It's really weird, reading all the stories. My 19 year old started feeling bad with cold symptoms on 12/29, he went and had a rapid test, negative. He lost taste and smell on Saturday, a few days after test. He didn't bring up to me until Sunday night when I asked how his food tasted and he told me he hadn't been able to taste food since Saturday. We had been hanging out all day watching football, even using same tv tray. On Monday he went to work for some reason and when he filled out his check in form he noted his loss of taste and smell, they sent him home. He did PCR that day and was positive. Quarantine time, as added bonus my 74 year old mom lives with me. He stayed in his room and the bathroom he used was off limits to everyone else, I took him food and stuff. I was not that great about staying away from him, I would go in his room, have conversation and I never had any issue, neither did my mom. His taste and smell was back after 5 days, and the original cold only lasted 2 or 3 days. Makes me wonder if he had lower viral load or something else since neither I or my mom got sick. We both had really bad colds, like for weeks , and lots of doc visits trying to figure it out, negative for strep and flu, but that was back in Feb. 2020, so who knows?