How many times have you knowingly been exposed.

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The Fall Guy
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8:10p, 10/6/20
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6 times for me. On my 6th quarantine from work and personal exposure. They sent the office workers home today. I rode with a guy in a truck last Thursday from work who was exposed at lunch that day from a client. Rode after work with him for a meeting.

Oh well here I sit again.

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8:16p, 10/6/20
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Zero. And I have been in the office everyday since April.
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8:19p, 10/6/20
Still zero. I only know one person who had COVID, and he was one of the early cases who caught it in Spain.
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In reply to The Fall Guy • 8:29p, 10/6/20
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They sent you home for secondary exposure? Or did he test positive two days later?
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8:35p, 10/6/20
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What are the odds of someone being contagious only hours after being exposed? Seems dumb
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9:01p, 10/6/20
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Zero. Cause I don't buy into the hysteria.
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The Fall Guy
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In reply to cc_ag92 • 9:06p, 10/6/20
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Yep it's ridiculous. Secondary exposure. Small company so they don't want any risk.
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The Fall Guy
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9:06p, 10/6/20
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I don't have a choice when they tell us to go.
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9:09p, 10/6/20
Zero. Office has remained closed since mid March.
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In reply to Frozen Concoction • 9:44p, 10/6/20
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To clarify, there have been numerous employees that I know who have caught it. Luckily I just haven't been personally exposed yet. I think that will likely change by the end of the year with the way it is going though. Within the last two to three weeks there has been a significant uptick in employee notification emails telling us another person caught it.
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10:40p, 10/6/20
Zero. Don't know anyone in all of San Diego that has got it. A number of friends have had to be tested often due to people at their work but none have been positive.
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11:03p, 10/6/20
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Once. Tested positive (With light symptoms) 5 days later and my wife tested positive today!

Still dealing with the symptoms, but no doctor visits and no prescription meds.
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Three. One presymptomatic case for three days at a vacation house. She was a medical worker. One symptomatic case, girlfriend who contracted it from the medical worker. Close contact during her presymptomatic phase for three days. Cared for her for 10 days while two kids and I quarantined with her at my place while isolated in a separate room. She was only symptomatic for 6 days. All of us tested negative except for one child. Which makes for one asymptomatic case which I quarantined with for an additional three weeks since she kept testing positive. I must have cross reactive immunity because I never got sick and having four PCR tests test negative.
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7:19a, 10/7/20
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Once but not knowingly.

Wife and I tested positive at the end of July. Still have lingering cough and some fatigue that I can't seem to shake. My symptoms were mild during the infection. My wife had it worse. I had no fever and no loss of taste or smell. My wife's fever was 100.5, bad headaches, fatigue, back pain, and chest tightness. Her O2 saturation was never below 96%, and she had a loss of taste and smell.

I had a 3 day head cold beginning 1 day after testing positive and weird sweats with fatigue 7 days after testing positive. During the sweats, I developed a cough. I can't seem to shake this cough. During the day of sweats and fatigue, my max temp was 98.4. My O2 saturation was and is still good.

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7:57a, 10/7/20
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Luckily, zero. On the other hand, I am too ugly for people to expose themselves to me.
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8:09a, 10/7/20
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Zero...that i know of.
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In reply to WesMaroon&White • 8:11a, 10/7/20
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WesMaroon&White said:
Once but not knowingly.

Wife and I tested positive at the end of July. Still have lingering cough and some fatigue that I can't seem to shake. My symptoms were mild during the infection. My wife had it worse. I had no fever and no loss of taste or smell. My wife's fever was 100.5, bad headaches, fatigue, back pain, and chest tightness. Her O2 saturation was never below 96%, and she had a loss of taste and smell.

I had a 3 day head cold beginning 1 day after testing positive and weird sweats with fatigue 7 days after testing positive. During the sweats, I developed a cough. I can't seem to shake this cough. During the day of sweats and fatigue, my max temp was 98.4. My O2 saturation was and is still good.

Does you doctor have any idea how long the symptoms could persist? When you say fatigue, are you able to exercise and otherwise live normally? Just curious, as that would really suck.
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In reply to Drip99 • 10:38a, 10/7/20
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Doctor thinks it is lingering effects of viral fatigue and possibly a little lung scarring. It may take 2 to 3 months to fully clear. I did take antibiotics, and an inhaled steroid (for about a week 3 weeks after COVID), and still on mucinex. I had good spirometry test last February (was in the 99 percentile for my age). Did not do another post COVID. The Xray did not show anything of value. Did not do a cat scan. EKG was good. The fatigue comes and goes so it is not debilitating. The fatigue just sucks when it hits, but it is getting less frequent. My O2 saturation has always been good. I carried the pulse/ox with me for the first month afterwards and checked it routinely.
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12:15p, 10/7/20
Zero that I know of.

My FIL was exposed by his preacher during communion with nobody wearing masks (Caldwell area). Preacher was in hospital 3 days later, FIL never had a symptom and this is going on 3 weeks later. We were supposed to go down and spend the weekend a couple weekends ago but decided to wait for a better opportunity.

Have an aunt that has it right now but haven't seen her since late August.

Been to work every day. Wear mask in the building until I get to our floor. I'm usually 1 of about 4-5 in a large office space. No masks but no cases either. The whole building (20 floors) has only had 4 cases since march, but that may be because Pier 1 vacated like 9 of the floors with their bankruptcy as COVID was beginning.

I'd be willing to bet one of the people I've seen in the grocery store or at a restaurant in the past 6 months has tested positive and exposed me, but thats just the law of averages.
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In reply to Ol_Ag_02 • 11:04p, 10/7/20
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Ol_Ag_02 said:
Zero. Cause I don't buy into the hysteria.


Bingo .. I had it and didn't even know I had it, 2 days feeling a little "weird" kind of like I feel when it's ragweed season... yet I had it ...

Nothing even close to the 2-3 times I have had the flu
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5:13a, 10/8/20
70-80 times.
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8:06a, 10/8/20
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Brother and his kids had it, tested positive. A couple of other relatives had it. Brother's wife tested negative. Odds are reasonable my wife and I already had it asymptomatically or with minor symptoms early on. We do our part within reason to distance but both of us have been out shopping, in the public, and in small gatherings, and traveling numerous times and never had symptoms.

To be fair, I seldom react strongly to viruses. I rarely catch colds with more than annoying symptoms (the itchy nose and watery eye part), and I've had the flu once, and it wasn't that bad for me. Probably the worst thing I ever had from a virus was a norovirus. 72 hours basically sleeping in the bathroom.
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In reply to The Fall Guy • 1:15p, 10/8/20
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The Fall Guy said:
6 times for me. On my 6th quarantine from work and personal exposure. They sent the office workers home today. I rode with a guy in a truck last Thursday from work who was exposed at lunch that day from a client. Rode after work with him for a meeting.

Oh well here I sit again.



Exposed to an exposed guy? Ya, that ain't worth quarantining for. Part of the problem with all of this that isn't realistic or reasonable to expect you to quarantine. I hope you at least go about your normal activity and aren't staying in your house only for the next 14 days over this. I'd go on living my normal life and just work from home.
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In reply to The Fall Guy • 3:00p, 10/8/20
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The Fall Guy said:
I don't have a choice when they tell us to go.


To be fair, you really are The Fall Guy.
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12:37p, 10/9/20
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At least 30-40, but I'm a physician. Mostly while wearing n95 and full ppe. At least 6 with only a surgical mask that we found out later that were in the ER for non covid related complaints. Those got tested later because they were being admitted or transferred. Certainly more asymptomatic patients I don't know about given how many were positive that got tested for other reasons that came up positive. (Broken hip, needs surgery and they require testing beforehand and come up positive or something like that)

One nurse that I worked a whole 12 hour shift with that became symptomatic the next day. We were within about 10 feet of each other for hours but both wearing masks.

The first covid patient I saw had a leaky Bipap mask on and I was standing next to her and over her for an extended period while wearing only a surgical mask. This is a very high risk aerosolizing exposure. I wasn't in full ppe because she had similar presentations due to heart failure before and she was a nursing home resident in a community that had not had a single nursing patient or staff case before her. She kicked off a fun 2 months in the ER in that community as the flood gates opened after that.

All of these encounters I was wearing at least a surgical mask including during the shift around the other staff. Most of the patients had masks on as well. I have had a negative antibody test and two negative PCR nasal swabs.

Either I have the immune system of a god or masks are pretty effective at preventing respiratory droplet transmission. I type this as a sit eating inside a burger restaurant maskless with about 50 other people so I'm not advocating some extreme position like you need to drive with a mask on. When I have face to face contact though I mask up because it seems to work.

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My son and I have been once that I am assured of. I had to get him into Hunters Ed before deer season started. The Hunters Ed teacher pops 2 days later with COVID. I am getting calls and texts from TPWD to let me know. Blessed that neither of us got it as I was not wearing a mask while I was there talking to the teacher, nor was he. He was completely asymptomatic at the time. No other kid at the seminar got it either and there were 25 of them and a handful of other adults. I honestly think we have already had it and just didn't know it.

Funny thing is that he had it and nobody in his family got it. I saw him at our son's football game last night and he was doing great.
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In reply to Frozen Concoction • 4:45p, 10/14/20
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Frozen Concoction said:
Still zero. I only know one person who had COVID, and he was one of the early cases who caught it in Spain.
Only one person?

I've lost count of how many I know who had it. Two people I know who got it shortly before I did both died.

I know six people who have tested positive in the last couple of weeks and two of them are in the hospital now.

Of those six, I have two recent exposures -- the latest was yesterday. I think that I'll be taking quercetin and zinc for the next few days.

I had been planning on going to Amarillo to donate blood on Friday. I guess that's probably not going to happen, now.
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How hard and fast are the quarantine rules if you've had covid 4 to 5 months earlier?

Strictly speaking, under the CDC guidelines my exposures have been rather brief. From

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html

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People who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19excluding people who have had COVID-19 within the past 3 months.

People who have tested positive for COVID-19 do not need to quarantine or get tested again for up to 3 months as long as they do not develop symptoms again. People who develop symptoms again within 3 months of their first bout of COVID-19 may need to be tested again if there is no other cause identified for their symptoms.

What counts as close contact?

  • You were within 6 feet of someone who has COVID-19 for a total of 15 minutes or more
  • You provided care at home to someone who is sick with COVID-19
  • You had direct physical contact with the person (hugged or kissed them)
  • You shared eating or drinking utensils
  • They sneezed, coughed, or somehow got respiratory droplets on you

So if it had been less than three months, I wouldn't need to quarantine at all.

In my case, my latest exposures don't fit the first criteria above, so I'll be cautious, but not strictly quarantine myself for the time being.
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