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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by bsder on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:30PM (#25482317)
Welcome to the Thanksgiving bump. People didn't listen and stay home. And, if they got together, they didn't wear masks.

I got Covid from community transmission. I quarantined in my house, away from my wife, and wore a mask 24/7.

She didn't get my Covid.

Masks work, but people have to bloody well use them.

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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by dehrmann on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:17PM (#25483276)
> She didn't get my Covid.

Out of curiosity, did she get tested? What about for antibodies?

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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by bsder on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:13PM (#25483795)
Yes, she has been tested for active Covid about a half-dozen times with both the fast (15 min) and slower tests. We wanted to make extremely sure she wasn't an asymptomatic carrier who could give it to her elderly parents.

She didn't get tested for antibodies as the health system has far more important things to deal with right now in the US, unfortunately.

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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by irq11 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:12AM (#25484282)
I spent a week in a small apartment with someone who had symptomatic Covid. Close contact the whole time. Neither of us wore masks.

I never got it.

An anecdote means very little, and certainly is not evidence that masks work without controls for every other thing that might have prevented you from getting infected.

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