If in doubt - get tested!

@MilkyToast wrote:

I think you have misunderstood the meaning of secondary attack rate. The secondary attack rate for symptomatic cases was 18%, that doesn't mean that the average symptomatic person has only an 18% chance of infecting "others in their household". It means that each person in the household of a symptomatic case had an 18% chance of being infected by that case. So in a household of four people there was a 45% chance that at least one would get infected by the index case (and even then it is confounded by clustering and further transmission).

As stayed very clearly, I was not talking about symptomatic cases.

I disagree with your math but I'm heading out the door so we'll let it stand, and I'll just say that if your fear comes from a dependence on a scenario arising where three family member out of seven are asymptomatically infected and this gives you a less-than-10% chance of someone else in the household being infected with a virus that has a <1% CFR.... well. I guess I'd understand it if one of the other adults in the household were a frail 89 year old with diabetes, kidney disease and COPD, but otherwise it seems like an extraordinarily high level of risk aversion.

Sorry for you and your family's loss . RIP .

Vaccination doesn't prevent it, I have it now.

My 8 year old son caught it first in school.

He was a bit listless and not eating.

We booked us all in for a covid test.

He was positive, me, my wife and 6 year daughter were negative. Then my daughter caught it the next day with bad vomiting all day. Then I got it the day after.

Even after a double Pfizer vaccination I got fevers, chills, congestion, dry cough etc.

Am on day 3 of that with really bad nights sleep. The scary thing was sitting perfectly still in bed at night and my heartrate was 120bpm from my fitness band as covid can affect the heart too.

It's probably the equivalent of a bad head cold now but still not gone.

If we hadn't made the effort to get tested then there's a kid with cancer in my daughter's class who probably would've caught it.

It's totally selfish to not get tested if you've a fever or 2 of the other symptoms.

The kids shook it off reasonably well.

8 year old son... A bit listless and not eating for about 2-3 days.

6 year old daughter, hit harder.. vomiting all day, couldn't even keep water down, you could tell by her face she was very sick. But back to herself in 3 days or so.

And I feel better today, it's only like a congested head cold now but still highly contagious I imagine. Can't see myself leaving the house in the next 10 days (to check actual time) and probably after another covid test.

People who don't get tested and isolate are lacking in moral decency and social responsibility. You can have a nanny state with strictly enforced lockdowns or hope that by lifting restrictions people act like decent members of society and do the right thing on their own. Unfortunately appealing to people to do the right thing voluntarily doesn't always work. They're probably the ones who were protesting over lockdowns too.

Sporina sorry for your loss. Sick of the “as long as I’m alright” attitude of assholes regarding Covid. Selfish f@cks.

That’s not what they’re saying.

They’re saying that if you feel sick, get tested and stay home until better. I think (apart from the get tested bit), that would have applied before covid.