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[–] elbrar@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been doing this and still somehow managed to catch it about a year ago. One of the few people at that event that was wearing a mask and somehow I'm the one that gets it...

Don't know if I'm ever going to stop wearing a mask.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cause masks prevent others from getting your diseases.

If everyone else wasn't wearing a mask, then you were prone to getting their diseases.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It happens. Since the beginning of the pandemic I've caught something exactly once, a couple of months ago. I did a PCR test however while symptomatic and it came out negative. So did my wife when she got it a couple of days later. My point is that something got through the defense protocol and could easily have been SARS-CoV-2. I only know it wasn't because I tested for it.