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Have you had a cold since March 2020?

180 replies

Trulyatraditionalman · 27/01/2021 14:21

Just that, really!

As a visiting teacher working in a petri dish schools, this is probably my longest period of not having a cold, thanks to covid and all the increased hygiene measures. It feels slightly odd not to have had days on the sofa surrounded by a sea of tissues.

What does this mean for the common cold? I'm hoping it won't be back with a vengeance!

YABU - I've had a cold since March 2020
YANBU - I've been cold-free since then!

OP posts:
Frozenintime · 27/01/2021 15:18

I get tonsillitis a couple of times a year and it seems that my mask has saved me ! it's so good not to feel sick/tired etc

itsgettingweird · 27/01/2021 15:22

I've had 3.

I work in the best Petri dish ever - special needs education Grin

thismeansnothing · 27/01/2021 15:25

Yup. Absolute stinker of a cold end of October/November. Absolutely wiped. And had swollen lymph nodes which id never had before, breathless, snotty, temperature. Got a covid test and it wasn't that. But that's the only cold I've had.

lurker101 · 27/01/2021 15:25

Think there will definitely be a lot less cold/flu going forward. My work has said going forward it will no longer be acceptable to come to the office with a cold/flu and “spread it around” like we always did in the past and should wfh instead now that we have wfh for almost a year. Appreciate not all workplaces can do this, but if many of those that can do, then we will remove so many cold/flu infected people out of circulation that it should reduce transmission in offices/public transport etc,

Socksey · 27/01/2021 15:26

No... but I'm expecting to get a really bad one when we all start mixing again...

thelittlestrhino · 27/01/2021 15:30

I've had at least 3 I think. First one in March, there was a cold bug doing the rounds at school on the lead up to them closing (lots of children tested, not Covid). Then a pretty hideous one in August (funnily enough a week or so after the children returned to school... really knocked a few of us for a good week or so) and have had a mild cold for the last week or so (conveniently timed after the schools 'opened'?).

Plus a delightful sick bug in about November.

That's worse than normal for me, usually 1-2 very mild colds a year, and always at the start of term.

LadyJaye · 27/01/2021 15:30

Nope. Not even the tiniest snuffle.

I don't ever get really ILL ill, but I do get hideously over-reactive colds (streaming eyes, lots of sneezing, snottery nose) for a couple of days at a time if/when I pick something up.

Absolutely zero between Mar 20-now (bar the expected low-grade tree pollen allergy in the spring and chronic post-nasal drip). No kids though, so no germ vectors in my house. Wink

It's brilliant.

Janegrey333 · 27/01/2021 15:33

Not one sniff. It’s a miracle - and how ironic is that? Usually I am plagued.

Janegrey333 · 27/01/2021 15:34

What this has taught me us that I shall carry on hand washing and using sanitizer. It’s second nature now, anyway.

BorisandHarriet · 27/01/2021 15:36

I’ve had a few. But I work in a nursery and also have kids.

LadyJaye · 27/01/2021 15:36

@Janegrey333

What this has taught me us that I shall carry on hand washing and using sanitizer. It’s second nature now, anyway.
For sure.

I'll be honest and say that my pre-Covid hand-washing hygiene was probably a bit lax, but I've learned.

Blondeshavemorefun · 27/01/2021 15:37

No

ComDummings · 27/01/2021 15:37

When the kids went back to school they god a bad cold (it definitely was not COVID) and that is with all the extra hand washing they do at school now. I got it as well it was horrible. It’s like all the little colds they didn’t get while they were off school just combined into one epic cold

Lovely1a2b3c · 27/01/2021 15:38

@Trulyatraditionalman

I'm now worried that the cold I will inevitably catch will be an absolutely BEAST. Surely all these measures are ultimately not very good for building the immune system? I hope I'm wrong!
It won't work like that. The next cold will just be like any other.

Catching colds doesn't boost your immune system. Exposure to some bacteria (e.g. from mud, pets) as a child leads to fewer allergies but people have somehow distorted that fact to mean that all exposure to illness is good for you- it's not.

CaptainMyCaptain · 27/01/2021 15:39

No, but I haven't really had a cold since I retired from teaching.

georgarina · 27/01/2021 15:41

Yeah it's funny, staying home and staying on top of disinfecting everything has meant I haven't had a single cold this winter!

DS goes to nursery and has been a bit sniffly at night but he's had the flu shot and other than that nothing.

Ansjovis · 27/01/2021 15:42

I haven't had a cold since March. Interestingly I have also not had a single cold sore when I normally get one every other month or so. I thought it was stress that kicked those off but I've been more stressed this past year than I've ever been so it must be something else that does it, something I'm not currently being exposed to.

peanutbuthead · 27/01/2021 15:42

Not really. Not like normal. I have a toddler in nursery and normally get multiple colds. But I've barely left the house recently. I wondered that today too, what will happen to the common cold?

Givemeabreak88 · 27/01/2021 15:44

No nothing at all, not had Covid either, no cold or flu.

lubeybooby · 27/01/2021 15:45

2020 was the only year I haven't had any kind of cold or virus. Really hope that keeps up. All adult household of 3 and we all work from home

namechangetheworld · 27/01/2021 15:51

Nobody in our family has had a cold in almost a year, it's been bloody great. The one upside of schools being closed. We've saved a fortune in Calpol Vapour Plug Ins and Olbas Oil!

FrangipaniBlue · 27/01/2021 15:52

1999-2011 - permanent office base, caught a cold if a sneeze even looked at me

2011-2016 - travelling job, various client premises plus WFH - slight sniffles maybe once each winter?

2016-2019- office based, 4/5 colds a year

2020 - 1 cold in September, a week after working from one of our offices with 6 of my team

People are filthy and offices/working premises are breeding grounds for germs!!

BorisandHarriet · 27/01/2021 15:53

@ComDummings

When the kids went back to school they god a bad cold (it definitely was not COVID) and that is with all the extra hand washing they do at school now. I got it as well it was horrible. It’s like all the little colds they didn’t get while they were off school just combined into one epic cold
Yes! This is what also happened to us.
Rollercoaster1920 · 27/01/2021 15:57

I just sneezed. I have one now which is 'interesting' because I've not been anywhere!

GettingAwayWithIt · 27/01/2021 15:57

I’ve had none, used to get quite a few as I work in what was a busy overcrowded office and I was on a desk in the middle so anyone’s germs inevitably ended up on me.

There’s now less of us in there so we’re much more spaced out, we have sanitiser to use any time we touch the shared printer, disinfect desks at the end of each day, wear masks outside of the office. Can’t be a coincidence!