Three years on,

[barbtries]

my youngest son and his wife have COVID for the first time. (NC)

my oldest son and his entire family have had it probably more than once (in CA)

my middle son and I, who live together in NC, haven't had it yet. he works in a grocery and worked in that grocery all through the pandemic. He does continue to mask at work.

still, I don't get it. I'm essentially a recluse who wears a mask even going through a drive thru restaurant, but I live with a person who is in contact with the public all day and every day, and we have not contracted this virus.

anyhow. Their symptoms are mild, they are young, and that's all good. But it sucks anyhow, even now. My middle son and I may be among the last people I know who have not had COVID.

[tblue37]

1. I haven't had it but I am not social. I have very little contact--just one hour a week

when I tutor and three times a month grocery shopping.

[barbtries]

2. that would explain it for me too,

except that I live with the son who statistically anyway, should have already had it! luck of the draw I guess.

[tblue37]

6. Of course we might have had an asymptomatic case without knowing it. But it's

more likely that social isolation and full vaccination has protected us.

[barbtries]

7. yep. and the masks.

I'll never stop wearing one. I'm 67 and there are so many nasty bugs out there, not just COVID.

[mucifer]

3. My theory is you might have had it a few times with no or extremely mild symptoms.

Just a theory. We aren't all testing a lot and people who had to test for work often were asymptomatic.

[barbtries]

5. i test frequently,

including when I've been somewhere - for instance after I traveled to CA. so far, never a positive.

there is a slight chance that I had it in Oct2019 - I got sick on a trip to CA, sick as I've ever been. But COVID wasn't a thing then, and so of course it wasn't diagnosed as such. Other things weigh against it as well - I got bronchitis but not pneumonia, no sensory loss. We'll never know for sure.

the thing is with my comorbidities and my smoking, I would not expect to be symptomless. I would be afraid of dying though.

[mucifer]

8. You test weekly or more? That's what health care professionals did and many tested positive with

no symptoms.

I think most everyone has had it but could be asymptomatic throughout the course or just sniffles or something.

[barbtries]

9. No not weekly.

After I have been out in public or one time when I had a fever.

[SheilaAnn]

4. I haven't had it either; I'm 83 and live in a Senior building. Many still mask but most don't. Its

a crapshoot at best.

[multigraincracker]

10. Some folks have genes that make them less likely to get it.

I know some that never catch colds when every one else get it. That doesn't mean you won't, just less likely.

Just my take on it

[barbtries]

11. we do have the blood type that's favorable,

but the genes I don't know - 2 out of 3 of my boys have caught it. I don't know. I really don't. I'm thankful though.

[multigraincracker]

15. My brother did the DNA test

and then I took it. Turned out we only share 49.6 of our genes. I now know he’s not my brother, he’s my half brother.

[barbtries]

16. oh wow.

I was about 10 years old when I got the hint and maybe as old as 15 when it was confirmed that my older brother and sister are half siblings. My mother did not want anyone to know that.

Anyhow. My father had adopted them and we're siblings and that's that. I mean, I still love my brother even though he's a racist MAGA foxbot and we no longer talk.

All of my sons are half brothers - I had 4 children by 3 men. So there's that. I don't ever think of them as less than brothers and hopefully they don't either.

[multigraincracker]

17. I found out you can have the

Same parents and and have half of the same genes.

[WarGamer]

12. I'm sick right now... was sure it was covid again.

Same symptoms... but test came out negative.

So just cold/flu I guess.

[barbtries]

13. I'm sorry you're sick.

and thank you for testing. there are just so many bugs to catch.

[WarGamer]

14. thx...

Really feels like when I had covid. I have the same achy joints, my knees feel like I was hiking yesterday. Cough, headache and fever...

Basically one day of feeling like "wow Im getting sick" and then a full day of "damn im sick" and then slightly better each day after that.

I'm mid 50's...