Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.
@violetblue.bsky.social thought you may want to boost.
covid-long.com
That sucks! I'm sorry! I've never tested positive, and had one respiratory event this winter which may have been C19 but no doctor thinks so.
But definitely can't represent myself as part of the control group
Since pre-Covid? *raises hand*
Fully boosted, arrant masker, avoider of high-risk situations. Not sick a day since January 2019 (not 2020), when I was getting over my last chest infection.
I can’t remember the last time I was sick beyond “it was before I had Son” who turns 20 this year. I am also afraid that my immune system, for this very reason, will wreak absolute havoc with me if I should actually get infected with Covid.
Well then you're lucky to have no ongoing issues that present in any of the ways listed, congratulations. Because I did the same through at least end 2022 and I had just about all of em at one point or another
The dozens of us who still haven't had any symptoms since Covid are indeed lucky, and aren't you glad we exist so the study has some controls? Or is "misery loves company" more your thing?
Yeah! I actually came here to poke around and see if anyone said this before I posted something similar (yeah, I'm that guy who googles before asking a question generally, LOL)
But yeah, I have a bunch of these symptoms intermittently and I don't leave the house! And here I thought I'd be a control!
Yeah. I had a bad runny nose last year during peak allergy season. And I'm in AZ and not a native to AZ so these plants, whew. But I'm pretty sure I've never had COVID.
Yeah, this. I've never had a positive test result, but this is the point where I quit the survey. I don't believe I've gone a year in my life without any of those symptoms.
I parsed that as “did you get or think you got covid?” And to that I have to say, no. My recurring nausea has always been unrelated every time somehow.
Yes - this is a terrible start. They ask for specifics once you're in the survey but you can't tell from this page. They really should have qualified this. I'm sure many people skip the survey because of this one page.
Yeah I've never tested positive for covid and don't think I've ever gotten it but I got to this page and am scratching my head. Lots of things that aren't covid have these symptoms? I guess I just answer "No" and assume it's bad phrasing?
Cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, fatigue, headaches, sore throat, congestion/runny nose are all near daily things for me. Never had covid, just live with those things constantly.
warning for those completing this: they estimate about 20 minutes to complete, it took me almost an hour (I'm not actually done yet). The servers are GLACIALLY slow, spending like 30 seconds+ per page submission.
also the captcha submission gets caught up by this too. After completing the RECAPTCHA form and hitting submit, _wait_. If you hit submit more than once, it boots you.
