I can totally relate. I just tested positive for Covid last night after 3 years. Not that sick but disappointed to lose that streak

I have to have been exposed almost constantly between my three jobs. I work as a librarian at a library, a server at a restaurant and a shipping clerk at a factory. The last two were essential, so I never stopped working. I also never got sick, despite working shifts with contagious people. If I did catch it, I never felt sick and it was never caught be a test. I've always assumed, that because of constant exposure, my immune system is always getting updated. But perhaps I am one of those rare few who genetically can't catch it. 🤔

Nope.

I managed to dodge COVID for the past 3 years being super careful. I continued to mask in public even when most people abandoned it. What finally did me in was going on a group trip where one person was obviously sick and refused to test or mask. Travelling 15 hours with this person (including sitting in the same row on the plane!), finally did me in. I did wear a KN-95 mask while I was travelling, but did remove it to eat. This was also a case of where wearing a mask didn't completely prevent my getting infected, but reduced the viral load which fortunately resulted in a very mild case for me. My symptoms were a scratchy throat, runny/stuff nose and headaches. The rest of my group who weren't wearing a mask and got infected ended up with a hacking cough, fever, and body aches.

During this whole time I've been out working, never had Covid, make of that what you will...

Caught it for the first time last month. Work made the RTO call and two weeks later I got sick. My coworker next to me seems to be perpetually sick so I knew it was a matter of time.

We're "NOVIDs". We changed the chess board, changed our lives, adapted to the new normal. Switched to home school, left my job, created two business, accepted a lower quality of life, and our immediate family is really close. We're all introverts, wife was disabled pre-pandemic (the reason for our "over the top" response), and we're nerds. Essentially we just peaced out on society. Don't miss it. :)

Really like Andrew Chang,really enjoy his programs,love his voice!!!!

I dodged covid for 3 years also. Fully Vax and followed all the guidelines. My granddaughter and I finally tested positive 2/23

It's weird because I stopped caring about covid in like 2021

Oh Andrew…. You’re so dreamy 💕💕

Andrew, I feel the same way. I dodged it for 3 years and was feeling invincible. I got the 2 vax, but no booster. And then, out of the blue I get it and had to cancel my jobs for the week. However, the symptoms were worse than I expected. It was rather disabling, but I did all kinds of researching and by Day 5 of symptoms, it started to subside. I tried various home remedies and I like to think that 1 or all helped me. It's Day 6 and I'm about 85% back to normal. Lost 4# in 4 days, so I'm cautious not to push too hard and avoid a relapse. Thank you for your Pod.

You should be more concerned with being "vaccinated" and boosted 4 times. lol

Hope you feel better soon Andrew. Am English, live in England, and finally got COVID last October. Unfortunately I'm still left with lingering symptoms nearly 4 months on. Hope you get no lingering symptoms

My favourite know it all expert 👌 real genious

I just got Covid yesterday, and my husband got it before I did. We never got vaccinated, but I was surprised we finally got it after almost 4 years since the pandemic started. I worked at an assisted living facility when the pandemic was at its height, and I never tested positive for Covid even despite being atound people who were sick. My husband worked at many different hospitals and dealt with Covid patients, but he never got Covid either unless we were both asymptomatic. My husbands symptoms were worse than mine...he had body aches/chills, fever, headache, sore throat, and cough. I've only had coughs and fever so far. So update! Now I have congestion and my ear was hurting yesterday. Also, I have lost my sense of smell and taste.

I'm a "novid", as far as I know. I never stopped masking and I'm lucky enough to be able to work from home most of the time. I'm sure I'll inevitably eventually catch it, especially with the number of people no longer taking any precautions, but I'd like to avoid it as much as possible. 🤞

I feel like this is how I've been feeling about society as a whole for a while now. Growing up in the 90s, I did everything 'right'. I worked hard, I treated others respectfully, I obeyed laws. And now that I'm in my 30s I feel angry/foolish because it's like the people who were selfish, broke the rules etc "won". The housing market, the environment, the dating pool/scene, careers and moving up the ranks... none of my efforts really feel like they made me go further or be better off. I also only recently got covid for the first time this past August and it made me feel a sense of control over my own body was gone, so when I got it... I felt pretty defeated and worn down. I just am tired and questioning the way the world is headed and how I can find some peace in what I can control.

This guy is very comfortable to watch. He’s great at his job!! ❤

I avoided it for 3 years myself despite multiple outbreaks at the job I was working including people who sat within 5 feet of me. In November of 2022 I was commuting on the bus here in Guelph Ontario & heard a guy coughing & thought "That doesn't sound good" & 3 days later I tested positive & it went through my job like wildfire. Everyone there got sick right after I did.

Same for me. I finally caught it November 28th 2022. However, I can't seem to get rid of it now! 🤬 Daily headaches, fatigue, stuffy head, no smell. All this time, and it's driving me nuts.

have neruomuscular disease so isolated immediately, started making masks and got Covid March 2020 then again June 22, did all the things and got very sick both times. depressing

My wife and I made it from the beginning in 2020 until last week. Sadly our streak has ended. We can't say we are novids!

im in the same boat....

I can relate. I never had until a month ago I got it

I avoided covid for almost 3 years. I had to as I am immunocompromised. Covid finally caught me in early December. People around me got it as well. I had a very easy time with where as everyone around me who did get sick had a tough time. I attribute this to the fact that I had a booster weeks before. I am glad I dodged it for so long but relieved I got it as well.

ive had it twice.. and i was only sick for 4 days. no cough, no runny nose. just laid out in the sun with a gallon of water.. i felt great being charged by the sun. i have asthma, copd, MVP, and a little chunky..

I got the same exact thing. I have recived all my vaccins shots and that's took me 3 years to finally get covid. I got it few weeks ago. It's was not fun time.

Novid for almost 4 years. Got it caring for my mom who tested positive.

I'm a Novid ... so far. I live like a hermit for the most part and I have kept up with my vaccinations. I have enjoyed the allowed time of solitude but will readjust as necessary to when "things return to normal." I absolutely do not want to get sick with Covid-19. I am somewhat immuno - compromised. I thank God every day for living in Canada and that PM Justin Trudeau's government did such an excellent job of guiding us Canadians through this health crisis!!

Thanks for coming out of your exclusive club. Welcome to the party dude.

Hahaha this comment section is gold!!!! Enjoy your boosters suckered! Unvaxxed with one kidney and no spleen....did I mention never got covid? Hahahahaha

I was NOVID too, but I got it just this week. I hate the feeling having COVID. But getting better now.

and some could of had it and just not known it..

No words. Except get over it. Taxes 4 this. Just mind boggled.

I live alone and Iam retired,I think I dodged it mostly by isolation and wearing a n95 mask when I went out about three times a month,lonely sometimes but I have to think of my dogs and I need to be around for them❤❤

I made it until December 2023 without getting covid, I feel even more upset

Emergency doesn't even test anymore

My mom was a NOVID for 3 years even as a covid nurse. She finally got it this month. I think it's because it mutated. I'm still a NOVID and going strong 💪

When will they do a story about vaccine injury?

Currently infected for the first time 2/23. We were epic novids, introverted people with a small bubble to begin with. My partner finally got it, next came me. The people we have been in contact with? Who should be testing, who could be infectious without symptoms? Yeah, they are simply not testing because they "feel fine".

I had Delta, and I was fully vaxxed when I had it. My wife and kids also had it, and were not vaccinated. I had the worst symptoms of the four of us. Our governments and businesses failed us terribly.

Why are out spreading it around

watching from Grenada in the Caribbean. once you got Covid, you're look out for the zombie virus

I’m a part of an exclusive club as well. No climate change heart attack for me.

I’m still an exclusive member of the “I never got Covid “ Club

Why didn't you get vaccinated and boosted? 😂

What the hell are you laughing/smiling about??

I finally got covid after dodging it for 3 years of wearing a mask and not being vaccinated, because I had already been vaccine damaged from Hepatitis B vaccine and wasn't willing to go through anything like that again or some more. Then my newphew came visiting my 95 year mother and I and using public transport and brought in covid. He got sick, but got better quick. I experienced a really bad 3 day toxic gallbladder attack right after my nephew left which left me really vunerable and I was already infected so of course I got perfect storm sick. I still glad I never got vaccinated. It's bad, but I've been sicker. Miraculously my 95 year old mother who I must cook for even while I am sick is still completely asymptomatic. I wash my hands and wear a mask when preparing food, but we are together in this small house and neither one of us is wearing a mask all the time. My mother did get vaccinated at one point for covid, but no boosters.

I was Novid for nearly 4 yrs and got it last week, i dont even know how i caught it.

Just add water and you are positive results?? How’s the shots working out for you??

Same here - over Christmas.

Quebec has stopped recommending the boosters for low risks groups. Finally. Maybe in BC the light will break through. Stop the shots for kids.

I did none of that. Never mind testing for the sniffles. You have been bamboozled

Can't get it if you don't get tested

I got it but didn't get it. i tested positive but never experienced any symptoms. 3 years of fear for an anticlimatic ending in December when I got it. Only knew I tested positive because I had to do covid tests here in Beijing every 2 days.

I'm glad you are doing better 😍😎

#Novid dude here

I Just got covid too for the 1st time after 3 years,, Ima mask wearer still!!! tested positive on thursday,,, Pissed,,, i dont go anywhere b cuz i am recovering from hip replacement. i went to church sunday and thats where i got it!! Fully vaccinated etc. this strain is seriously contagious!! like me and my hubby are always the only ones wearing mask every where i go,, day 4 i feel good then i feel yucky,,,

Safe and effective

You finally got the ideology

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I was a Novid type 3 until yesterday… 🤣

I caught it after Christmas last year;but I have no regrets about getting the shot 😇😇😇❣❣❣🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

I am super careful, fully vaccinated and did everything I could to mitigate risk, yet I still got it after 3 years. Looking back, going the extra miles to be careful is probably not the smart thing to do. One element that is not talked about is seniors that have been very diligent and have not yet been infected. I would argue that as that group continues to age and become even more higher risk, their bodies' ability to cope with an infection will likely diminish as well and the likely of severe disease will only increase. If anything, you probably want to gain some level of natural immunity while you are still healthy. I also think NOVID is mostly a myth - a lot of people simply don't know that they were infected. I didn't even know I was infected until I decided to self-test using quick test kits that were expiring, not because I had some severe symptoms.

The difference between the % of Americans (94%) having caught Covid and Canadians (66% - a likely underestimate) is the widely accepted mask mandates and provincial lockdowns in this country as oppose to the US combined with higher vaccination rates. Mask mandates and lockdowns are tough medicine but they worked to suppress covid transmission.

Same w me got covide in February I went along way before it caught w me

I also got Covid after 3 years. I got it 3 days ago. It’s awful.

I just finally got covid too, tested positive 5 days ago after nearly 3 years of not having it

Congrats and safe well.

Long covid?

You not alone

I got COVID last July. Only was a mid case for 10 days. Just a cough

Useless mRNA tech

Me too I finally got it

My boss still doesn't understand what covid is either after Three years and he graduated from

seems like an advert for lock downs

Did he say "4 boosters and a mask everyday 😳" WOW. My goodness 😳 I wonder just how many people are in this boat present day 2023? I am so thankful and grateful that I listened to my heart and brain and remained a VIRGIN🙏 may you listen to that inner voice 🙏

I’m still in shock I got Covid though but I wasn’t wearing a mask

that's not why it spreads fast. it's just one contributing factor.

(Has no idea how PCR tests work) "I finally got covid!" Bruhhh🤦🏻‍♂️ Look up Kary Mullis, the inventor of that test you're taking. Get his opinion on his own invention. What he says about the PCR test...

Does not stop transmission.they lied

I would like to know more about the link between covid and the excess deaths around the world. Is this something you can/would look into with this show? It is hard to separate facts and reasonable theories from conspiracy theories that are presented as fact. Is there meat to the excess deaths being linked...and is there also a genuine affect on Alzheimer rates or is it hubub?

I'm still in the NOVID Club whereby when I go out to eat, drink or play I always choose venues with outdoor seating areas and always wear KF94/N95 masks, sanitise and wash my hands.

oab,,okk ,, pandemic is finished

Canada's local Vatnik gets Covid?

Lot of bots commenting!

Hilarious, four needles and still got covid. My goodness , wonder what the needles were for then? I abstained from this experiment and had covid for about twelve hours. Sweaty feet and a sore lower back. Did i say i didnt partake in this experiment? Good luck.

I am angry about getting covid for the first time in January because I got it from a sick person on the plane who coughed and sneezed on me for the 3.5 hrs duration of the flight. He was window seat and I was aisle. I think people should wear masks on all public transport. There are many immunosuppressed people who can only take public transport. I was double masked- N95 and a K95 over it and yet I still got sick. I’ve been in several meetings at work where 60% of my colleagues were sick and yet I didn’t get sick. This haplened constantly. My whole team got sick and I didn’t. So this just solidifies the fact that public transport, where there is no ventilation, is a perfect place for COVID transmission. Worldwide we should be masking on public transport. Edit: the man next to me on the plane was unmasked. The airline said they couldn’t ask him to wear one.

I can relate. I avoided getting it until this week.

The employees in my Walmart stopped wearing masks and testing for COVID-19

Novid!

Keep weĺl! Cheers for that mate 😎 👌

My husband and I just got covid for the first time as well last week. We also were surprised and angry.

This guy needs to leave the city for 2 weeks and live in the real world a bit.

Went for vacation last week and got covid. 4 vaccines still got absolutely demolished

Glad you are well. Next month is my one year Covid anniversary. I had it bad enough it took 11 months to recover. Fully vaccinated, followed health and safety protocols. I also get my flu vaccine every year. Two important problems pre Covid: I’m an asthmatic and I am a complex autoimmune patient. I also had just had my annual bout of bronchitis for 8 weeks. My first time out of the house, we had to go to a big box store. The doctor recommended a super form fitting masks and while in the big box store, I ended up with a panic attack, speed walking out of the store, walking 60 ft away from the store and ripped off my mask, turning away from anyone approaching the store. Apparently I inhaled the aerosols of a very sick individual because within two days I was feeling very bad. Had I not had a CPAP machine, being able to be on it for over 36 hours, I would’ve had to go to an over filled ER. If you are a complex autoimmune patient, you do your best to avoid hospitals because there are so many kids of serious illness one can pick up while there. My beloved Spouse has never got Covid. One theory is that he’s constantly dealing with sinus problems. Andrew, once you reach 55 or so, please inquire about getting the pneumovax vaccine for the kind of pneumonia that kills people. It hits asthmatics really badly.

If very interested in the genetic variant. One of my children brought COVID home from day camp. My partner got sick but our other child and I were fine. We tested and no infection. We were ALL exposed because isolation from a young child isn’t possible. I’m not invincible and will continue to wear my mask in public where it makes sense and get boosters.

My son went all this time without get it and about two weeks ago he got it and badly, he was sick for two weeks, I never got it up to now, I got four vaccines.

You not alone it happened to a lot of people after so many shuts 🙈🙈🙈