November '23: Have you tested positive for COVID or do you believe you've had it?

[Aurelius2]

Once, in June 2022. I was a month into my giant 25,000 mile, 140 day road trip that I've mentioned on here now and then. The night before I tested positive, I noticed that I felt like crap and was having a hard time falling asleep. I'd also been sneezing a lot since the afternoon. I was planning to hike Guadalupe Peak in far west Texas the next morning, but I woke up feeling pretty weak and knew that wouldn't happen. Took a covid test a few hours later and tested positive. Ended up staying for 3 or 4 days in a hotel in Alpine, Texas. They let me cook with my camping stove inside my room with the window open so that I wouldn't have to constantly go in and out to get food, lol. When I left the hotel I had been asymptomatic for a day, and I stayed outdoors and away from people for the next few days after that, until I'd been 5 days fully asymptomatic. The severity was that of a bad cold or very mild flu. I'd already had all 3 of the covid shots I've gotten.

[jamestroll]

Yes.. we have all had the cold and the flu.

[HillGoose]

ive had covid like 4 times now, i think i almost died the first time but its been ight since then, the vaccines help  a lot

[GeorgiaModerate]

Yes.. we have all had the cold and the flu.

[jamestroll]

Yes.. we have all had the cold and the flu.

Well if people keep up with their VACCINES.. it is just like a Cold.

the only thing I sided with the left on Covid about was vaccines.. even proposing we use military action to forcefully INJECT people with vaccines.

[Sol]

To my knowledge, I've never had it. I've had a few colds since 2020, but each time I tested negative so I don't think they were covid. I've been exposed several times, including once when my roommate had it, but I've managed to avoid it each time.

I think this is largely a function of my life circumstances, since I worked from home until earlier this year. Hopefully this streak continues, but we shall see. *knocks on wood*

[politicallefty]

Option 3. Masks and vaccines have worked well for me. I had a very mild cold that might have been a sinus infection two years ago (just a runny nose for about a day). Otherwise, I haven't been sick since well before the pandemic started.

[MasterJedi]

Option 2. My wife got it in December 2020 and tested positive and then I got sick with classic symptoms. Felt like death, didn’t get tested but no need to.

Then we both got it in March of this year, she tested positive but I had symptoms first for half a day and it was not bad for me (yay vaccine) but she couldn’t have any more vaccines so she got it bad.

[Badger]

Had it one time during the original pandemic, relatively late into it if I recall. Had it again last month back to back with a week where I had stomach flu. Not a good time.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

COVID is very similar to the flu instead of getting COVID vaccines they tell you to get the flu, your A1C goes up my sugar was 500 when I had the 100 degree flu

[IndianAmericanRepublican]

Somehow I haven't gotten sick with anything since I was an 8th Grader in George W. Bush's first term.

[Middle-aged Europe]

I had confirmed cases of COVID at least twice... March 2022 and April 2023, I think.