3 days. Felt like shit, I immediately knew something was wrong and that it wasn’t a normal cold, so I did a test and it came out positive.

Couple of days. Was sitting on a plane leaving Omaha, we were about a year and a half in so it was fairly safe to travel then, but we still masked everywhere. That didn’t stop big boomer billy from refusing to put on a mask and coughing on my wife and I for the duration of the flight. We were both vaxxed so we pulled through, but it still sucked.

I heard something like “90% of cases will start symptoms within 5 days” or something. Still, take a test, maybe try to stay home for the next few days if you can, and if you must go out wear a mask just to be safe to try to not spread it to anyone else. My immuno-compromised family thanks you for that.

And if you did get it, as long as you’re vaxxed you don’t need to worry. Prepare for a bad flu, the first week be ready for a bad fever, but queue up some movies/TV and plow through it.

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.

About a week.

Someone in the office had covid and for some fucked up reason decided to come in anyway and then get sent home but he was in the office for about 45 minutes before he was kicked out.

He was an anti-vaxxer and so kept saying it was just a cold, but even if you believed that why would not just take the opportunity to have a month off work and still be paid by the government? Idiot.

Then I got sick about a week later, and I know it was from him because at the time I lived by myself and I drove my car to and from work so I was never interacting with anybody else.

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.

Never. We had a work lunch and one of the guys a few days later said “I just tested positive for covid, better test”. About 2 days later I was testing positive, but none of us in the household ever had any symptoms other than testing positive (about 4 days in, the LFT was going bright red as soon as the liquid reached the test line). None of us ever had so much as a sniffle. The guy we got it off was really rough for a few days.

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.

3-4 days.

Still haven’t had it

You almost certainly have. A substantial minority never develop symptoms. It’s one of the things that makes it spread so easily. If it made everyone very sick they’d all be safely tucked up in bed and not spreading it.

There is no useful answer to your question. Some people develop symptoms very quickly, some people are asymptomatic for a period, others remain asymptomatic throughout.

If you think you’ve been exposed and you could put others at risk, do a test. False positives are common but they’re better at picking up people who are very infectious so that’s something.

If you want to know if you’ve had it, there are antibody tests which check for antibodies from infection rather than vaccination. (Example for information, not a personal recommendation.) They’re not 100% accurate but a positive is most likely a true positive, given that the vast majority of people have had it by now. They test for two types of antibody, IgM and IgG. IgM should only show up during or immediately after recovery from an infection, IgG turns up later in the course of an infection and sticks around after recovery.

As far as I can tell, I’m still a novid

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.

Picked it up at the gym towards the end of 21 for the first time. After a night of mild drinking watching a game a few days later I woke up thinking I was somehow extremely hungover off 3-4 beers. It lasted too long, assumed it might be allergies too. Headache, lack of appetite/unsettled stomach, weak, sore throat and tired. Tested myself towards the end of the first day of sumtpoms, was positive. It lightening up after a couple days, didn’t feel right for almost a week though.

I definitely had it again about a year ago. More like bad allergy symptoms. Headache, sore throat, felt a little “foggy”. Tested positive and it passed mostly in 24-48 hours.

I have fairly bad winter cedar allergies that the symptoms of often line up with covid. I wouldn’t doubt I’ve had it a few more times mildly in the last year or two. I go out in crowded public spaces like the gym a lot and haven’t worn a mask in a long time. My impression of the more prevelant strains lately are what the Republicans wished the first waves were (the first time I likely had omecron, it sucked). A mild flu or a head cold. Just quarantine and if the symptoms last more than 24hrs try and get your hands on a test.

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.

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.

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.