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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.
It seems really inconsistent with the amount of time it takes before you become ill.
It seems to vary between 2 and 7 days. Possibly different variants have different incubation lengths.
Yeah. It's possible there's also an element of "strength of exposure" - if we're infected by someone who just happened by, compared to standing and talking to them for a while, there might be a difference in how long it takes to incubate.
Whatever happened, it's a bummer. But, like I said before, we don't have it nearly as bad as so many people did - for us, it's like a severe cold, treatable with OTC medication.
Also, those services where we can order groceries or food and have them delivered to our car are great (we're a bit far out for delivery to our house for things like that).