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Your family will get it.

The loss of taste and smell is miserable... but a mediocre weight loss plan.

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Originally Posted by emersonbiguns (Post 3179433)

Your family will get it.

Not necessarily. I was right there in VERY close proximity with my wife when she had The Coof back in February before we knew what it was. She tested positive for antibodies in April after she fully recovered (despite having COPD). I didn’t get so much as a sniffle and tested negative for antibodies.

There is a bigger portion of the population that is naturally immune than many are willing to acknowledge. But Zap’s story proves, yet again, that a virus is gonna virus, much of this is a crap shoot, and “mitigation” is largely ineffective window dressing.

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Originally Posted by GeeWizDriver (Post 3179436)

There is a bigger portion of the population that is naturally immune than many are willing to acknowledge.

That's likely, since there are other coronaviruses running around, including some random ones which aren't well documented. Previous exposure to a similar bug can confer some immunity, depending on several factors. But hard to predict of course.

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Originally Posted by emersonbiguns (Post 3179433)

Your family will get it.

The loss of taste and smell is miserable... but a mediocre weight loss plan.

My wife didn't get it. Loss of taste and smell really really sucks. I lost a few pounds but already gained it back. I was using those Christmas danish butter cookies to periodically see if I could taste again and thought... How fat do you have to be to lose taste and smell and STILL be eating cookies?!?

Answer: this fat 🙋

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Originally Posted by emersonbiguns (Post 3179433)

Your family will get it.

The loss of taste and smell is miserable... but a mediocre weight loss plan.

Not necessarily.

My spouse and oldest child tested positive twice each (rapid and PCR). Spouse had 12-hour fever, fatigue, lost taste/smell for a week, lingering lethargy. Child had a 100.3 fever for 12 hours, then fine, that’s it.

My other two children and I have had three PCR tests each since the first symptoms appeared in our house three weeks ago, all negative and no symptoms.

I even woke up the morning after our child’s symptoms appeared with them in our bed breathing on my face. We did not make much of a social distancing effort in our house, figuring we’d all get it regardless.

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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan (Post 3179311)

I suspect it was at work. My family is/has been very careful with regard to masks, distancing, etc. We stayed home during the holidays, haven't been out of the house with friends or any type of gatherings. If we did go out, it was typically to get groceries and then come right back home.

My son does attend physical school but there too they wear masks, have plexiglass dividers, and have to clean shared materials. Plus school had been out since mid December.

The only place I dropped my guard was at work, and only once the cockpit door was closed and the constant parade of flight attendants, gate agents, mechanics, etc stop coming up front. I would take the mask off during flight.

On overnights I was bringing my own food and not congregating with the crew.

I am based in a southern city with a overwhelmingly conservative pilot group. The captain who I believe I may have acquired it from wore a gaiter - but removed it every chance he got. He talked about visiting friends and family over the holidays and even met a college friend for dinner on one of our overnights.

So no way to know of course. Could have just as easily gotten it from a TSA agent or a Walmart cashier, but that's my guess.

PS - stayed home with the wife and son on New Years Eve. Started a trip on 1/1.

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Obviously you spoke to this Captain about you having covid, right? Did he then get tested?

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Originally Posted by NE_Pilot (Post 3179473)

Obviously you spoke to this Captain about you having covid, right? Did he then get tested?

He had already been exhibiting symptoms, tested, and removed from flying status by the time I reached out to him.

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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan (Post 3179492)

He had already been exhibiting symptoms, tested, and removed from flying status by the time I reached out to him.

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Did he test positive as well? Do you know if he became symptomatic before or after you?

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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan (Post 3179311)

Are there really people that think a mask in the cockpit is doing anything? I know of only one person that has gotten sick while flying and it is the only person I know of that was strict about using masks in the cockpit. They do nothing when you are sitting 3 feet next to someone in a tiny space for hours on end.

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Originally Posted by Nantonaku (Post 3179495)

They probably don't do much under those circumstances. They're an irritating distraction, an impediment to communication, and they fog my glasses, so I don't wear one when actually operating the plane.