If you've gotten through the pandemic so far without getting Covid, do you feel it was luck or the precautions you took?

I’ve never gotten sick from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. I’ve been tested twice (both negative) and have had 2 Pfizer vaccine shots. But this doesn’t meant that I haven’t been exposed to virus and my immune system just kicked it’s butt. And antibody test from a blood specimen would indicate weather or not I was exposed.

Most definitely the precautions I took. I stopped riding buses and trains to work daily. I only went back to it more than a year later after getting vaccinated. Now we shall see if I get it and how sick I would be if ever.

I did all the right stuff, and am retired and live alone.
Pretty sure luck was also involved.

Pretty sure Rick and I both had it in Feb of 2020 so we got immunity from that.
Speaking of, I’m scheduled for my 2nd shot today.

Working from home eliminated a lot of daily contact. Plus my own precautions masking up and socially distancing, even when it really hurt.

I abided by the effective precautions, but so did the vast majority of people in my state. I believe that had a lot to do with why I didn’t get it. The virus is not as widespread here.

Make no mistake. The virus is here. The variants are here and spreading, but they’re spreading slower, because the vast majority of citizens here wear masks and practice social distancing.

I was tested once and was negative.

Precautions and limited contact with people outside the household.

No idea, although I’m fairly certain we all got C19 in February 2020.

I only worked from home for a few weeks in March 2020, and have been going in since. My wife is a nurse and worked directly with C19-positive patients for months with very little PPE early on. There has been no lockdown here.

Did we all really get C19 back in February 2020 that gave us some immunity for some period of time? I have no idea. The strange thing is that I don’t know of anyone who did test positive for C19 – not even a friend of a friend of a friend. Luck, I guess.

I’m getting my 2nd Pfizer shot on Thursday.

I am retired and live alone and I have been quite careful in following the guidelines so I put it mostly down to my precautions though with a little luck as well. I had my second jab last Saturday and I am still following the guidelines. Things are due to start easing up as from tomorrow.

Precautions, not having to work in person, living in an area that never had extremely high levels of cases…don’t want to jinx it so I’m currently knocking on wood…

We took precautions right from the beginning. And maybe a little bit of luck.

I know several people that have tested positive. One right now has pneumonia, three weeks after testing positive; he is isolated in his house. Also know two people that went into ICU last November; a husband and wife, he survived with bad “brain fog” and she died in the hospital.

@hello321 yes there was a rash of some illness in Jan, Feb of 2020. But they weren’t testing for Covid then.

None of us in my immediate family has had it, yet. I attribute it to both luck, and precautions. My brother had a bout late last year, but made a full recovery. So far, so good.

I’m going to list luck first as I worked in a hospital all but 3 weeks that I was furloughed. I also was 2 floors below the Covid unit. I was very careful, wearing my mask, washing my hands, etc. I’m still careful, but now that I’ve had both of my vaccines, I have been to a few restaurants, but still social distancing.

In my county as of yesterday:

12% of the population has tested positive and 2.3% died.

28% have had full vaccinations.

I know of several people in my congregation who have had it and all being cautious – one man died and his wife had it and survived. I know of a few others who have had it and another one or two who died but none of them were really close to me.

Both.

I think both, for me.

I was home, not going into the office from mid-March 2020 to early June 2020. Then I started going into to work two days a week for four hours per day, and that increased to 3d x 4h in the fall. I have my own office at work, so could go in and stay in my office without interacting with a lot of other people. I was going to restaurants since they opened up here in the summer of 2020, but eating outside until the fall. I credit New York state and Connecticut with Covid guidelines as far as mask mandates for public buildings, so everyone had to wear a mask. I haven’t gone to any movie theaters, even though they’re open now.

When I go out, I shower when I come home (as well as before I go out). I don’t know if that’s overkill, and nobody recommended it, but it’s what I do and maybe it’s helped, maybe not. I don’t wear my street clothes around the house, either.

Nobody that I’m close to got Covid. Nobody that I work with and nobody in my family or any close friends. We’ve all been lucky and we’re all diligent.

I got one shot (Moderna) and I’m getting the second shot this coming Friday.

Both luck and smarts.

Smarts in the sense that I stayed in and didn’t do stupid stuff last year, and wore a mask religiously. And my family group was also pretty smart about things. And I got the vaccine at the earliest possible time.

Luck in the sense that – even with precautions – shit happens. Fortunately, so far, not to me.

Precautions. I didn’t go many places at all, and I masked up and distanced and even added a face shield sometimes. It helped that cases were mostly low where I lived, but when I knew it was likely to spike, like Memorial Day, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, to name a few, I especially stayed home!

Some was luck too. I certainly was not completely separate from society and had incidents where I could have caught it if the other person in the room had had it. I did go to the dentist, which I think was high risk, eye doctor, and had more than one person come too close with no mask on. Not to mention using public bathrooms, which always worried me, but what’s a girl to do?

I’m vaccinated now and taking a lot more “chances” hopefully it isn’t chancy and I am immune.

We too have been cautious from the beginning (I Clorox wipe my groceries for Pete’s sake), but I have no doubt that luck has certainly played a role.

I never wiped down my groceries or any thing else. How absurd.

@Dutchess_III: I know. It feels absurd doing it. But I do love the smell of bleach.

Me too @cookieman.

Both luck and precautions.
When we got off the cruise ship, my wife and I doubled our intake of Vitamins C and D. We also were careful about masking and using hand sanitizer. But luck was in there too.

I never wiped my groceries or mail. I am really big on hand washing and have always had a big backup supply of hand soap (not anti bacterial soap) in the house and at work.

Luck.
I’ve been in airports, and planes, obviously, a couple of times, during the pandemic.
I was prepared and well kitted, but I still think their might have been opportunities for the virus to fuck me over.
But I dodged it.
Haha, motherfucker.

Both my wife and I have had to be tested FOUR times because of my daughter’s rules about seeing our grand-son. Fortunately, all our test have been negative. We have been careful, my wife more than me. So I consider myself extremely fortunate to have never got it and, more importantly, to never have my wife worry about catching it from me. Now we have both been vaccinated.

I finally got the disease last month, but made it a year before getting it. And was out in the public all the time. I don’t believe masks to be effective and question social distancing. So I guess I would say it was luck I made it the year.