I should buy a lottery ticket

I would have said the same. 3 and a half years working retail during the pandemic and last week was the week it knocked me on my ass. Be careful.

I'm just lonely, that's my secret :)

That's me. I stayed home, avoided events, and waited to go to restaurants until cases were down. When I did go places, I went when it wasn't busy and sat outside. Avoiding COVID wasn't rocket science, all you had to do was follow the basic principles of disease prevention.

At this point it's highly unlikely that there remains a human in an urban center that has not caught covid once. Maybe they didn't have symptoms, maybe they didn't notice, but they've had covid.

That or they're a hermit.

Yeah. You'll win nothing. :-D

Just like the guy whose name was Peter Ninth, born on 9.9.1999, who was living in flat number 9... On his 19th birthday he bought a ticket on horse race for the horse number 9.

The horse ended up ninth.

I really should. I haven't had the 'rona and also survived a stroke and two rounds of brain surgery in 2022. I'm one lucky bastard.

I'm one of those who still haven't caught covid. But every time I leave home, I still wear a mask. I vaccinate whenever a booster's available. And i still wash my hands all the time.

that you know of. I'm sure there are sections of the population that were silent carriers. you fuckers got us sick!

meanwhile i got vaccinated 4 times and still caught it twice - is there a prize for that end of the spectrum?

Feel like I had very covid-like symptoms a couple of times. Not quite like a flu, similar, but a little different.

Tested myself every time, always negative. Not sure if it's a false negative, or a variant that doesn't get a result on those tests tho. Almost hard to believe i never caught it tho, as I have been exposed a couple of times too.

I worked retail through the worst parts of the pandemic, there is no chance I didn't get it, but I never had symptoms.

That fucker got me in april. Even with precautions. Thank god i got vaccinated or my immunocompromised ass would be six feet under.

This is me so far

I'm one of them! It has been in the house three separate times and I've managed to make out without a single positive test. I don't even bother with masks outside the house

Avoid kids, don't go outside unless you have to, don't touch everything you see like you're some kind of toddler; hands in your pocket. Don't slack on basic precautions, gravitate towards old people and if you see a white girl cough, drop your path and reroute to avoid them.

The first and last ones are by far the most important to follow; by far the biggest vectors of the disease.

I am sure, at this point, for some people the tests don't work. I have lupus and take immune suppression medication and my only means of transportation is public transport. Normally, I collect every germ possible. But somehow not COVID? Nah.

I made it to last week. Sorry guys.

That's me!

I haven't ever had COVID (that I'm aware of, and I tested regularly for the first two years of the pandemic), because I never stopped following the science and taking precautions.

I recognize that I was and am able to consistently take those precautions only because of a lot of privilege.

I just got my first positive covid test a few minutes ago. My luck has run out.

I'm going to guess that a lot of people ,like myself, who believe they never caught COVID actually have. A large percentage are likely just asymptomatic carriers. Or light symptoms that didn't show up on any tests.

I realized a latent autoimmune disorder instead! Winner!

I've probably gotten it at least once, since most people are asymptomatic. I've never had symptoms and never tested positive. Still, I feel like there's a good chance I just got it and it was never detected.

You might have, but it could have been asymptomatic.

I totally thought I was never gonna get it and then I got it a month ago and was so sick.

I suspect that I had an asymptomatic case at some point, my dad was testing positive and was not showing symptoms and my mom and sister were both showing symptoms but tested negative (even though given the circumstances, I don't think that result was correct)

I never showed symptoms or took a test as I wasn't showing symptoms so hard to know

About 1 in 4 haven't had it https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-many-americans-havent-caught-covid-cdc-estimates/

I kind of hope I am just immune at this point. I'll probably get it randomly in a few years when I least expect it.

I wonder if I’ve had it. I got tested the few times I felt sick and always negative. But it seems a lot of people have been asymptomatic so it is probably more prevalent than we know.

Ugh, this would've been me but I succumbed to covid in April this year due to being at a wedding... The one time I didn't wear my mask 😷

Still can’t believe I’ve avoided it this long. Responded super strongly to the vaccine so I can’t imagine I would be asymptomatic. I was also traveling all over during the worst of it.

Didn't get it until July this year. The kids brought it through the house in 2021, by some miracle of vaccination the wife and I didn't catch it then. Then the wife brought it home. Was pretty mild for both of us. We've kept our boosters up and we're in Australia so it didn't go nuts here until omicron

My immunocompromised wife is now on day 3 of her 3rd case. She's a preschool teacher, and one of her students is always sick at any given time.

So far I'm lucky and only had it once (after the first time she had it) and it was barely more than a tickle in my throat. I'm still coming up negative despite still sharing a bed with her (I keep the windows and bedroom door open and ceiling fan on high hoping to dissipate the germs).

Thankfully my 6yr old has been rolling negative tests all week too. Crossing my fingers we get through the next few days clean.

Made it to July. I don't go out much so not a big surprise. Knew it would happen. Girl I was seeing tested positive but said I could still come over to have sex. Had sex, caught covid. Stayed at home til I tested negative. Totally worth it.

I work in the medical field and was providing COVID testing and vaccines for a majority of the pandemic. During this time, all of my coworkers and two of my roommates have caught COVID at least once.

I still have never had it. Genuinely think I'm immune.

As I'm writing this right now, I'm getting sick for the second time. Thanks dad.

I was like you once. I lasted 2 and a half years 😔

We provided home-schooling for two and had an immune suppressed person at our home. I added a HEPA air exchange filtration system and upgraded our furnace/AC for a second HEPA filter in our home. Now, the children are back in school, and their dad is back to the office. We are teaching at school, but remain Covid free. We had our most recent shot on Thursday. We know of more infected people this year in our circle this past two months, than the entire time before, so we are hoping for the best.

I haven't but fucked if I know how.

I work with the public and I didn't catch it until 2021. I felt slightly groggy for a day, and coughed a bit.

Felt fine the next day but tested positive

I felt like writing a strongly worded letter of complaint about false advertising but I didn't know who to send it to

I wouldn't have gotten it if not for a libertarian roommate who didn't believe it existed. They tested positive, said it was a false positive, took no precautions whatsoever at home, and then went back to work at their nursing home a day later.

oh shit, this is me! i'm worried i'm about to tho, uninsured and can't really fork over the money for a shot.

Thats me! And people laugh at me for still wearing a mask

Caught covid in line at the gas station for a lottery ticket :(

70 years old ... lived in a big city ( small town now) and haven't caught it yet

I was COVID-free until the end of July. I've now had it twice.

That's me and my whole family of 4. Suck it, COVID.

I'm in this picture (or, if I've had it, it has been asymptomatic - but I doubt that I have), although it's not as much luck as it was precautions on my side. The first year I would only go out when I need to (and I was working from home full time before that anyway). For some time after I even avoided meeting people outside. Got my shots pretty late, I think in early 2022, because I wanted to go to an outdoor festival with a lot of people.

Alright I’m not certain there’s not a genetic variable here but I have not found it very hard to avoid. I wear a mask indoors and eat outdoors and don’t really do anything else.

But like, I travel a lot not for business which I theorize is riskier than business travel. That’s a lot of airports, and even with an optimistic 70% lounge rate it’s probably not great for avoiding illness (plus I managed to get flu somehow). I do eat indoors for special places but I guess those typically have less than 20 seats so the risk is reduced. Still.

My immediate family all got it and were extremely symptomatic so I doubt it’s genetic though. Plus I don’t think I’m related to my SO and by using an N95/KN (I prefer N for comfort on the ears) we’ve managed to avoid it despite frequent travel and separate social lives. I know masks are very uncommon now but honestly, didn’t really change my life that much. I’m pretty sure they work too, the second time I was in Tokyo this year masks were a minority thing and you couldn’t get onto a bus or train without people coughing. I resigned myself to Covid but somehow still didn’t get it.

Anyway now that I’ve gone on this incoherent ramble I’m definitely gonna be sick next week. Probably deserved.

COVID sucks. Counting my blessings that Ive never caught it. Every single one of my coworkers and their families had it. But they also don't know how viruses and bacteria operate either.

They habitually stick their philangies in all of their facial orifices without regard for what they may have touched earlier...

The secret is to barely go outside.

I mean I have grocery shopped one a week the whole time but I've literally not been sick, not even with a cold, this whole time (and I used to get colds all the time). I didnt even mask for awhile there though I decided to start again because of the surge and the fear of long covid.

I was serving in the last couple years of my military career when the pandemic started. The military took it very seriously, because we still have a mission that needs to be accomplished. Anyone dropping out for a severe illness would compromise our capabilities.

So we went on full lockdown. No one was allowed to leave military bases unless you lived off-base, in which you were only authorized to go straight home and then back to work. It was highly recommended you order delivery services for groceries and stock up so you wouldn't need to leave home. Going to the grocery store was the only exception to the lockdown, but it was considered an extreme risk and should be avoided if possible.

Our work shifts (in my unit, anyway) were split in half. Half the crew came in for the morning shift, then thoroughly disinfected the office, locked up, and went home. Then 30 minutes later, the second shift would come in and do the afternoon shift. The 30-minute break ensured no physical contact between shifts. The split-shift allowed a shift to take over full work days in case someone on the other shift got sick. Their whole shift would stay home for 2 weeks to ensure the contagious period passed before sending them back into the office to resume split shifts.

We would've moved to work-from-home (WFH), but unfortunately, I happened to be working in an Intelligence unit at the time and 90% of their job was on classified computer systems, which we couldn't access from outside the office. I was an IT guy, fixing the Intel guys' computers, so I did WFH for a few months, managing their unclassified computer accounts from a laptop. But eventually, I was needed in the office for their other systems.

We were also required to wear masks outside of our homes at all times. Anyone caught without a mask anywhere - even sitting in our car on the drive to or from work - could be punished for violating a direct order from our base commander. We used to make fun of conservatives who bitched about how uncomfortable the masks were and how they couldn't breathe while wearing them. We had to wear them all day without breaks, from the moment we left home until the moment we got home. I empathize with emergency room workers; it was brutal, but it wasn't impossible to do, and we got used to it eventually. After a while, I started to feel naked without my mask on.

In the last 2 years I served, we had a few people drop out with COVID-19 (their civilian families brought it home from their work/school), but the majority of us stayed COVID-free.

When I retired last summer, I moved in with my elderly hermit dad who lives out in the countryside. He avoided leaving his house for the whole pandemic, and even now rarely goes into town. He, my wife, and I are still COVID-free to this day.

My sister and her family caught it 3 times! But my sister married into an ultra-conservative religious family who thought the pandemic was a hoax and continued to hold religious parties and barbeques for the neighborhood all throughout the pandemic (They were anti-vaxxers too; something my sister fought with her husband about long before the pandemic occurred). There were a few scares when she came to care for our father and then got diagnosed with COVID-19 a day or two later. But somehow, my dad never tested positive for COVID antibodies. And despite my sister's husband losing his sense of taste and smell (which is still not fully recovered to this day), her whole family has thankfully survived their run-in with COVID.

I had 2 shots and 2 boosters 6 mo apart. I think by now it's about as harmful to me as the common cold, I actually feel a sick sort of enjoyment whenever somebody wins the Darwin award for this. Sucks for the people with auto-immune problems, though, my heart sinks for them.

I never got covid and if I did it was completely without symptoms.

Rest of the family got when visiting me in the city but somehow I did not get ill.

Probably they got it but they didn't notice. At a place I worked in recently several people had cold like symptoms and I got same but immediately knew it's corona because I got it last year. But almost everyone describes it as cold or allergies.

I wish I could say this was me but there's been a couple of times thst I've been knocked on my ass by something, but every test I've taken came up negative

I finally caught it after being around a few dozen people who has had it. Wasn't even that bad. Sinus pain and mucus...

Never caught it, or never tested positive... or even bothered to be tested. I'm pretty sure I just had one of the mild cases, because I've had 'generic respiratory illness' with sniffles and congestion a few times since COVID-19 became a concern. I'm betting there is a large group of people who fit into my category.

SO and I still remain un-infected.

I can't say I've completely avoided it, but I've only experienced loss of taste, although it may be placebo effect caused by the times.

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I got it in January, but aside from the fever it wasn't any different from a cold for me, so I still consider myself lucky.

I went three years without catching it then it spread through my workplace like wildfire because people won't stay home when they're sick and the one guy has to go to Vegas first chance he got.

Is there a vaccine that helps you win the lottery?

I had it once and it was after a family gathering and every member of my family had it, except my mom. She didn't have it till now and barely reacted to the vaccine. She seems to be immune or something

I live in a very small town and pretty much only leave home for groceries. In general I'm never around people. On top of taking all the precautions, it wasn't that hard for me.

I somehow dodged it until earlier this year and it barely affected me. Just woke up now at 6am and I have it again lol. The rest of my family spent the last week dealing with it and now it's my turn again.

Homebodies unite!

I had a mild flu for like 2 days... Does that count?

Meh. Either i'm immune or i had it barely and am now immune.

I think this number is a lot lower than people may think. From personal experience I have had covid more than four times (not testing anymore), I was only actually symptomatic to any degree with the first one. By contrast, my partner has never once actually tested positive, despite certainly having it at least once, having caught it from me, and being very symptomatic. Some people shed a lot of the virus, and some people shed not any basically whatsoever, since the tests are based on actually shedding the virus, many people who simply don't shed the virus have caught covid-19 and simply don't realize it or won't ever test positive

Don’t bother with a lottery ticket, you’re more likely to catch Covid.

Managed to avoid it for a long time, but then got it from sitting shoulder by shoulder in uni after mask mandates were phased out. It was not pleasant, but luckily I didn't get any really bad symptoms.

I'm pretty sure my bodies just built different at this point, like I've had multiple people in my family catch it, multiple people in my house at uni and I tested pretty frequently even when I wasn't showing symptoms until they stopped giving the tests away for free, but I've not tested positive even once

I actually only know three people who've gotten it and two were not vaccinated

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Given how contagious omicron and later variants were, no one avoided covid without total isolation. At most you never tested positive.

I got the Moderna shots and I ended up with a inflamed heart muscle.

Ended up with multiple hospital visits and couldn't work for 3 months.

Still not feel all that better.

I didn't want the shots, but I needed to do it for me work.

I managed to avoid getting it for the longest time (and even when I got it, I'd gotten that worthless Pfizer vaccine by that point (talk about a waste of time THAT was)) and only got it because my brother is a very social person and got it from one of his friends.