- wisemanzero ( @wisemanzero@lemm.ee ) English56•1 year ago
I would have said the same. 3 and a half years working retail during the pandemic and last week was the week it knocked me on my ass. Be careful.
- sub_ubi ( @sub_ubi@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 year ago
What did you do to avoid it for three years?
- wisemanzero ( @wisemanzero@lemm.ee ) English27•1 year ago
I dunno, wore a mask in public during the worst of it and used hand sanitizer regularly? I think it helped more that I’m a homebody with no friends.
- Marketsupreme ( @Marketsupreme@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
DUDE SAME
- SolarNialamide ( @SolarNialamide@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
I got it for the first time at the beginning of September. I was so pissed, my 2.5 year streak of avoiding it gone. It was pretty brutal too, the fever and muscle soreness was no joke.
- Vlyn ( @Vlyn@lemmy.zip ) English30•1 year ago
I’m just lonely, that’s my secret :)
- StarkillerX42 ( @StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml ) 23•1 year ago
That’s me. I stayed home, avoided events, and waited to go to restaurants until cases were down. When I did go places, I went when it wasn’t busy and sat outside. Avoiding COVID wasn’t rocket science, all you had to do was follow the basic principles of disease prevention.
- tweeks ( @tweeks@feddit.nl ) 10•1 year ago
Now try it with kids or a partner who works in health care. Personally I was quite strict like you, but had it a couple of times due to external factors becoming internal factors.
- bitsplease ( @bitsplease@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I won’t pretend that luck wasn’t a big factor, but my wife worked at a senior living facility and I managed to avoid catching it. Hell my wife even caught it, but she moved into the guest room and we just treated it like a clean room
- CaptFeather ( @CaptFeather@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
I work in childcare so it was inevitable for me lol. I managed to go a whole 3 years though but caught it a month ago lmao
- nighty ( @nigh7y@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 year ago
I’m one of those who still haven’t caught covid. But every time I leave home, I still wear a mask. I vaccinate whenever a booster’s available. And i still wash my hands all the time.
- Granixo ( @Granixo@feddit.cl ) 11•1 year ago
That’s me!
High five! (from a safe distance)
- Whirlgirl9 ( @Whirlgirl9@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Me too!
- Hubi ( @Hubi@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
Me too. Though I’m wondering if I ever caught it and just ended up being asymptomatic. I can’t say that I’ve been particularly careful and pretty much everyone in my social circle had it at some point.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
I thought about that to but I usually got sick with something every year before 2020 and I have not been sick since either late 2018 or early 2019. Its been so long I can’t remember. The masking is working for everything else so likely I don’t think my wife or I have caught covid ever.
- knorke3 ( @knorke3@lemm.ee ) 11•1 year ago
meanwhile i got vaccinated 4 times and still caught it twice - is there a prize for that end of the spectrum?
- explodicle ( @explodicle@local106.com ) English10•1 year ago
Your prize is still being alive!
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English7•1 year ago
What a rip off!
- HotsauceHurricane ( @HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one ) English10•1 year ago
That fucker got me in april. Even with precautions. Thank god i got vaccinated or my immunocompromised ass would be six feet under.
- TallOnTwo ( @Alicecisnt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•1 year ago
This is me so far
- AndrasKrigare ( @AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org ) 10•1 year ago
About 1 in 4 haven’t had it https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-many-americans-havent-caught-covid-cdc-estimates/
Oh wow, I thought I read that we were in the single digits by now.
1/4 is surprising!
- Stumblinbear ( @Stumblinbear@pawb.social ) 10•1 year ago
I’m one of them! It has been in the house three separate times and I’ve managed to make out without a single positive test. I don’t even bother with masks outside the house
- Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) English10•1 year ago
I worked retail through the worst parts of the pandemic, there is no chance I didn’t get it, but I never had symptoms.
- ParsnipWitch ( @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ) 9•1 year ago
I am sure, at this point, for some people the tests don’t work. I have lupus and take immune suppression medication and my only means of transportation is public transport. Normally, I collect every germ possible. But somehow not COVID? Nah.
- deo ( @deo@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
For me, the vaccine seemed to prevent catching the first few variants quite well, but i eventually caught the Omicron (probably, idk for sure) variant. My SO showed symptoms first, and neither of us tested (nasal swab) positive until ~24hrs after symptoms appeared.
- tslnox ( @tslnox@reddthat.com ) 9•1 year ago
Yeah. You’ll win nothing. :-D
Just like the guy whose name was Peter Ninth, born on 9.9.1999, who was living in flat number 9… On his 19th birthday he bought a ticket on horse race for the horse number 9.
The horse ended up ninth.
- MrShankles ( @MrShankles@reddthat.com ) 4•1 year ago
Did Peter Ninth bet that horse number nine would come in 1st or something? After all of those nines, he went against it regardless, and lost? Peter needs to pick another pony if he’s gonna gamble against all odds anyway
- tslnox ( @tslnox@reddthat.com ) 2•1 year ago
I’m… Not sure. It’s an old joke and I only remember the point, and I basically wrote it from scratch. :-D
- Omega_Haxors ( @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml ) 9•1 year ago
Avoid kids, don’t go outside unless you have to, don’t touch everything you see like you’re some kind of toddler; hands in your pocket. Don’t slack on basic precautions, gravitate towards old people and if you see a white girl cough, drop your path and reroute to avoid them.
The first and last ones are by far the most important to follow; by far the biggest vectors of the disease.
- Jordan_U ( @Jordan_U@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
I haven’t ever had COVID (that I’m aware of, and I tested regularly for the first two years of the pandemic), because I never stopped following the science and taking precautions.
I recognize that I was and am able to consistently take those precautions only because of a lot of privilege.