Is there Covid in your circle?

[xjillianpaige]

My friend Colleen had it in April. Knocked her down for about a week and she had some bad liver stuff going on afterwards all the way through the end of October.

My friend Katie tested positive about a week ago and has had mild symptoms, she can't smell or taste anything. Her husband also tested positive. Her mom, grandmother, aunt, and uncle all tested positive as well. Most are fine but her uncle is still on a ventilator. So scary.

My coworker tested positive in early December.

Really lucky that so far my mom and brother have not tested positive at any point. Both work in hospitals. Brother is frontline x-ray tech in an ER.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I still have no one in my circle that has tested positive.

That's where we were - up to 2 days ago.

Then MIL (in senior assisted living) tested positive. The residents there have very limited outside contact, so I think one of the staff brought it in. 3 residents and 2 staff have just tested positive. That's about the same number of people that have gotten it there, totally, since this started in March.

 

[lovin'fl]

I still have no one in my circle that has tested positive.

Me too...knock wood.

 

[bjscheel]

It’s been in my house. Youngest DD (14) tested positive December 11. We got the results on the 16th. She felt mildly sick for a few days. Her major symptom was a headache. Her temp was up a bit, but not a fever. No respiratory symptoms at all. My other DD’s (20 and 17) and I tested negative. I am shocked. The night before her headache started I drove her to and from her volleyball practice 30-40 minutes away. So over an hour in the car with her unmasked with the heat on. She got it while in a car for about 30 minutes and was masked.

This was pretty much our experience. DH had it earlier this month. Headache, lightheadedness, low grade fever but didn't feel effects of fever like chills. We slept in the same bed 3 nights till we found out he was positive and I still never got it. Maybe since he (and your DD) didn't have respiratory symptoms, that helped keep it from spreading- no coughing sending particles out in the air? Who knows. His doctor had it too and his wife never got it.

Other than DH and his doctor, I've known of our pastor, co-worker's adult kids, SIL's mother, DD19's boyfriend, a couple of the girls' friends. Only our pastor had serious symptoms.

 

[bcla]

Not really, but for the most part I have a small circle.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Yes...family, friends and colleagues.

 

[Kamy04]

3 coworkers and their respective families (husbands, kids age 6months, 20 months and 14yo), SIL, MIL, FIL, and now my other SILs mom (who works with the prison population).

My coworkers etc were around middle of October, my FIL/MIL/SIL about 1.5 weeks ago and my other SIL mom last week.

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

I know somewhere in the range of 10-20 people personally. No one in my direct circle, but I have what I would consider a tiny circle. The outcomes have ranged from no symptoms and easy recovery all the way to death, and everything in between.

 

[martikus]

My FIL passed away early on from it. It ran rampant in his nursing home before anyone had a handle. He didn’t live close to us so I didn’t ever get to know him well.

our local circle not really other than my boss’s wife after being at a maskless gathering. But we are working remote so no risk of getting.

We are super cautious. If we get it, it will be because my son is doing hybrid middle school. But he is crazy cautious using mask and cleaning that I think the risk is lower than with others.

 

[Disneylover99]

My dad and his wife had it in early October. They were both quite ill. Thankfully, my dad has fully recovered, but my stepmom is still struggling with the after effects. She still has a cough, fatigue, and feels weak.

 

[mmbrad02]

I tested positive the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I'm not 100% sure, but I speculate I got it from a coworker I was working on a project with. We were both masked, but I only had a runny nose and I learned he tested positive and thought I should check - sure enough, I was positive. We have now had a total of 5-6 cases in my office, but none seem directly connected unless mine was. The coworker I speculate I got it from was hospitalized for a week and still has lingering fatigue, but is back to work.

Oddly enough, DH and DD both tested negative, twice, while I was in isolation. In fact, DH and I shared a soda the Sunday night before I tested positive, yet remained negative. Such a strange virus! We thought for sure it wouldn't be "if" they got it, but "when"

Also, I am Type 1 Diabetic and overweight, yet I had a very mild case and seems to be an easy recovery. I had a runny nose, mild congestion, eventually lost taste and smell, and the worst was the fatigue. But I've had sinus infections and strep throat that has knocked me off my feet harder. I was extremely shocked given my health history. I am so so thankful.

I have extended family (one aunt, cousin and his wife and 3 year old) who has tested positive but seemed to be fairly mild to slightly moderate cases. No hospitalizations.

And like someone else mentioned, in my broader circle, I've seen many facebook friends or connections who have had it.

 

[DLgal]

Neither do we. I only know of two people even remotely connected that have had it.

I mean, if I have to stretch it, the asymptomatic guy at my husband's work that tested positive and caused him to have to quarantine. However, I've never met him, he is most definitely NOT in my circle, and my husband barely even sees him at work. I don't even know his name.

 

[DLgal]

No, I don’t know of anyone who’s tested positive.

I had a very very bad cold that was in my lungs for a few weeks in January/February. It was so bad that I could only climb two or three stairs before I’d have to stop and catch my breath for a minute. I was sick for about 6 weeks. Part of me wonders if it may have been Covid even though we didn’t have any reported cases in the city until March or April.

Same. My son was ill the second week of January with a high fever and intense deep cough and knock out fatigue. He seriously slept for most of 3 days and he never does that, even when sick. He was fine after 7 days. Exactly 10 days after he got sick, I had "the worst cold of my life" with severe facial pain and sinus congestion, a cough that wouldn't stop, loss of taste and smell for 4 days, and a headache. For 2 weeks, I would get winded walking up the stairs (for reference, I routinely RUN up and down the stairs for 30 minutes straight as a workout). I literally one day climbed upstairs to do laundry and sat down and rested at the top of the stairs.

We live in Orange county, CA, where there is a massive Chinese population. Our states first confirmes case of the virus was treated in the hospital 3 miles down the road, at the end of January.

I'm pretty sure both my son and I had covid back then. Especially now that they have traced virus presence all the way back to Sept 2019.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Some of our "friends circle" have had it... My first cousin's husband has it right now. His step-father died from it in November. My dad's neighbor has it right now. Feels as if it is closing in.

 

[ronandannette]

No, I don’t know of anyone who’s tested positive.

I had a very very bad cold that was in my lungs for a few weeks in January/February. It was so bad that I could only climb two or three stairs before I’d have to stop and catch my breath for a minute. I was sick for about 6 weeks. Part of me wonders if it may have been Covid even though we didn’t have any reported cases in the city until March or April.

DS was working retail last December and got sicker than he has ever been in his life over the holidays. We thought the same thing as you but every medical professional we've asked insists it would have been impossible. Interestingly, whether it was the world's worst cold, the flu or "whatever", none of us (including my 75 y.o. brother) caught it the entire time we were in close quarters over Christmas.

 

[ronandannette]

I mean, if I have to stretch it, the asymptomatic guy at my husband's work that tested positive and caused him to have to quarantine. However, I've never met him, he is most definitely NOT in my circle, and my husband barely even sees him at work. I don't even know his name.

Mine is the live-in SO of one of my employees, whom I've never met. She was apparently asymptomatic and nobody else in the household tested positive. The other is the son of friends of ours; he contracted it and recovered very early on (April) while in Spain on a work-study trip.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Nobody in my bubble has and to the best of my knowledge, nobody in our circle has. My friend’s son tested positive, but they’re in FL and a friend in DD’s circle tested positive, but they didn’t hang out much even before this.

 

[superme80]

I have a few friends and family have it, but none live near me. Before there was testing, I am pretty sure a bunch of my friends had it. They were all pretty sick for about 4-8 weeks. Some of them even lost their sense of taste and smell. Unfortunately this was before testing, so we will never know.

 

[Kestryl]

My “bubble” is me and my husband- plus all his contacts at school as a teacher. So through him I know literally dozens of teachers and students who have had it (and have gotten us on quarantine before). And yes, some of them absolutely picked it up from school. (Half a gym class doesn’t end up positive by accident.)

Our neighbors also had it over the summer.

Through work: one of my co-workers in my group, plus my supervisor’s supervisor (who has actually had it twice now- once in April, once in November). And those are just the ones I used to see regularly before all this. My employer has had hundreds of cases. And one death.

The above isn’t really surprising- something like 8% of my state has tested positive.

My family (out of this state) is mostly lucky- closest is my husband’s cousin. The rest have been second cousins or whatever.

The “worst” for me personally were really close family friends. They all ended up with it to varying degrees, but one was in the hospital for three weeks. That was terrifying. He’s home now, thankfully.

 

[mrodgers]

My circle is very very small. Out of the handful in my circle, no one. Work may be included in your circle, I don't include it in mine. I interact with very few and generally am in my office or out working without a person in sight. I think we've had 2 that were off from Covid and 2 others that were forced home because of spouses possibly being exposed at their workplace.