Not having had covid actually gives me even worse anxiety.

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Every time I read or hear people say how everyone they know has has covid including themselves, and nothing they have done like getting all their shots has prevented it in the slightest, I just want to scream and scream until my lungs explode. People are asking me "Have you had covid?", like when I went to the dentist last month, and then my landlord when he was over to fix the toilet the other week and then he told me he had it a few weeks ago but it wasn't really bad and he was fine now. But after he left I sprayed everything in the bathroom with Lysol.

I hate that people are asking me "have you had covid?" the same way they would ask me "Have you tried the food at that new restaurant?" this is a horrible pandemic and the world is going to end in a few months. I don't know how I've managed not to get covid the past three years since obviously vaccines, masking, sanitizing and spending 99% of my life in isolation doesn't do feces so I could get it any day now. I keep wondering if I'm tasting and smelling my food normally or if a mild headache or digestive issue is the first sign.

It's hopeless.

I haven't had covid yet either and it makes me feel more anxious about getting it because everyone else I know has had it (except for my boyfriend and a friend at work) so have all got a bit of immunity to it. I know me and my boyfriend have both had all 3 vaccines but I still don't think it gives you the same immunity as actually having had the virus previously, the vaccines just lower your chances of getting really ill if and when you do get it.

I've had it twice. It was just a really bad flu, where I had to take paracetomol every day for two weeks.

You might have had it symptomless , just assume you have.
Don't listen to end of the world stuff it just stresses you out.

I don't think I've ever had it because if I had then my boyfriend would have had as well, and he has many underlying health issues that would have made covid obvious.

I never had it and I never had any injections, I'm really not bothered to be quite honest with you, most people who I knew that had it literally just had a slight cold.

We have 3 surgeons and a ton of medical students in my family who work all around the UK - they were saying the dumb medical students that they didn't know what to do with just got shoved on the covid wards in the hospitals and they are the ones who ran that while anyone with decent experience actually worked on A&E, and these covid wards were totally empty most of the time.

A lot of nurses and doctors were supposed to have had these injections if they wanted to work with the NHS but just wrote on the covid thing they had it when probably hundreds of thousands haven't actually injected themselves with it at all, we were actually told not to do it by so many people who actually work for the NHS so we just left it.

Can't say I'm worried in the slightest knowing full well so many NHS people who don't have the injections either but work on various A&E departments and never got covid either. Suspicious if you ask me.

Same! I'm in a risk group, so I kind of wished that if I got it, it would've come soon after the third shot so it would've been more effective and the infection milder.

Yes, I know lots of people who've had it and are okay now, few of them from risk groups even, but the statistics of members of risk groups dying are high, so yeah... and I live alone, so I'd have no one to help me or alert any doctors if things suddenly got worse while I had it.

My aunt caught covid about 5 months ago, after she'd only had two of her vaccinations. She was ill with it for about two days, then it became mild and she just had a cough.

But ever since she had covid, she's been picking up other viruses literally every 2 weeks, like norovirus and the common cold. It doesn't seem to be long covid because she takes a test that is always negative and if other people catch it off her their tests also show negative, so covid must have done something to her immune system because it's not normal to suddenly catch a cold every couple of weeks, and she gets really unwell with them too. She's not elderly and doesn't have underlying health issues. She's had her third jab now.

I don't know what covid did to her immune system but I think she needs to live in a bubble before she gets something serious.

I am hearing many people are catching Norovirus after Covid lately. That must be horrible.

My son has had Covid 4 times. The 1st and 2nd time were the worst but nothing more than a bad cold. Laterally there were very few symptoms but he lost his taste buds every time.

I hope I don't catch covid then, if I might start catching norovirus afterwards. I have a phobia of being sick and I'm still traumatized by the last time I had norovirus, which was almost 5 years ago. I wish they'd get a vaccine for that, as it nearly killed me.

Yeh Joe, I feel like that myself about stomach bugs. Only had Norovirus once, I was 8 months pregnant. NOT funny! Im kinda hoping we build immunity to these things. Fingers crossed for everyone that viruses stay away.

So many people are afraid of covid, but we can't stay in lockdown and fear forever. I've had covid and it's just like the flu, which everyone has had at different points in their lives.

As far as I know, neither my husband, four kids, nor I have had covid at all. If we did it was no big deal and we didn't notice. We have been very careful about trying to avoid it, what with me being pregnant last year, so I guess that worked. I think some people are not as careful as they think they are.

If it's anything, I was talking to a neurologist yesterday and he said Omicron isn't really a bother, even in those with bad autoimmune conditions, as long as they aren't immunosuppressed (vaccinated or not). It seems like Omicron has trouble getting to the lungs and taking hold in those with an adequate immune system, so less severe pneumonia and systemic spread. I'm assuming you aren't on immunosuppressants. Your immune system will be completely fine at your age if you're reasonably well. That's two doctors now that have told me a similar thing.

Some people will be naturally immune too at the average innoculum or will always have very mild symptoms and won't notice it.

(I knew this, but I don't want to be too much of a Professional Autistic.)

Perhaps this thought will help if you force it into your noodle:

'I guess I simply had an asymptomatic case!'

Now you can breathe a little easier feeling it's already run it's course through you and you have some natural immunity in addition to the vaccines.

I've wondered the same about myself and my household, my siblings in their households.. most of us have 'not had covid,' yet apparently stats have shown that 50% of British Columbians were infected with the Omicron variant alone.. plus there was every variant before that and since, sooo majority of people here Have had covid already.. yet myself and most of my family haven't had it ? Probably not.. I bet some of us Have had it and just didn't know it.

Like we've said a million times in this thread already, I don't think it is possible that a vulnerable person like my boyfriend would possibly get an asymptomatic case of covid. He has COPD, diabetes, is overweight and over 50 (yes, he's older than me). I think the covid flu would have at least made itself known when entering his system. Yes he's had all 3 vaccines but with his ailments he'd still probably have had at least some symptoms. But neither of us have even had an inkling of even a cold that could have been mistaken for covid, in the whole course of the pandemic.

So my guess is that we made it through the pandemic so far completely untouched.

I had covid about four weeks ago. Its a sh***y virus and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.

I had all my vaccines as well.

I didn't know I had it at first because I didn't have a cough. It was a really sore throat and a blocked nose. After a couple of days I felt as fit as a fiddle and went to the races. A few days after that I thought I'd do a test just to see and it was actually covid so you don't always get a cough with it. The only thing that made me think it was was that the back of my neck was sweating for about four days.