nawazakana wrote:
symptoms take two weeks
FALSE
On average, they set in around FIVE DAYS post-exposure. 97% of patients will show symptoms by eleven days. (
source) Don't spread misinformation, as it creates more fear.
the moose wrote:
If you're already living together, chances are if one of you gets the virus, you will both get it.… I just ask you to be careful…stay safe, and have fun!
If you have cohabitants, one sick person will absolutely infect everyone else unless:
-the sick person is in an entirely separate wing of the house with zero contact or shared spaces (no hugging, kissing, co-sleeping, eating dinner together)
-the uninfected person is already immune
-maybe you've got a hardcore medical fetish and wear hazmat suit all the time which is kept in a clean room, and you have some CDC approved decontamination sequence to prevent you from getting dirty hands on the hazmat suit while donning it
-you're magic
For any normal couple, these are unlikely to be the circumstances, as relatively few people have recovered yet, and the other suggestions are laughable. Having sex with your non-quarantined partner isn't going to be what gets you sick. Having them snore in your face and kissing them at the end of the work day will.
Besides, the OP and I are lucky enough to live in a municipality with under ten confirmed cases, so it's unlikely we're infected in the first place. We have stockpiled (slowly, because we aren't hoarding assholes) enough food and supplies to last over a month without leaving the house, and could easily wait an 11 day window to ensure we're healthy. Additionally, we've been going out only for food for the last two weeks, and, because I understand that Covid can live on surfaces, and the likely average duration of said lifespan, I quarantine anything that comes in the house for 48 hours, so we don't get it off the soup can while making dinner. I'm not a germaphobe. Nope.
Basically, we could eat eachother's boogers, and it wouldn't make any difference. Sex is definitely the least of our worries. Strangulation is a much more likely cause of death.
Any ideas on stuff two healthy people can do with a shitload of toys, trapped in an apartment, for a month?