It’s one thing I’ll never wrap my head around (and not directed at your, or anybody specific either, just in response to your “total crapshoot” comment mostly)This isn’t directed at anybody; just anecdotal for me and some of the people I know who have had it recently. Many of us are testing positive 2 days after symptoms start and 4-5 days from exposure. I actually tested negative that morning (day 4 from exposure and day 2 of symptoms) and it lit up within seconds that afternoon. So timing on testing does matter in catching it, so if people are only testing once, they may miss it. I also only had 2 days of mild symptoms, none of which lasted more than 1/2 day on their own. Had I not known I was exposed and testing regularly, I would have never thought it was Covid.
For those who truly have avoided it, I commend you! I made it 2.5 years before getting it and the outbreak the size we had in my classroom, it was a total crapshoot on who got it and who didn’t. I was one of the unlucky ones.
Some folks take every precaution possible and get it multiple times despite doing it all
Others do nothing at all to avoid it, have known multiple exposures yet never get it (proven by antibody tests, not just no symtoms)
Just really leaves you scratching your head. Or at least does me. Maybe I’m the only one