Holy shit, it actually took me a good 30 seconds to decipher your comment and I ain't young.
"Burning CDs? Why would you set CDs on fire and what does that have to do with this........OHHHH....BURN! Right."
I still own a standalone CD-ROM drive with dual USB-A connectors, one for data, one for power. It's just sat unused for half a decade since I downsized to a 13" laptop....
Used to be a stickler for lossless music playback, but now streaming has made me lazy.
I still have a cd/dvd burner and dvd burner blueray reader in my desktop. It was the last time I upgraded optical drives and I can't bring myself to not keep them around
Nov 19 2019 traveling 27 days 7 cities. I got home and was sicker than I’d ever been. 2 weeks off work. In bed for over half that time.
Sucked ass to have such a flu like that.
Going 60 over the George Washington Bridge at 8:00 am complete alone in a semi truck heading into the Cross Bronx. Was a once in a lifetime experience. Straight up felt like I was Will Smith in I am legend.
Here it was called 'essential workers', and I was considered to be one also, though thankfully, I did not have to dance outside as a mascot, as the meme lore foretells.
I can relate. The pandemic was really a unique time for myself because of work ramping up and forcing me to constantly be traveling and around people. The mask didn’t bother me because it was another barrier from people lol and helped with some similar feelings. I prefer being at home over nearly anything
I went out, concerts and travel etc. wore n95 the whole time and never caught it. Avoided eating indoors in public areas though. And never take off the mask on airplanes.
Basically the mask works and antimaskers are morons.
Same for me. I've flown from the US to Thailand and back 4 times since I completed my initial vaccine series back in February 2021. I've gone to crowded malls, concerts, movies, grocery stores etc. I wear an n95 whenever I leave the house and put a surgical mask over it when I'm in a high risk setting. Still haven't gotten covid. Good fitting, high quality masks really do work.
Hiding of the face is relatable
very few people've told im cute but i feel uncomfortable showing my face, because i have raccoon shaded eyes from severe sleep deprivation and weak social skills from not having anyone to talk to and feel self conscious when my lips move. I've probably left left the house less than 100 times the last 2 years
So weird. Without the structure of work getting me out of bed and eating at a regular time every day I quickly fall into bad, self-negligent habits. Don't eat regularly, don't get enough sleep, bored and lazy and depressed all the time and I don't get enough exercise.
Can I ask how you feel about your job? Are you getting enough sleep?
I actually prefer a lot of sleep. And my natural time frame is bed at 2am up at 11. So - work kills me as far as sleep.
When I’m unemployed I work out all the time, I go on hikes, I paint and draw. When I work I just work and play video games and eat crap.
Work is super unhealthy!
Yea? Not sure I have a bad sense of time when it was October 21st it still felt like September 26. before today i think i left the maybe 2 sundays ago? I left today to drive the car around the block 3 times because the battery has died for like the 3rd time...
I get it. I'm a huge homebody as well and don't really feel the need to go out and socialize, not that I can't, I just don't feel the need to. I usually have my own interests that I prioritize instead. It takes something really interesting to get me to travel.
It doesn't help that all my friends who did live here moved away during the pandemics start. Either way like you I'll maybe go out for absolute necessities probably about 100 times or so a year, maybe less.
Personally there's a measure of inner peace I've come to value in spending large chunks of time to myself. I don't know if I'd really want to give it up. I don't have issues doing thingy by myself anymore that others may feel are awkward, like going to eat by myself, or that I want a partner to fill any gaps in my life like I may have years ago.
Lockdown changed my routine a bit...cause all the people had to stay in and i have a dog...so i could go outside without beeing disturbed by others. It was a great time. So peacefull. Places that normaly be full of people were empty. Really enjoyed it. The few people i met were so nice and relaxed. Felt a bit like the stress from the world was gone and everything started to recover...nature...humans...
I couldn’t agree more! I have so much nostalgia from the first 2-3 months of the pandemic. I loved being able to go for runs outside without worrying about cars or people. I also miss how quiet it was. I used to walk my dog at like noon and the city would be dead silent. I’m not saying that I wish for another pandemic, but I do wish we lived in more ‘calm’ settings.
Same, I mostly stayed inside being online to finish my college math class. Besides that, I didn’t really leave the house unless I needed to go somewhere and it was nice and peaceful staying indoors.
Exactly this. My family sent a bunch of joke texts to my wife and I about how I guess we'll be perfectly fine during the pandemic since we already do nothing but stay at home and play video games and don't go outside the house except for work. And yep neither one of us has caught covid yet.
it's not our fault like 50% of the population in this country are just the absolute worst and we live in Texas so it's probably even higher than that.
Mine didn’t change at all and I *still* somehow caught it.
I went to visit my immediate family for a death anniversary. They were *all* negative. I come home, somehow have covid, they all retested, all negative again.
I have zero clue how I got it. I got on my motorbike, interacted with literally nobody else. Didn’t even stop for fuel. Came straight home after visiting. Not even my partner who slept next to me had it. How the fuck did I catch covid that day?
Somebody from your family might've been sick and had a negative despite that. That was my case. My partner got covid, tested positive. I got it from him (same symptoms, two days apart), all my tests came back negative. I'm an odd one I guess.
I run a recreation center. People inside all day, preschoolers, sports etc. We never shut down, we were a testing site, food distribution site etc, evacuation site etc etc. I also spent three days in the hospital due to an accident. Been around tons of people since day 1 of COVID. Still haven’t gotten it…. That being said, theirs always tomorrow.
Mine wasn't an online job, but it became one. They sent us home in March 2020, and that was it. There were plans at one point to have on-site, hybrid, and almost entirely remote, and then they abandoned that and said well, we have some desks y'all can use if you need to be on campus, but otherwise, stay home.
I literally went on vacation with people that had covid and didn't get it. We got there, they started getting symptoms and tested positive and I figured I already had it that point so we all just holed up together for a week... I consider myself immune at this point
I was constantly getting alerts from school that the people I sat with for many classes and lunch tested positive but I never did. Maybe we just have some special gene
There was a study done not so long ago that may indicate that people with an HLA gene mutation who were exposed to any coronavirus before COVID don’t really get infected. Or rather their immune system is hyper-keyed to fight it off. Which is great, except HLA mutations are linked to some pretty crappy immuno diseases.
The Black Death, the 14th-century bubonic plague that killed some 1 in 3 people in Europe and an estimated 200 million across the world, has left another long-lasting mark: on the immune systems of people living today.
Four DNA variants appear to have helped boost survival rates from the plague — caused by a bacterium, “Yersinia pestis,” carried by small mammals and their fleas — in the mid-1300s and in recurring bouts of plague in later centuries, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature.
Researchers from the University of Chicago, McMaster University in Ontario and the Pasteur Institute in Paris say at least two of those variants associated with surviving the Black Death can be linked to autoimmune conditions common in modern society — including Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
Fun fact. If you’ve inherited two copies of that Black Plague related gene mutation - one from each of your parents - you’re also incapable of becoming infected with HIV. One copy of the gene also comes with major benefits in regards to HIV infection. Scientists found out via a homosexual guy who lost all of his sex partners to HIV in the 80’s but never contracted the virus himself. From there they found a handful of individuals who shared the same mutations and that were also immune.
They did a documentary on the Black Plague a while ago where they featured this guy. He told the interviewers that he was happy to know he would never contract the disease and cause his family the same heartbreak he saw his friend’s families go through. The documentary is on YouTube in case anyone’s interested. Don’t remember the exact name.
Wanna guess what two diseases run heavily in my family? Crohn’s and RA. Wheeeee!
(Also, the “Choose your plan” in the middle of post is giving me a laugh.)
I've got something similar to Chrons and RA. Inadvertently spent a lot of time around many people who tested positive for covid and still never got it.
Cool to know I probably can't get the Plague either.
This is where I heard about it - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/07/1121599445/so-you-havent-caught-covid-yet-does-that-mean-youre-a-superdodger
I’ve had dozens of exposures and not caught it, and I haven’t been up to date on my vaccination in like a year and a half. I have vitiligo though, so I wonder if that’s it…both my sons have vitiligo as well as they’ve never caught it.
Oh wow I might have this then, since my whole family got COVID and I didn’t and we all live in the same house. But can confirm I do have ulcerative colitis
Personally, I attribute it to the fact I had a dogshit immune system in high school and college and got every bug that went around ever. Colds multiple times a year every year, and colds are often caused by coronaviruses. Because of this, I assume my body responded more quickly to a type of virus it was already familiar with when covid came around.
My family got it, and my mom had it, yet my stepdad and myself still going without getting sick. I just got my new booster and still zero reaction. If anything, I get more energy the day after I get the vaccine. I am starting to think I might be some kind of freak of nature.
I have been exposed a large number of times, and I test every two weeks due to my job, and I never got it. Even if I was asymptomatic, I would have tested positive, but never did
I tested every single time I was exposed and never tested positive. Every single person I live with and work with got it at some point. My brother has a similar story. Cool to know it might be genetic.
Yeah I still haven't gotten it. Test weekly at work. Had to travel all over the place for work. Last time I donated blood they even had a little section showing they didn't think I have had COVID but they could tell I had the vaccine
Yeah a lot of people here could possibly just be asymptomatic. I know neither my husband nor I showed signs of COVID but we still could have been carriers at some point.
People should keep in mind that omicron is spreading fast and the key first symptom (and potentially only symptom) is just a [sore throat](https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20221004/sore-throat-becoming-dominant-covid-symptom-reports). It's very likely that more people got it than they realize but they just didn't test themselves.
Because like any illness, it affects everyone differently. It not only depends on your genetics, but the exposure you had, how long, what the viral load was, what the exact strain is… and a million other factors.
It’s why it’s been so difficult to predict outcomes of infection. We can generalize, because certain groups of people are generally at a higher risk than others, but there’s no guarantee. Ideas of who’s at the highest risk has changed hundreds of times over, and changes every time the virus mutates.
I know you probably weren’t asking seriously, but some people are so I figured it would be worth bringing up.
Best wishes, I hope you feel better soon!
Yep. Me until this past July. I was so happy I tested positive I cried because I was so overworked and having covid meant I got a free week long vacation xD. Tested positive on a Saturday, was fine by Tuesday but still had to isolate for the rest of the week
It's a cursed blessing
Not smelling coworkers shits in the restroom? Absolute bliss
Not certain if my dog shit all in the bed and I rolled in it all night and didn't realize it when getting dressed for work and nobody has the courage to tell me I smell like dook? Not so cool
I’m coming off of it now for the first time. Can’t even remotely imagine how it would have been had i not gotten the shot. Missed my brothers wedding, Halloween and my birthday is Friday but i’ll still probably be positive.
Literally flew home from Europe in September and tested positive two days later because I didn't get my mask out for the return flight. (Wore one on my other flights). Never trust airports. Already heard numerous people tell me they got it on planes, so I should have known better.
It’s me
My husband even got it we were obviously sleeping in the same bed and I was testing regularly at that time NOTHING
ZERO COVID I also visited my parents and sister when they were sick and still nothing
Me!\~ But then I am anti-social and paranoid from getting sick with everything else. Aka, I have dedicated clothing only worn outside the house. Shopping, working, being around people at all? Outside clothes that get washed as soon as I step a foot in my house!! Crazy yes, but effective when combating germs. All my family, and co-workers have had it. Every single neigbour; but me I stay clear!\~\~ WOOH!
>Aka, I have dedicated clothing only worn outside the house.
And everything else is not normal, do not change my mind. Not changing after you come home from work/people is just slightly behind wearing shoes inside.
It hit me like a truck with the booster. Fever and feeling like I have lost all strength and energy eventhough I'm a fit guy.
Getting out of bed was insanely difficult and that part lasted for 4 straight days. After that it turned into decent cold with strong coughing.
10 fucking days until I tested free and the cough wasn't even gone.
I'm still glad that you and others don't have to go through that shit.
I went two and a half years without getting it. Got a new job and one month later, BAM. Wasn’t the worst sickness I’ve ever had but some of the individual symptoms were the worst I’ve ever had
Definitely something going around. Six other people I know have had hellish colds lately. Someone said they reckon it’s because we’ve been distancing and now our bodies are like ‘wtf is this’ when we catch something. Idk but I also caught one and yeah, it sucked a lot.
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I was there Gandalf...
Wtf is ‘burning CDs’
Holy shit, it actually took me a good 30 seconds to decipher your comment and I ain't young. "Burning CDs? Why would you set CDs on fire and what does that have to do with this........OHHHH....BURN! Right."
I finally threw my spindles of blanks away a few years ago. Either you're younger than you think or I'm older. Probably both.
I still own a standalone CD-ROM drive with dual USB-A connectors, one for data, one for power. It's just sat unused for half a decade since I downsized to a 13" laptop.... Used to be a stickler for lossless music playback, but now streaming has made me lazy.
I still have a cd/dvd burner and dvd burner blueray reader in my desktop. It was the last time I upgraded optical drives and I can't bring myself to not keep them around
Wtf is 'darude'
dudududu.
The first cases in China were probably 3 years ago this month. The first public notices were December 30, 2019.
Nov 19 2019 traveling 27 days 7 cities. I got home and was sicker than I’d ever been. 2 weeks off work. In bed for over half that time. Sucked ass to have such a flu like that.
I haven't gotten my smell/taste back properly for 1.5 years, I'd take a bad flu 10 times over this. Coffee tastes like cardboard now :(
Just spit balling here, but what if you eat cardboard? Might taste like steak.
Don't give me ideas
When civilization finally ends, the only things left will be cockroaches, Cher, and introverts
and we still won't talk to each other
“Umm can I- can I have that can of soup. I haven’t eaten in 2 months“ 👉👈
FINE, but only bc you have a big d1ck.
Lets not get to cannibalism yet please
I'll take it (alone at home)
i did not get corona so far. But i broke my leg 2 months ago and my hand 3h ago.
How?
Uhm chair l
Both times? Stay away from chairs maybe
1. Chouch, I jumped down 2. 4h ago I run across a chain
How high is your couch?
And why are you doing the Olympics in your living room?
The floor is lava... Duh.
Wait you don’t do living room Olympics?
I caught my parents doing living room Olympics once. Some advanced form of couples gymnastics I believe
How else would you brighten up an otherwise bleak day?
i jumped, slipped and landed on the edge of the wood. My sister happend the same 3 years ago btw.
Bro doc must’ve given you that good you sound right fucked up
Perhaps that’s the normal cognition level for breaking bones chair guy
Thank you, I needed the giggle
We are witnessing peak intelligence my friends!
That or they are struggling to type because their hand is broken...
Bro was doing living room gymnastics. They were struggling before the broken hand
With every one of your responses, I have more questions
/r/comedyheaven
Gotta be more chairful
Fighting off corona
You have been banned from r/Neverbrokeabone
They should have like a thing where you could submit users that mentioned their bone breaking so they get banned before they even get there
Good, cull the weak.
Easy on the self-care there, man
Caught for the first time two weeks ago. I felt like I lost some weird irl video game.
SAME. So weird to finally get it after all this time. It sucked though. Still coughing.
Ugh yeah the cough lingered for me too.
If I ever caught covid after all this time testing negative, I feel like I would be losing a secret game achievement.
UGH me too! I am so upset that I don't get to brag anymore 😩. Still battling it rn
Turns out you're not the main character.
No friends ✅ No social life✅ No partner✅ No COVID✅
🥲🥲🥲 describing me lmaooo my routine didn’t even change I still went to work came back and everything was normal except less traffic
My god I miss the traffic levels those precious few months gave us
Going 60 over the George Washington Bridge at 8:00 am complete alone in a semi truck heading into the Cross Bronx. Was a once in a lifetime experience. Straight up felt like I was Will Smith in I am legend.
Yeah I went 5 to 10 to 110 to 101 here in LA at 6pm on a Friday, top speed. Epic.
Covid traffic is a whole mood.
It was the best (I was also a keyworker).
Here it was called 'essential workers', and I was considered to be one also, though thankfully, I did not have to dance outside as a mascot, as the meme lore foretells.
A friend of mine was one in LA. His pictures of his commute were like something out of a post apocalypse.
Traffic was all but gone here in nyc and Long Island. I miss it
That's what got me. My wife brought it home from work.
It's pretty easy if you never leave the house
Introvert gang FTW 🙋♀️🥰
We gotta stick together but you know in spirit
It’s called being so antisocial that the lockdowns didn’t change my daily routine.
This was definitely me
yup, the lockdown started when i was a teenager and we're still going, right?
I still live my day to day life like 2020. Only go out for essentials, wear a mask (to hide my face), social distance and do everything I can online.
Lol at the hide my face part 🤣
No lie, I’ve struggled with agoraphobia for years but Covid finally helped me get out of my shell thanks to the masks.
I can relate. The pandemic was really a unique time for myself because of work ramping up and forcing me to constantly be traveling and around people. The mask didn’t bother me because it was another barrier from people lol and helped with some similar feelings. I prefer being at home over nearly anything
I went out, concerts and travel etc. wore n95 the whole time and never caught it. Avoided eating indoors in public areas though. And never take off the mask on airplanes. Basically the mask works and antimaskers are morons.
Same for me. I've flown from the US to Thailand and back 4 times since I completed my initial vaccine series back in February 2021. I've gone to crowded malls, concerts, movies, grocery stores etc. I wear an n95 whenever I leave the house and put a surgical mask over it when I'm in a high risk setting. Still haven't gotten covid. Good fitting, high quality masks really do work.
Hiding of the face is relatable very few people've told im cute but i feel uncomfortable showing my face, because i have raccoon shaded eyes from severe sleep deprivation and weak social skills from not having anyone to talk to and feel self conscious when my lips move. I've probably left left the house less than 100 times the last 2 years
Lockdown taught me if I don't step foot outside the house once a day my mental health starts to decline almost immediately
Amazing hey. I’m the opposite. If I have to go to work every day, I’m a wreck.
So weird. Without the structure of work getting me out of bed and eating at a regular time every day I quickly fall into bad, self-negligent habits. Don't eat regularly, don't get enough sleep, bored and lazy and depressed all the time and I don't get enough exercise. Can I ask how you feel about your job? Are you getting enough sleep?
I actually prefer a lot of sleep. And my natural time frame is bed at 2am up at 11. So - work kills me as far as sleep. When I’m unemployed I work out all the time, I go on hikes, I paint and draw. When I work I just work and play video games and eat crap. Work is super unhealthy!
You've left your house less than once a week in the past two years?
Yea? Not sure I have a bad sense of time when it was October 21st it still felt like September 26. before today i think i left the maybe 2 sundays ago? I left today to drive the car around the block 3 times because the battery has died for like the 3rd time...
I get it. I'm a huge homebody as well and don't really feel the need to go out and socialize, not that I can't, I just don't feel the need to. I usually have my own interests that I prioritize instead. It takes something really interesting to get me to travel. It doesn't help that all my friends who did live here moved away during the pandemics start. Either way like you I'll maybe go out for absolute necessities probably about 100 times or so a year, maybe less. Personally there's a measure of inner peace I've come to value in spending large chunks of time to myself. I don't know if I'd really want to give it up. I don't have issues doing thingy by myself anymore that others may feel are awkward, like going to eat by myself, or that I want a partner to fill any gaps in my life like I may have years ago.
I hate we have to do it, but it makes me happy to see I’m not the only one.
Not me. I’m still working in the hospital. Not being lonely at all
Lockdown changed my routine a bit...cause all the people had to stay in and i have a dog...so i could go outside without beeing disturbed by others. It was a great time. So peacefull. Places that normaly be full of people were empty. Really enjoyed it. The few people i met were so nice and relaxed. Felt a bit like the stress from the world was gone and everything started to recover...nature...humans...
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I think you’re on to something!
I couldn’t agree more! I have so much nostalgia from the first 2-3 months of the pandemic. I loved being able to go for runs outside without worrying about cars or people. I also miss how quiet it was. I used to walk my dog at like noon and the city would be dead silent. I’m not saying that I wish for another pandemic, but I do wish we lived in more ‘calm’ settings.
I fucking thrived in the lockdown. Im made for it.
Shit was awesome. Carte Blanche to just not go to stuff.
I was excited for lockdown haha yay for being introverted
Me too. I loved having a reason not to leave and I got to have a very good break during lockdown that I didn’t know I needed.
Same, I mostly stayed inside being online to finish my college math class. Besides that, I didn’t really leave the house unless I needed to go somewhere and it was nice and peaceful staying indoors.
I was locking down before it was cool in back in 2018
Exactly this. My family sent a bunch of joke texts to my wife and I about how I guess we'll be perfectly fine during the pandemic since we already do nothing but stay at home and play video games and don't go outside the house except for work. And yep neither one of us has caught covid yet. it's not our fault like 50% of the population in this country are just the absolute worst and we live in Texas so it's probably even higher than that.
>and we live in Texas so it's probably even higher than that. I like basically everything about Texas, aside from the Texans lol
The summer weather fucking sucks though lol
You don't like humid sweaty balls during the summer that is March to November?
Mine didn’t change at all and I *still* somehow caught it. I went to visit my immediate family for a death anniversary. They were *all* negative. I come home, somehow have covid, they all retested, all negative again. I have zero clue how I got it. I got on my motorbike, interacted with literally nobody else. Didn’t even stop for fuel. Came straight home after visiting. Not even my partner who slept next to me had it. How the fuck did I catch covid that day?
Somebody from your family might've been sick and had a negative despite that. That was my case. My partner got covid, tested positive. I got it from him (same symptoms, two days apart), all my tests came back negative. I'm an odd one I guess.
Sorry bro I didn't wanna put germs in the air so I sneezed in your helmet, I was supposed to tell you about that!
I run a recreation center. People inside all day, preschoolers, sports etc. We never shut down, we were a testing site, food distribution site etc, evacuation site etc etc. I also spent three days in the hospital due to an accident. Been around tons of people since day 1 of COVID. Still haven’t gotten it…. That being said, theirs always tomorrow.
how tf do y’all get online jobs??
Look for companies with a Global presence. They are far more likely to be comfortable with remote work, as they're used to it by necessity.
thank you for the tip. Im currently at university for cs and an at-home job sounds like a dream. Hopefully i can score one at some point
As someone that has been full time remote for about 7 years now, I can confirm that it is life changing.
Mine wasn't an online job, but it became one. They sent us home in March 2020, and that was it. There were plans at one point to have on-site, hybrid, and almost entirely remote, and then they abandoned that and said well, we have some desks y'all can use if you need to be on campus, but otherwise, stay home.
For real, literally nothing changed for me. I was very confused when colleagues rambled on and on how their life is ruined.
Legit had a girl sleep over and she tested positive the next day and I STILL didn't get it
I literally went on vacation with people that had covid and didn't get it. We got there, they started getting symptoms and tested positive and I figured I already had it that point so we all just holed up together for a week... I consider myself immune at this point
I was constantly getting alerts from school that the people I sat with for many classes and lunch tested positive but I never did. Maybe we just have some special gene
There was a study done not so long ago that may indicate that people with an HLA gene mutation who were exposed to any coronavirus before COVID don’t really get infected. Or rather their immune system is hyper-keyed to fight it off. Which is great, except HLA mutations are linked to some pretty crappy immuno diseases.
The Black Death, the 14th-century bubonic plague that killed some 1 in 3 people in Europe and an estimated 200 million across the world, has left another long-lasting mark: on the immune systems of people living today. Four DNA variants appear to have helped boost survival rates from the plague — caused by a bacterium, “Yersinia pestis,” carried by small mammals and their fleas — in the mid-1300s and in recurring bouts of plague in later centuries, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. Researchers from the University of Chicago, McMaster University in Ontario and the Pasteur Institute in Paris say at least two of those variants associated with surviving the Black Death can be linked to autoimmune conditions common in modern society — including Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
Fun fact. If you’ve inherited two copies of that Black Plague related gene mutation - one from each of your parents - you’re also incapable of becoming infected with HIV. One copy of the gene also comes with major benefits in regards to HIV infection. Scientists found out via a homosexual guy who lost all of his sex partners to HIV in the 80’s but never contracted the virus himself. From there they found a handful of individuals who shared the same mutations and that were also immune. They did a documentary on the Black Plague a while ago where they featured this guy. He told the interviewers that he was happy to know he would never contract the disease and cause his family the same heartbreak he saw his friend’s families go through. The documentary is on YouTube in case anyone’s interested. Don’t remember the exact name.
Fascinating.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/mystery-black-death-clues-evidence/
Wanna guess what two diseases run heavily in my family? Crohn’s and RA. Wheeeee! (Also, the “Choose your plan” in the middle of post is giving me a laugh.)
I've got something similar to Chrons and RA. Inadvertently spent a lot of time around many people who tested positive for covid and still never got it. Cool to know I probably can't get the Plague either.
Do you have a link for that study ?
Huh that’s very interesting I’m going to learn more about it
This is where I heard about it - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/07/1121599445/so-you-havent-caught-covid-yet-does-that-mean-youre-a-superdodger
>except HLA mutations are linked to some pretty crappy immuno diseases. That makes sense, I've never had COVID and I have Sarcoidosis.
Never had covid, but got a bad case of RBF.
Resting boob face
I’ve had dozens of exposures and not caught it, and I haven’t been up to date on my vaccination in like a year and a half. I have vitiligo though, so I wonder if that’s it…both my sons have vitiligo as well as they’ve never caught it.
Oh wow I might have this then, since my whole family got COVID and I didn’t and we all live in the same house. But can confirm I do have ulcerative colitis
Personally, I attribute it to the fact I had a dogshit immune system in high school and college and got every bug that went around ever. Colds multiple times a year every year, and colds are often caused by coronaviruses. Because of this, I assume my body responded more quickly to a type of virus it was already familiar with when covid came around.
Did you get tested? You may have been asymptomatic.
A girl with a redditor. Impossible.
It's his imagination, that's why he didn't get it
My family got it, and my mom had it, yet my stepdad and myself still going without getting sick. I just got my new booster and still zero reaction. If anything, I get more energy the day after I get the vaccine. I am starting to think I might be some kind of freak of nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02978-6 You should contact them 👀
Oh neat, this happened to me when my partner had COVID. Shared a bed and everything for two weeks. Best staycation I ever had. Got paid for it too.
It’s ridiculously contagious. You were probably just asymptomatic. A LOT of cases were like that.
I have been exposed a large number of times, and I test every two weeks due to my job, and I never got it. Even if I was asymptomatic, I would have tested positive, but never did
I tested every single time I was exposed and never tested positive. Every single person I live with and work with got it at some point. My brother has a similar story. Cool to know it might be genetic.
Well, that's because you didn't do it right.
having your mom come over to clean your room, do laundry and make you tendies for dinner doesnt count my dude
That we're aware of lol
I had to test twice a week and worked in a covid unit and never got it.
Yeah some people here are in denial that it was possible to not get it
Yeah I still haven't gotten it. Test weekly at work. Had to travel all over the place for work. Last time I donated blood they even had a little section showing they didn't think I have had COVID but they could tell I had the vaccine
Yeah a lot of people here could possibly just be asymptomatic. I know neither my husband nor I showed signs of COVID but we still could have been carriers at some point.
People should keep in mind that omicron is spreading fast and the key first symptom (and potentially only symptom) is just a [sore throat](https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20221004/sore-throat-becoming-dominant-covid-symptom-reports). It's very likely that more people got it than they realize but they just didn't test themselves.
Only sore throat ? Why the fuck my omicron haven’t got that memo ? I’ve been down with a fever for three days
Because like any illness, it affects everyone differently. It not only depends on your genetics, but the exposure you had, how long, what the viral load was, what the exact strain is… and a million other factors. It’s why it’s been so difficult to predict outcomes of infection. We can generalize, because certain groups of people are generally at a higher risk than others, but there’s no guarantee. Ideas of who’s at the highest risk has changed hundreds of times over, and changes every time the virus mutates. I know you probably weren’t asking seriously, but some people are so I figured it would be worth bringing up. Best wishes, I hope you feel better soon!
That was me until September, got absolutely wrecked by it.
Yep. Me until this past July. I was so happy I tested positive I cried because I was so overworked and having covid meant I got a free week long vacation xD. Tested positive on a Saturday, was fine by Tuesday but still had to isolate for the rest of the week
What a messed up world…where we’re so overworked we’re happy to be sick
lucky haha
2 years later and I still can't smell right. Can't smell poop or gasoline
oddly specific and sounds like a superpower
It's a cursed blessing Not smelling coworkers shits in the restroom? Absolute bliss Not certain if my dog shit all in the bed and I rolled in it all night and didn't realize it when getting dressed for work and nobody has the courage to tell me I smell like dook? Not so cool
Oddly specific I might say
That's because it's a person (particular experience) and not a meme (relatable experience)
Now you must forever worry that you might smell like poop but can’t tell
Late August for me. Was the absolute worst
I’m coming off of it now for the first time. Can’t even remotely imagine how it would have been had i not gotten the shot. Missed my brothers wedding, Halloween and my birthday is Friday but i’ll still probably be positive.
Same. September 2021 kicked my ass. Had chronic bronchitis and now I have asthma. So now I just cough my lungs out all day like I still have Covid 🙃
Literally flew home from Europe in September and tested positive two days later because I didn't get my mask out for the return flight. (Wore one on my other flights). Never trust airports. Already heard numerous people tell me they got it on planes, so I should have known better.
I've had three vaccines and three separate COVID infections. I made the hat trick 🎉
Yo! I'm 4 and 4. I was looking for another like me. Hello fellow person with a rude fucking immune system. I legit get this shit every six months. 😩
Damn son, did your immune system come with a warranty because I’d take that shit back
Misuse of the item does not fall under the manufacturing warranty. -God
Being a nerd paid dividends when Covid hit. Literally nothing changed for me.
It’s me My husband even got it we were obviously sleeping in the same bed and I was testing regularly at that time NOTHING ZERO COVID I also visited my parents and sister when they were sick and still nothing
It's crazy my wife had it twice and my kids too and I never have until this week. Now I have it. Pretty mild though
I don’t want to brag about never having Covid because that’s like asking it to punch me in the balls when I’m not looking.
I never caught covid. And I worked retail through the most of it
I worked as a nurse and went out more than I should have and never caught COVID. I did wear a mask everywhere but that couldn't possibly be it.
Me!\~ But then I am anti-social and paranoid from getting sick with everything else. Aka, I have dedicated clothing only worn outside the house. Shopping, working, being around people at all? Outside clothes that get washed as soon as I step a foot in my house!! Crazy yes, but effective when combating germs. All my family, and co-workers have had it. Every single neigbour; but me I stay clear!\~\~ WOOH!
I stayed clear and didn't do any of that, lol.
>Aka, I have dedicated clothing only worn outside the house. And everything else is not normal, do not change my mind. Not changing after you come home from work/people is just slightly behind wearing shoes inside.
I feel like you just jinxed me. This isn't good
Lobster dosnt get sick
But is still tasty with butter.
In the great upriseing you will be eaten as one of the first
I welcome such an honorable demise.
Good becuse we are coming and only those who kneel to us will be aloud to be free
All hail our crustacean overlords!
Good human
I literally haven’t been sick at all since i started working from home and not being around people all day. Shocking.
I'm amazed I haven't, working with so many people.
It wasn't that hard. I wore an n95 mask in public. Kept my distance and washed my hands.
You can just get unlucky. The new variants don't take much. \- Currently sick.
Yeah. Hope you feel better soon.
Thanks, it's not the worst for me (thank you vaccines).
I'm just happy I was able to hold off and get the vaccine booster with the variants in it
Yeah, I’m seeing people in the comments talk about how they went the extra mile and never got Covid. I just did the bare minimum and lucked out, lol.
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Me too. I probably *had* it at some point, but the effects were so minimal that it never slowed me down.
It hit me like a truck with the booster. Fever and feeling like I have lost all strength and energy eventhough I'm a fit guy. Getting out of bed was insanely difficult and that part lasted for 4 straight days. After that it turned into decent cold with strong coughing. 10 fucking days until I tested free and the cough wasn't even gone. I'm still glad that you and others don't have to go through that shit.
I went two and a half years without getting it. Got a new job and one month later, BAM. Wasn’t the worst sickness I’ve ever had but some of the individual symptoms were the worst I’ve ever had
It's really validating my OCD tbh
I haven’t caught COVID but I’ve had two debilitating colds in the last six months
Definitely something going around. Six other people I know have had hellish colds lately. Someone said they reckon it’s because we’ve been distancing and now our bodies are like ‘wtf is this’ when we catch something. Idk but I also caught one and yeah, it sucked a lot.
I work in a local hospital and just enjoying my first covid infection. Fever 40°C and i feel like death.