Badger
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I have not had it, DW finally had it last month. I was worried, since she suffers from asthma, but she had fairly mild COVID. We had been very careful all the way (wore N95 masks in any closed spaces with more than a couple of people in it), until 12 days after our 5th dose of the vaccine. We then dropped our guard and that is how she caught it. Back to being a bit more careful, now.
I'm sorry to hear that you DW contracted Covid after all you have done to avoid it. We have also been careful with all shots/boosters, masking every time we are in closed areas, social distancing, etc. None of that is much of an inconvenience compared to the alternative including long covid. So far we have been able to avoid it. We are too old to take the chance and my closest friend is seriously immunocompromised and battling cancer. I don't want to run the risk of hurting his survival chances.
I compare Polls like this one to a gambling poll. You always hear about the lucky ones but rarely hear about all the losers. In the US alone (which doesn't account for all cases) there were more than 103,000,000 cases and almost 1,144,000 deaths from Covid. Globally there were more than 772,000,000 confirmed cases and almost 7,000,000 deaths.
What we do gives us better odds. I need the time I have left to BTD.
Cheers!