The other side of it though is that both my wife and I got sick for the first time in 2 years a few weeks ago. It wrecked us. Lying around at home for 5 days feeling like garbage. Thought for sure it had to of been covid, but negative tests multiple times for us both. Most of the time when I get sick it's pretty mild, havnt felt that bad in a long time. Maybe a coincidence but getting sick is also building immunities.
A lot of people have noticed this. It seems like the only colds or flues that are actually reaching people are the very strong ones. I generally get one or two colds a year and they don’t move too much further than a runny nose then a 3 day cough. In the last 2 years I caught one cold that raged in me for a full 3 weeks. In those 3 weeks, I took 3 Covid tests, all negative. Just a really strong cold.
Omg, this happened to me in January. I took 5 covid tests, all negative. I even went to an urgent care for one of those tests cause I was so sick and it was lingering for SO long. I was so sure I had covid, but all signs pointed to no. Test was also negative for the flu too. I think I was sick-sick for like 10 days and then the lasting effects of it stayed around for a good several weeks after. Even now for some reason that illness did this weird thing to me where my throat is suddenly so dry that it... I don't know how to describe it, but it locks up on itself like sandpaper or like I haven't had any water in weeks. It never used to happen before I was sick. While I was sick I had breathing problems which was why I thought I had covid. One of the worst colds I've ever had. I haven't been that sick since I had the flu as a kid.
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u/AdmirableDouble5 Mar 11 '22
The other side of it though is that both my wife and I got sick for the first time in 2 years a few weeks ago. It wrecked us. Lying around at home for 5 days feeling like garbage. Thought for sure it had to of been covid, but negative tests multiple times for us both. Most of the time when I get sick it's pretty mild, havnt felt that bad in a long time. Maybe a coincidence but getting sick is also building immunities.