Husband has it now and all I keep thinking is, “THIS variant kept us locked down after the bad one went away?” He’s being paranoid to keep from infecting me. While I think that’s very sweet of him, I’ve stopped all worries about getting it and am just fascinated by seeing whether it IS possible to stop the spread of something by such means.
In the “old days” one just took for granted that one member of a family getting something infectious meant that everyone would. If extreme behavior modification for the duration really does keep something contained, then maybe some teeny good might be yanked out of this morass of insanity.
My son got it in early May, and he isolated in extreme fashion so his wife and son wouldn’t get it. They had planned a trip to France for a few weeks later, and she didn’t want that trip to be impacted if he gave it to her.
That worked out great until she went for a manicure and a pedicure 3 days before their trip. Guess what? She got sick almost as soon as they landed in Paris. She was sick in bed for almost their whole trip. She had 2 days there to cram in her sightseeing. Good thing our son was able to go out and get her some cough medicine and food. Helluva way to spend that kind of moolah, not to mention your time, in a freaking hotel room.
Oh, and then our grandson got it when they returned home.
I think they are both less worried about it now.
Actually many times the adults are already immune. My parents rarely got any disease I had, and that’s with intimate care.
But yes, not shocking that more common annual diseases might spread amongst the household.
I had the original variant in Oct.2020 and my wife slept in the same bed, used the same bathroom, fixed my food etc... It was like a weak sinus infection. We both had the Omicron version last July and it was even weaker than the original for me. To be honest I took a home test and it said positive, she never took a test and assumed she had it, so I may or may not have actually had it again. For her, fever for two days and a snotty nose. Neither of us have had the jab and will not take it ever.