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I had chicken pox in preschool.

Never had the flu, though.

Not sure about the rona.

I had chicken pox in kindergarten. Lost out on a trip to the Como Park Zoo because of it.

I suspect that I had the swine flu around LDW 2009. Fever and headache all week, until some ibuprofen broke the fever Friday morning.

The wife and I both got sick in Hawaii three years back.  I'm pretty sure it was influenza, probably from the plane flight.

I had not been that sick in a long time.  Congestion, body ache, coughing, it was bad.  We were in a fancy hotel too.

Most of our kids had come along as well and they stayed well away from us.  The worst of it was about two days and then we were able to at least get up and walk around some.

They're all wearing masks, but masks only stop spit.  Breathing next to someone for >20 minutes, indoors, with no additional filtration, is where this thing is spreading the most.

I suspect masks are a lot more effective than we think. 

I haven't been hearing of huge spreading events in most of the areas where masks are the norm. Healthcare workers haven't seemed to gotten slammed with this. Hairstylists, nail techs, etc likewise I'm not hearing that it's a huge problem. 

Generally where do we hear about big spreading events? People congregating with family or friends without masks. Weddings, funerals. I think even the CDC recently said that a lot of the spread was from small, informal gatherings. 

If masks weren't doing much, the people in the service economy would be absolutely hammered, and I haven't heard that being an issue. 

I suspect masks are a lot more effective than we think.

I haven't been hearing of huge spreading events in most of the areas where masks are the norm. Healthcare workers haven't seemed to gotten slammed with this. Hairstylists, nail techs, etc likewise I'm not hearing that it's a huge problem.

Generally where do we hear about big spreading events? People congregating with family or friends without masks. Weddings, funerals. I think even the CDC recently said that a lot of the spread was from small, informal gatherings.

If masks weren't doing much, the people in the service economy would be absolutely hammered, and I haven't heard that being an issue.

I don't know, maybe?  But I'm not so sure.

My hairdresser caught it and that's when I was contact-traced, back in May.  All masks all the time,.

Waiters have been going down like flies in a hurricane here, since restaurants reopened in May.  So have the staff at the back of the house.  My sister is a server and probably 50% of her friends in the industry have caught it.  She stopped working because she was afraid of catching it.

It's not getting a lot of airtime, because those people tend to be younger and aren't ending up in the hospitals and ICUs.  They catch it, and are either asymptomatic and wait it out, or have mild symptoms and wait it out.  Either way, they're back at work after two weeks.  This has slowed down somewhat in recent months, but I think it's mainly because that population is effectively reaching herd immunity.

It's true that docs and nurses don't seem to be coming down with it at rates I might have otherwise expected, but they also have access to more and better PPE than the average service worker does.

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I'm sure I already had it.  Pretty much everyone has.

I think masks are useful, but not perfect by any means for obvious reasons noted above.

This comes down to statistics and even some smaller reductions in transmission routes play out to have large impacts over time.