Still haven’t had it, but had a close contact a few days ago, so I’m just curious.
My wife caught it at work, about six months into the pandemic. Was inevitable, since she works in a grocery store. She woke up with a fever and no sense of taste or smell, and then went downhill with really bad flu like symptoms from there. I started with the same thing the next day. Main illness lasted two weeks, but the worst part was the first week by far. My wife was sick for almost 6 weeks and ended up on an inhaler for a while until her lungs healed. Neither of us got our full taste back for almost 2 years, and our smell hasn’t fully recovered yet either (about 80% now).
We both tested positive again last June, got a mandatory week off work but the only symptom was a mild fever. Wouldn’t have even known I was sick, but a family member tested positive and we’d been to visit so took a test and there I was. I’d been vaccinated by that point, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say the vaccination did what it was supposed to do with keeping me from being sick.
Within 12 hours. I flew out to Philadelphia to attend my friend’s graduation for her masters. She picked me up at the airport and said she had an itchy throat and a headache but it was allergies.
Bam, 12 hours later, I was completely on my back, horrifficly sick. Took a test, positive for covid. She took a test, positive for covid.
Her sickness continued as a light sore throat and a light headache. I had a 104 fever and it morphed into a nasty eyelid infection, which I convinced myself was eye herpies after googling images of what mine looked like.
Not eye herpies, thank god, but I definitely broke down in tears at the time thinking so.
Still love her even though she gave me covid.
I teach in schools every week day. How would I know which school, which day, or which student?
Sure maybe this question doesn’t fit your lifestyle, but I remember plenty of situations, especially when people were quarantining, that most times someone got sick, they could pretty reliably point to a situation and say “yeah that’s probably where I got it”
who know where/when they contracted COVID
Obviously you don’t teach English reading comprehension
Couple of days. Was sitting on a plane leaving Omaha, we were about a year and a half in so it was fairly safe to travel then, but we still masked everywhere. That didn’t stop big boomer billy from refusing to put on a mask and coughing on my wife and I for the duration of the flight. We were both vaxxed so we pulled through, but it still sucked.
I heard something like “90% of cases will start symptoms within 5 days” or something. Still, take a test, maybe try to stay home for the next few days if you can, and if you must go out wear a mask just to be safe to try to not spread it to anyone else. My immuno-compromised family thanks you for that.
And if you did get it, as long as you’re vaxxed you don’t need to worry. Prepare for a bad flu, the first week be ready for a bad fever, but queue up some movies/TV and plow through it.
