Good to see so many haven't had the Rona - good on ya for whatever precautions you took!

Red-beard: yes
Mrs Beard: no

I can’t believe I haven’t got it, I’ve been to a bunch of social dances including in the middle of the whole thing. Got tested after several weeks of dancing and it was negative. I haven’t felt sick or had a temp above normal during the whole 2 years except once and the home test was negative. I don’t regularly test though.

I do a good job of hand washing and other common sense precautions, but not living in fear either. My personality keeps people at a good distance already!

Fully vaxed and boosted.

To the best of our knowledge my wife and I have not had it . Both vaxed and boosted . We know we can still get it but hope if/when we do our symptoms will be mild .

Wife caught it a few weeks ago. We're both vaxxed.

I'm convinced I can't catch it. I lived in China for 3 years about 12 years ago. I got incredibly sick once when I lived there. I haven't been sick since.

Ha - that must explain why I haven't had it - genius, Rutager! :p

I'm not surprised if people get it once. OK, even twice. But 3 times? 4? Have they not learned to be more careful?

The people who I have come across with multiple bouts of Covid are the ones who seem to be: those who kinda don't believe it's a big deal so they are the nin-maskers/non-quarantiners, or in the height of the pandemic they are the ones who were the type to be out at parties ("but it's with family"--yeah, like 20 of your cousins and their families), or the ones who never seem to follow any of the medical advice I give them anyway.

How many that have had it multiple times were vaxxed and thought they were safe?

That is what the powers that be said, it would protect them and prevent spread of the virus. If everyone gets vaxxed, the lockdowns will end, masks work, etc. Seems reasonable to expect that if they are vaxxed, they must be safe.


Yes, I know these are things that all turned out to be lies, but at the time, the public's trust had not been violated yet. Actually it was violated already, but the cat was not yet out of the bag, and the public did not know they had been lied to about pretty much everything.

Have not tested positive and have not had it as far as I know.

Plenty of information out there about how vaccines work, FDA EUA and "approval" (licensure), and what folks can expect from a statistical safety and efficacy standpoint.

And of course guidance by local, state and federal public health and FDA is readily available.

Resources likely also include on-line courses in various life science and statistical areas. Some are likely free and nevertheless pretty good.

I get it, Tobra. You've proclaimed it ad nauseum. You don't think Covid is a big deal. The vaccine is a sham. Masks are a sham. It's no worse than the flu.

With the exception of a a summer vacation last year and one this year, I've had to work every day of this whole pandemic. Obviously, I've had close contact with people every one of those working days, because that's what my job mandates. And through luck, maybe Moderna's vaccine, and fastidious masking and gloving, I've been able to dodge getting sick thus far. I do this partially because I don't have the luxury of missing an unscheduled week or two of work if I get sick.

I admit part of that is blind luck. Three weeks ago, after a day of surgery, my sniffling scrub tech decided to take a Covid test in the break room. She tested positive within 20 seconds. Somehow, I was lucky not to catch it, despite sitting head-to-head with her for about 8 hours that day. But then again, I was gloved/masked/gowned the entire time. Fortuitously I had taken precautions. It just befuddles me that there are others who have caught this multiple times, yet still seem to take a pretty cavalier attitude about the whole thing.

For those who haven't taken any precautions and haven't gotten sick, that's fantastic. Whatever you're doing has been working for you.

But for those who have gotten sick 3 or 4 times, I submit that whatever you've been doing isn't working for you.

Me: nope
Wife: nope
Kids (adults, don’t live at home): nope

Had a good run without rona but got it a few months ago at my bros wedding.

Vaxed/boosted and my symptoms were relatively minor. My wifes friend somehow has had it 4 times, though very minor each round.

I am in a similar situation as you Noah, worked every day since this started, been around a lot of very ill people at the hospital. Been in a number of groups where practically everyone else there got sick, except me. It probably has something to do with being the luckiest person around, maybe it is just the strong personal constitution, but I lean toward it being the guy living the charmed life thing.

I have not taken any additional precautions. I wash my hands, using appropriate technique, frequently, just like always. Wear a mask where mandated. Eat a healthy diet, refrain from being fat, a drunk or a smoker, just like always. Wait, I take that back. When I knew less about this, I would never go from the hospital to my parent's house. I would always go there first or go home, shower, change clothes and then go over.

It makes me more than somewhat displeased, bordering on angry, that they are pushing the jab on children. There is no rational reason to be doing that at this point.

There’s no rational reason for them to be pushing this vaccine on anybody, let alone children.

They should be issuing the entire country an apology and getting rid of every mandate and reinstating anybody that was fired or lost some privileges as a result of their vaccination status.

You are not wrong.

Got 3 shots. No covid yet.

Please refrain from any Op-Eds.

Respectfully....thanks in advance! :)

Baz, My wife and I both got it in January 2020. Yeah brand new ***** back then. I thought it was just a really bad cold and kept right on working. My wife, not so lucky. It went right for her heart! She woke me up in the middle of the night clutching her chest complaining about irregular heart beat, shortness of breath, all that!
We both lived. She ended up having to have an heart ablation to correct the damaged heart. (from COVID)
Both of us have since been vaccinated and boosted. We got it again almost two years to the day of the first time. The second time was NO BIG DEAL! The Vaccines work!
It DOES NOT keep you from getting it. It DOES help your body fight it the next time.
Our second time around with COVID for me was two days of feeling bad, ten days of staying away from everyone. (to protect them) Leslie's experience, it went right for her heart the second time too, but only lasted two or three days with no long term effects.
Sorry for the long winded answer/non-answer to your original question.
People need to know the truth!

So sorry to hear that Dan.

I have been thinking about you and Dan for weeks as I have been attempting to send you customers, and I hope to see RMG and/or his wife LP at Carlsen concours last Sunday.

Mike E. was there and told me you guys were doing okay.

Kind of made my day to have a chat with Mike.

So sorry again.

You may not know this, but for a while it was thought that the first US death was a woman that lived in SC county and worked at Lam in Fremont. Colleague of one of my neighbors and I am pretty sure she attended my gym near Tesla.

Small world indeed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/santa-clara-county-coronavirus-death.html

Best in health to you and your wife.

I don't know if I ever had it, and never have tested positive for it. Same with my wife, so I am going to say no, never had it.

Wife has had it, I have not.

Don’t think I, my wife, or my teen daughter have had it. Yet.

For grins, I took the test and tested positive a couple years ago but felt fine. No symptoms. Tested two days later and it was negative. That’s as close as I’ve come to getting it. Also, I never took a day off for work this entire time because of it.

Ms Rocket had it bad last week. She’s an ICU nurse and has been exposed to it a long time.

Edit: I’m a germaphobe and wash my hands frequently, in addition to hand sanitizer. Maybe that helps. Two shots and two boosters as well.

No WuFlu for me. My wife got it but was never that sick.

Dan, you got far, far more protection from having had it than having gotten the shot. That is almost certain.

Pretty much everyone in the family has gotten it, but my wife and I are still waiting for our big opportunity.

Have taken reasonable precautions and gotten shots and boosters. I have been out there on international flight during the whole mess.

Nope, and nope for my lovely wife-

She does have laryngitis for the first time - tested a couple times over a couple days to make sure twasn't CV.

Now we whisper back and forth across the room

Not yet

So far no, but wife works in healthcare (also hasn't had it) so it's likely just a matter of time.

Cough today and flying tomorrow so I took a test. Negative. My wife and I are still dodging the bullet, and try to be careful as her 93yo father lives with us.

A couple more data points for you, Baz:

My wife, eldest daughter, and me are all in the "never head it as far as we know" category. We're not reckless in our behavior, had one vax and one booster, but we also weren't the type to mask more than it was required.

Son and youngest daughter both had it.

Double boosted, never had it or felt sick at all. Not super careful, either. I have a funny feeling that after decades of flu shots or luck I've got some immunity. Over 60 years old.

That's a bit of a simplistic take on things. By slowing the spread, social distancing and vaccines prevented overwhelming critical care capacity, so the tiny minority who get really sick the first time they gey it, get the critical care they need and fewer of them die. But that isn't great public health messaging so they dumb it down to make sure they cater for the lowest common denominator.

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Regarding coughing. Sometimes it seems to be the only symptom with the BA.5 variant.

I was coughing like billy-o and thought it was from some dots of mould I cleaned off some shoes - I'm a bit allergic to mustiness and mould spores. I grudgingly agreed to a RAT test (didn't like to unnecessarily spend a couple of dollars ya know) and it turned out I was a positive.

Mr Frost, 100% of the way this was handled was 180* out. Pretty much everything was done incorrectly and deceptively

If you would like to discuss it, this is perhaps not the most appropriate venue.

No offense intended, but your view of it is much more simplistic and naive than mine.

Don't want to jinx it... I am a frequent hand washer and continue to still wear masks indoors. But I was at a week-long course at Stanford a few weeks ago, and we weren't wearing masks indoors while eating. And we were in Hawaii last week. No masks most of the time, although almost always outdoors.

+1 don't want to jinx.
Many around me have had it. It seems all related to travel.
I've had all the shots and boosters but now waiting for the updated next booster.
I wear a mask going to stores which is mainly Ace Hardware. :-)

Never had it. One shot of J&J May 2021, regrettably. Minor heart inflammation for 6weeks. I am not over weight, good health, don't smoke, almost 60 yrs. old.
Only wear/wore a mast when I absolutely had to.
I am in the ocean as much as possible.
Starting summer of 2020 I have used Xlear nasal spray a few times a day for at least 3 days every time I am around some kind of group-bar, restaurant, plane....
I have conducted hundreds of rapid tests on people including those who were positive.
My favorite go to soap contains tea tree oil. Use it all the time, many times a day.
Did not follow CDC guidelines. Medical professionals recommended a different strategy for all positive cases. I work in a unique environment with mostly young adults.
I have very poor opinions of the CDC.

It is still sloshing around the country, but knock-wood, haven't had it (that i know of)
Got my 3 shots, & will take another...in November. Shots work and who has time to be sick > ?
Hopefully it's over soon - along with this 'grand time' of where we watch politics < science. Seems they don't mix after all...