redsturgeon wrote:Mrs RS and I seem to be the only people we know who have not had covid.
It must be time for another poll.
Just for clarification I realise that it is nearly impossible for anyone to say for certain they have not had covid but let say to the best of your knowledge.
John
I answered yes. If I'd seen the poll when you first put it up, the answer would've been No. Tested positive on Tuesday, and have had symptoms but nothing serious.
I almost certainly acquired it last Thursday. At the pub after choir rehearsal. A friend who'd sat next to me there texted me on Sunday: she'd tested positive. Two others who'd been at the same end of the table as us tested positive on Monday, and me on Tuesday.
On Sunday, having myself tested negative, I went to another social event and probably spread it. Another friend who gave me a lift there tested positive on Thursday. I feel worse about having very probably given it to her than I do measured in lurgy symptoms.
But this kind-of demonstrates the uselessness of those tests. You test negative, you go and socialise, you spread the lurgy. Test positive a couple of days later, the damage is done: I'm self-isolating now, but wasn't on Sunday. Might be much better to be guided by whether you feel a bit iffy.
Perhaps worst of all, the plumber should've been here **today** doing a job for me. I had to 'fess up to him that he probably should postpone working in my germ-ridden bathroom. **** knows when he'll find me another day.
[edit to add] Oh, and I'm outside the government statistics. I dutifully went to their website to report my test result, but it refused my report!