How did you catch Covid?

[mineandyours]

If you've had it, how/where did you catch it?

Recently one friend caught it from attending a dinner party - yes, flouting the rules! There were 7 people at the dinner party and apparently they all caught it. He was notified by T&T.

Another friend and her husband caught it but have been so cautious, sticking to the rules, wearing masks etc. They've no idea how they caught it! They developed symptoms and got tested (no T&T).

@Oliversmumsarmy

We think we had it last year

Dd manages events. She was event manager for a wedding of a Chinese couple who live in London. A lot of the guests were Chinese Nationals who were here for the Wedding Weekend.

She then went down with a terrible cold/flu.
Terrible temperature and cough.

It went through our family.
At the time we hadn’t even heard of Covid.
It was only when we read a list of symptoms that we connected what we had was more than likely Covid. We ticked all the boxes
I think Ds and I both had Long Covid. Again before long Covid was even heard of.

I remember having a huge amount of work to do and knowing I had to do it but just couldn’t actually do anything as I was so exhausted for several months after the cold/flu symptoms had gone.

I normally do a 3-5 mile walk each day. But it was taking all my strength to get to the bathroom.

Another reason we think we had Covid in December was that dd did another wedding in February. Again a couple who were Italian and Spanish so 60 guests from predominantly from Italy and Spain and 12 staff members.

A few weeks after the event dd was getting calls from the agency who had employed her asking if she was well.
Dd was well and couldn’t understand the concern.
When she was asked again a few days later if she was still well she asked why they were asking.
Apparently out of the 72 people, guests and agency staff, dd was the only one who hadn’t gone down with Covid.

That's really interesting! Covid was definitely around late last year/early this year.

I remember when Covid became a thing in late Feb/early March here that i was telling everyone I had had it and no one believed me!

I'm a teacher. Almost definitely caught it from a colleague.

Work (carehome) from my work partner I think.
She tested a week before me +
Her son tested a few days before her +

From my DH job.

Has to have been be at work. I go in one day each week and don’t go anywhere else at all indoors. Haven’t been in a shop, restaurant or anywhere else for a couple of months.

Everyone l know caught it from school contact.

From a patient in the early days when you had to have travelled to be a "contender" for it.

They only tested when the patient ended up in ITU and the nursing staff got unwell.. until that point, my only real symptom was loss of taste and smell (again, before it was a thing), fatigue, and shortness of breath on exertion - i blamed a lack of gym and making the silly decision to move to a three storey house, and lots of nights

Somehow my boyfriend didn't catch it off me, despite sharing a bed for a week before being notified..

My partner is a performer and was on tour in March - I was with him as his tour manager. So, every night I was in a different theatre in a different city, hanging around front of house with hundreds of audience members. It would have been either the Brighton or London dates that I caught it.