Anyone here caught COVID-19 while taking all advised precautions?
Just trying to measure how precautious we have to be exactly? Is taking all good measures reduces the chances to 1% or 0.01%?
Ask HN: How did you catch Covid-19?
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#2from a cute colored congelese girl that didn't have a gag reflex
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#3> how precautious we have to be exactly?
Nobody knows precisely. It's a brand new pathogen. Research is still being done.
> Is taking all good measures reduces the chances to 1% or 0.01%?
What's your comfortable level of risk? How wide is your sense of self? Does it include your neighbors? passers by? their neighbors and their grandparents?
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#4I didn't catch covid-19, or maybe I had it at February when I got a little bit sick. Who knows.
In my family or social field nobody got it too, or just didn't know it.
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#5I am shocked that I don't know anyone who has it. I am fascinated by this question though. I would have figured 4 months ago that everyone I know would have gotten it by now.
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#6Pretty sure we caught it at the end of February just before things starting getting serious in the US. We had gone to an indoor water park for the weekend, and roughly two weeks later we were all sick with flu-like symptoms, but we all took a flu test and they all came back negative.
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#7Guessing most people on here talking about maybe getting it in February are from the Bay Area.
February was the last time I got sick, covid-like symptoms, and going back through my slack out-of-office channel a lot of people at my office did too.
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#8Two people in my office were out sick. One came to sit at my desk to help me out with a DB query after she was done with sick leave.
I got sick a few days later.
Went to the doctor who said they couldn't give COVID-19 tests since they didn't have it, but she gave me a regular flu test.
Results came back and I was flagged as positive for Coronavirus, but it came with a note from my doctor saying there was no way to confirm that it was COVID-19. I assume it was given symptoms and timing.
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#9I don't think any official statistics exist. And any stats could even be misleading. People who take precautions very seriously (ie nurses) may actually have higher rates of infection. The average Joe Blow who never wears a mask or washes hands may end up with a lower % chance of infection. Because those nurses are working in hospitals, surrounded by super spreaders shedding virus all day long.
Covid-19 has proven similar to the common cold in transmission. The common cold is itself a corona virus so it makes sense.
Basically you are going to be exposed to Covid-19 at some point in your life. It's guaranteed. It's here to stay with the human race, just like the common cold corona's.
But there is value in delaying your exposure, even if you have little personal risk. Delaying your own infection also delays the infection of others (more vulnerable than you). They may be holding out for a vaccine. It avoids overloading a hospital. It gives the medical community more time to develop best practices and apply them to more people. If everyone gets covid-19 on day 1 then no one gets to benefit from the hard won knowledge paid for in death and damaged lung tissue.
Viruses tend to become less deadly as they mutate. Delaying your infection has value, even if it's inevitable.
Re: Ask HN: How did you catch Covid-19?
#10I don't think any official statistics exist. And any stats could even be misleading. People who take precautions very seriously (ie nurses) may actually have higher rates of infection. The average Joe Blow who never wears a mask or washes hands may end up with a lower % chance of infection. Because those nurses are working in hospitals, surrounded by super spreaders shedding virus all day long. Covid-19 has proven si…
To the question in the title. I don't know how I caught it. Before the lock down I was touching doors used by thousands of people daily. Touching gas pumps, etc. I have a habit of touching my face.
Luckily I had a mild reaction, but I still feel a slight tickle/burning in the lungs 2 months into it.