
  • azinman2 4y ago
    I can’t be absolutely certain, but I’m high risk so it’s unlikely to be asymptomatic. I also haven’t dined indoor or anything of the like. Been extra careful. It would be very surprising if I had.
• rosywoozlechan 4y ago
  I've been avoiding people since this all began. I haven't gotten it yet. I'm in very good health, very fit and lean, but I keep seeing people I know are more fit than I am get sick, like Dr. Mike Israetel just recently got symptomatic covid again. Not many people are as fit as he is. I honestly think the only reason I haven't gotten sick yet is because I largely avoid people. Going to keep avoiding it until people stop getting sick from it.
  • christkv 4y ago
    Well it’s endemic so it will never go away just join the generic group of cold viruses
• yourusername 4y ago
  >I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let me avoid it thus far. Is it your conservative lifestyle? I haven't been taking any precautions and i haven't had covid yet either.
  • quickthrower2 4y ago
    I didn’t get it for a long time until it went gangbusters through this area and you’d pretty much need the agoraphobic lifestyle to avoid getting it.