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Has anyone NOT had Covid?

272 replies

HoneyFlowers · 30/12/2021 23:59

I feel myself and family are the only people on earth that hasn't had Covid, everyone I know has had it!

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CherryCoco · 31/12/2021 00:13

Nope not me (yet)

HerRoyalNotness · 31/12/2021 00:15

We haven’t that we know of. We have cold symptoms just now but can’t get tested!

KohlaParasaurus · 31/12/2021 00:15

DH and I haven't, and we're in public facing health care jobs. Only one of our adult DC has had it. But we know lots of people who have been affected and several who have died.

Potatodrivers · 31/12/2021 00:16

@swedishedith -no, I live in a smallish town. I am amazed myself considering our area has been a hotspot at least twice.
My dad has been on coach trips up and down the country over the last 6 months and hasn't caught it.
I have kids in comp and college, one of which uses public transport regularly.

I'd assume we had super genes, but this also extends to neighbours and friends so it's not just my family.

Icanflyhigh · 31/12/2021 00:19

Nope, not even a sniff.

ExH had it and tested positive while DC were with him, but they didn't get it.

It's very odd. DBro had it in the summer, but not that you'd know - it was very mild. Other than that, no one in the family that I'm aware of.

SwedishEdith · 31/12/2021 00:20

[quote Potatodrivers]@swedishedith -no, I live in a smallish town. I am amazed myself considering our area has been a hotspot at least twice.
My dad has been on coach trips up and down the country over the last 6 months and hasn't caught it.
I have kids in comp and college, one of which uses public transport regularly.

I'd assume we had super genes, but this also extends to neighbours and friends so it's not just my family.[/quote]
But have none of your kids' friends had it? Or your colleagues and/or their family?

LazyDoll · 31/12/2021 00:21

Nope. Family of 5 and only one of us has had it 6 months ago.

CeibaTree · 31/12/2021 00:24

Immediate family including me have not had it (that we know of at least), but wider family more have had it than not, but all perfectly fine now.

Potatodrivers · 31/12/2021 00:25

The only positive case I know of out of everyone was my youngest sons friend. But my ds told me that he faked the test to get time off school.
I found that out because ds was trying it and was gutted when his came up negative. The difference was his friend was using the throat and nose swabs and ds was using the nose only swabs. He chugged loads of orange juice for nothing 😂

Ouch44 · 31/12/2021 00:25

DH is frontline healthcare. He had it asymptomatically early on. Rest of us haven't knowingly had it including 2 DC in secondary school. I had an antibody test. We are one of the few local families we know who haven't had it. I reckon we have some sort of natural immunity now jabbed though. Also know people that have had it twice! One who had it in July and October!

Whiskersonkittens21 · 31/12/2021 00:28

Nobody in my household or extended family including family living abroad have had it, of course I've probably just jinxed us all but so far we've been extremely lucky. I dread the day one of us tests positive but I feel like it's almost inevitable.

Yuledo · 31/12/2021 00:29

My ds didn’t get it when the rest of us did, and he’s gone the last year clubbing etc and not got it so we sort of assumed he had some natural immunity. But no, he got it and buggered up this Xmas! Great timing!

Pinetreesfall · 31/12/2021 00:30

No, none of us have had it. Although my son is due surgery next week so likely it will strike then!
I know three people who have had it.
Consultant advised me not to have to the vaccine either so luckily all ok!

RuleOfCat · 31/12/2021 00:32

We know very few people who have had it. One is an A and E doctor who caught it in March 2020 and was pretty ill, but not hospitalised. Then this autumn there were the two young refugees I mentor who believed a whole pile of guff about the vaccine making them infertile. They were also pretty ill at home for several weeks and one of them now has a heart condition, hopefully temporary.
Apart from that just about everyone I know has been vaccinated, and nobody has tested positive. But people around here have also been behaving fairly sensibly and wearing FFP2 masks in public indoor spaces (this is not the UK) so that reduces transmission too.

SofiaMichElf · 31/12/2021 00:33

None of us have had it, either.

Until last week, when cases rocketed close to us, the only person I know who'd had it was my friend's DD who got it around June 2020.

But as of yesterday 3 full families out of our close friends now have it - they think they may have picked it up at another friend's get together on Christmas Day. All 3 families were at our house for several hours on Monday, but we've tested negative today so fingers crossed we've avoided it.

This current variant must be far more transmissible given how many people I now know who have it or had it over past few weeks, compared the past 20 months.

Hardtofindafreename · 31/12/2021 00:35

Unless the extremely bad cold I had in Dec 2019 was covid, none of my family have had it. We've all worked through last 2 years in variety of educational and medical jobs, working with young people, etc, tested regularly and none of us had it. Same for my elderly parents and all my siblings and their families. Wonder how much genetics is part of this?

Staffy1 · 31/12/2021 00:36

I know more people that haven’t had it than have.

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 31/12/2021 00:39

I have not had it. My dh and two sons who still live with us (adults) all had it at the same time (early Nov). I never caught it from them. I work in a school and have never caught it there either. I do wonder if its only a matter of time though before I get it. My whole family is double vaxxed. I had received my booster 2 weeks before my dh and sons tested positive. I have to think the booster is what kept me from catching it from them.

carrottopper · 31/12/2021 00:44

W haven't that we know of

asnippersdream · 31/12/2021 00:48

Not yet. DH deals with customers all day and hasn't brought it home yet. My kids (two secondary, one primary) haven't had it either as far as we know.

GiantHaystacks2021 · 31/12/2021 00:49

I haven't had it.

Loki01 · 31/12/2021 00:49

Not had it, nor did my husband who works for NHS.
Our older son had it, he is still a child so he didn't self-isolate from us. Never caught it (did a few PCR tests).
Just over a week ago I sat at the table for around 4 hours with a friend who tested positive the next day for Omicron. Did LF every day for 4 days and then PCR just to make sure. Nothing.
I am fully vaxed and boosted.

USaYwHatNow · 31/12/2021 00:49

Our families haven't. I'm especially surprised that I haven't as I'm front line NHS. If I did, it must have been completely asymptomatic, or caught prior to me going back to clinical work!

ElizabethT8 · 31/12/2021 00:50

I haven't, and since March 2020 I have only know one person (personally) who has, and he ended up in hospital for a month.

takenforgrantednana · 31/12/2021 00:50

i am high risk, i actively avoid situations as best i can. i do go shopping but if that shop becomes too busy i simply leave, which has been rare as generally i tend to only shop at very quiet times of the day. but even say the corner shop i watch to see how many people have gone in and wait for them to leave before i enter and basically i man shop so in and out as quick as i can. no going to a pub or restaurant. no indoor activities. the only risky thing i do is collect the kids from school, but even then i stay well away from the other parents/kids.

we avoid going to his mums when we know that the rest of his family are there again its purely a numbers thing, increase the numbers you increase the risk

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