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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:
PinkiOcelot · 27/01/2021 21:31

Actually, just thinking about it, no I haven’t.

MrsMariaReynolds · 27/01/2021 21:42

It seems like when schools opened fully back in September, EVERYONE had a cold, and heck of a virus at that. Half the school I work at were flat out ill that 1st month back.

Haven't had one since, which is unusual for me.

CottonSock · 27/01/2021 21:45

Yes, worst cold ever October. Blame it on swimming

PrtScn · 27/01/2021 21:59

Yes, but only when DS went back to nursery after first lockdown. Otherwise Inthinknwe would have been fine.

tinkywinkyshandbag · 27/01/2021 22:01

No, touch wood.

PickAChew · 28/01/2021 00:05

I've been a paranoid handwasher for many years, being prone to spending the whole of December with laryngitis and innumerable got rot, year round. Never saved me. Not min'lin' has spared me this year's colds and making all my own lunches and eating them at home has reduced the gut rot from weekly to monthly.

Pjsandbaileys · 28/01/2021 00:23

We were just talking about this, one cold shared around the house in October brought in from school 🙄 we normally would have at least had 2 each by now and no sign of tummy bugs

LizzyMac40 · 28/01/2021 00:40

No.

waydownwego · 28/01/2021 03:33

I've had a couple - usually, I'm ill much more often than that.

I've definitely avoided colds from being in the office and commuting via public transport each day.

However, with one of my colds, the only place I could have caught it was my online shopping, which was a bit worrying. I literally hadn't gone anywhere in months; the only exposure to the outside world was via my groceries delivered.

AllMyPrettyOnes · 28/01/2021 03:43

Yes, in December

SimonJT · 28/01/2021 03:46

Yep, my son brought three colds home from school in the autumn term and kindly shared them with me.

He also tested positive for covid on Tuesday and if the last 24 hours are anything to go by he has also kindly shared that.

Crikeycroc · 28/01/2021 03:50

I haven’t been sick with a cold or anything contagious since March 2020. I have been pregnant (so more susceptible to colds, flu etc) and worked on a hospital ward in that time too.

ListenLinda · 28/01/2021 04:09
  1. Two kids in nursery, so pretty inevitable. Good going though as I usually get about 4-5 a year
marriednotdead · 28/01/2021 06:35

Had an absolutely stinking cold in September, haven’t had one that bad in decades. Had Covid back in March, don’t know if there’s any relation between that or just the fact that I hadn’t been on public transport for so long.

Tumbleweed101 · 28/01/2021 06:39

No, and I work in a nursery!

Through the first lockdown we didn’t have a single child coming in with a cold or runny nose. This time I’ve noticed that the runny noses are starting to get less again and usually they are constant this time of year. Before Christmas a lot of the children had colds. None of my own children have had colds although we did have COVID over Xmas in the house but that was caught at work by my dd as she had just started working in a hospital.

peak2021 · 28/01/2021 07:27

I don't think so but had very few beforehand. No children in the house to bring one home, most work colleagues have adult children or none, and visits to the local pool, sauna and steam helped.

Whatafustercluck · 28/01/2021 07:41

I had a real stinker of a summer cold back in August. That's it. A few feelings like I was coming down with something but it never developed.

joleyn · 28/01/2021 07:46

I've had 2, one particularly bad one in October. Both caught from the kids who were at school, both were also far worse for me than when I had covid in March last year.

yearinyearout · 28/01/2021 07:55

Nope! I was only thinking about this yesterday. I usually get really bad head colds at least couple of times a year.

rc22 · 28/01/2021 08:00

I'm a teacher and generally spend a week or two before we break up for the Christmas holidays with a stinking cold. This year nothing. I think it must be the masks, hand hygiene, sanitising supermarket trolley handles etc that has kept it a bay this year.

Ragwort · 28/01/2021 08:03

No - but I rarely get ill, no idea why, probably genetic as my DPs (88 & 90) are in very good health.... I don't lead a particularly 'healthy lifestyle', rarely exercise and don't eat much fruit or veg and drink alcohol most days - I think I am just lucky, my DS is the same - even when he was at nursery/school he very never came home with a bug.

Laureline · 28/01/2021 09:12

Nothing since Marche 2020.
No colds
No sore throats
No stomach bugs
No lice

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 28/01/2021 09:18

like many, got a cold which DC1 brought into the house shortly after restarting school in September. Nothing since.

Purpletomato · 28/01/2021 09:19

DD has a cold this week. No idea how as none of us have seen anyone since school finished on Dec 18th.

Notnt · 28/01/2021 09:24

We've had one brought home from nursery!