I and my whole family caught covid. Here's the deets:

1. My parents caught it first, since they are elderly this doesn't surprise me. I was with them at their home for 5 full days while they were sick with it (at the time we didn't know it was covid, they hadn't taken a test yet). I didn't catch it for 5 full days of being with 2 covid positive people, stuck inside the house. It takes THAT long and THAT much interaction with covid positive people to even CATCH it. So catching it out in the wild somewhere at walmart or the grocery store is SO MINIMAL it's not even possible. You may ask where my parents got it. Well, my mom probably got it first because she's a nurse and has dealt with a few covid patients, then my dad caught it from her.

2. I didn't experience symptoms until 2 days AFTER I caught it, it takes THAT long for symptoms to appear. And no, those 2 days prior don't mean you're "asymptomatic," that's just the incubation period, 48 hours is about how long it takes for any typical cold or even flu to incubate in your body.

3. I only had 1 bad day of symptoms: body aches, tiredness, LOW grade fever for 1/2 day, itchy/scratchy/dry throat similar to strep, and a ticklish sort of cough.

4. My symptoms after that weren't bad, just like a cold: mostly tired, runny then stuffy nose, dry throat, tickling cough, etc.

5. I have asthma, and before I got covid I really did worry that my asthma would make it worse, turns out it was the opposite, my breathing was perfectly fine despite the cough. I had FAR worse coughing/breathing issues when I got bronchitis for 5 full weeks 4 years ago, now THAT was almost deadly. I went to the hospital 4 times for that, and I didn't have to go even ONCE for covid, it was THAT mild.

6. The worst symptom WAS the coughing, but only because it was that annoying ticklish kind that never really subsides. I drank a lot of tea and took tons of cough drops to soothe it. It's a cough more in your throat rather than deeper in your chest or lungs, no "double coughing." The coughing was mostly better after 10 days, and completely gone after 18 or so days.

7. NONE of my family had to go to the hospital, not even my elderly parents. They fared it worse than my brothers and I but that's to be expected given their age, but it was never so bad that they felt like they were dying or had to be admitted. Anyone who dies of covid or has to go to the hospital because of it are either 102 years old or they have serious other medical issues such as obesity or cystic fibrosis. Normal people, even older people, will survive this thing with an incredibly high rate.

8. After we all had it, NONE of us have gotten sick with ANYTHING, not even another typical winter cold, or the flu, NOTHING! Seems like this thing is so similar to colds and even flu's (flu's are different from colds, but some similarities) that your body builds up a great immunity for all of those things. So these idiots saying "you can catch covid twice" are so full of it. Yes, sure, you can catch anything "twice" but it's not the same strain, this is why we have a new flu vaccine every year, but so far I've seen no actual substantiated evidence of a new "deadlier" strain of covid (that all seems to be typical MSM scare tactics), so once you get it you're set for a while.

---------Hope this helps any and all!