Have you had Covid?

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	Yes
	16 (18%)
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	50 (56%)
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	23 (26%)
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[MissMillie]

1. Chances of infection are extremely low when you live like a hermit

I'm not saying we're NEVER around other people, but we really don't leave the house very often. We do a grocery shop once a month and a Wal-Mart trip once a month. Always wearing masks (in fact lately I've been double-masked).

The only other time I leave the house I'm over cooking for my Dad and Sis. We're all vaccinated, boosted, and they leave their house about as often as I leave mine.

It's the truth. Here in this household, we live like there's a pandemic going on in the world.

[mitch96]

17. Same here at my "Hermitage". Me,myself and I are good friends and like each other

I might have caught someting but it does not fit the cooky cuter mold of classic covid. It might have been the regular flu? a cold? Allergies? No fever, Only lasted 24 hrs but knocked the shit out of me... All testing came negative and I'm vaxed/boosted too.
I'm fortunate that I don't get sick very often and at 72 I'm healthy as a horse and my doctor half jokingly that he isn't gonna make any money off of me!! GOOD!
So yea, maybe kinda sorta I got something.....
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[Celerity]

38. We would go batshit cray if we lived that, but I fully support your decisions.

Stay safe!

[iemanja]

41. Same here

Though I did have a hospital stay for a gallbladder operation, and then my brother's family contracted it. Fortunately, I tested negative. I was worried about the hospital, especially the ER where I knew there were people infected with COVID. Besides that, I'm pretty much a hermit.

[3Hotdogs]

2. 3x, full vaxed. I still got Rona.

Mild Omacron.

[BlackSkimmer]

13. I got it in August 2020, pre-vax.

Sicker than I’ve ever been, though thank god no breathing problems. History of asthma as a kid, so I was terrified.

Never want to be that sick again. After my booster, I had a day of the same symptoms. Awful.

[myccrider]

36. I have the same vaccine profile...

and then I got a kidney stone! Within the first 4 hours of being curled up in pain, full of pain meds and muscle relaxers, I began shivering and shaking like I had a fever. That lasted for a few hours, then I started coughing from phlegm in upper airway, which is extremely unusual for me. For three days while I was medicated to the rafters for the kidney pain, I also coughed, was extremely dehydrated while pounding water and had a lot of post-nasal drip. Any other symptoms were masked by the meds. Those cold-like symptoms were gone after 3 days.

It took an additional 5 or 6 days for the stone to pass. I’ve been incredibly weak with no stamina and almost complete loss of appetite ever since, although very, very slooooooowly getting better. It didn’t even occur to me that I might have had Covid until I didn’t bounce back from the stone passing. (I had a whole litter of the little buggers in both kidneys a decade ago and didn’t have this reaction.)

All this started 3 weeks ago. My doctors agree that it might have been a breakthrough infection, in part because the whole kidney stone + pain/medication cycle could have suppressed my immune system enough to make me more susceptible, but there’s no way to tell at this late date. The worry is that I’ve now got Long Covid!

[ItsjustMe]

3. I thought I had COVID a few months ago

I had most of the symptoms, they gave me a COVID test and told me I did not have COVID.

[Solomon]

4. We've been very careful but I still feel like sooner or later....

[Emile]

5. No. I smoke weed everyday,

wear a mask whenever I'm out in public, wash my hands a lot and I am fully vaccinated.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. About 2 years ago, before Covid had a name or a pandemic recognized,

I must have had it.

How I figured it out:

1. I donated blood 4 months later in 2019 and the results came back that I had Covid antibodies. Two more donations confirmed I had the antibodies.

2. I had the strangest "cold" around Feb. 2019. Sore throat and a paroxysmal cough. With regard to the latter, I'd be lying down and get a coughing spell where I'd cough maybe eight times before I could take a breath. And I'd be struggling to get air, like asthma (which I don't have). It would be like coughcoughcoughcoughcoughcoughcoughcough -- GASP! -- coughcoughcoughcoughcoughcoughcoughcough. I didn't go to the doctor and of course, I had no idea about Covid.

[happybird]

12. All of at work had that strange cold, also

I think it was very early covid. Somehow, none of us has gotten sick since then and we’ve been open this entire time. We are very careful but it’s highly unlikely not a single one of us has caught it... unless that weird cold thing was actually covid.

[FoxNewsSucks]

24. I had a 72-hour something

right around Christmas 2018, then right before Christmas 2019 and at the end of January 2020. It was not a typical cold, and for a day each time I barely got out of bed. Others from work had the same thing. During the 2020 Great TP Scare, we all speculated that we'd already had it and didn't know at the time.

Nothing after that, but I wore masks, sanitized and got vaccinated a soon as I possibly could.

[Tree Lady]

26. I was sick like that December 2 years ago

For almost a month, couldn't move for days, bad cough, fever, was weird and different from any bad flu I had.

Then when I got my shots I was sick almost a week with second one and I remember reading if you had covid you would feel effects from shots more.

So I wonder. Only got tested once last summer and it was negative.

[milestogo]

25. I had something in Dec 2019, as did my coworkers

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Felt sick for almost 3 weeks.

Later on one person had the antibody test, and was told it was not Covid.

It was worse than the usual flu, whatever it was.

[Doremus]

43. This, a few weeks before the first news conference about covid in early 2020

Was never so sick in my life. Literally dragged myself to the dr. after a week where chest xray showed pneumonia. Bedridden for 2 weeks, unwell for a few weeks after that. I'll never know for sure but I've managed to avoid getting it ever since.

[madville]

7. I honestly don't know

I’ve been tested a few times for work when I had symptoms but was always negative. I very well could have had an asymptomatic case at some point, just about everyone else at work and in my family has had confirmed cases though.

[FoxNewsSucks]

22. I've never had symptoms or other reason to get a test

so I really don't know either.

[sky_masterson]

8. Aroundthe time when the Pandemic started hitting I got really sick

Cough, phlegm, chills, lack of interest in food. Ended in a long bout of laryngitis and bronchitis, but Never lost my taste or smell. From what I read, It seems more likely that I had Flu B. If it was covid back then it probably would have killed me.
Unless Asymptomatic, I don't believe I've ever had covid. But I've never been tested either

[luvs2sing]

9. Hubster and I were both very sick..

with some kind of crud in early February, 2020. Big cough and fever, exhaustion, only lasted a few days and went away as fast as it hit. My cough, though, lasted till the end of March. A lot of people at his job were also very sick, but no one needed to be hospitalized.

I know it was going around in Columbus that early because my nephrologist told me that he and a couple colleagues caught it at a conference in California in mid January 2020. They didn’t know what it was till some time later when they had antibodies done.

[NickB79]

10. With all the asymptomatic cases, that "No" column should be much smaller

Because short of living like a hermit or getting regular antibody tests, you can't know for sure you've never had it.

[cadoman]

33. you can treat No/Don't Know interchangeably

As there's no way to prove either.

Even the people who marked "Yes", there's still a substantial amount of doubt as to what they actually would have had.

[JanMichael]

11. One negative at home test and one negative PCR says I did not have it 3 weeks ago

It was a weird headache I don't get headaches, sore throat but mild, and felt very lethargic. So I had something but apparently not covid. Oh I don't really get seasonal allergies either.

[OnDoutside]

16. We're going through the same thing right now, and it's the same symptoms as

the flu that we'd normally get. My wife and I are 3x vaxxed and my 15 years old son is 2x vaxxed (U16 are not yet eligible for the booster here in Ireland).

Thing is that something like 94% of the over 16s are fully vaccinated, and pretty much all of the restrictions are gone, we've restricted our movements as much as we can but not isolated. I think that is the way forward under Omicron.

[CottonBear]

46. Congratulations on Ireland's 94% vax rate for over 16s!

I hope that the US will somehow reach that rate.

[John Ludi]

14. I had a REALLY

bad bout of IBS a few weeks ago...and it came with two days of chills, body and joint aches, exhaustion, total loss of appetite...but no respiratory issues at all. I'd had one or two like that over the decades, so I figured it was just that...but I'm wondering.

Modera vaxxed and boosted, always wear an N-95 under a very snug cloth mask with some additional filter properties, and go out rarely...but my GF works at a school in Redneckistan, so there is kind of an omnipresent risk factor no matter WHAT I do.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. yes . am being re tested on tuesday.

[XanaDUer2]

18. 99 percent sure I never had it

I was near the public in Spring 2020, up until June 2021. So, I could have been exposed. If I had a case, it was asymptomatic

[Wingus Dingus]

19. My husband recently had it, tested positive, but

he's cleared to go back to work this week--almost all of his coworkers had it so it was just a matter of time. It was just cold symptoms and nothing more, for him--no fever, very mild. I have to assume I had it too, however briefly--we've been together holed up in the house for most of the last 10 days--but I tested negative so far and no noticeable cold symptoms.

[Reader Rabbit]

20. I had symptoms a few weeks ago, but the test came back negative.

My acupuncturist is positive it was COVID, and if I had tested again later, it would have registered positive. She's had scads of patients for whom that happened: Symptoms, test negative, symptoms go away, test positive.

[Dial H For Hero]

21. Just got over it a few days ago, very mild case. Vaxxed & boosted.

[Johonny]

32. Same

Wasn't that bad for the family since vax and boosted.

[Dial H For Hero]

34. It's funny...of all those I know personally who have had Covid:

Vaxxed and boosted (3): Mild symptoms
Vaxxed, not boosted (3): Moderate symptoms
Unvaxxed (4): Sick as dogs

What could possibly be the explanation? Paging Sherlock Holmes!

[Johonny]

40. yeah

Almost all the parents I know, after dodging it for 2 years, were hit this winter. No one I know wasn't being careful. Omicron is just that infectious. It's hard to miss, particularly if your must deal with society: school et. . .

[haele]

23. Laz and I were bad sick with a mystery virus early January 2020

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I was working in a shop/lab situation where a lot of my co-workers were traveling to military bases overseas, especially Italy, Japan, and Bahrain for a week or so at a time to come back with various USB hard drives they would bring back and drop off in a cabinet right behind my desk.
Three week after Laz recovered, he started getting mysterious seizures, blood clots, restless leg syndrome, and brain fog - later identified as symptoms of Long COVID.
I developed worse joint pains and occasional T-Rex arm syndrome ( as I call it) where while there's no apparent problems with my shoulders, back or arms, it feels as if there's a tight band around the muscles in my upper arms for no reason and I can't lift them without excruciating pain. For no reason whatsoever. Just happens, then lingers for a couple days before it goes away.

Laz's Neurologist managed to get him on a level of meds controlling the seizures, and started him melatonin for restless leg syndrome back in October. Oddly enough, this was about the same time papers were coming out about a preliminary study on Melatonin reducing Long COVID symptoms - and three weeks after taking melatonin, he's been brain fog free -so far. So all his doctors are pretty sure he got Long COVID back before the Trump Administration and media started sounding the alarm.
One more month without seizures and brain fog, and his Neurologist is going to put in the paperwork to get his driver's licence reinstated!

Long COVID sucks.

Edit, as we started getting sick late December 2019. Fully sick to go to Urgent Care in 2020. Boy, the years fly.

Haele

[Raftergirl]

27. Not that I know of.

Neither has my H, my son or his gf. I only know 3 people who had it and they got it well before there was a vaccine (spring/early summer 2020.) Everyone I know is vaxxed and boosted and if they have children over 5 they are all vaxxed, too.

My kid told me that none of his friends (they are in their late 20’s) have had it either.

My son has to test 3x/week to be allowed into his office. Tests are supplied by his company and he only goes in maybe once a week. His company (multinational) also closed all their offices several weeks ago as a precaution.

[petronius]

28. If I did, it was asymptomatic

Since the pandemic started, I really haven't had any of the cold or flu episodes that I usually get each year, which is a positive outcome of the masking, distancing, and enhanced sanitizing habit I guess...

[Midnight Writer]

29. I've not had symptoms, nor have I (uncharacteristically) had a cold or flu. Masks work.

[Raftergirl]

30. I haven't even had the sniffles.

[beaglelover]

31. I honestly don't know if I've had it. I got a bad cold in early March 2020 and the main thing I

remember about it was that the cough was very severe. I got better in the usual time frame of getting over a cold. We had just been in Aruba the first 2 weeks of February so I just assumed I had caught a cold on the flight home to Los Angeles. Our travels coincided with Super Bowl weekend in Miami which is where we changed planes to get to/from Aruba. I remember thinking how weird it was to see some people wearing masks on the plane to Miami the Friday night before the Super Bowl. Little did I know that would be the norm shortly thereafter!

[hellacia]

35. Pretty sure I did in March 2020

I hosted a party and 3 days later got sick as a dog. Pounding headache, spiking blood pressure, fever, non-stop cough and lost appetite. This went on for about 2 weeks tho I did get to my doc and he probably kept me out of the hospital with steroid treatment. It was at the time I couldn't get tested unless I had been to China or been around someone who had just gotten back from China (the party had 100 people, maybe I did) but the symptoms were classic Covid. My husband got it too but not as bad.

I am now vaxxed and boosted as of November. About a month ago I got a sore throat and sniffles. I did a PCR and it came back positive but the symptoms were about 1000% less bad. Get vaccinated.

[Shrek]

37. Had it few weeks ago

Symptoms mild and lasted less than a day. Every cold I ever had was a lot worse.

[AZProgressive]

39. I'm not sure

I don’t think so as I haven’t been sick since the pandemic but I haven’t been tested that often.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Sick Twice

Once just before COVID exploded the first time, and this past Christmas.
Was diagnosed as bronchitis & a bad cold. Tested negative twice (antigen tests) during omicron.
So, I guess my answer is maybe.

[Wounded Bear]

44. No, though I can't be totally sure...

haven't had any serious symptoms. Have had an occasional mild sore throat, some runny noses, etc along the way, but nothing that lasted more than a day or so. Got tested once when something like that cropped up and it was negative.

I got all three covid shots and my flu shot.

[Tink41]

45. 3x Vaxxed

Just recovered, inevitable as I had returned to work, no masking, people went missing everyday. No access to running water, and toilet facilities are port-a-johns. Deep aching in my bones, tired. 2 days I napped after work before showing any obvious symptoms: Sore throat, congestion. Congestion still there and we are 2 weeks out now. I also experienced top my feet burning 2 days before obvious onset. I've since read that is a reported symptom.