I first got it a year ago and it was almost exactly 2 days. I was with my family all day on a Thursday, my brother tested positive on Friday, and after work on Saturday I felt like absolute shit all night. Tested myself at 5am Sunday after not sleeping and was positive.

I was at a crowded event, fully masked, still got it two days later. It had to be the event, I was not exposed in any other way. I work from home, so it was just my wife and I. She got it weeks later while at a nail salon. Again, fully masked.

Mine was bad, and over a year later, I am still suffering asthma side effects. To be fair, I had asthma before, but it used to be mild. My wife is still suffering from the lethargy, but she’s retired military on pension, so she can just sleep.

July 2022. The event where I (almost certainly) caught it was on a Wednesday. On Friday I went to a barbecue and had no symptoms, later found out that nobody there tested positive. By Saturday night I was feeling sick enough to cancel a meetup on Sunday, and Sunday morning I finally took the test and it was positive.

Within 12 hours. I flew out to Philadelphia to attend my friend’s graduation for her masters. She picked me up at the airport and said she had an itchy throat and a headache but it was allergies.

Bam, 12 hours later, I was completely on my back, horrifficly sick. Took a test, positive for covid. She took a test, positive for covid.

Her sickness continued as a light sore throat and a light headache. I had a 104 fever and it morphed into a nasty eyelid infection, which I convinced myself was eye herpies after googling images of what mine looked like.

Not eye herpies, thank god, but I definitely broke down in tears at the time thinking so.

Still love her even though she gave me covid.

My wife caught it at work, about six months into the pandemic. Was inevitable, since she works in a grocery store. She woke up with a fever and no sense of taste or smell, and then went downhill with really bad flu like symptoms from there. I started with the same thing the next day. Main illness lasted two weeks, but the worst part was the first week by far. My wife was sick for almost 6 weeks and ended up on an inhaler for a while until her lungs healed. Neither of us got our full taste back for almost 2 years, and our smell hasn’t fully recovered yet either (about 80% now).

We both tested positive again last June, got a mandatory week off work but the only symptom was a mild fever. Wouldn’t have even known I was sick, but a family member tested positive and we’d been to visit so took a test and there I was. I’d been vaccinated by that point, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say the vaccination did what it was supposed to do with keeping me from being sick.

It’s been a couple of years, but I’m pretty sure it was something around 5 days from exposure to feeling my first symptoms. I got it from a large event after people had stopped wearing masks regularly.

It hit me pretty fast and hard as soon as the symptoms started. I went from feeling perfectly fine to feeling very feverish. Checked my temperature and it was over 100F. The first night was the absolute worst for me. Everything hurt, I was both burning up and freezing cold. After my fever broke the next day, I was mostly fine outside of the cough which lasted a few weeks.

2-3 days

3 days, tests were positive when it was already very clear to me

Mid-December 2020. My mom had to attend a reunion with her former workmates and I was pretty much isolated from anyone except my family at that time. My mom’s reunion happened late November, and she started having symptoms early December. Sometime between then and mid-December, me and my siblings got infected. So, around two weeks between getting infected and getting symptoms, I suppose.

I started having muscle pains first, and didn’t really think much of it. My mom was sent to hospital soon after I started showing symptoms, and her condition started requiring hospitalization. My other siblings were all sent to the hospital as well, while I got the entire house to myself for isolation, haha.

Not the best way to deal with things, but we agreed that had I been subjected to the stress of finding a hospital, then having minimal care (if not left in the hallways due to the lack of beds), I would have fared much worse. Fending for yourself while sick at home is better than fending for yourself while sick in a very stressful and crowded hospital setting. My mom got the best care as she got a slot in a private lying-in clinic. My siblings got taken care of by their respective spouses. I managed by forcing some milk into my system as regularly as I could along with medicine that took care of the symptoms.

Spending Christmas eve alone and deliriously sick was quite an experience though. Neighbors and relatives sneaked in a pretty nice Christmas dinner that unfortunately went to waste because I can’t stomach any food at that time.

A day and a half.

3-4 days.

It took me 2-3 days.

Was exposed on a Thursday or Friday or possibly both days from some sick coworkers (can’t remember now as it’s been several months since I had it). Started to get a dry throat on Saturday afternoon but felt otherwise okay. Late Sunday night, it evolved into a really bad sore throat and absolutely massive headache and exhaustion and I developed a fever. Took a test at that point and it was very positive.

Around 2-3 days after exposure at a wedding. The outbreak happened at work (home office). I could feel how my body temperature started to rise and I started feeling bad. Shortly thereafter I had a burning sensation in my lungs and had my first positive test result 🤢

For 2-3 days I felt bad and extremely weak. Then it got gradually better.

I was fully recovered in 6-8 weeks (felt very weak when running in the morning or when doing heavy work). The next 6 months I had a lot of colds which is not normal for me.

It’s shortened over time. Original and Delta, it could be somewhere between 4 days and a week. As I understand it, it’s closer to 2-3 days on average now.

About a day, my dad got it then almost exactly 24 hours after he came home sniffling I was sniffling too and ended up testing positive.