finaledition
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Post by finaledition on Sept 17, 2022 19:43:50 GMT
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valincal
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Post by valincal on Sept 17, 2022 20:18:14 GMT
Very interesting! I’ve never been sick or tested positive for Covid and I know I’ve been exposed. Last weekend we were in Portland at a friend’s house for a gathering and many people came down with Covid soon after, including the hostess whose home we stayed at as well as the friend who drove us to the airport on Monday, an hour away. In May I returned from a Mediterranean cruise and four of the people who were travelling with us tested positive for Covid. I feel like I’m a Superdodger! None of my immediate family (DH and two DSs) has ever tested positive either.
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Post by lindah on Sept 17, 2022 20:24:40 GMT
Neither DH nor I have tested positive. I was in the hospital for 5 days last month with pneumonia and sepsis and was tested multiple times, but never was positive.
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Post by flanz on Sept 17, 2022 20:25:44 GMT
Neither DH nor I have tested positive. I was in the hospital for 5 days last month with pneumonia and sepsis and was tested multiple times, but never was positive. I'm sorry about your hospitalizations... and hope you're doing well now!
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kibblesandbits
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Post by kibblesandbits on Sept 17, 2022 20:26:01 GMT
Never had Covid. Interesting article.
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Post by lindah on Sept 17, 2022 20:28:32 GMT
Neither DH nor I have tested positive. I was in the hospital for 5 days last month with pneumonia and sepsis and was tested multiple times, but never was positive. I'm sorry about your hospitalizations... and hope you're doing well now! Thank you! Yes, I am doing very well now.
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Post by chaosisapony on Sept 17, 2022 20:33:54 GMT
That was interesting to read. I've never tested positive for covid and I've never had symptoms that truly led me to believe I had it anyway. Whenever I have had an allergy attack in the last couple of years it's been in the back of my mind that it could be covid but there's never a fever and allergy medicine reduces the symptoms right away. I don't think I have a super immune system or anything, I think I've just been lucky.
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Sarah*H
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Post by Sarah*H on Sept 17, 2022 21:09:06 GMT
I think I've probably had it and just didn't know it. My whole family has had it now and I never tested positive. I've not been sick since the pandemic started. But it stretches credulity to think that I've dodged it for this long.
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Post by leannec on Sept 17, 2022 21:13:50 GMT
I have also never tested positive for Covid ... I am a junior high school teacher who is exposed to hundreds of students and teachers ... Both of my adult dd's and ex have had Covid and I have been exposed to them ... I count myself lucky! Maybe I am a SuperDodger!
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Post by Charlotte on Sept 17, 2022 21:20:06 GMT
In July my company held what we lovingly call the "Superspreader event of 2022" - several of my colleagues I was in close contact with tested positive. When I say close contact, I mean multiple hugs were shared, meals were shared, and heads were put together to whisper. Even though I felt fine, I tested when I got home. Negative.
I know I was damn lucky.
Superdodger or not. I got my second booster yesterday. Luck should not replace science.
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Post by MissBianca on Sept 17, 2022 21:31:49 GMT
We have been exposed numerous times in the past 2 years, never caught it until now. DH and DS20 are in a house with 3 positive cases and 1 recovering and they still don’t have it. DS21 lives with his girlfriend and she’s had it 4 times and he still hasn’t caught it. I really think he’s immune.
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Post by Zee on Sept 17, 2022 21:32:36 GMT
I think I probably just made antibodies early on and never became sick. I used to get waves of feeling fatigued and sore all over every 1-3 months or so, like you can get after a flu shot. But I never tested positive.
I did get a booster last year but won't again. I don't do anything special other than wearing a surgical mask in patient rooms as required. I don't mask in public and haven't since Delta. I think I'm the only one left in my unit at work that hasn't ever tested positive.
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finaledition
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Post by finaledition on Sept 17, 2022 21:55:15 GMT
For those of saying we have definitely been exposed and tested negative, do you think this article is saying that we never had enough viral load to be positive on a test? Obviously this last variant has shown that it was able to evade testing better than other strains, but just wondering in general?
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 17, 2022 22:35:57 GMT
I think I've probably had it and just didn't know it. My whole family has had it now and I never tested positive. I've not been sick since the pandemic started. But it stretches credulity to think that I've dodged it for this long. Same. I had the sniffles last Spring and thought that it was allergies or a cold. It seems unlikely that I haven’t had it.
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Post by epeanymous on Sept 17, 2022 22:43:58 GMT
Five out of eight people in our house got it in August. I didn't, even though I shared a hotel room, eight hours in the car, and a half-dozen indoor meals with my kid who turned out to have COVID (his identical twin was with me and didn't get it either, even though they shared a bed -- we are very confused).
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Post by epeanymous on Sept 17, 2022 22:46:18 GMT
For those of saying we have definitely been exposed and tested negative, do you think this article is saying that we never had enough viral load to be positive on a test? Obviously this last variant has shown that it was able to evade testing better than other strains, but just wondering in general? I tested every day while most of my house had COVID, as did my two kids who didn't get it either. It's possible we had low viral loads, but, also, none of us had symptoms, even though my two youngest kids who did test positive barely had symptoms for a day (literally the mildest of stuffy noses for a few hours) and would not have known they were sick were we not testing them.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on Sept 17, 2022 23:19:31 GMT
Neither DH nor I have had it - we've both tested at various times. We have been super careful the entire time though. It's only been recently that we stopped wearing masks, because of medical issues.
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muggins
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Post by muggins on Sept 17, 2022 23:48:40 GMT
My 86 year old MIL spent Christmas Day with my BIL and his partner. They all sat super close together to FaceTime us. BIL and partner both tested positive the following day, and she didn’t. This summer, DH, DS, and I went to stay with MIL. DH tested positive on arrival, then DS, and I a few days later. MIL didn’t wear a mask around us and never tested positive. Definitely a super dodger!
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Post by Skellinton on Sept 17, 2022 23:53:37 GMT
I have never tested positive nor has my husband, my father, my sibling or my mother or my mom’s twin sister. Everyone else in our close family has. I was terribly, terribly, terribly sick earlier, I think spring time, this year where I was convinced I had it. I had 2 PCR tests, I tested every day with home tests and never popped up positive but I’ve never been sick as I was then. My husband was out of town at that point and obviously I’m glad because he didn’t get sick but I do wonder if he’d been home if he would’ have caught the crud I had and tested positive.
I work with three and four-year-old so for a long time they were not vaccinated even though we were masked they are still little kids and they’re up in my grill on a daily basis. Several of them tested positive various times. Just about every other teacher I work with at one point or another tested positive, some multiple times.
I tested every time I’ve been exposed to a student or teacher that had it just because I did not want to risk passing onto my mother who is battling cancer. Obviously don’t know if I’m a super dodger or whether the testing just does not work on me. But I do think it is a odd even though I’m a fairly cautious person that I never caught it at school with so many of my colleagues and students having it.
I think my husband has never got it just because he works from home now and hasn’t been exposed that he knows of.
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mimima
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Post by mimima on Sept 18, 2022 0:06:33 GMT
I'm sorry about your hospitalizations... and hope you're doing well now! Thank you! Yes, I am doing very well now. Glad to hear. I've had it, but also have learned to never say something so bold as that I think I'm a Superdodger ,- that seems like hubris.
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Post by Linda on Sept 18, 2022 0:40:52 GMT
AFAIK none of the three of us here have had it. WE've tested multiple times anytime we've had any symptoms - and never had a positive.
I don't think we're superdodgers though - I think it's a combination of being lucky and isolating/masking more than the average person. I don't believe I've been exposed to someone with Covid (except possibly in passing at a grocery store or the like - and I'm still masking). DH has had co-workers with Covid but he has his own office so minimal exposure. He is however the person who has shared two different nasty viruses with me in the past two years, sigh - he doesn't like to mask although he does when we go out together. DD was homeschooled 2020-2021, wore a mask to school etc.. 2021-2022, and is still mostly masking now.
DH is vaxxed, DD is vaxxed, one booster, and I'm vaxxed, two boosters.
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Post by malibou on Sept 18, 2022 2:44:13 GMT
My mother is 86 and has had exactly 1 cold in her whole life, never had flu. With my dad in and out of the hospital during Covid, my mom did not get Covid, though he did. I bet she is a superdodger.
No one in my house has had covid, though there has been exposure. Ds is 21 and has never been to the DR for a sick visit, he has never had a sniffle, cough, runny nose, general malaise etc. Dh has never had any of those since I met him 32 years ago, other than 2 bouts of food poisoning, and he doesn't remember getting sick as a kid. I never had a cold or flu until after being treated with chemo, one that is used to kill all cells in order to have a bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant, which I wasn't having. I have since had my first ever illnesses, 4 times. Whatever it was that I got, within 24 hours of me feeling a bit off, I wound up with pneumonia. These all happened within a few years after chemo, and that was 20 years ago. I haven't been sick in years.
We also might be superdodgers.
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Post by chlerbie on Sept 18, 2022 4:04:04 GMT
Neither DH nor I have had it that we know. Up until this summer, we were super careful however and we both work from home. We did go to a going away party and I hugged, sat next to and sat across from someone who tested positive the next morning, so was sure I was going to get it then, but didn't.
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used2scrap
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Post by used2scrap on Sept 18, 2022 4:23:04 GMT
So jealous. Cuz we seem to be super covid gets here lol!
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tracylynn
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Post by tracylynn on Sept 18, 2022 5:33:20 GMT
We were beginning to think we were... until August.
I went on a Leadership Retreat in late August and picked it up. I went straight to my parents after. Two days later, had a bit of a head cold. Actually covid.
Five of my coworkers all had similar symptoms but never tested positive, just me.
My parents got it 2 days later. Funny thing though, my Dad never popped positive on the at home. He did on a PCR though.
I think there is no rhyme or reason to be honest.
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ModChick
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Post by ModChick on Sept 18, 2022 6:41:59 GMT
We were beginning to think we were... until August. I went on a Leadership Retreat in late August and picked it up. I went straight to my parents after. Two days later, had a bit of a head cold. Actually covid. Five of my coworkers all had similar symptoms but never tested positive, just me. My parents got it 2 days later. Funny thing though, my Dad never popped positive on the at home. He did on a PCR though. I think there is no rhyme or reason to be honest. This was us too. Was exposed a few times over the years because I work with the public (bank) but was never sick then August came and poof both of us sick after stupidly going to a tattoo show. Only place where we were in close contact with many people. 😡 Super dumb decision on our part. I absolutely got the worst of it but thankfully our immune compromised 17 year old did not get it. Phewwww.
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joelise
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Post by joelise on Sept 18, 2022 9:46:40 GMT
My husband and I are literally the only people I know who haven’t had Covid. I have been super careful, but he works with the public so would have been exposed to it.
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Post by lisapea on Sept 18, 2022 11:13:41 GMT
Possible super dodgers here. My husband, myself, our middle child - not a sniffle for the past 3 years or so. I travel by plane a few times a year for work and we live in and travel in our RV - multiple states, eat out regularly, routine shopping and errand running, including laundromats since we live in our RV...I really think we may be immune. But, of course, now that I've said that
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momto4kiddos
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Post by momto4kiddos on Sept 18, 2022 11:19:09 GMT
We were just talking about this recently, ds and his girlfriend have never had it that they know of. They were essential workers during covid and were never sick or have ever tested positive since. The reason we were talking about it was that we had it again in our house, 3rd time...dh brought it home. His first time having it (he hadn't previously gotten it even though he lives with people who'd had it.)
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Sept 18, 2022 12:34:28 GMT
I wouldn't call it super dodging covid but more like being super careful.
I have always gotten very sick since I was a kid. Pneumonia, bronchitis, strep, URI, sinus infections.
I am not around large crowds. And if I needed to be, I'd mask up. The largest crowd I have been in was about 60 ppl in a movie and I wore my maskm
I still mask inside.
I don't eat inside a restaurant.
Every time I had allergy/cold like symptoms I have done a PCR and always negative.
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