We had a family dinner for Xmas with my dad and his girlfriend, my uncle and his wife, and a few of their friends. My father and the rest of the people at the party are all in their 70s all pretty active and all of them vaccinated. My dad's girlfriend sounded kinda hoarse when she talked that night, but said she felt fine. I had a bad feeling about that at the time, but I've kinda gotten over the idea of never contracting covid. Time to live life.
Well, come to find out from talking to them this past weekend, everyone had been sick for the past week. Not bad, but cold/flu like symptoms. Since there's no tests around here lately, and they weren't terribly sick, they just pushed through it. But some of the others at the party tested positive.
My wife (not vaxed) got sick, but it was pretty mild as well. Sore throat, runny nose, cough, fatigue. Fatigue and cough seems to be lingering, but other than that she is fine. I had one sweaty uncomfortable night, and ended up with viral conjunctivitis (pink eye). Could it be related to all that? Not sure, never have had pink eye and to have gotten it right when everyone was sick makes me think it's related. Also heard pink eye is somewhat common with covid. Who knows or cares, I will be fine.
If this omicron varient is what blew through that dinner party, I feel confident we will be on our way out of this soon. It was relatively mild for us. However, we have a good friend that has been in the ICU for almost 2 weeks that is not so healthy and has some comorbidities. So if you haven't started, it's time to eat better, move more and start taking care of yourself.