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Ika Makimaki

Hello fediverse.

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Going into year 5 of the age of SARS-CoV-2, to your knowledge you have been infected:

Please boost for larger sample size.
#CovidIsNotOver @novid #COVID19

Anonymous poll

Poll

Zero times.
378
0%
Once.
386
0%
Twice.
175
0%
Three or more times.
56
0%
0 people voted.
Voting ended 5 March at 21:25.
2 March at 21:25 | Open on mastodon.nz
24 comments
Camilo

@pezmico @novid zero times and I honestly have no idea how, we’ve been relatively cautious, but mostly sticking to outdoors, not masking, staying vaccinated asap. I’m not a good example.

2 March at 21:27 | Open on hachyderm.io
MWT

@pezmico @novid
Once that I know of because there was a positive test. Other times where it felt like it, the tests were negative. But I'm not convinced that I can do a RAT as effectively as the work-mandated daily PCR tests that caught the only confirmed case I had.

2 March at 21:37 | Open on mastodon.nz
Ed Chivers

@pezmico answered "once" but honestly I don't know.

We were sick with *something* in March 2020 but there wasn't testing available outside of hospitals then. I've never tested positive for it despite regularly testing since summer 2020 so I might not have ever had it.

I've been vaccinated as much as I've been able to, and I'm still masking. If I've actually never had it I think I've been very lucky.

2 March at 22:06 | Open on dice.camp
rothko

@edchivers @pezmico same -- i *think* i had it in late january/early feb 2020, but there's no way to be sure. and the only reason i suspect it was covid is because after one of my shots -- might have been the 2nd or 3rd -- i felt the same weird feeling in my head and a bit achey that i did when i was sick that time. to a lesser degree, but it was totally the same.

and i very, VERY rarely get sick, so to have been that miserable was somewhat remarkable.

about a year ago, my husband got a bad case of it. we isolated; i used the guest bedroom and bath, and stayed in different parts of the house, masking if we were both on one floor or the other. i never got sick, and the tests i took never showed positive either. super weird.

so i guess my vote would be once, but only maybe.

@edchivers @pezmico same -- i *think* i had it in late january/early feb 2020, but there's no way to be sure. and the only reason i suspect it was covid is because after one of my shots -- might have been the 2nd or 3rd -- i felt the same weird feeling in my head and a bit achey that i did when i was sick that time. to a lesser degree, but it was totally the same.

2 March at 23:53 | Open on beige.party
Dewey

@edchivers I wondered the same thing. Then I got COVID. It was not what I had in March 2020. Not even close. I've never had anything like COVID

3 March at 1:26 | Open on techhub.social
Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon

@pezmico @novid I mask, take care and watch out.

2 March at 22:14 | Open on mastodon.scot
Ruby Jones

@pezmico @novid At least once. I'm willing to a lot of those 'zero times' people had it asymptomatically at some point.

2 March at 22:14 | Open on smutlandia.com
Gemma 👽

@RubyJones
This what I suspect of myself. I've never had a lab result telling me this is it now, but honestly, I don't know if all the mild flu cases I've had since were just flu, or just really tame cases further softened by the vaccination... I'd be damn surprised if my number by now was still zero, but officcially it is.

3 March at 0:06 | Open on piipitin.fi
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@pezmico @novid Once. Right now. Because after four years we thought it was time to go to the dentist again.

2 March at 22:31 | Open on c.im
sidereal
Flyover blue

@TimWardCam @pezmico @novid Oh that sucks. I’m sorry. I have it now because my 7 year old goes to school. In Arkansas.

3 March at 0:03 | Open on mastodon.online
Irina
Darwin Woodka

@pezmico @novid last Novid in my family... hubs has had it once and youngest twice (has it now...) eldest got it from their roommate for Christmas, so went four years without getting it. Wear KN95s everywhere, vaxxed and boosted several times.

2 March at 22:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Poloniousmonk

@pezmico @novid

I tested slightly positive once, but i suspect it was a way to get me into quarantine housing rather than dump me on the streets.

2 March at 23:20 | Open on autistics.life
lolonurse

@pezmico @novid
I've been vaxxed & boosted and very careful. Almost everyone I know has had it at least once (even though vaxxed...).
I have not gotten it, nor have any of my 'besties' - one local, one in FL, the other in CA. What we have in common is we have never let our guard down. Our kids have all been through it, and their kids.

2 March at 23:33 | Open on ohai.social
kamikat

@pezmico @novid I worked in a grocery market for a big chunk of that time, so it was inevitable, even masking every day, for 8 hours each shift.

2 March at 23:35 | Open on social.horrorhub.club
Alison Meeks

@pezmico @novid #novid here and still only seeing tight circle of friends.

2 March at 23:37 | Open on mastodon.online
Annie

@pezmico@mastodon.nz @novid@chirp.social Once for sure.

I was sick as hell with broadly similar symptoms right before it officially became a big deal, no way of knowing for sure but it was in the US at that point though I don't think there were confirmed cases in my state at the time.

2 March at 23:51 | Open on easymode.im
okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin

@pezmico @novid
I should have said zero. I BELIEVE I was infected in February, 2020, before testing and before lock down.
I can say I have not been infected ever after to my knowledge.

2 March at 23:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Gemma 👽

@pezmico @novid
No way of knowing. I've never tested positive, so officially zero. But I've sometimes had illnesses that have been like "was THAT it?" I've just selfisolated as a precausion till I feel better.

But I've had the vaccine and boosters so in theory I could've had it just really mildly, never knowing for real. But I also remote work a lot and stay home pretty much so maybe not? So the answer is "I don't know?" :blobcat_wonder:

3 March at 0:01 | Open on piipitin.fi
wendinaokland

@pezmico @novid We both had something unidentifiable really early on. Odd achy bones, maybe a little flu-ish, but it was before anyone knew what was happening. Masked up asap, then vaccinated regularly, so it’s impossible to know. Still can’t say for certain…

3 March at 0:01 | Open on mastodon.social
Flyover blue
Mark Wedel

@pezmico I was a zero, but this last Xmas, travel from Michigan to Pennsylvania, perhaps a crowded restaurant, or a travel plaza in Ohio, gave me the virus. Vaxed to the max, though. Was like a bad cold, but it took two weeks to test clear.

3 March at 0:42 | Open on mastodon.online
Beans_please

@pezmico @novid only coughed blood the second time so doing pretty good imo

3 March at 1:27 | Open on mastodon.social
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