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

I'm so sorry.  I hope he recovers quickly, and that the rest of the family doesn't contract it. 

Yeah, I do. I was SO sick. The sickest I have ever been. They did a strep test and a flu test and they were negative. They said it was bronchitis. I had to do 2 breathing treatments. Lost my sense of smell and taste. I slept for days. 

Yes. We are all vaxxed & boosted and wear masks everywhere we go, but so many people in AZ don't. We are both teachers, so sooner or later one of us is going to bring it home.

I've pre-emptively had the talk with DH about it. His knee-jerk reaction whenever anything goes wrong is to find someone to blame. I explained that he will have no way to know whose "fault" it is when someone tests positive - he may have it right now, be asymptomatic, but pass it on to one of us. We are all careful, wearing masks, etc. but whoever tests positive first is going to get the brunt of "you brought it home, it's YOUR fault." I think he finally understands that with omicron being so contagious, he could just as easily bring it home to us, and he wouldn't want us judging him or getting angry because he tested positive.

He was very concerned about us going to a hockey tournament in MA. I pointed out to him that since MA is requiring everyone to wear a mask in all public places, we were probably better off than at home in AZ. Almost nobody in AZ wears a mask, and I think that covid is just as wide-spread in AZ as it is in MA. The only difference is MA is doing data collection on sewage samples so they KNOW it's rampant. Covid is everywhere in AZ, but people just don't care and think that if they ignore it, it will go away.

We spend Christmas with 20 people all vaccinated and boosted and we got a emails this morning of the first case of Covid among us so yes I think that we are going to get it .

Two days later and we got two more cases .

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis.  It’s attacking my heart.

For the first time since the pandemic started, I am beginning to feel that I might end up getting it at some stage. Although as of right now I still don't personally know anyone who has had COVID.

Luckily, out of 6.6 million people in my state of Victoria, 93% of eligible people are double vaccinated. But despite that, our numbers are as high as they've ever been, and if I look at what's happening in NSW (the state north of me), the numbers may very well rise even more. We had just under 2000 new cases yesterday. The highest number of new cases we've ever had is 2259 back in mid-October. 

I have booked in for my booster on 18th January. 

Yeah at the time I thought it was flu. I'd had my flu shot so thought it was a lighter case - though I was pretty miserable, I was up and around again in a couple of days. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, no way of knowing now. I read a while ago that in reviewing old case records, they believe Covid was here in Houston as early as January.

It sucks that we will never know if people prior to testing had it.

I got my flu shot this year and just spent 3 days sleeping the days away with SOMETHING.  I'll find out tomorrow if it was Covid.

Oh ugh, I am sick for you. Everything crossed that no one else gets sick, and that all the cases are mild. Please keep us posted....fingers crossed on the antibodies for your DIL too.

That article date is strange; it's from this past January (not January of 2020, as I'd expect).

This article from 2020 discusses more about the process of putting up those hospitals, mostly made of prefab: www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/10/909688913/whatever-happened-to-the-instant-hospitals-built-in-wuhan-for-covid-19-patients . They'd done similar things during the SARS outbreaks in 2003, so it's not that weird, I guess.

And the UK did something similar in 9 days. So.

Until omicron, I thought I’d be able to avoid it. I’ve built up a pretty good immune system over the years and don’t usually get whatever is going around.

This variant is so contagious that I think it's going to be very likely that almost everyone gets it. I also think it’s possible that many more of us have had COVID than we know, or even have it right now. How many people have allergies or chronic sinus issues? Now, especially with omicron being so similar to cold/allergy/sinus issues, who can say for sure?

I live in a state with mask mandates, and I have been wearing my mask even when I shop in the neighboring state where there is no mandate. But I was in a store here in Illinois this afternoon and I passed a couple, inside, and the man was not wearing a mask. My brother said he saw several people without masks in a store the other day.

My one hope, for myself, and all my loved ones, is that any case we get is mild and that none of us have long haul problems.

Most likely. I'm most concerned about Dh getting it since he has an underlying condition. We are both vaccinated and boosted. We are back to wearing masks. DH was out of work because of a car accident for most of December and he is just getting back to appointments. We are doing a minimum of other activities and wearing masks when we do. I really think we will both be fine from what we are hearing about symptoms. Still I'd love to avoid the experience.

I’ve had Covid twice but both were before the vaccinations and the Delta/Omicron variants. I’m vaccinated, boosted, and really really hope to not catch a third round while still struggling with long haul symptoms.

I've had one cold (no flu) since 2007, so I am extremely lucky. I work with kids who no longer need to be masked and have a spouse who works in a gym where many don't mask. I am shocked I haven't had it already truthfully.