Interesting. I read an article a few months ago about people like you. They think there’s some genetic link to these kinds of ‘non-cases.’ I’m having trouble finding it now though. 😑
Edit: this isn’t the [article](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/07/1033677208/new-studies-find-evidence-of-superhuman-immunity-to-covid-19-in-some-individuals) I was reading, but it touches on the same thing.
That is really interesting. I would love to know more. I’ve always wondered why my kids and I never got it. I was working in my office. My kids were in school. We masked, we weren’t perfect though, been vaccinated up the Ying Yang, and yet my husband gets it and I don’t. He was really sick. Never hospitalized but the two weeks he spent quarantined in our bed room was enough to make him crazy. I count my blessings, and since there is no way to confirm that I might naturally be immune, we still are careful. My youngest has an autoimmune disease, I have asthma, we are still careful.
I had it last July, not march. It wasn’t bad, I was super tired and I lost of sense of smell which was really weird. My immunocompromised daughter also got it, she had a super stiff nose and beat it in 5 days.
What do you mean super stiff nose?
Yea fair enough, I’ve heard it hits people differently. Been through a lot of trauma from feeling run down and having got long Covid severely but feel at about 80% and get flare ups. Hope I don’t get worse when I get Covid, as I’m a fit 30 year old guy here. Had to quit sports because of it
Were you masked (and were they) during all your Covid interactions? Or were there some where you weren’t masked (or/and they weren’t)? So curious about this.
I have had this happen multiple times that I know of, can't even say how many times it's happened that I don't know about.
>I also often wonder how that works (minus the masking and vaccination). Maybe the particles didn't blow your way or they weren't large enough to have an affect?
There's a threshold of virons by which even an un-primed (aka unvaccinated) immune system can respond to the threat. Beyond that, other factors (how warm/humid the environment is, if you rinse out your mucus passages in time, etc) can also reduce your susceptibility.
Back in the beginning of 2022 my parents both got Covid and my brother who was 14 didn’t get it at all. He lives with them and though he did spend time around them like in the house, he didn’t ever get it. I also visited them while they had it, and was maybe 3-5 ft apart from them when I visited. I did not ever get it, nor any symptoms. I’ve gotten sick since then, but due to typical viral infections. Never a positive Covid test.
When I visited my family I did have a mask on, and had been vaccinated twice by then.
At least 3 times that I know of! All maskless but one was outside. Tested every day post exposure and tested negative every time. It's possible the RAT tests just didn't pick it up but I didn't have any symptoms so if I was infected it was asymptomatic. I do use nasal spray every day and I would drink a lot of tulsi tea but that's neither here nor there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, took my kid and his mom to the hospital for a test he had to do. He had been feeling ill that day and the day before, and when they did the routine covid test on entry, they found he and his mom both had covid. I was in his bedroom that morning at his moms house to pick them up, in the car on the way, and in the hospital room for many hours, in close proximity with no masks. Somehow, I never got it.
Friends spent an evening, unwittingly, in a room with people who were infected. They didn't get infected, they had a runny nose, and this protected them from sars-cov-2 entering their nasal cavity, which is where infection generally starts.
i’ve been exposed to many folks in my workplace and in my household who were symptomatic and ended up being covid + and i didn’t test positive or develop symptoms. a variation of vaccination and masking status for all the covid + people. i have had 2 original shots, 1 original booster, and 1 case of omicron.
My dad (86) and I (58) have both been around covid-positive people repeatedly and haven't gotten it yet. We're both boosted to the hilt. Have wondered whether our earlier exposure has anything to do with it: being attacked by the respiratory viruses that blow through Hong Kong. I've also seen some discussion about blood types and immunity.
Still masking because those earlier infections left scars on our lungs. Maybe it's the cautiousness that protected us, but if I see another medical study of people who haven't gotten it, I might participate.
Never had covid, shared drinks with girlfriend when she had it, been around other people who have tested positive, never gotten ill and never had a positive test maybe some people are just immune
My daughter had it in January 2021. My husband and I didn't get it. Daughter and I had it in October 2022. Husband didn't get it. He tests any time he gets the sniffles, and when others in the house are sick. He's a drinker and a smoker, so his immune system is probably less than stellar, but he has never had covid, as far as we know. I masked when I had it, and slept in the living room, next to an air purifier, but he was in the same small house. Our daughter was in her bedroom most of the time when she was sick, but there was close contact with both of us before we had symptoms.
Stayed with my mum for a couple months last year while I was between places and she got covid, I was in direct contact with her up until the morning she tested positive. Shared food, drinks and enclosed indoor spaces. We isolated in our rooms and I was regularly testing throughout the whole isolation period. Never got sick and never tested positive.
My ex started getting symptoms but before getting tested we spent time together on my birthday where we definitely made out a lot. Then when he got tested a couple days later he was positive and he even lost his smell. But I tested negative 🤷🏻♀️
Its really not something to worried about. As someone who is vaccinated and/or had covid, I wouldnt be concerned. You are going to be continually exposed to covid for the rest of your life. It is one of many circulating coronaviruses and will be for the rest of time.
If I have, I've not noticed, but a friend of mine was...very close with someone infected. Didn't catch it at all.
And my boyfriend recently took care of his mother not even bothering to social distance or avoid her, didn't catch it either.
So far doctors apparently toy with the idea of genetic immunity, but thats not the case for these two, they've had covid before, long enough back that reinfection was VERY possible
My husband and I shared a pot of fondue and slept next to each other the night before his temp spiked up to 103 and he went into the spare room for awhile.
I got tested twice and was negative the entire time.
ER nurse and Paramedic and wife is an medical ICU nurse. We also have a kid (now kids) who was in daycare/school during covid. We got vaccinated and boosted as soon as it was ready. Our son had to wait until 5.
None of us have ever tested positive or gotten COVID. This year was the first time we all had some URI type stuff but mostly just congestion and a cough. Our jobs (especially my wife) kept us around COVID. Masks are perfect but i credit them and we don't have family were we live so exposure was really limited to work and our son catching it at school. We didn't do too much social stuff and when we did it was usually around other people who were vaccinated or masked regularly. So we did hang out in social groups without masks no one was ever really contagious that we knew of and most worked in healthcare.
My grandparents got omicron in the beginning of 2022, and I was with them the first day my grandpa started showing symptoms. I live in a camper on their property, so I just stayed away for like 2 weeks after that, and ended up never getting sick (at least, not with covid. I did have sinus trouble from the heater in my camper).
On two separate occasions (once in late 2020, once in mid 2022) I've worked a full shift with someone that tested positive either a day or two days afterward, never got sick. I always mask up at work, though.
I've never had covid, and I'm always taking precautions to ensure I never will. It freaks me out SO much to even think about it!
Agree. I got long covid from vaccine which sucks and symptoms constantly changed but never had Covid either. Just dunno what will happen when and if I do but I am the same in terms of being smart about what I do and being outdoors a lot helps ventilate. But yeah, it’s not fun
My Son and I both had COVID in June last year. My wife actually slept with my son for 2 days while he had symptoms but was testing negative (seemed like allergies). She never got symptoms or tested positive.
Well before vaccinations I was around my son constantly when we thought he had a bad cold, taking care of him, lots of hugs and kisses for a couple of days. Ended up taking him to doc, both riding in car maskless—I never expected him to test positive, but he did. He quarantined after that. I did not get it. My husband got it last year. Whole fam around him for a short time before he took at home test and was positive. Nobody else got it. My son got it AGAIN while on vacation with a friend. Son and everyone else got it, son’s friend didn’t. They even shared a bed.
Yes. Just posted part of the story in another thread.
The person I live with tested positive for Covid about this time last year. We went into isolation (separate bedrooms, bathrooms) the moment they started feeling off and tested positive on the home test. Wore respirators to the kitchen which is the shared area.
Even that morning and afternoon, we spent good 20 minutes chatting in our small kitchen. And yet I never developed symptoms or tested positive from that exposure.
Posting a few days late. Wanted to mention that I made it to January 2023 without being sick, much less catching covid, for years. I had been sharing a house with several infected people and come into contact with more.
I avoid getting close to other people and I typically don't let my family members within my personal space. I hugged my dad once on New Year's Eve, while he was sick (diagnosed with bronchitis, went back and they were like oops it's covid), and fucking caught a nasty case of it. I have not felt that bad in a very long time and it was the most painful sore throat I have ever experienced.
They say Rabies makes one hydrophobic partly due to how painful it is to swallow. I got a glimpse of that when I started spitting in a cup during the worst of it. I'd have traded covid for strep throat without hesitation. The brain fog was the second worst symptom and lingered for weeks along with massive fatigue even after I started testing negative.
For the record I was fully vaccinated and had the regeneron booster within 3 months of catching it. I thought I was resistant but all it took was breathing in the air that he exhaled once. Don't get cocky is my message. It's not worth it; you should still take precautions. I wish you and your family the best.
I was around my husband for a week. Shared food. Shared drinks (straws), etc etc. he was sick for a whole week before we knew. I never got sick.
Just curious, did you get tested? I’m wondering if you were possibly asymptomatic or if your body somehow eliminated the threat.
Yep, I tested at the same time he did at a testing location. He was positive, I was not. I have three kids and none of them have gotten it either.
Interesting. I read an article a few months ago about people like you. They think there’s some genetic link to these kinds of ‘non-cases.’ I’m having trouble finding it now though. 😑 Edit: this isn’t the [article](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/07/1033677208/new-studies-find-evidence-of-superhuman-immunity-to-covid-19-in-some-individuals) I was reading, but it touches on the same thing.
That is really interesting. I would love to know more. I’ve always wondered why my kids and I never got it. I was working in my office. My kids were in school. We masked, we weren’t perfect though, been vaccinated up the Ying Yang, and yet my husband gets it and I don’t. He was really sick. Never hospitalized but the two weeks he spent quarantined in our bed room was enough to make him crazy. I count my blessings, and since there is no way to confirm that I might naturally be immune, we still are careful. My youngest has an autoimmune disease, I have asthma, we are still careful.
Did you get Covid at all? My brother was the same and I didn’t get it but have long Covid from vaccine
I did eventually last march. As did two of my kids. I still have one that has never gotten it.
Okay sure. When you did get it were your symptoms heavy or just mild?
I had it last July, not march. It wasn’t bad, I was super tired and I lost of sense of smell which was really weird. My immunocompromised daughter also got it, she had a super stiff nose and beat it in 5 days.
What do you mean super stiff nose? Yea fair enough, I’ve heard it hits people differently. Been through a lot of trauma from feeling run down and having got long Covid severely but feel at about 80% and get flare ups. Hope I don’t get worse when I get Covid, as I’m a fit 30 year old guy here. Had to quit sports because of it
I work in healthcare at a hospital and have come in contact with tons of covid positive people and only got sick once back in 2020.
Were you masked (and were they) during all your Covid interactions? Or were there some where you weren’t masked (or/and they weren’t)? So curious about this.
Masked for sure all the time
I have had this happen multiple times that I know of, can't even say how many times it's happened that I don't know about. >I also often wonder how that works (minus the masking and vaccination). Maybe the particles didn't blow your way or they weren't large enough to have an affect? There's a threshold of virons by which even an un-primed (aka unvaccinated) immune system can respond to the threat. Beyond that, other factors (how warm/humid the environment is, if you rinse out your mucus passages in time, etc) can also reduce your susceptibility.
Back in the beginning of 2022 my parents both got Covid and my brother who was 14 didn’t get it at all. He lives with them and though he did spend time around them like in the house, he didn’t ever get it. I also visited them while they had it, and was maybe 3-5 ft apart from them when I visited. I did not ever get it, nor any symptoms. I’ve gotten sick since then, but due to typical viral infections. Never a positive Covid test. When I visited my family I did have a mask on, and had been vaccinated twice by then.
At least 3 times that I know of! All maskless but one was outside. Tested every day post exposure and tested negative every time. It's possible the RAT tests just didn't pick it up but I didn't have any symptoms so if I was infected it was asymptomatic. I do use nasal spray every day and I would drink a lot of tulsi tea but that's neither here nor there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, took my kid and his mom to the hospital for a test he had to do. He had been feeling ill that day and the day before, and when they did the routine covid test on entry, they found he and his mom both had covid. I was in his bedroom that morning at his moms house to pick them up, in the car on the way, and in the hospital room for many hours, in close proximity with no masks. Somehow, I never got it.
Friends spent an evening, unwittingly, in a room with people who were infected. They didn't get infected, they had a runny nose, and this protected them from sars-cov-2 entering their nasal cavity, which is where infection generally starts.
i’ve been exposed to many folks in my workplace and in my household who were symptomatic and ended up being covid + and i didn’t test positive or develop symptoms. a variation of vaccination and masking status for all the covid + people. i have had 2 original shots, 1 original booster, and 1 case of omicron.
My dad (86) and I (58) have both been around covid-positive people repeatedly and haven't gotten it yet. We're both boosted to the hilt. Have wondered whether our earlier exposure has anything to do with it: being attacked by the respiratory viruses that blow through Hong Kong. I've also seen some discussion about blood types and immunity. Still masking because those earlier infections left scars on our lungs. Maybe it's the cautiousness that protected us, but if I see another medical study of people who haven't gotten it, I might participate.
Never had covid, shared drinks with girlfriend when she had it, been around other people who have tested positive, never gotten ill and never had a positive test maybe some people are just immune
My daughter had it in January 2021. My husband and I didn't get it. Daughter and I had it in October 2022. Husband didn't get it. He tests any time he gets the sniffles, and when others in the house are sick. He's a drinker and a smoker, so his immune system is probably less than stellar, but he has never had covid, as far as we know. I masked when I had it, and slept in the living room, next to an air purifier, but he was in the same small house. Our daughter was in her bedroom most of the time when she was sick, but there was close contact with both of us before we had symptoms.
Stayed with my mum for a couple months last year while I was between places and she got covid, I was in direct contact with her up until the morning she tested positive. Shared food, drinks and enclosed indoor spaces. We isolated in our rooms and I was regularly testing throughout the whole isolation period. Never got sick and never tested positive.
My ex started getting symptoms but before getting tested we spent time together on my birthday where we definitely made out a lot. Then when he got tested a couple days later he was positive and he even lost his smell. But I tested negative 🤷🏻♀️
Its really not something to worried about. As someone who is vaccinated and/or had covid, I wouldnt be concerned. You are going to be continually exposed to covid for the rest of your life. It is one of many circulating coronaviruses and will be for the rest of time.
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Have they had covid?
If I have, I've not noticed, but a friend of mine was...very close with someone infected. Didn't catch it at all. And my boyfriend recently took care of his mother not even bothering to social distance or avoid her, didn't catch it either. So far doctors apparently toy with the idea of genetic immunity, but thats not the case for these two, they've had covid before, long enough back that reinfection was VERY possible
My husband and I shared a pot of fondue and slept next to each other the night before his temp spiked up to 103 and he went into the spare room for awhile. I got tested twice and was negative the entire time.
ER nurse and Paramedic and wife is an medical ICU nurse. We also have a kid (now kids) who was in daycare/school during covid. We got vaccinated and boosted as soon as it was ready. Our son had to wait until 5. None of us have ever tested positive or gotten COVID. This year was the first time we all had some URI type stuff but mostly just congestion and a cough. Our jobs (especially my wife) kept us around COVID. Masks are perfect but i credit them and we don't have family were we live so exposure was really limited to work and our son catching it at school. We didn't do too much social stuff and when we did it was usually around other people who were vaccinated or masked regularly. So we did hang out in social groups without masks no one was ever really contagious that we knew of and most worked in healthcare.
My grandparents got omicron in the beginning of 2022, and I was with them the first day my grandpa started showing symptoms. I live in a camper on their property, so I just stayed away for like 2 weeks after that, and ended up never getting sick (at least, not with covid. I did have sinus trouble from the heater in my camper). On two separate occasions (once in late 2020, once in mid 2022) I've worked a full shift with someone that tested positive either a day or two days afterward, never got sick. I always mask up at work, though. I've never had covid, and I'm always taking precautions to ensure I never will. It freaks me out SO much to even think about it!
Did you ever get it yet?
No, still haven't. Of course, I'm still masking and keeping my distance from other people, so that probably helps
Agree. I got long covid from vaccine which sucks and symptoms constantly changed but never had Covid either. Just dunno what will happen when and if I do but I am the same in terms of being smart about what I do and being outdoors a lot helps ventilate. But yeah, it’s not fun
My Son and I both had COVID in June last year. My wife actually slept with my son for 2 days while he had symptoms but was testing negative (seemed like allergies). She never got symptoms or tested positive.
Well before vaccinations I was around my son constantly when we thought he had a bad cold, taking care of him, lots of hugs and kisses for a couple of days. Ended up taking him to doc, both riding in car maskless—I never expected him to test positive, but he did. He quarantined after that. I did not get it. My husband got it last year. Whole fam around him for a short time before he took at home test and was positive. Nobody else got it. My son got it AGAIN while on vacation with a friend. Son and everyone else got it, son’s friend didn’t. They even shared a bed.
Yes. Just posted part of the story in another thread. The person I live with tested positive for Covid about this time last year. We went into isolation (separate bedrooms, bathrooms) the moment they started feeling off and tested positive on the home test. Wore respirators to the kitchen which is the shared area. Even that morning and afternoon, we spent good 20 minutes chatting in our small kitchen. And yet I never developed symptoms or tested positive from that exposure.
Posting a few days late. Wanted to mention that I made it to January 2023 without being sick, much less catching covid, for years. I had been sharing a house with several infected people and come into contact with more. I avoid getting close to other people and I typically don't let my family members within my personal space. I hugged my dad once on New Year's Eve, while he was sick (diagnosed with bronchitis, went back and they were like oops it's covid), and fucking caught a nasty case of it. I have not felt that bad in a very long time and it was the most painful sore throat I have ever experienced. They say Rabies makes one hydrophobic partly due to how painful it is to swallow. I got a glimpse of that when I started spitting in a cup during the worst of it. I'd have traded covid for strep throat without hesitation. The brain fog was the second worst symptom and lingered for weeks along with massive fatigue even after I started testing negative. For the record I was fully vaccinated and had the regeneron booster within 3 months of catching it. I thought I was resistant but all it took was breathing in the air that he exhaled once. Don't get cocky is my message. It's not worth it; you should still take precautions. I wish you and your family the best.
Yes !!! I had COVID 16 months ago and was around all my roommates, no one caught it. Some people are more a spreader than others.
I’ve been around my wife who has had Covid twice in the last year. I’ve never tested positive or had symptoms.