So do you think you're eventually going to get Covid?

I work in a restaurant in an area where no one masks. I’m definitely going to get it, but I’m vaxxed and boosted.

Definitely. Sooner than later.

We’ve contained it fairly well at the school where I work. With that said, the last week of school, we had to quarantine an entire bus on the last day. We also had a teacher case in my building. Our first since this all started.

It’s rampant here. My college-age dd got it. She was just six months out from her second shot, and was planning on getting a booster once she got home for break. She came home on day 11 and stayed in her room the rest of the day and next before she emerged.

We’ve all stuck around the house this week, with older dd and fiancé with us for about 24 hours on Christmas Day. Dh has had some cold symptoms (stuffy nose) for a few days.

We took home tests this morning and are both negative. As I speak we’re driving to see my parents and sister. I am nervous because I don’t think it’s necessarily wise, but at the same time we’re doing our best.

I’m work in an elementary school. I’m very worried about staffing when we return. We’re not prepared to go remote, and neither are our students. We’re not set up for it like we were last year.

I think so too, especially with the vaccine working and keeping symptoms mild.   I imagine a whole lot of people have had it without realizing it.  

Then there is the whole subset who have/had it and won’t get tested because if they don’t get tested they don’t have it.  

Yes.

I think I had it in Feb/March 2020, before there was testing available too. I was pretty sick.

My ds was sick Feb/March 2020 with an unknown (but not flu or Strep - he was tested for those) viral infection that turned into pneumonia. Again, before they were testing for covid widely.


My dd just had covid after doing all the "right" things. Was still pretty sick, and her lungs haven't been the same since (hasn't been to long yet, tho).



Though the rest of us tested negative during that time, I'm almost certain we will eventually get it.

I'm testing tomorrow because I had "allergy" symptoms on Thursday/friday last week that turned into fever of 102 and chills and major fatigue for 3 days.  Tomorrow is the soonest I could get a test in my area.

I think anyone that has to go to work, and not work from home, will eventually contract a case.

We are retired and do very little outside our home, so we may dodge the bullet. ...However, last week I went to the church to help the secretary stuff bulletins and he exposed me!!
I wore a mask the entire time, though the secretary and minister did not! I am getting my test tomorrow morning.
I *THINK* I will test negative as I have no symptoms whatsoever and the 3 staff members at church who were exposed
have all tested negative.

We are both fully vaccinated and boosted.

It’s a toss-up. I’m not working right now and my husband works from home, Our oldest works for county government and is a full-time student, Work is stringent with precautions and his classes are going online for the first two weeks. Our youngest is in school out of state, so he won’t be in/out of the house again until spring. I do the shopping and go to the gym, but I am masked with a KN95 when I go. We haven’t socialized or eaten in restaurants since summer.

My husband and I are vaccinated and boosted. Our kids both got boosted yesterday.

I’m hoping we dodge the covid bullet, but we’ll see. 🤞🏻

I’m pretty sure I had it as well in mid Feb. we had spent 9 days in Jamaica and had layovers in Chicago and Miami. 4 days after getting home, I ran a high fever, had a cough, and was sicker than I have ever been. I ended up pneumonia for two weeks that I couldn’t get rid of. I was just short of being admitted to the hospital when I finally turned the corner. That was the first week of March. Interesting enough, I also started having blood clots that I could feel in my veins in my arms at the same time. 

DH got sick but it was much more mild.

I figure I will get it again but hopefully it won’t be bad.

I don’t think it’s inevitable. I am on chemo right now, and will be indefinitely, so we are avoiding all crowds, groups, anywhere there will be other people. I’m really sad about it, but what else can I do? I

Is this the same friend working at Walter Reed who, early on, you said swore up and down that COVID wasn’t a pandemic? And who you kept quoting to dismiss those of us who were concerned?

yes. i double vaxxed... we just recently have booster available to us so it's in demand and tough to get spots appts.

the guy i am seeing, his 21 year old DD has been sick last week - her test came back positive/his was negative. since then, he has symptoms and has been laid out. 

i had booked a dinner reservation and hotel room for my guy and i for new years eve - even though i need to, i haven't brought myself to cancel it yet. literally considering going alone cuz i am so disappointed. 

I think we have it now.

Do you really think you had it as early as that? I was sick mid-February 2020 (actually the last time I was sick at all) and was pretty miserable with cough and body aches. Makes you wonder.

I'm on chemo indefinitely too.  I feel your pain.