I doubt that any cases have been acquired outdoors while exercising and maintaining sensible distancing.

Fair enough, but one of my boys (one who has coronavirus) is autistic and coughs on everything and everyone he sees, even when he isn't sick, so I'm playing it safe and making him wear a mask if necessary.

Dear but totally demented mum tested positive on Sunday. She's in a small rest home, and must have been about the last resident in there to catch it.

Was tested when she developed a mild cough. Put on antivirals due to age and frailty. 4 days later she has not one scintilla of symptoms. Nothing.

Can only put this down to her second booster being perfectly timed a little over two weeks before infection and the antivirals. 

She's very lucky!
I'm a very weak positive as of this morning, hopefully by the weekend I only have a C line on my test.

Someone in my household came home after a holiday with a very bad cold. They haven't tested positive for Covid after a few tests, but the tests aren't necessarily that accurate. But it is probably the worst cough they have had. Have been wearing a mask when near them, and also keeping my distance, as they refuse to wear a mask themselves. Had the start of a sore throat yesterday, but it seems to have improved today.  Even if it just a bad cold, I don't want it, and if a N95 mask stops me from getting it, then IMO it is worth wearing the mask. 

mattwnz:

 

Have been wearing a mask when near them, and also keeping my distance, as they refuse to wear a mask themselves.

 

😬

What excuse can people use for not trying the minimum to keep others safe?

Probably the usual along the lines of "my freedums" or "masks don't work, someone online said so", at a guess.

freitasm:

 

😬

 

What excuse can people use for not trying the minimum to keep others safe?

 

They're a self centered dickhead.

quickymart:

 

She's very lucky!
I'm a very weak positive as of this morning, hopefully by the weekend I only have a C line on my test.

 

doesnt matter what your test shows, once you test positive you dont need to test again, you could potentially test positive for weeks after.

Other half works in the medical field though, so she needs to test negative before she can go back to work. While she's testing herself, I'm getting her to test me, just for my own peace of mind.

if she works in a medical field then she should really conduct a PCR test not a RAT test to prove she is negative. as mentioned RATs are not highly accurate

Jase2985:

 

if she works in a medical field then she should really conduct a PCR test not a RAT test to prove she is negative. as mentioned RATs are not highly accurate

 

that's not the current policy. RAT is the current policy. i believe the current understanding is PCR is deemed to give higher false positives than RAT after recent infection.

quickymart:

 

Other half works in the medical field though, so she needs to test negative before she can go back to work. While she's testing herself, I'm getting her to test me, just for my own peace of mind.

 

as per above i've heard of medical places where negative RAT no longer required after x number of days if staff feels fine, but organization-dependent.

no doubt things evolve with better knowledge and understanding so things may change.

Senecio:

 

Here's my account for what its worth.

 

My symptoms first appeared on the 18th, tested positive on the 19th. So I'm now day 12. Needless to say, COVID got me good. I was basically bed ridden for the first 4 days. Every ounce of energy was drained from my body and I had what I can only describe as the worst migraine headache I've ever had that lasted for 72hrs. I never got the sore throat or a bad cough, only a niggly cough that still persists today. I never had any difficulty breathing but my PulseOx did drop considerably and my resting heart rate was about 10-12bpm higher than it normally would be. My wife tested positive on my day 6 and has had similar symptoms minus the migraine headache. Today was her 1st day out of isolation but we only left the house to go for short walk to get some fresh air. She's not feeling up rejoining society just yet.

 

I would consider myself pretty healthy. 47yrs old, ~75kg and fairly active (run ~40km/week). COVID doesn't seem to give a sh!t about any of that. It still knocked me back pretty hard.

 

Same deal here. I'm about a month out and still feeling it impacting my running, but not day to day. I am taking it easy though, but my watch is reminding me that still not 100%. If you're running 40km a week, I'm sure you're used to listening to your body, but my advice would be not to expect too much too soon.

Seems to be about face to the earlier COVID era which was highly lethal to oldies. Back then it there was a lack of medical knowledge and drugs to deal with it.

Now we see oldies with light or no symptoms and youngies with nasty symptoms. Could be down to the dose/viral load. If you get a tiny dose perhaps your vaccinated immune system can defeat it before it gets established, but a large dose gets ahead of your defenses?