This 23-year-old Texas woman took precautions and still got the coronavirus

[Mike 03]

CNN
Jason Hanna, CNN
Updated 11:30 AM EDT, Wed July 01, 2020

Peyton Chesser wasn't taking chances when the coronavirus pandemic locked down the country in March. The 23-year-old Houston woman stayed home, even conceding grocery pickups to her roommate.

After Texas' stay-at home order ended April 30 and some businesses opened, she cautiously ventured out. Even though early data showed Covid-19 was most dangerous for older people, she was careful, told CNN's Erica Hill on Wednesday.

"I wasn't going to crowded restaurants. I wasn't going to crowded places in general (or) social settings," she recalled.

She resumed grocery trips and even went back to a gym. And right around then, to her frustration, she came down with Covid-19. She still doesn't know where she picked it up.

"That was one of the first things that I said, was, 'How could I have possibly gotten this?'" Chesser said. "I was so anxious about getting it since this all started in March, February."

Read more: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/01/health/peyton-chesser-coronavirus-texas/index.html

My money's on the gym.

[Beringia]

1. Isn't a gym high risk

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Yes

High risk because people are breathing heavily and throwing off virus. Sweat might even be a transmitter for all I know.

[LisaL]

10. It's also an enclosed space.

Virus is transmitted inside much more easily.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Gym would be high risk.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. She still doesn't know where she picked it up?

Could it have been the gym?

Seriously, of all the places in the world other than a bar or a Trump rally, a gym is probably one of the most virus-infested places imaginable.

[LizBeth]

25. Right? Lol

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. I would also worry that the roommate wasn't being as careful as Ms. Chesser.

So glad I live alone and can work from home.

[LisaL]

7. I dunno if I would call going to a gym right now as being careful.

Gyms are high risk.

[Nevilledog]

4. Going to the gym wasn't being overly cautious.

[cwydro]

5. Gyms still not open where I am.

I don't think I'll be going back to the gym anytime soon.

[LisaL]

6. Grocery trips, going to a gym. Not exactly complete isolation, is it?

A number of places she could have picked it up.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Roommate?

Thinking that’s probably it.

[LisaL]

11. Did you read the article?

She stopped staying home, and started going to stores and even gym when lock down ended. She wasn't exactly sitting at home.

[GulfCoast66]

15. Yes. That could have been it as well.

In fact, The title of the article is misleading if not flat out wrong.

It should have said ‘ Woman stops taking many precautions and gets coronavirus’

In my mind going to the gym is not being cautious.

[LisaL]

17. The article doesn't even mention if she wore a mask.

[GulfCoast66]

19. Good point. I assumed she was. But then, she went to a gym. So not real careful.

[HotTeaBag]

22. Not only that, but who knows what the roommates were doing

and where they were doing it.

She could have taken every precaution in the world (though clearly she wasn't), and then one roommate does one thing wrong and boom - COVID City.

[HotTeaBag]

12. More than likely she did a lot more than just the grocery store and the gym.

If she was actually willing to go to the gym then she probably didn't take mask wearing all that seriously either and may have hung out with friends and such - which in Texas is not too surprising because of the 'leadership' she was looking to for guidance.

[LisaL]

16. I know someone who likely picked it during grocery shopping. Because they weren't doing anything

else risky.

[Initech]

27. Same, I know someone who got it at a 99 cent store.

Took every precaution otherwise. But man let your guard down once and then bam.

[Initech]

13. Don't go to a fucking gym!

[gratuitous]

18. And that's the point

There is no magic talisman that's going to protect you 100%. Leaving aside the gym, anyone can get infected, even if they take all the precautions. What the precautions do is lower your chances of getting infected, but they aren't proof against infection. Take the precautions anyway, because it's all we've got. For all the sacrifices we made in March, April and May, the Trump administration pissed it all away. Through a herculean effort, we bought Trump weeks of time to come up with an effective plan, and he squandered every last bit of it by fomenting pointless fights over wearing masks and bragging about his non-accomplishments. That is, when he wasn't ignoring Putin's pay-for-slay program against our military or going golfing.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. As GulfCoast66 said: Woman stops taking many precautions and gets coronavirus.

Plus, there were roomates.

[Raine]

21. The gym, duh

or something else she didn't take anymore seriously then she did going to the gym.

[SoonerPride]

23. Enclosed space with lots of heavy breathing, ummmm maybe?

Maybe don't go to a gym.

[LizBeth]

24. Gym? Then seriously asking where she could have gotten it? Inside, lots of bodies, long period, lots

of fluids. Hmmm, where could she have gotten it. Touching things others touched, sweated on, spit on. Lol. I am stumped.

[RobinA]

26. I Think People

have an unrealistic belief in how much they can actually control whether they get a virus. Can you lower the odds? Probably. Totally eliminate the possibility? Doubt it. That's why I laugh when people start acting like wearing bandannas and other half-assed face covering is going to solve the problem.