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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 caug

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.
        trention 4y ago
        The fact that you are going to get reinfected has a significant bearing on your ridiculous implicit claim made here: > You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. that you are better off getting infected sooner rather than later and that there is only negative value to be had in postponing infection. >What you can't do, no matter how much you hide and curse at others, is avoid a respiratory virus. You may want to keep that sentiment for when a 30+% IFR respiratory virus like MERS causes a pandemic which, given the law of large numbers, will absolutely happen. Then, the attitude "you can do nothing" leads to only one thing - total civilizational collapse. (BTW, measles and rubella are both respiratory viruses that I have avoided and will continue to avoid but thanks for again proving the point that you have no idea what you are talking about.) But looking at your submission history, I don't intend to lose any more time with the definition of covidiotism.
        nradov 4y ago
        Most of us are able to avoid measles and rubella because the vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection and transmission. By contrast, the COVID-19 vaccines are pretty good at preventing severe symptoms but do little to prevent infection and transmission. Attempting to avoid SARS-CoV-2 is utterly pointless; unless you live like a hermit, you're going to be occasionally exposed no matter what.
- 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.
TheGigaChad 4y ago
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.

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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.
      - trention 4y ago
        The fact that you are going to get reinfected has a significant bearing on your ridiculous implicit claim made here: > You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. that you are better off getting infected sooner rather than later and that there is only negative value to be had in postponing infection. >What you can't do, no matter how much you hide and curse at others, is avoid a respiratory virus. You may want to keep that sentiment for when a 30+% IFR respiratory virus like MERS causes a pandemic which, given the law of large numbers, will absolutely happen. Then, the attitude "you can do nothing" leads to only one thing - total civilizational collapse. (BTW, measles and rubella are both respiratory viruses that I have avoided and will continue to avoid but thanks for again proving the point that you have no idea what you are talking about.) But looking at your submission history, I don't intend to lose any more time with the definition of covidiotism.
        nradov 4y ago
        Most of us are able to avoid measles and rubella because the vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection and transmission. By contrast, the COVID-19 vaccines are pretty good at preventing severe symptoms but do little to prevent infection and transmission. Attempting to avoid SARS-CoV-2 is utterly pointless; unless you live like a hermit, you're going to be occasionally exposed no matter what.
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.

TheGigaChad 4y ago

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.