Sure maybe this question doesn’t fit your lifestyle, but I remember plenty of situations, especially when people were quarantining, that most times someone got sick, they could pretty reliably point to a situation and say “yeah that’s probably where I got it”
My wife caught it at work, about six months into the pandemic. Was inevitable, since she works in a grocery store. She woke up with a fever and no sense of taste or smell, and then went downhill with really bad flu like symptoms from there. I started with the same thing the next day. Main illness lasted two weeks, but the worst part was the first week by far. My wife was sick for almost 6 weeks and ended up on an inhaler for a while until her lungs healed. Neither of us got our full taste back for almost 2 years, and our smell hasn’t fully recovered yet either (about 80% now).
We both tested positive again last June, got a mandatory week off work but the only symptom was a mild fever. Wouldn’t have even known I was sick, but a family member tested positive and we’d been to visit so took a test and there I was. I’d been vaccinated by that point, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say the vaccination did what it was supposed to do with keeping me from being sick.
You almost certainly have. A substantial minority never develop symptoms. It’s one of the things that makes it spread so easily. If it made everyone very sick they’d all be safely tucked up in bed and not spreading it.
There is no useful answer to your question. Some people develop symptoms very quickly, some people are asymptomatic for a period, others remain asymptomatic throughout.
If you think you’ve been exposed and you could put others at risk, do a test. False positives are common but they’re better at picking up people who are very infectious so that’s something.
If you want to know if you’ve had it, there are antibody tests which check for antibodies from infection rather than vaccination. (Example for information, not a personal recommendation.) They’re not 100% accurate but a positive is most likely a true positive, given that the vast majority of people have had it by now. They test for two types of antibody, IgM and IgG. IgM should only show up during or immediately after recovery from an infection, IgG turns up later in the course of an infection and sticks around after recovery.
Within 12 hours. I flew out to Philadelphia to attend my friend’s graduation for her masters. She picked me up at the airport and said she had an itchy throat and a headache but it was allergies.
Bam, 12 hours later, I was completely on my back, horrifficly sick. Took a test, positive for covid. She took a test, positive for covid.
Her sickness continued as a light sore throat and a light headache. I had a 104 fever and it morphed into a nasty eyelid infection, which I convinced myself was eye herpies after googling images of what mine looked like.
Not eye herpies, thank god, but I definitely broke down in tears at the time thinking so.
I was at a crowded event, fully masked, still got it two days later. It had to be the event, I was not exposed in any other way. I work from home, so it was just my wife and I. She got it weeks later while at a nail salon. Again, fully masked.
Mine was bad, and over a year later, I am still suffering asthma side effects. To be fair, I had asthma before, but it used to be mild. My wife is still suffering from the lethargy, but she’s retired military on pension, so she can just sleep.
I got it last August. hung out with a friend on a Sunday, he tested positive that night, and I started getting symptoms and tested positive Wednesday, so 3 days for me.
I first got it a year ago and it was almost exactly 2 days. I was with my family all day on a Thursday, my brother tested positive on Friday, and after work on Saturday I felt like absolute shit all night. Tested myself at 5am Sunday after not sleeping and was positive.
It’s shortened over time. Original and Delta, it could be somewhere between 4 days and a week. As I understand it, it’s closer to 2-3 days on average now.
Never. We had a work lunch and one of the guys a few days later said “I just tested positive for covid, better test”. About 2 days later I was testing positive, but none of us in the household ever had any symptoms other than testing positive (about 4 days in, the LFT was going bright red as soon as the liquid reached the test line). None of us ever had so much as a sniffle. The guy we got it off was really rough for a few days.
Someone in the office had covid and for some fucked up reason decided to come in anyway and then get sent home but he was in the office for about 45 minutes before he was kicked out.
He was an anti-vaxxer and so kept saying it was just a cold, but even if you believed that why would not just take the opportunity to have a month off work and still be paid by the government? Idiot.
Then I got sick about a week later, and I know it was from him because at the time I lived by myself and I drove my car to and from work so I was never interacting with anybody else.
2 days. My coworker had been at an event and we had a meeting on a Wednesday. He discovered he had covid and called off Thursday, informing us. That Friday I felt the symptoms.
My wife and I are just getting over it. Not too severe for us, fortunately. She missed two days of work last week over it, and I would have missed Friday and Saturday if I hadn’t already been off. (We work from home.)
We’re not sure where we picked it up. 5 days before she started feeling it, we were at a restaurant that seemed like a potential candidate, but most of the comments here seem to be 2-3 days, so maybe it was something else. We weren’t really in close contact with other people during those times - even that restaurant wasn’t that busy. Maybe one of the servers there had it, or maybe it was something else.
Yeah. It’s possible there’s also an element of “strength of exposure” - if we’re infected by someone who just happened by, compared to standing and talking to them for a while, there might be a difference in how long it takes to incubate.
Whatever happened, it’s a bummer. But, like I said before, we don’t have it nearly as bad as so many people did - for us, it’s like a severe cold, treatable with OTC medication.
Also, those services where we can order groceries or food and have them delivered to our car are great (we’re a bit far out for delivery to our house for things like that).
Off work with covid right now. My wife went to a funeral for her friends father, found out the friend had it. We tested her a couple days later, she was negative. However, she has a tendency to become a carrier and since I’m immunocompromised I caught it. Total time was about 4 days.
The last time I had covid it almost killed me, I was in the hospital because I couldn’t breathe, then I got pneumonia. It was bad, so this time within hours of testing positive my doctor had paxlovid in my hands.
It started with a sore throat, but unlike a normal sore throat nothing I took seemed to make it better, a day later I got a headache that lasted multiple days, I was alternating between freezing cold and hot sweats and I had trouble staying upright, so 2 days straight I was in bed. The paxlovid really works though, I’m on day 4 and it’s been reduced to a mild cold, doctor says I should be fine to go back to work Thursday. Last time I got covid I was off for 4 months, my lungs weren’t the same after the pneumonia and I had alot of long covid symptoms.
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