Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
I think if you were mostly outdoors you shouldn't really be affected that much. Plus if you and your friend wore masks whilst indoors and in the car that would have lessened the chances of you catching Covid, more so if your friend was masked whilst with you indoors/in the car, as the general consensus seems to be that masks help reduce the spread of Covid more from those actually infected by it wearing them rather than other people wearing masks to protect oneself from Covid (and other 'airborne' viruses/bugs).
And the onset of pretty much all Covids post-Delta seems to be about 2 days on average, including the current BA.2.86 (aka Pirola) strain, plus my dad told me that he heard on the news last Friday that the current aforementioned strain is still not reported to be any more harmful than previous strains.