The Wall Street Journal recently published an article saying it’s very rare to not have had Covid for the majority of people, even if they haven’t tested positive.
The original article is paywalled but this link appears to have the full article if you’re interested.
I’ve thought about this a lot – it’s almost unbelievable that:
* Shea, a nurse who, unable to work from home, has continued going into the hospital since day one of the pandemic and though not directly working with Covid positive patients except occasionally has not tested positive even once. (Heck, I think she’s missed less work in the past couple years than I have!).
* myself who was able to work from home during a couple different parts of the pandemic but is now in a public facing role where we literally hand test kits to people who often over-share *why* they need the kits has never tested positive.
* Shea and I having both been in close contact with a handful of people who did eventually test positive – family members, coworkers, etc.
* We also haven’t lived completely in a bubble – did a trip to West Edmonton Mall with lots of restaurant meals, two days unmasked in the World Waterpark, attending an Oilers game (we were masked but many around us in sold-out stadium ignored rules at that time and didn’t mask.).
* …and our two kids who are in two different schools, interacting maskless with others at least at lunch and possibly other times as well?
Yet given all of that, none of us have ever tested positive?
Not once?
Not one faint line?
As a healthcare worker, Shea had access to rapid tests months before the general public and we’ve generally tested at least weekly for the most part (and occasionally more often if someone has a sniffle or sore throat or whatever?)
Both kids ended up getting the “brain tickler” full PCR test yet Shea and I never even had symptoms that made us feel like we had to go for that same test?
If up to 30% of Covid cases are asymptomatic as the article claims, it very well could be that one or more of us had Covid and simply didn’t know. (I mean, I feel like I have a brain fog pretty much constantly so maybe I’m ever suffering from Long Covid without realising that either?)
Anyhow, what was I saying…nevermind. 😉
