We don't talk about COVID, no no no

[flemmings]

"Then you better figure it out, because he's coming for YOU"

More and more people, online and off, are coming down with it and it feels like just a matter of time until I do too. Passed NND going out as I was going in, inquired after the state of the them, 'still covid-free?' 'Oh we all came down with it a few weeks ago. We were just mildly sick for a day, and M had no symptoms at all.' Um well that's nice. And of course a six year old in the house is basically asking for it. But still.

OTOH I don't get flu, ever, even though I don't get flu shots either. (fingers crossed) So I hope I can manage to avoid it. But NND gve me a leftover box of rapid tests just in case. Haven't tested myself because I have no symptoms / they're less reliable with the omicron variant / I don't want to know. But am prepared should symptoms appear.

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[incandescens]

But accurate knowledge tells us that it’s quite possibly _not_ just “mildly sick for a day”, however lucky other people may have been, and so we worry.

I’ve escaped it - as far as I know - so far, but as you say, but still.

[flemmings]

I was struck by the one day symptom thing because it sorts so badly with everything other people have reported. At best it's been 'kind of like a cold.' Dunno if this says something about next door's immunity but see again: 6 year old son. That's at least three years of 'jump in the germ pool' preschool, and since they both work, more like five.

[incandescens]

Even if it was "several days of very mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic COVID + 1 day of visible symptoms", that's a lot of walking around and exhaling it at people.

[flemmings]

Exactly the problem of covid, and why I always assume I might have it. Others, alas, are convinced they don't.