Close Call with COVID

A co-worker announced that he was positive with COVID-19 last week. To
my dismay, I remembered having lunch with him exactly six days prior.
Not quite a week, but I felt a sharp shiver of worry. That evening
when I got home, I took a BinaxNOW COVID-19 antigen self-test. My wife
took a test also. Fifteen minutes later, the strips reported that we
were negative for COVID-19.

I haven't gotten COVID for the past two years and counting. Is my
vigilence that good? Not likely. I'm certainly feeling the fatigue
and I'm ready to let loose and live a little. But I also wear my cloth
mask to the grocery store, and other small errands.

Who knows? The CDC says that symptoms may appear 2-14 days after
exposure, so maybe that's what happened to my co-worker. He got
exposed at some event earlier than our lunch. But then that suggests
I'll come down with symptoms in the next three days. *GULP* I'm hoping
for the best!