Still haven’t had it, but had a close contact a few days ago, so I’m just curious.

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    My wife and I are just getting over it. Not too severe for us, fortunately. She missed two days of work last week over it, and I would have missed Friday and Saturday if I hadn’t already been off. (We work from home.)

    We’re not sure where we picked it up. 5 days before she started feeling it, we were at a restaurant that seemed like a potential candidate, but most of the comments here seem to be 2-3 days, so maybe it was something else. We weren’t really in close contact with other people during those times - even that restaurant wasn’t that busy. Maybe one of the servers there had it, or maybe it was something else.

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      It seems really inconsistent with the amount of time it takes before you become ill.

      It seems to vary between 2 and 7 days. Possibly different variants have different incubation lengths.

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        Yeah. It’s possible there’s also an element of “strength of exposure” - if we’re infected by someone who just happened by, compared to standing and talking to them for a while, there might be a difference in how long it takes to incubate.

        Whatever happened, it’s a bummer. But, like I said before, we don’t have it nearly as bad as so many people did - for us, it’s like a severe cold, treatable with OTC medication.

        Also, those services where we can order groceries or food and have them delivered to our car are great (we’re a bit far out for delivery to our house for things like that).