The simplest answer is often the correct one: somebody is cheating. Going out to see a friend; visiting a neighbor for 'just a minute'; chatting with the mailman.

I heard a recent podcast (which, I cannot remember) where a family went through a similar scenario. They consulted with an expert, who, after eliminating common forgotten vectors, said that this can happen with bacterial infections dormant in the body which are then activated due to stress-induced lowered immune function. Theirs did not seem to transmit to others in the family, however.

Same here, two weeks in 3 of 4 in our family had mild fevers (99<100) this was end of March. Last week the wife had another bout of 99+ (but less than 100) for a few days. Drive through windows and me going to the store have been our only exposures.

I also discovered my temp is generally 96-97, rarely goes up to "normal".

>Drive through windows and me going to the store have been our only exposures.

Let me reword this for you: "interacting with a teenager who deals with about a thousand people a day, and going to a facility that is frequented by tens of thousands of people a week, has been my only exposure."

Seriously, how is this not comprehensible to people? If you or your family members are going outside, you HAVE NOT been in isolation. You've been interacting with people outside and bringing in germs from your visits.

People go out once a week and thinking its comparable to living on Antartica, I know lockdown is very different from normal life but yet lol

As Jeff Goldblum would say, "Life finds a way."

I'm avoiding Covid conversations as my self-esteem is too fragile to tolerate downvotes. ;) But, if I were opining on the subject, I'd say that masks, social distancing, lock-downs, etc. are absolutely and utterly worthless and unecessary. But, if it makes some people feel virtuous to wear their placebo masks while cowering in the apartments, so be it. As for me, I'll be at the river this weekend tubing with several hundred others, drinking a Corona, and thinking of you all.

Is the irony not lost on you? You're not really avoiding a COVID conversation in your comment...

I think the issue is that we are wearing masks and gloves so despite those protections you still can get sick while maintaining 6 foot social distance and even strictly limiting the time in a store (if ever)... Also the vector is one adult here max.

short of N95 masks, masks don't help you at all. In fact, they make it worse from the standpoint that as you touch it, you are applying various yuck on it to inhale.

Right but 6 feet and more in a highly ventilated store should... so..

Average body temperature seems to have been dropping for a long time now.

Also, validate that yours give consistent readings. There's been some evidence of a bunch of them going out un or poorly calibrated recently and being off by a couple of degrees, and we're not talking about low end models, either.

I don't think it's a big mystery that viruses stay around, inside one of your bodies.