Originally Posted by
Big E 757
Those of you that have gotten COVID recently, do you think you were exposed at home or at work? I was really careful early on, wiping the cockpit down, sanitizing my hands 30 times a day, but like many, I don’t know if it’s laziness or desensitizing, but I haven’t been as careful recently. I still haven’t gotten it.
I’ve been tested 3 times and tested once for antibodies. Negatives across the board.
I've had 2 negative tests and 1 negative antibody test. I haven't had the cold or flu either this year, which is odd for me.
I don't think the COVID threat is touching things so much. Although I think that sanitizing, washing hands, and not touching my face has helped with me not getting the regular cold and flu rhinovirus either. No, the biggest COVID threat is breathing it in I think. Mostly I try to stay away from being close to someone without a mask in a closed, non ventilated environment. Like a car, or small room.
So maybe the biggest threat is to be in the cockpit with someone who has asymptomatic COVID, or in a van or taxi with someone who won't wear a mask properly. Like my last hotel taxi drive who wore his mask around his mouth and chin leaving his big ole nose sticking out. A mask "pretender".
In spite of all the hysteria, to date there are about 13.4M reported cases of COVID in the USA out of a population of 330M. So that's about 4%. So 96% have NOT caught the COVID virus which doesn't make me feel so special after all really. Yes, those are approximate numbers, there are no doubt many more cases not reported, but there are also many more people in this country than the census has counted.