Not had Covid? - Does that mean I have no friends?

I should add that having extremely vulnerable and very elderly parents we have tested each time before visiting, weekly and never tested positive.

I like my friends and family enough to test before meeting up and they do the same.

In our close family of three households, who all live close together, we number ten people ranging in age from 3 to 77, all adults vaccinated, and we intermingle regularly. All but two of us have tested positive at least once, and one shows signs of suffering from long COVID. There is no reason why the two negatives should not have caught it from the family members with whom they are in very close contact.

The doctor is generalising.

Ridiculous man!!!

I have never tested positive, but in December 2019 many people on cruise ships became ill with a mystery illness (and some died)
It makes perfect sense. How could we be diagnosed with something that people didn't know existed at that time? Of course we would have natural immunity to a disease we have already had.

I have never tested positive, but I think I had it right at the beginning, never felt so bad . I spent last Christmas with DD and family who all tested positive the day after I arrived ! I didn’t get it. DS and DGS didn’t get when DiL and DGD did just before Christmas . I was with them too !

Maybe Grandnana but I've had no symptoms and, despite many LFTs, I've never had a positive result. DIL is here regularly (I look after GC) and she's had umpteen LTF tests when pupils have been confirmed as being positive, but none of us have caught it so far. touches wood We've been very fortunate haven't we?

Hi Chewbacca, I wonder if you've been slightly exposed to Covid many times and now have mighty antibodies? My two youngest grandchildren have also escaped despite the rest of the household catching it last autumn, and numerous messages from their school asking them to test because people in their class have it.
So far my partner and I have avoided it too. We were ridiculously careful at first but now see the family regularly, eat in restaurants and cafés, and I sing in a choir with no social distancing. But maybe I speak too soon!

And no one in our family has tested positive either, despite DIL being a teacher at a primary school throughout the whole pandemic and being one of the last demographic to qualify for a jab.

Catching, and avoiding catching COVID, seems to be a bit of a lottery. I'm at the theatre, cinema or galleries at least once a week, plus various group activities that take place in meeting rooms with maybe 50 or 100 other people, plus restaurants and cafes. I've never had COVID. 10 days ago, I was sat in a car with a friend for over 2 hours, spent the rest of the day together and then drove back for 2 hours. 24 hours later, she tested positive for COVID and has been poorly ever since; I've tested negative. We've both been tripled jabbed. Having anti bodies seems to be a better indicator than having no pals!

What a ridiculous statement.
I have never had a positive Covid test, however I’m fairly certain I have had it and been asymptomatic.

I have friends and I mostly haven't seen them for two years.
Stupid man.

I do wonder what's going to happen next, tho. I don't want to continue never seeing anyone.

Hmmm. There is a simplistic logic to the idea though I think that to claim that 'those who have not yet had Covid have interpersonal problems' is pretty rude.

Our immediate family consists of 5 households.

2 households have avoided Covid completely, one careful one definitely NOT careful and slow to take up vaccination.

Of the remaining 3 households one has had a 13 year old child affected: he was very poorly and needed a lot of adult attention but no one else caught it. This is a very sociable family who weren't particularly careful about precautions.

The next household has been the most stringent with precautions throughout the pandemic and all 5 in that family has had Covid with one adult having it twice despite all vaccinations and booster.

The 5th household has no children and has been careful with precautions but both have had Covid recently.

Just based on personal experience I'd say that there are other factors at play here than simply swerving other peoples viruses

We do not think we have had it but how can we be sure?
We were asymptomatic, that's different.
This virus is very sneaky

We have plenty of friends and acquaintances. We take part in various activities.
We have not had covid yet. Probably due to a mixture of being careful and luck.

Well, neither of my DC have had it - they are both very sociable. At one point DDiL and both DGC had it, but son, living and sleeping with them, didn't. DD daughter goes into work twice a week, travels on public transport, is a regular theatre goer, and non-mask wearer she hasn't had it either.

We haven't had it and that could be because we have been avoidig people or relying on technology to meet up, but I am shopping every week - and not wearing a mask and DH's music group has resumed rehearsals.

Perhaps Korean culture works differently, but it has been suggested that some people seem to have an immunity to the disease.

Hi can only answer from personal experience but I only just had covid for the first time despite having it in the house twice and working in a school

I’m recovering slowly from an upper and lower respiratory infection. Two lots of antibiotics and steroids. This is week 4 and I’m just beginning to feel a bit better. I did two negative lft.

I see my two adult children, 4 young grandchildren, occasionally I pop into the supermarket for bread, I wear a mask. So mixing not a lot., my GP says here immunity poor post,lockdown. As well as covid, they’re seeing a lot of people with virus/infections like I had

It's not being billy no mates, it's deciding to keep yourself safe by avoiding group situations. I've not had it either, yet, but it's rife in my village and only a question of time.

I felt very vulnerable going to a meeting with twelve unmasked people recently, first time I'd been in group situation since March 2020. I did a LF this morning as my son was coming over, negative.

My daughter has had Covid recently and is still suffering with headaches and sinus problems, the doctor has given her a sinus spray as she has pain on one side of her face.

Last week I had something which presented with most of the classic covid symptoms: pyrexia, headache, sore throat, persistent dry cough, lethargy, etc. As a couple of friends who I see frequently had both gone down with the wretched plague, this was no great surprise.
Daily LF tests came up negative every time so, officially, I haven't had it. But I am convinced I have! My symptoms lasted 4 to 5 days and, 10 days on, the only remaining thing is tiredness and diminished energy.
I think the good doctor is talking nonsense about being Billy No-mates if you don't get it. Just like many other viral infections, you can get it anywhere - social activities, queueing in the post office, bus and train travel, chatting to the postman, etc, etc. And I really don't get this business about not interacting too much with people you don't usually meet. They are no more likely to infect you than people you see every day.

Not having friends =/ you are not out in public around people

JayLou Maybe you have had Covid and not realised, I had no symptoms whatsoever and only knew i was positive because i tested before a friend came to visit. I hadn't been out of the house or had anyone visit for 9 days beforehand. No temperature, no cough, nada until a week after my first negative test when i lost my sense of taste and smell, 5 weeks later i can only smell or taste really strong things.

I've not caught it despite sharing a house/bed/car with people who have had it. Nice to know no one wants to be my friend though, something else to be worried about

I think many of us on GN are more mature and sensible and not as slapdash as the youth of today. So will possible not take the risks that younger people today.
I do think his statement about "No covid, then you have interpersonal problems" is so extreme it is laughable.

I could easily be that you have very thoughtful friends who have ensured they didn't put you at risk Jaylou.

I have a small but precious group of friends, and have never considered myself socially inept.
We have been/are careful but not obsessively so.
We have not had covid.