How has COVID-19 affected you personally?

A sport I do here has been cancelled for the rest of the year for some reason (I´m the guy in the red shirt)

 

I can’t think why it would be cancelled... oh yes, hold on a sec, the top people could hurt others if they fall. Good idea.

 

And then one person coughs the phlegmy one.

Hard to imagine what happens next...

 

Is that like "Where's Wally" for the stripe impared?

 

I've started working from around 8.30am in the mornings. This would never have happened voluntarily in the pre-Covid days.

Well, I did have one job where the starts were either 8 or 8.30am but I quit that pretty soon!

 

My younger brother caught the omicron - which I suspect it is.
He recovered in 3 days - worst of it was over. But still in isolation.

I am wondering when I will catch it as I am a gym junkie.

 

My partner has it. Other than profuse sweating for 1.5 days, there's been almost no symptoms. What a weird virus.

(granted, she got her booster shot literally on the same day she got the virus so I'm sure that helped)

 

My immediate family are on the tail end of Omicron (I am assuming, given the mildness).

We were away in Victoria at a campground with friends. Their daughter had fever/headaches, but tested negative on a RAT. A day or so late their other daughter had headaches and tested positive. That family, and their extended family, went home that day. We decided to cut our holiday short and headed home the next day. We had not been indoors much at all, or in very close proximity with the girls that tested positive. I'd had some headaches, but was that due to camping/hangover? Who knows?

Got back home on the Thursday, still had headaches. I tested negative on a RAT on the Saturday. We had family over that night, but stayed outside. I thought I must has just had a cold, and was even feeling a bit better and rode in to work on the Monday...

My wife started getting a sore throat, and tested positive on a RAT on the Tuesday morning. I took the kids for a PCR test that morning - mine came back positive, all 3 kids were negative. We notified our family, my sister changed to working from home. I told work - there was only 3 people I interacted with fortunately, and one of those had already gone home as his son had also tested positive. My boss had to go around and disinfect wherever I had been

We tried to implement social distancing as much as possible, and we wore masks once we got the positive results, but we only had 1 shower in operation, and my wife and I were still doing the cooking, so full separation was not really possible. The kids started getting symptoms pretty quickly, and PCR tests came back positive on the Thursday. Managing the household was way easier once we were all confirmed positive - at the very least we could cuddle our kids again!

As mentioned, everyone was pretty mild, but being sick is still not fun, especially when you are also trying to support your kids. My daughter probably had it the worst - she ran some significant fevers for a few days, including up vomiting through the night. That is pretty typical for her when she gets sick, but it was still not fun. We used HEAPS of analgesics - 5 people on high rotation of paracetamol and ibuprofen will do that. We were definitely at risk of running out, but awesome support from family and friends got us through. Speaking of, the check-ins and care packages from family and friends made a pretty miserable time tolerable. I feel very privileged to have some great friends that go the extra mile to help out, including walking our dog for us - she especially appreciated it!

I am surprised how long I have actually been "sick" for though. Assuming my headaches were actually the start of my covid, it is a good 2 weeks. Sure, its been mild, but that does not mean zero impact. I should add, I got my booster about a month ago, so my protection should have been pretty much at peak.

Work didn't stop - both my wife and I can work from home. My efficiency and productivity definitely took a hit, and I would say is not yet back to full strength.

Iso for my wife and I is ended now, and while we are not coughing or producing mucous at a prodigious rate, we will only go out for essentials for now, and minimise interactions for a few days yet.

 

My wife had very similar symptoms recently plus a sore throat and a bit of vomiting for a day or so. RAT test was negative and she feels ok now. Before that my son also had a day of vomiting and a little fever for a day then back to normal. I did not have any symptoms so far. With RAT not being 100% reliable it made me thinking that we all could have had it by now. Not very keen to stand in the queue for hrs for a PCR test.

And we also got to know late last week that entire friends family who we interacted with not that long ago got it.

 

@jaybean How did it get confirmed for your partner? PCR or RAT?

 

PCR. Her symptoms were so mild we both were wondering if the results were botched.

I got a PCR the same day and negative. RAT the day after and negative. Don’t know if I trust it, as I’ve now got a runny nose. Very minor symptoms but I’m wondering who gets a runny nose in Summer. So now (day 5), I’ve gone to get a PCR and should have the results back today.

 

Just a follow up to this @Observer - my PCR just came back and I'm positive.

I was "positive" I didn't have it, because all I've really got are the symptoms of the mildest cold you've ever experienced, then divide that by a quarter. I'm talking about...a stuffy nose, a mild cough that gets invoked once every few minutes at most.

Ha. Got my booster just over one week before my partner got it. This is freaking sweet, GO SCIENCE!!!!!!!