Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   My family ChiCom virus saga Date:   1/13/2022 9:43:47 AM

I suspect had you been tested it would have been positive for the virus.  The real question in my mind is whether having Omicron will give me antibodies that protect against the earlier variants.  In the news they keep saying Omicron is the dominant variant although I suspect the only way they know which variant it is by the symptoms.  Omicron seems to be upper respiratory while Delta and earlier versions attacked the lungs.....hence the fewer hospitalizations, etc.  And don't believe all the nonsense about hospitals being overrun.  The majority of those are in the hospital for something else and were tested and were positive for the virus.  And ICU's are deigned to be operated at 90% capacity, otherwise the hospitals lose their butts on those units.

I'm not sure how well we handled it given we all got sick.  I think the problem with this variant is that you are contagious when you have very mild symptoms....for us the scratchy throat.  Had we realized that earlier we would have been more careful to isolate at the first onset of symptoms.  Either way, this virus is highly contagious.  I don't ever recall one that got our whole family.