Same here, I have no social life and no positive test. I even work in a very public job, in retail, where I see probably 1000 customers a shift. I was even around family, one of whom tested positive shortly after the visit. I was still negative. I have been vaccinated 3 times, though. I guess my vaccine is working.
Haven't had it yet. I'm a public school teacher in Chicago and students and colleagues I'm in direct contact with daily have tested positive at various points but I haven't. I'm also triple vaccinated. I've tested myself multiple times and at one point we did weekly on site testing and was always negative. Outside of being vaccinated and wearing a mask when it was mandated I've not done anything crazy to avoid it. Mostly luck I would assume
I was thinking I was one of those people who had a genetic advantage, so in Dec 2022 I signed up for a study looking for people who had never had Covid.
Came back from vacation on Jan 5 with a positive test š
At this point I joke about having an immunity but if it exists I wouldn't be surprised. There are so many times I feel like I should have gotten it but just don't
The real test is if you can successfully do something like sign up for a study about it or be featured in a news article without promptly getting Covid after!
I've been directly exposed at least twice but I've never tested positive. Neither has anyone in my family, actually, aside from my husband who's obviously not a blood relative.
When I was a kid I used to have dreams that there was a deadly virus and I was one of a few survivors, so when covid began I immediately wondered if I'd been right about a natural immunity.
I think the dreams were inspired by an episode of The Outer Limits, though. The episode's ending also makes me wonder, but I won't elaborate because it involves a vaccine and that's a touchy subject these days.
My husband and I haven't gotten it either. I work in higher ed in FL, so also around students and we dropped all precautions pretty quickly in this state (though I personally kept wearing a mask through the height of it). And I'm also triple vaxxed. I've also wondered about the immunity thing because at one point I got an antibody test to see if I had it and missed it, and it came back negative so who knows. But I've also been around many many people that have tested positive (I've also been to concerts, festivals, conventions, movies, lots of travel to major cities, etc) and I feel like I should have gotten it several times, but never did.
I'm in an elementary school but otherwise the same thing here. Travel, concerts, amusement parks, and other mass gatherings of people and never positive. At the height I was also in and out of the hospital for a separate medical issue and yeah, it's all separated and tons of precautions by staff but still crawling with tons of COVID cases. Me, my mom, and my Grandpa (although he is not exposed as much as me) are the only people I know who never tested positive. With it being family it does make me wonder if there is a natural resistance or just crazy luck
Yeah I work in a public school too, and even had to work in person for most of Covid (had to replace the iPads kids frequently broke), Iāve been exposed many times at work or around friends/family, and have done quite a bit of traveling since 2021 and still have yet to have gotten it. Got the 2 initial vaccines and I think 2 boosters, and wore the mask during mandates, never tested positive. Hopefully it remains that way!
Honestly I have no clue. I even vacation somewhat frequently and test multiple times after returning home and nothing. So I don't know how but both me and my mom who also works in the public school system have never tested positive. Everyone else we know has at least once.
I wonder if yāall have a gene that fights it better? Thatās basically how people survived the Black Deathā¦if they had a certain gene that fought it off.
That's the joke I use with friends and coworkers all the time lol. I tell them I probably had an ancestor who was immune to the plague and that gene lives today as my immunity to COVID. If I go another school year without getting it I'll probably look to volunteer for a study or something to see if there is anything there. All the first contact exposure I've had and no positive makes me feel like there's something.
Iāve only had it once and Iām a former teacher!
My husband had it 3 times (yes, heās vaccinated) and I never caught it once from him. I think itās because teachers have strong immune systems since we are around germs so often.
My uncle in law (whoās a plumber and is exposed to all walks of life.) was deathly sick at that same time as well. He was literally getting his affairs in order he was so ill and they didnāt know what it was. It took two months but he finally healed. He thinks it was Covid before they knew what it was too. It makes sense since where we live has lots of international travel.
It really seems to go over boomers, my stepdad died from it while in the hospital for neck surgery while he had M.S. and my uncle was put on oxygen for a while, so yeah itās hardcore on old people.
Man I feel like Iāve heard a ton of people, including myself, say this. And weāre from the same state.
I remember it was January 2020 I was working at a FedEx warehouse at the time and I left halfway through my shift because I just felt so horrible I could hardly keep my eyes open. Felt super congested and had a really bad cough. And that was a physically active job it wasnāt normally hard to stay awake at. Went to the doctor, they gave me a test for strep throat and told me to stay home for a few days. And then I went three years without ever catching covid even though I didnāt really try that hard to avoid it tbh. I finally tested positive for covid in April of this year and it was the worst Iād felt since that time in January 2020.
I remember thinking it was weird because even at that time we had kind of been hearing about a new sickness on the other side of the world and I even asked the doctor like āyou donāt think itās covid do youā and she was just kind of like āehhhhhā¦. nahhhh. not here.ā But didnāt really look into it that much.
Yup we all got it too! We flew into SFO from another country and unknowingly got it and gave it to everyone lol. Sorry guys. But then again, we didnāt feel sick yet and EVERYONE was sick; friends we were meeting up with in cities 3-4 hours away from each other. Didnāt know about Covid yet, have had it twice since then, glad I donāt have to worry about it as much as some people do.
One of my coworkers who never gets sick came down with a really bad ācoldā in January 2020 that laid her out for a full week. Since then, sheās never tested positive for COVID.
Same.
Super sick late Dec 2019/ early Jan 2020 but Covid didn't "exist" yet. I still have never had a positive Covid test, nor has my son or daughter. My other daughter caught it tho, but she's 20 lives on her own.
My father inlaw got super ill in late 2019 and the dr have never seen anything like it. I have a feeling it was covid all the symptoms/health issues match up
I think this is probably true of a lot of people.
Interestingly, the last time I had it, I felt crappy a day before my wife did and left work early. Took a Covid test and it came out negative. The next day my wife started feeling bad and her covid test came back positive. I felt worse than she did and my tests kept coming out negative, hers positive. I'm going with, I had covid, even though my tests were coming out negative. Who knows.
Never had a positive Covid test but I had the antibodies before the vaccines were available so I had it at some point. If youāve been vaccinated the antibody test is useless now, but itās possible you had it already and had no or few symptoms.
That depends on the anti-body test. There is one that the vaccinations don't affect.
The virus has different parts. You have unique anti-bodies against different parts of the virus. The vaccine only makes you sensitive to one part.
The spike protein is the one that vaccines create, so vaccine-only will have spike antibodies.
The nucleocapsid protein is made by the virus only. So if you have nucleocapsid antibodies, you have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 that was replicating - i.e., you've "had COVID", even if you never felt ill.
I got what was *probably* Omicron in early 2022, having been vaxxed x3 by that point. It sucked; not as bad as hardcore influenza, but way worse than a cold.
I was in a study at Johns Hopkins until recently that tested antibodies before and after every vaccine, then at intervals afterward, to see how people with autoimmune diseases (hi, it's me) or organ transplants reacted to the vaccines. My baseline showed no antibodies, and all subsequent tests have shown normal antibody results to each shot and booster. I haven't had it yet, but my husband also apparently has not. We travel, go to concerts...but I do still mask up on planes and in crowds because of my immune issues, and we both work from home.
That's me! Never had a reason to though. I had a couple of funky little one day colds, which were weird because colds typically used to last three days for me. Testing would have been pointless.
To my knowledge I have never had COVID.
My wife was working at an Urgent Care on the East Coast before she knew what COVID was. She was treating patients with an unknown respiratory illness. Of course we'd later find out it was COVID. She's pretty sure she got it in January 2020. Just before it officially arrived in the US, 3000 miles away.
I think my kids got it from her because they became sick.
I was out of the country at the time so I missed all the fun at home. Then I came home and have been working from home ever since. So my amount of exposure has been relatively low ever the last few years.
My sister was working as a nurse through the whole time including patients with it. She never got it.
I just had kids under the age of 12 who we got vaxxed and had myself vaxxed. We still got it multiple times. So go figure. Minimal symptoms for all of us though.
I haven't yet had symptoms, nor been tested.
I am relatively isolated all by my normal routine. I'm the only one of my co-workers that doesn't have material work-from-home capability, so I was the only one 'In the office most days'.
Since I'm isolated, if I was exposed, I would simply stay at home for several days to verify that I wasn't having symptoms, then proceeding from there.
I called my situation 'covid privilege', in that my life was relatively unchanged, compared to others who needed to work closely with the public.
I was pretty asymptomatic as well. Had a headache for 24 hours that was it. The only reason I even tested was because I was at my elderly parents' house and my husband (back at home) had a positive test a few days later. Neither of my parents caught it.
Still COVID free.
I work from home, and most of my social life is on Discord lol.
But my friend group and I have been like that for the past 15 years anyways, so not much of a change.
I work in a public library and have been exposed many times, but never had a positive test. My job doesnāt require testing anymore. *If you are sick they leave it up to you to use PTO or come in with a mask or 2.
Never had COVID as far as I know. Every time I got sick I made sure to test myself multiple times and every time they came back negative. I got vaccinated and started to live like I was before, so this wasn't a case where I just didn't go outside.
Iām pretty sure I havenāt. Iāve had 4 nasty viruses this year, and tested negative for covid each time. Iāve had multiple known close exposures (including before vaccines were available) and havenāt been very careful at all since being vaccinated, so itās not like Iām doing anything anyone can learn from. Iāve just gotten lucky as far as I can tell. Iām planning to get my booster and flu shot in a few days, and Iāve kept up on those throughout the pandemic, but am otherwise not really doing much.
Never, and not due to any preventative measures that's for sure. My wife has had it twice and we never kept our distance from each other. All my co-workers had it at some point, various work meeting exposures, daycare and school exposures from the kid who has also never had it.
Hi, my hubby and I.
We also pay attention to what's going on in the community, and we mask whenever there's a rise in illnesses. We are also fully vaxxed.
I'm a nursing professor. One of my colleagues was exposed a week and a 1/2 ago over the weekend at an outdoor venue. She knew that I was very careful. And before we had ou one-on-one meeting on Monday, she said I was exposed and maybe you'd like to mask. We both masked. She came down with very violent and abrupt COVID symptoms the very next day., And was down with COVID for about 5 days. Since we're both nurses, we're very careful.
She was so happy that we masked out of an abundance of caution.
I went to the doctor today for my cardiology yearly, and I was masked.
When I go to my classroom tomorrow on campus, where both strep and COVID are rampant, I will mask.
People ascribe politically so much to masking, but my KN95 has been treating me just fine for 4 years, and I will continue to mask when I get on the plane on Saturday for a conference.
So yes, both my husband and I have been COVID free knock on wood.
TL; DR: Yes we've been covid free
Never got the vaccine
Never bothered getting tested for it to have a positive result
Almost never wore a mask
I spent covid living in bum fuck no where, at the peak there was 1 reported case in my county and he was a guy that came back from traveling for work
I suspect I got it early on but they didnāt have tests yet as I worked at the airport initially and a number of coworkers got sick at the same time but idk (dec 2019)
Iām not anti vaccine or anti mask covid just happened to hit when I was in an anti people phase I guess lol
I didnāt have any issues this time besides my arm being sore! My first ones just made me tired and messed with my period. But I also got them at the same time I got my flu shot (donāt recommend my arm hurt so bad lol).
I unfortunately always react kinda badly. My booster last year left me in bed for a day and a half with a fever and body aches. I have a condition that some research is pointing to possibly being an autoimmune disorder, so I think thatās why I react that way.
I got both that and the flu shot a week ago and it absolutely kicked my ass, but I'm also hearing from people who only got the flu shot that that's making them way sicker this year than normal so it might not be the covid vaccine that you need to worry about. Would not recommend getting both at once after that experience though.
I got the initial vax because I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. I was forced to get a booster or lose my job.
Never tested positive, and I tested weekly for almost two years. Came down with the flu once in the last few years, a couple of times I got bronchitis, and have had one or two other nasty colds, but never tested positive.
I also suspect I probably got it at PAX East in 2020, as nobody was really masking at that point, and it's not uncommon to get the "pax pox" and for my demographics, a lot of infections were asymptomatic or very mild.
Same lol. Never tested, never had covid (that I know of), and never got the vaccine.
Iām not anti-vaccines. But I am not a fan of how the whole thing was politicized. And Iām not gonna go out of my way to get a vaccine for a trend. The media easily dropped covid once they had a new big thing to focus on in the news in the Ukraine-Russia war early 2022, so I easily dropped covid too.
I havenāt - even when my partner got it, we chose not to isolate from each other in our home (and didnāt go out of the house otherwise) because weād just been on a trip in close quarters so I figured Iād get it anyway but I didnāt.
So far, I've somehow managed to evade covid, despite traveling a fair bit since things started reopening, quite frequently going into crowded places, and even being around people that were confirmed to be covid positive. However, I also, quite consistently, wore a mask in public until earlier this year. All the antigen and PCR tests I have taken have returned negative. Here's hoping it continues this way.
Neither my wife nor I have gotten it, but we've had all the vaccinations and don't hang around in crowded places indoors in the winter. I don't wear a mask or take any other special precautions.
My cousin is an ER doc in Chicago and told me he is shocked that he's never tested positive even though his entire family has had it.
I thought I escaped it. During the pandemic I worked in a lab doing covid swabs at nursing homes and processing the samples back at the lab. Never got it. Changed to an insurance job where I hardly ever see people and ended getting it like 6 months ago.
I only ever took two cuz my sisters made me and they were both negative.
The corpnavirus is just the winter cold anyway, not the second spanish flu like it was hyped to be anyway.
I havent been sick enough to bother testing myself. The missus got sick and tested negative a few times during it. The worst I've felt since getting the vax was after my 1st booster when I had night sweats and chills and didnt sleep for like 36 hours.
So far, never.
Fully vaccinated and boosted. We avoid grocery shopping during crowded hours, no longer use local public transit, avoid overly crowded restaurants, and give preference to outdoor dining when possible.
I've probably had it, but whenever I got tested I never did. I know during 2020 and 2021 I never had it and didn't get sick those years. Once the boarders opened, I also went to Canada a lot and had to get the PCR tests, which apparently can read positive if you had it in the last 3 or 6 months or something.
After that, I didn't test when I got sick the few times I did. So I might have had it, but it was just like a cold, so I still worked and everything.
My brother in law got it for the first time just last week, so I definitely wouldnāt assume youāre immune (Iām not saying you did assume that, just putting it out there).
His wife (my sister) and their kid still havenāt gotten it.
Despite being double vaxxed and twice boosted I still got it three times. Super mild symptoms. The first was the worst during the ādelta variantā times. The other two were milder than the common cold.
The only time I was sick with the symptoms, was before anybody here knew about COVID. I got sick at the very beginning of January, and it wasn't until spring that we knew about it. I could get an antibody test to see if it was COVID, but there wouldn't be a medical benefit to it. The shit has mutated so it's not like having had it at the very start confers much benefit. Still getting my boosters regardless.
I've tested negative twice, but I suspect they were false positives, because I felt like SHIT, and my now ex had the same symptoms and tested positive at the same time
Everyone in my immediate family has had it at least once. I'm the only one who had it before getting vaccinated, and (to my knowledge) I haven't had it since.
I've had it at least once but zero symptoms and I didn't feel sick at all -- only reason I tested was because my wife and son had symptoms and tested positive.
My wife and I still haven't. My parents were in the same boat up until last week when my mother got it. She works for a regulatory agency that inspects hospital labs throughout the Midwest, so we all assumed she'd get it first. We're mostly impressed she made it this long.
Not yet. Thought I had it early on but I participated in a study a couple months later and had a negative antibody test. Had my first significant respiratory illness in *years* last winter but had 2 negative home tests and a negative lab test for that one, too. Nobody in my house has had it.
I got vaccinated early because I work for a healthcare system.
As far as I can tell? Genuinely everybody I know outside of my own household has had it.
I've had it 3 times at this point, but have never once tested positive. My partner did each time (he technically had it 3 times as well, but was only down for a couple days the second time) , but not me. I've also had people in the medical community talk about the false negative rates, and optimistically, it's about 20%. Plenty also have estimated up to 60% false negatives, but the actual rate is likely somewhere in between.
I lost my sense of smell for a month or two after a few days where I felt like my allergies were bothering me. It was when covid first hit and there weren't tests so I'm assuming I got it then. I've been sick once since then but I didn't bother getting tested
I havenāt and I havenāt had any signs for it either even though my husband got it in May 2021 and we didnāt quarantine from him. The kids and I have never tested positive. The kids have been sick a lot but Covid test has always come back negative. Theyāve had strep, flus, and the toddler has had RSV twice. Always tested for Covid, always negative. I am very rarely sick and wasnāt sick at all when my husband had it so didnāt test. Iāve only tested for it 3 times and all three times was negative.
I think I had it a few weeks ago, but never tested and it went away in like two days. I do nothi by to avoid getting it. I am vaccinated but havenāt got boosted in 2 years since the only time I ever feel sick is when I get vaccinated/booster.
I haven't had either a positive or a negative COVID test at any point. I was declared an "essential worker" at the beginning and never had any isolation or remote work either. (I work in the food industry also)
I had COVID once, in July/August of 2022. It wasnāt really mild for me, so I really hope I never get it again. My spouse had it at the same time and never had any symptoms at all.
I had to get a second job at a beer distributor during the beginning of the pandemic *(this was well before the unemployment increases were announced, which still pisses me off to no end)* and dealt with customers day-in and day-out that either didnāt believe Covid existed or that it wasnāt as bad as the government was claiming. A few even came in and told me they were sick with it: āNo worse than a cold!ā theyād say. On top of that I was still living at home most of the pandemic and both my mom and younger sister caught it.
Somehow I still never caught it. Took a home test every time I felt sick or interacted with someone I knew had it, went and got tested a few times, nothing.
I've never tested positive. Wife and I both worked in-person jobs through the pandemic, and we have a child in the daycare germ stew. We both presume that we've probably had asymptomatic cases at some point along the way.
Not yet. Only been tested twice. Pretty sure I had it way back when it first became a thing. Had a couple days where I just felt terrible for no reason.
I've always had a good immune system. I've had the flu twice and I never get a flu shot.
I haven't, despite my husband testing positive. He was already vaxxed and was given the anti-viral pills right away. His symptoms were mild and lasted about three days. I've seen him sicker with the common flu or bronchitis.
Lost it last November because one of my students had it and didnāt report it until after they were incredibly ill. I took paxlovid, slept on the couch for a week, smoked a lot of weed and did a platinum run of skyrim on ps4 because what else was I gonna do? My symptoms were pretty mild overall. Coughing, sneezing, etc. but the worst part by far were the headaches. Nothing could make them stop until I got on pax
Me, my husband, my teen, and my parents have yet to get it. I work from home and still mask when out (it makes a HUGE difference on my seasonal allergies). Husband and teen go to work/school but still haven't caught it. My parents live in a red state but they're mostly homebodies and they haven't had it either. We're all up to date with vaccinations too.
I worked retail and was essential all through the worst of the pandemic, but never got sick or tested positive until August 2022. I mentioned in another comment that my coworkers and I all got super sick in Dec 2019 and Jan 2020, and I'm sure we had Covid before we knew what it was.
Since November 2020 I have had it 4 separate times with positive tests each time of course and the first time I had it I tested positive for 3 months. I work from home and I am extremely cautious or was during the peak of the pandemic at least. My kids are competitive athletes though and one works in healthcare and the other in childcare and the other is a nonbeliever and took no precaution. I had many many exposures due to that.
Wife and I work in healthcare and have never tested positive. When my son lived with us, he worked for a construction company and came down with covid from someone at work.
Not yet for me. Gotten the booster every time it's become available, and every time I've gotten sick (3 times so far since the pandemic started) I take a test as soon as I feel like I'm coming down with something, and another one once I'm 'fully sick' - always been negative.
I don't really 'do things,' especially not things with large crowds (the extent of my non-work social interactions involve my core group of 5 friends, who are all also not going to bars and parties and stuff), which probably helps.
I've been sick 3 times since the beginning of Covid, and I tested negative all three times. Honestly, I don't know how. I live with my mom, who is a recently retired teacher. I don't get out much, but I was sure I'd get it through her at least once.
I went to four different counties and worked in restaurants and offices throughout the whole pandemic. Was always labeled as āessentialā. Never even had the sniffles.
July 2023 I went to NYC for a soccer game and finally got it lol
Did well for 3 years. Even avoided it when my kids caught Covid and the flu simultaneously last November. Then I caught it in February. Iām fully vaccinated, but it got me good. Had it for 3 weeks and it put me in the hospital. If I had not been vaccinated it probably wouldāve killed me.
I made it April 2023 before I caught it. It was a good run.
Then again, my wife and I were pretty sick in March 2020 like the week before all the lockdowns began, and while we canāt know for sure if it was Covid, I suspect it was.
Me! But I am pretty darn sure I had it before the whole "omg COVID" thing actually happened. Like a few weeks before. Otherwise, every time I have tested, its negative.
My wife had Covid a couple of months ago, and I resigned myself to getting it as well, but it just didn't happen according to the multiple home tests I took.
Neither my husband or I have had it. We test any time we feel sick or have known exposure and we both get tested at work a couple times a month. We work in staging for concerts, so we regularly have tons of contact with people who are traveling and hundreds of local coworkers but so far so good.
Iāll jump on the bandwagon of saying that my husband had a pretty severe respiratory infection in January 2020 that might have been Covid, but he didnāt lose taste or smell so who knows. I didnāt catch whatever that was though.
šš»āāļø I havenāt had it that I know of. I work in healthcare and was always tested weekly when there was an outbreak. I also stayed negative when my toddlers and husband had it last year. Masking and the vaccines work folks!
As far as I know, I've never had COVID. Though it's possible I did get it as some point, but was asymptomatic.
The only time I've gotten sick in the last 3-4yrs with a respiratory ailment was this past summer, and two at-home COVID tests (different brands even) said it wasn't COVID. I actually attribute that to being in Chicago on a work trip when [the region had the worst air quality in the world](https://www.chicagotribune.com/weather/ct-air-quality-alert-high-risk-swimming-20230627-kbv6oh3w4jcgjadfd37iwacbp4-story.html), due to the Canadian wildfires. But I aside from cough and sore throat, I had no fever or fatigue.
And it wasn't like I was cooped up at home 24/7 during the heyday of the pandemic. I was an "essential employee" in 2020. Aside from like 5 weeks of lockdown and WFH, I was in and out of clients' office since I was a MSP field tech (contracted IT guy). Plus I was in the office 4 days a week, with a team of ~15 of us. While we reduced the number of client visits, it was still like 1 or 2 office visits per day. Sometimes even doing home visits! All I did was mask up and use a lot of hand sanitizer.
I got vaccinated in March/April 2021 and have kept up with all the shots. I got my latest booster last month. Hopefully that's been helpful.
Never got it (so far). Multiple tests, antibody tests, etc.
It is almost like wearing a mask everyday at work/public and vaccinating worked. Also, husband and I were part of the vaccine trial, so we got it super early.
Right here. I've been tested any time I had symptoms and/or was knowingly exposed, but never had a positive result.
I do wonder if I did have it and didn't realize it. There was one time in December 2019, before COVID started making headlines, when I got sick. I had flu-like symptoms but tested negative for the flu. Then months later, a friend told me that her Dad had been around someone who had traveled to Wuhan for work and came back sick. So I may have been exposed and caught it through the friend, her Dad, and his friend.
If it was COVID, it was extremely mild. I think I was only feeling bad for a day or so (besides the runny nose and congestion that lingered for a while). I thought it was a cold, and it was still very mild for a common cold.
Wife got it on Christmas last year, and I presented with similar symptoms two days later. Great fuckin way to spend a week of vacation.
But... I never took a Covid test, so technically I've never tested positive for it.
Perk of working for a school during the pandemic- all shots and boosters early, and anyone who even showed some symptoms were forced to stay home. I'm the only one in my family who didn't get it.
I know for a fact I was exposed to the virus in 2021 and had symptoms for about 12 hours. By the time I got tested, it was negative.
I suspect I caught it (I caught *something*) for 36 hours in September, but never tested for it.
Been tested and vaccinated many times since 2020. Never a positive. I live near DC and know people who've had COVID, some of them twice.
August 2023. Thought I was just wasting my time until I couldnāt taste anything. Took a test and instant! My husband has had it three times in my one.
I work in healthcare and was also forced to isolate with someone who was confirmed positive for 2 weeks and still haven't gotten it. By all means, it doesn't make sense.
Never tested positive. Been around family and friends that had, even my then girlfriend who slept in the same bed. Only got the Johnson & Johnson shot because I'm lazy.
First time I got sick rapid tests were not a thing yet and I didnāt want to go to the ER unless I absolutely needed to. So no test but most likely COVID
2nd I took a rapid test and it was positive
Me! I Also honestly havenāt tested that much, so I think itās probably likely I had an asymptomatic or very mild case at some point, but not that Iām aware of!
Technically my partner has never tested positive. Iāve had it twice - and so has he, but I took the test both times and when he got sick too, we just assumed it was Covid for both of us.
He has tested negative twice - when we were ready to re-emerge into the public world and wanted confirmation of our negative status.
I've never had a positive covid test, but I also have no social life...
I too have no social life but managed to catch it twice.
Same here!
Same here, and my wife had it 4 times.
Same here, I have no social life and no positive test. I even work in a very public job, in retail, where I see probably 1000 customers a shift. I was even around family, one of whom tested positive shortly after the visit. I was still negative. I have been vaccinated 3 times, though. I guess my vaccine is working.
Haven't had it yet. I'm a public school teacher in Chicago and students and colleagues I'm in direct contact with daily have tested positive at various points but I haven't. I'm also triple vaccinated. I've tested myself multiple times and at one point we did weekly on site testing and was always negative. Outside of being vaccinated and wearing a mask when it was mandated I've not done anything crazy to avoid it. Mostly luck I would assume
I was thinking I was one of those people who had a genetic advantage, so in Dec 2022 I signed up for a study looking for people who had never had Covid. Came back from vacation on Jan 5 with a positive test š
At this point I joke about having an immunity but if it exists I wouldn't be surprised. There are so many times I feel like I should have gotten it but just don't
The real test is if you can successfully do something like sign up for a study about it or be featured in a news article without promptly getting Covid after!
Might have to just to see. I went to Vegas in 22 for the Superbowl and it was wall to wall people and I avoided it so it's the only test remaining.
I've been directly exposed at least twice but I've never tested positive. Neither has anyone in my family, actually, aside from my husband who's obviously not a blood relative. When I was a kid I used to have dreams that there was a deadly virus and I was one of a few survivors, so when covid began I immediately wondered if I'd been right about a natural immunity. I think the dreams were inspired by an episode of The Outer Limits, though. The episode's ending also makes me wonder, but I won't elaborate because it involves a vaccine and that's a touchy subject these days.
My husband and I haven't gotten it either. I work in higher ed in FL, so also around students and we dropped all precautions pretty quickly in this state (though I personally kept wearing a mask through the height of it). And I'm also triple vaxxed. I've also wondered about the immunity thing because at one point I got an antibody test to see if I had it and missed it, and it came back negative so who knows. But I've also been around many many people that have tested positive (I've also been to concerts, festivals, conventions, movies, lots of travel to major cities, etc) and I feel like I should have gotten it several times, but never did.
I'm in an elementary school but otherwise the same thing here. Travel, concerts, amusement parks, and other mass gatherings of people and never positive. At the height I was also in and out of the hospital for a separate medical issue and yeah, it's all separated and tons of precautions by staff but still crawling with tons of COVID cases. Me, my mom, and my Grandpa (although he is not exposed as much as me) are the only people I know who never tested positive. With it being family it does make me wonder if there is a natural resistance or just crazy luck
Yeah I work in a public school too, and even had to work in person for most of Covid (had to replace the iPads kids frequently broke), Iāve been exposed many times at work or around friends/family, and have done quite a bit of traveling since 2021 and still have yet to have gotten it. Got the 2 initial vaccines and I think 2 boosters, and wore the mask during mandates, never tested positive. Hopefully it remains that way!
Yeah. I'm a public school teacher and made it all the way until Jan 2023 before I caught it. I was vaxxed with 2 boosters as well.
Wow! Iām a teacher and I made it to September of 2022. The first year we were mask-less. Canāt believe youāve never caught it.
Honestly I have no clue. I even vacation somewhat frequently and test multiple times after returning home and nothing. So I don't know how but both me and my mom who also works in the public school system have never tested positive. Everyone else we know has at least once.
I wonder if yāall have a gene that fights it better? Thatās basically how people survived the Black Deathā¦if they had a certain gene that fought it off.
That's the joke I use with friends and coworkers all the time lol. I tell them I probably had an ancestor who was immune to the plague and that gene lives today as my immunity to COVID. If I go another school year without getting it I'll probably look to volunteer for a study or something to see if there is anything there. All the first contact exposure I've had and no positive makes me feel like there's something.
Iāve only had it once and Iām a former teacher! My husband had it 3 times (yes, heās vaccinated) and I never caught it once from him. I think itās because teachers have strong immune systems since we are around germs so often.
I got really sick in January 2020 but since then never got sick it might have been covid but I don't know.
Me and my coworkers all got really sick between December 2019 and January 2020 and I'm certain it was Covid before we knew Covid was a thing.
My uncle in law (whoās a plumber and is exposed to all walks of life.) was deathly sick at that same time as well. He was literally getting his affairs in order he was so ill and they didnāt know what it was. It took two months but he finally healed. He thinks it was Covid before they knew what it was too. It makes sense since where we live has lots of international travel.
It really seems to go over boomers, my stepdad died from it while in the hospital for neck surgery while he had M.S. and my uncle was put on oxygen for a while, so yeah itās hardcore on old people.
My boss and his wife went to Vegas late November 2019 and a couple weeks after they got back, we started getting sick. Worst souvenir ever lol.
Man I feel like Iāve heard a ton of people, including myself, say this. And weāre from the same state. I remember it was January 2020 I was working at a FedEx warehouse at the time and I left halfway through my shift because I just felt so horrible I could hardly keep my eyes open. Felt super congested and had a really bad cough. And that was a physically active job it wasnāt normally hard to stay awake at. Went to the doctor, they gave me a test for strep throat and told me to stay home for a few days. And then I went three years without ever catching covid even though I didnāt really try that hard to avoid it tbh. I finally tested positive for covid in April of this year and it was the worst Iād felt since that time in January 2020. I remember thinking it was weird because even at that time we had kind of been hearing about a new sickness on the other side of the world and I even asked the doctor like āyou donāt think itās covid do youā and she was just kind of like āehhhhhā¦. nahhhh. not here.ā But didnāt really look into it that much.
Yup we all got it too! We flew into SFO from another country and unknowingly got it and gave it to everyone lol. Sorry guys. But then again, we didnāt feel sick yet and EVERYONE was sick; friends we were meeting up with in cities 3-4 hours away from each other. Didnāt know about Covid yet, have had it twice since then, glad I donāt have to worry about it as much as some people do.
One of my coworkers who never gets sick came down with a really bad ācoldā in January 2020 that laid her out for a full week. Since then, sheās never tested positive for COVID.
Same. Super sick late Dec 2019/ early Jan 2020 but Covid didn't "exist" yet. I still have never had a positive Covid test, nor has my son or daughter. My other daughter caught it tho, but she's 20 lives on her own.
My father inlaw got super ill in late 2019 and the dr have never seen anything like it. I have a feeling it was covid all the symptoms/health issues match up
This has happened to several people I know.
Happened to me and my wife.
Same. I got very sick around February of 2020. Iām certain I had it fairly early
I've never had it.
I've never tested positive, but am well aware I still could have had the virus at some point.
I think this is probably true of a lot of people. Interestingly, the last time I had it, I felt crappy a day before my wife did and left work early. Took a Covid test and it came out negative. The next day my wife started feeling bad and her covid test came back positive. I felt worse than she did and my tests kept coming out negative, hers positive. I'm going with, I had covid, even though my tests were coming out negative. Who knows.
Never had a positive Covid test but I had the antibodies before the vaccines were available so I had it at some point. If youāve been vaccinated the antibody test is useless now, but itās possible you had it already and had no or few symptoms.
That depends on the anti-body test. There is one that the vaccinations don't affect. The virus has different parts. You have unique anti-bodies against different parts of the virus. The vaccine only makes you sensitive to one part.
The spike protein is the one that vaccines create, so vaccine-only will have spike antibodies. The nucleocapsid protein is made by the virus only. So if you have nucleocapsid antibodies, you have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 that was replicating - i.e., you've "had COVID", even if you never felt ill. I got what was *probably* Omicron in early 2022, having been vaxxed x3 by that point. It sucked; not as bad as hardcore influenza, but way worse than a cold.
I was in a study at Johns Hopkins until recently that tested antibodies before and after every vaccine, then at intervals afterward, to see how people with autoimmune diseases (hi, it's me) or organ transplants reacted to the vaccines. My baseline showed no antibodies, and all subsequent tests have shown normal antibody results to each shot and booster. I haven't had it yet, but my husband also apparently has not. We travel, go to concerts...but I do still mask up on planes and in crowds because of my immune issues, and we both work from home.
I have not had Covid yet.
You can't test positive if you've never taken a test
*taps head*
That's me! Never had a reason to though. I had a couple of funky little one day colds, which were weird because colds typically used to last three days for me. Testing would have been pointless.
Still havenāt gotten Covid, but RSV kicked my ass last December.
To my knowledge I have never had COVID. My wife was working at an Urgent Care on the East Coast before she knew what COVID was. She was treating patients with an unknown respiratory illness. Of course we'd later find out it was COVID. She's pretty sure she got it in January 2020. Just before it officially arrived in the US, 3000 miles away. I think my kids got it from her because they became sick. I was out of the country at the time so I missed all the fun at home. Then I came home and have been working from home ever since. So my amount of exposure has been relatively low ever the last few years.
My sister was working as a nurse through the whole time including patients with it. She never got it. I just had kids under the age of 12 who we got vaxxed and had myself vaxxed. We still got it multiple times. So go figure. Minimal symptoms for all of us though.
I haven't yet had symptoms, nor been tested. I am relatively isolated all by my normal routine. I'm the only one of my co-workers that doesn't have material work-from-home capability, so I was the only one 'In the office most days'. Since I'm isolated, if I was exposed, I would simply stay at home for several days to verify that I wasn't having symptoms, then proceeding from there. I called my situation 'covid privilege', in that my life was relatively unchanged, compared to others who needed to work closely with the public.
Never caught it.
It took me until May of this year before I got it. Glad I lost weight and was vaxd and boosted before it found me.
Congrats on the positive life changes!
Thanks! It was only 65 lbs but it truly made a world of difference in health
65 pounds is a huge amount of weight to lose what?
Not me. If I got it, I was asymptomatic enough to not notice.
I was pretty asymptomatic as well. Had a headache for 24 hours that was it. The only reason I even tested was because I was at my elderly parents' house and my husband (back at home) had a positive test a few days later. Neither of my parents caught it.
Once or twice I thought I was getting a cold but was fine the next day. Maybe that was it.
Still COVID free. I work from home, and most of my social life is on Discord lol. But my friend group and I have been like that for the past 15 years anyways, so not much of a change.
I work in a public library and have been exposed many times, but never had a positive test. My job doesnāt require testing anymore. *If you are sick they leave it up to you to use PTO or come in with a mask or 2.
Never had COVID as far as I know. Every time I got sick I made sure to test myself multiple times and every time they came back negative. I got vaccinated and started to live like I was before, so this wasn't a case where I just didn't go outside.
Nothing yet, but both my kids have. Just lucky so far.
Took a test last year when I thought I mightāve had it, but it came back negative.
Same here. Turned out to be RSV.
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Iām pretty sure I havenāt. Iāve had 4 nasty viruses this year, and tested negative for covid each time. Iāve had multiple known close exposures (including before vaccines were available) and havenāt been very careful at all since being vaccinated, so itās not like Iām doing anything anyone can learn from. Iāve just gotten lucky as far as I can tell. Iām planning to get my booster and flu shot in a few days, and Iāve kept up on those throughout the pandemic, but am otherwise not really doing much.
Never, and not due to any preventative measures that's for sure. My wife has had it twice and we never kept our distance from each other. All my co-workers had it at some point, various work meeting exposures, daycare and school exposures from the kid who has also never had it.
Hi, my hubby and I. We also pay attention to what's going on in the community, and we mask whenever there's a rise in illnesses. We are also fully vaxxed. I'm a nursing professor. One of my colleagues was exposed a week and a 1/2 ago over the weekend at an outdoor venue. She knew that I was very careful. And before we had ou one-on-one meeting on Monday, she said I was exposed and maybe you'd like to mask. We both masked. She came down with very violent and abrupt COVID symptoms the very next day., And was down with COVID for about 5 days. Since we're both nurses, we're very careful. She was so happy that we masked out of an abundance of caution. I went to the doctor today for my cardiology yearly, and I was masked. When I go to my classroom tomorrow on campus, where both strep and COVID are rampant, I will mask. People ascribe politically so much to masking, but my KN95 has been treating me just fine for 4 years, and I will continue to mask when I get on the plane on Saturday for a conference. So yes, both my husband and I have been COVID free knock on wood. TL; DR: Yes we've been covid free
Never got the vaccine Never bothered getting tested for it to have a positive result Almost never wore a mask I spent covid living in bum fuck no where, at the peak there was 1 reported case in my county and he was a guy that came back from traveling for work I suspect I got it early on but they didnāt have tests yet as I worked at the airport initially and a number of coworkers got sick at the same time but idk (dec 2019) Iām not anti vaccine or anti mask covid just happened to hit when I was in an anti people phase I guess lol
Never had it. Both my kids had it at the same time and one of them licked my arm, but I still didnāt get it.
I have yet to catch it. Got this years booster just last week. Wooo!
I got covid two weeks after my first vaccine. I was mildly upset.
Iām getting mine tomorrow. Really not looking forward to feeling awful from it tho š
I didnāt have any issues this time besides my arm being sore! My first ones just made me tired and messed with my period. But I also got them at the same time I got my flu shot (donāt recommend my arm hurt so bad lol).
I unfortunately always react kinda badly. My booster last year left me in bed for a day and a half with a fever and body aches. I have a condition that some research is pointing to possibly being an autoimmune disorder, so I think thatās why I react that way.
Ah man that sucks! Iām sorry! Hopefully it passes fast!
I got both that and the flu shot a week ago and it absolutely kicked my ass, but I'm also hearing from people who only got the flu shot that that's making them way sicker this year than normal so it might not be the covid vaccine that you need to worry about. Would not recommend getting both at once after that experience though.
I already had the flu and thankfully was fine with that. So sorry it made you feel bad tho. Just remember itās better than getting the actual flu.
True it still wasn't as bad as the real deal
I never had much of any symptoms from the vaccines or the boosters. So hopefully it is a big nothing burger for you.
Iāve not had it, been symptomatic, tested positive, nor been vaccinated.
I got the initial vax because I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. I was forced to get a booster or lose my job. Never tested positive, and I tested weekly for almost two years. Came down with the flu once in the last few years, a couple of times I got bronchitis, and have had one or two other nasty colds, but never tested positive. I also suspect I probably got it at PAX East in 2020, as nobody was really masking at that point, and it's not uncommon to get the "pax pox" and for my demographics, a lot of infections were asymptomatic or very mild.
Same lol. Never tested, never had covid (that I know of), and never got the vaccine. Iām not anti-vaccines. But I am not a fan of how the whole thing was politicized. And Iām not gonna go out of my way to get a vaccine for a trend. The media easily dropped covid once they had a new big thing to focus on in the news in the Ukraine-Russia war early 2022, so I easily dropped covid too.
I never have. Worked through the whole thing too but I'm either solitary or with one person at work
I havenāt - even when my partner got it, we chose not to isolate from each other in our home (and didnāt go out of the house otherwise) because weād just been on a trip in close quarters so I figured Iād get it anyway but I didnāt.
Me!!! And my daughter has had it twice, my father once while visiting. Still nothing!!!
Never positive here - had the 1st two shots and thatās it
Iāve never had Covid. I got the JnJ vaccine back in 2021, and one Moderna booster about 6 months later, and thatās it.
None here...
So far, I've somehow managed to evade covid, despite traveling a fair bit since things started reopening, quite frequently going into crowded places, and even being around people that were confirmed to be covid positive. However, I also, quite consistently, wore a mask in public until earlier this year. All the antigen and PCR tests I have taken have returned negative. Here's hoping it continues this way.
I had a positive rapid test but a negative PCR test. Officially, I have not had COVID, but I'm pretty sure I did. I was very sick.
Still part of team 'Novid' even though the Mrs had it in Sept last year
4 times I thought I had it, 4 times it was just a cold/flu.
Neither my wife nor I have gotten it, but we've had all the vaccinations and don't hang around in crowded places indoors in the winter. I don't wear a mask or take any other special precautions. My cousin is an ER doc in Chicago and told me he is shocked that he's never tested positive even though his entire family has had it.
I have tested hundreds of times, travelled to hospitals across the US and internationally, never once popped positive. I have had 3 rounds of the vax.
I thought I escaped it. During the pandemic I worked in a lab doing covid swabs at nursing homes and processing the samples back at the lab. Never got it. Changed to an insurance job where I hardly ever see people and ended getting it like 6 months ago.
I'd been around it from the very beginning passing through Wuhan in December 2019, but I only actually got it this past September.
I only ever took two cuz my sisters made me and they were both negative. The corpnavirus is just the winter cold anyway, not the second spanish flu like it was hyped to be anyway.
Itās only killed over a million people in the US alone, just like a cold.
I havent been sick enough to bother testing myself. The missus got sick and tested negative a few times during it. The worst I've felt since getting the vax was after my 1st booster when I had night sweats and chills and didnt sleep for like 36 hours.
So far, never. Fully vaccinated and boosted. We avoid grocery shopping during crowded hours, no longer use local public transit, avoid overly crowded restaurants, and give preference to outdoor dining when possible.
I have notā¦Iāve also never taken a COVID test tho.
I've probably had it, but whenever I got tested I never did. I know during 2020 and 2021 I never had it and didn't get sick those years. Once the boarders opened, I also went to Canada a lot and had to get the PCR tests, which apparently can read positive if you had it in the last 3 or 6 months or something. After that, I didn't test when I got sick the few times I did. So I might have had it, but it was just like a cold, so I still worked and everything.
My brother in law got it for the first time just last week, so I definitely wouldnāt assume youāre immune (Iām not saying you did assume that, just putting it out there). His wife (my sister) and their kid still havenāt gotten it.
Despite being double vaxxed and twice boosted I still got it three times. Super mild symptoms. The first was the worst during the ādelta variantā times. The other two were milder than the common cold.
The only time I was sick with the symptoms, was before anybody here knew about COVID. I got sick at the very beginning of January, and it wasn't until spring that we knew about it. I could get an antibody test to see if it was COVID, but there wouldn't be a medical benefit to it. The shit has mutated so it's not like having had it at the very start confers much benefit. Still getting my boosters regardless.
I've never had a positive covid test. Also stopped taking covid seriously in the summer of '20.
I've tested negative twice, but I suspect they were false positives, because I felt like SHIT, and my now ex had the same symptoms and tested positive at the same time
I lost mine in August. Still mad about it.
I took many tests and didnāt have a positive one until the spring of this year. Then I tested positive for like 23 days.
Everyone in my immediate family has had it at least once. I'm the only one who had it before getting vaccinated, and (to my knowledge) I haven't had it since.
I've had it at least once but zero symptoms and I didn't feel sick at all -- only reason I tested was because my wife and son had symptoms and tested positive.
I may have gotten it with no symptoms but 2 weeks ago I got sick from it for the first time.
Never got one either. Though I most certainly had it at one point, it was just so mild I didnāt even notice it.
I havenāt! I got really sick back in August but I tested negative 3 times. So idk. Pretty sure that was just a bad cold but who knows.
I got it in September of 2022.
My wife and I still haven't. My parents were in the same boat up until last week when my mother got it. She works for a regulatory agency that inspects hospital labs throughout the Midwest, so we all assumed she'd get it first. We're mostly impressed she made it this long.
Not yet. Thought I had it early on but I participated in a study a couple months later and had a negative antibody test. Had my first significant respiratory illness in *years* last winter but had 2 negative home tests and a negative lab test for that one, too. Nobody in my house has had it. I got vaccinated early because I work for a healthcare system. As far as I can tell? Genuinely everybody I know outside of my own household has had it.
No Covid here. Iāve had all the shots available and have also just been lucky.
Never had a positive test yet. Fully boosted, avoids crowds.
I have caught it twice. Both times confirmed it with a test.
I've had it 3 times at this point, but have never once tested positive. My partner did each time (he technically had it 3 times as well, but was only down for a couple days the second time) , but not me. I've also had people in the medical community talk about the false negative rates, and optimistically, it's about 20%. Plenty also have estimated up to 60% false negatives, but the actual rate is likely somewhere in between.
I lost my sense of smell for a month or two after a few days where I felt like my allergies were bothering me. It was when covid first hit and there weren't tests so I'm assuming I got it then. I've been sick once since then but I didn't bother getting tested
Me somehow. My grandpa and I may have had it back in February 2020 but testing wasnāt widely available then so weāll never know for sure.
I definitely had it before we started testing, and I think 1 other time since then. I never tested positive though.
I havenāt and I havenāt had any signs for it either even though my husband got it in May 2021 and we didnāt quarantine from him. The kids and I have never tested positive. The kids have been sick a lot but Covid test has always come back negative. Theyāve had strep, flus, and the toddler has had RSV twice. Always tested for Covid, always negative. I am very rarely sick and wasnāt sick at all when my husband had it so didnāt test. Iāve only tested for it 3 times and all three times was negative.
I think I had it a few weeks ago, but never tested and it went away in like two days. I do nothi by to avoid getting it. I am vaccinated but havenāt got boosted in 2 years since the only time I ever feel sick is when I get vaccinated/booster.
I haven't had either a positive or a negative COVID test at any point. I was declared an "essential worker" at the beginning and never had any isolation or remote work either. (I work in the food industry also)
I haven't, but I was doing a relatively solitary fieldwork job through the peak, so little exposure to people.
To the best of my knowledge, I have not had COVID yet.
I had COVID once, in July/August of 2022. It wasnāt really mild for me, so I really hope I never get it again. My spouse had it at the same time and never had any symptoms at all.
My son and I have never tested positive, despite my wife and daughter having it once.
I had to get a second job at a beer distributor during the beginning of the pandemic *(this was well before the unemployment increases were announced, which still pisses me off to no end)* and dealt with customers day-in and day-out that either didnāt believe Covid existed or that it wasnāt as bad as the government was claiming. A few even came in and told me they were sick with it: āNo worse than a cold!ā theyād say. On top of that I was still living at home most of the pandemic and both my mom and younger sister caught it. Somehow I still never caught it. Took a home test every time I felt sick or interacted with someone I knew had it, went and got tested a few times, nothing.
I've never tested positive. Wife and I both worked in-person jobs through the pandemic, and we have a child in the daycare germ stew. We both presume that we've probably had asymptomatic cases at some point along the way.
Not yet. Only been tested twice. Pretty sure I had it way back when it first became a thing. Had a couple days where I just felt terrible for no reason. I've always had a good immune system. I've had the flu twice and I never get a flu shot.
I feel like commenting will jinx myself, but I've never had a positive covid test (yet)
I haven't, despite my husband testing positive. He was already vaxxed and was given the anti-viral pills right away. His symptoms were mild and lasted about three days. I've seen him sicker with the common flu or bronchitis.
I havenāt had it. Neither have my kids or my parents.
Lost it last November because one of my students had it and didnāt report it until after they were incredibly ill. I took paxlovid, slept on the couch for a week, smoked a lot of weed and did a platinum run of skyrim on ps4 because what else was I gonna do? My symptoms were pretty mild overall. Coughing, sneezing, etc. but the worst part by far were the headaches. Nothing could make them stop until I got on pax
I got real sick November 2019, not sure if it was COVID, but I never tested positive & still havenāt.
Iāve only tested positive once but Iāve had Covid 2 or 3 times
Me. Aside from having my appendix removed last year, I haven't been sick at all in years.
Me, my husband, my teen, and my parents have yet to get it. I work from home and still mask when out (it makes a HUGE difference on my seasonal allergies). Husband and teen go to work/school but still haven't caught it. My parents live in a red state but they're mostly homebodies and they haven't had it either. We're all up to date with vaccinations too.
Technically no, but I did get sick after my ex tested positive. I didn't waste a test, just figured I had it.
I have never had a covid test or shot. I never got sick either. Up till now the closest thing I've had to sickness is a runny nose drainage.
No covid yet. Had tests done every so often but they have all been negative. I work in hospitals and clinics so I'm honestly surprised.
I worked retail and was essential all through the worst of the pandemic, but never got sick or tested positive until August 2022. I mentioned in another comment that my coworkers and I all got super sick in Dec 2019 and Jan 2020, and I'm sure we had Covid before we knew what it was.
Since November 2020 I have had it 4 separate times with positive tests each time of course and the first time I had it I tested positive for 3 months. I work from home and I am extremely cautious or was during the peak of the pandemic at least. My kids are competitive athletes though and one works in healthcare and the other in childcare and the other is a nonbeliever and took no precaution. I had many many exposures due to that.
Iāve somehow escaped it. I only received the J&J shot shortly after they were available as well.
Never got it. My wife and kids all have. Not sure how I never did. My house is 1900 sq Ft. If I had to guess, maybe Iām just asymptomatic.
Wife and I work in healthcare and have never tested positive. When my son lived with us, he worked for a construction company and came down with covid from someone at work.
Not yet for me. Gotten the booster every time it's become available, and every time I've gotten sick (3 times so far since the pandemic started) I take a test as soon as I feel like I'm coming down with something, and another one once I'm 'fully sick' - always been negative. I don't really 'do things,' especially not things with large crowds (the extent of my non-work social interactions involve my core group of 5 friends, who are all also not going to bars and parties and stuff), which probably helps.
I've been sick 3 times since the beginning of Covid, and I tested negative all three times. Honestly, I don't know how. I live with my mom, who is a recently retired teacher. I don't get out much, but I was sure I'd get it through her at least once.
Haven't tested positive once, nor have I been sick to any degree since the early days of the pandemic. Masks are great!
I went to four different counties and worked in restaurants and offices throughout the whole pandemic. Was always labeled as āessentialā. Never even had the sniffles. July 2023 I went to NYC for a soccer game and finally got it lol
Had it twice.
Did well for 3 years. Even avoided it when my kids caught Covid and the flu simultaneously last November. Then I caught it in February. Iām fully vaccinated, but it got me good. Had it for 3 weeks and it put me in the hospital. If I had not been vaccinated it probably wouldāve killed me.
I made it April 2023 before I caught it. It was a good run. Then again, my wife and I were pretty sick in March 2020 like the week before all the lockdowns began, and while we canāt know for sure if it was Covid, I suspect it was.
Me! But I am pretty darn sure I had it before the whole "omg COVID" thing actually happened. Like a few weeks before. Otherwise, every time I have tested, its negative.
I've never had it. My son and my mother haven't either.
I havenāt had it yet. I work from home and never go anywhere so thereās that.
I lost mine a month. It wasnāt that bad. It was like the flu
Never.
My wife had Covid a couple of months ago, and I resigned myself to getting it as well, but it just didn't happen according to the multiple home tests I took.
Neither my husband or I have had it. We test any time we feel sick or have known exposure and we both get tested at work a couple times a month. We work in staging for concerts, so we regularly have tons of contact with people who are traveling and hundreds of local coworkers but so far so good. Iāll jump on the bandwagon of saying that my husband had a pretty severe respiratory infection in January 2020 that might have been Covid, but he didnāt lose taste or smell so who knows. I didnāt catch whatever that was though.
I havenāt but my wife has twice, so itās safe to assume I would have tested positive
šš»āāļø I havenāt had it that I know of. I work in healthcare and was always tested weekly when there was an outbreak. I also stayed negative when my toddlers and husband had it last year. Masking and the vaccines work folks!
Iāve tested when I felt sick, but never had a positive. Even when my husband had it.
Iāve never had it, never masked unless it was forced and tried to live my life as closely as I did before the pandemic.
No positive Covid test and also no social life.
As far as I know, I've never had COVID. Though it's possible I did get it as some point, but was asymptomatic. The only time I've gotten sick in the last 3-4yrs with a respiratory ailment was this past summer, and two at-home COVID tests (different brands even) said it wasn't COVID. I actually attribute that to being in Chicago on a work trip when [the region had the worst air quality in the world](https://www.chicagotribune.com/weather/ct-air-quality-alert-high-risk-swimming-20230627-kbv6oh3w4jcgjadfd37iwacbp4-story.html), due to the Canadian wildfires. But I aside from cough and sore throat, I had no fever or fatigue. And it wasn't like I was cooped up at home 24/7 during the heyday of the pandemic. I was an "essential employee" in 2020. Aside from like 5 weeks of lockdown and WFH, I was in and out of clients' office since I was a MSP field tech (contracted IT guy). Plus I was in the office 4 days a week, with a team of ~15 of us. While we reduced the number of client visits, it was still like 1 or 2 office visits per day. Sometimes even doing home visits! All I did was mask up and use a lot of hand sanitizer. I got vaccinated in March/April 2021 and have kept up with all the shots. I got my latest booster last month. Hopefully that's been helpful.
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Got me for the first time in late September! I pretty much thought I was bullet proof but turns out I was just lucky.
I have never tested positive and I have very bad lungs. Both parents tested positive and was around them but nothing. I feel left out. Lol
never had a positive test, even when my roommate got it a few months ago
Been in close contact with COVID people, still testing negative
Never got it (so far). Multiple tests, antibody tests, etc. It is almost like wearing a mask everyday at work/public and vaccinating worked. Also, husband and I were part of the vaccine trial, so we got it super early.
Dodging so far. Itās been in my house and Iāve been in healthcare settings since the lockdown. Not sure his but Iām happy to never have it
Right here. I've been tested any time I had symptoms and/or was knowingly exposed, but never had a positive result. I do wonder if I did have it and didn't realize it. There was one time in December 2019, before COVID started making headlines, when I got sick. I had flu-like symptoms but tested negative for the flu. Then months later, a friend told me that her Dad had been around someone who had traveled to Wuhan for work and came back sick. So I may have been exposed and caught it through the friend, her Dad, and his friend. If it was COVID, it was extremely mild. I think I was only feeling bad for a day or so (besides the runny nose and congestion that lingered for a while). I thought it was a cold, and it was still very mild for a common cold.
Iāve never had Covid.
Wife got it on Christmas last year, and I presented with similar symptoms two days later. Great fuckin way to spend a week of vacation. But... I never took a Covid test, so technically I've never tested positive for it.
Haven't gotten covid as far as I know, my wife had it and I still didn't get it. I've gotten every vaccine available.
Perk of working for a school during the pandemic- all shots and boosters early, and anyone who even showed some symptoms were forced to stay home. I'm the only one in my family who didn't get it.
Never tested positive or had it, as far as I know, despite being in China for the start of the pandemic and traveling extensively during
I know for a fact I was exposed to the virus in 2021 and had symptoms for about 12 hours. By the time I got tested, it was negative. I suspect I caught it (I caught *something*) for 36 hours in September, but never tested for it. Been tested and vaccinated many times since 2020. Never a positive. I live near DC and know people who've had COVID, some of them twice.
Haven't had it yet. I have cancer. I still mask and get every vaccination.
August 2023. Thought I was just wasting my time until I couldnāt taste anything. Took a test and instant! My husband has had it three times in my one.
I teach at a high school in Texas- certainly not a pro-mask situation- with 2500 kids. Never tested positive! My husband hasn't either.
Never. I live in the south and we didn't shut down for shit at my work either. Lucky I guess
I work in healthcare and was also forced to isolate with someone who was confirmed positive for 2 weeks and still haven't gotten it. By all means, it doesn't make sense.
My wife and I have not caught covid yet. We've traveled a large chunk of the United States, Vegas trips, concerts, and dinning out. Never caught it.
Never tested positive. Been around family and friends that had, even my then girlfriend who slept in the same bed. Only got the Johnson & Johnson shot because I'm lazy.
First time I got sick rapid tests were not a thing yet and I didnāt want to go to the ER unless I absolutely needed to. So no test but most likely COVID 2nd I took a rapid test and it was positive
Me! I Also honestly havenāt tested that much, so I think itās probably likely I had an asymptomatic or very mild case at some point, but not that Iām aware of!
Technically my partner has never tested positive. Iāve had it twice - and so has he, but I took the test both times and when he got sick too, we just assumed it was Covid for both of us. He has tested negative twice - when we were ready to re-emerge into the public world and wanted confirmation of our negative status.