Ask Me Anything - Covid edition

TLDR: Thats the thing, I have NO idea. Nobody around me tested positive and I was mostly home.

Long version: Presumably I caught it in late November or early December. At that time, I had only one meeting with friends. Its a family of 4 where both parents work from home and both kids have virtual school only, and both families quarantined before meeting, and neither of them had Covid before or since (parents were tested several times). Thats IT. I saw nobody else until December 25th when I saw the same family, again, none of them were or fell sick.

Other than that I would take daily walks outside, just like 30 minutes around the block, and always with a mask on. I would change my masks frequently. I always wash hands after I come back and had sanitizer on me, so if I touched anything while I was out, I would wash my hands with gel while still on the walk. 

I would go to a grocery store maybe once every 10 days. Stringent practices there also. Masks, social distancing, hand washing. Never stayed more than 15 minutes, just a quick in and out.

My husband did pretty much the same. We both work from home and are home almost all the time. So one of us had to bring it from the store, OR from the door knob of my apartment building, I was thining that I might not wash hands each time after I walked out of my building - I would wash them when getting back. So I could have theoretically gotten it from there. But there is only 6 of us in the building and from what I know neither of the neighbors had it but yeah they could have had guests, who knows. 

If I were to say where I may have done things incorrectly, it would have been not washing or changing my cloth masks Each day. I would maybe do it every two to three days, since I felt like "well I only used it for like 20 minutes today and was not even inside". I also stopped washing grocery items after bringing them from the store, I mean the cans and bags, not the fruits and veggies, that I keep washing of course.

So yeah, maybe a grocery store.  Brooklyn is supposed to be a hot bed for  Covid these days….

good questions.

1. my husband is home with me and only leaves for short tripps like shopping you know so we both are at each other presense all the time. he has it too albeit pretty much asymptomatic (he is younger and super fit so no wonder).

2. I flew from Europe on the 9th and had a test done before and after and was negative. This had to have happened sometimes after. Why I originally said late November is because thats when I saw the other family.

3. Incubation - well it should be 3-12 days yes BUT we really dont know WHEN I was actually sick, because apaprently one keeps testing positive up to 2 more months after I was told. So since my chest pains were before January, in December, so I am thinking I was actually sick Then, and the test I got now in January was just an indication that I had Covid recently. And my other symptoms after I think could have been caused by the panic and fear of dying.

4. WW - I went two days after my official quarantine ended, since I am only required to quarantine for 10 days, which I did and my symptoms were pretty much gone by then. And the cinema had 3 people at an auditorium for 200. So we were all very far away from each other anyway.

So thats how I figure it happened. I got exposed and sick in December, but I continue to test positive until February. So when they told me January the additional symptoms were psychosomatic or just a residue/after effect of the illness.