So, three for me so far.
A nephew and son and daughter of a niece. They were all low risk and it was like a flu.
It’s likely others I casually know had it and simply never told me.
My sister got it.
I’ve only had one employee get it, but I have had quite a number of clients who have. I did have one acquaintance who tested positive, but never showed any symptoms.
No one in my family, that I am aware of.
A younger ex-coworker came down with it a few months ago, but didn’t bother to quarantine because she was busy and it wasn’t too bad. She recovered but her carelessness infected the rest of her family. Her mother now has long Covid and her younger sister died, leaving a year old baby.
Many people. Most importantly, my sister and mother. My sister was very ill and my mother died.
Both my nephews, one is a doctor and one is nurse, got it. A few co-workers, and other relatives.
Got interrupted. A friend’s son-in-law had a very mild case. He quarantined at home (750 sq ft apartment*) with his 2 young children and wife. He was the first dispensary worker to fall ill, his job was closed for 2 weeks and he is the reason that you cannot buy pot without wearing a mask in most of Arizona.
About half of a local church congregation. Social distancing didn’t matter in church because God was there protecting them. Two died.
A friend who was so careful she made me look careless. She thinks the only place she could have gotten it was at her doctor’s office because she hadn’t been inside a building except for her own home for the last year. She didn’t get hospitalized, but she was a real sick puppy for a couple of weeks.
*before the world ended, they didn’t mind how small their apartment was because they spent so much time using the playground or swimming pool or weight room or arcade, etc.
My spouse’s family: her aunt who works with prisoners got it, didn’t take quarantine seriously (though she was off work), was sick similar to flu, and is a Covid denier.
Two of her cousins had it last spring. They live in a big apartment building in NYC. They were quite sick but not hospitalized, and thought they were going to die. They were told not to leave their apartment, but could not get deliveries past the lobby of the building. It was crazy.
A young coworker of mine had it and was very sick, but not hospitalized. I think she was out for at least a month.
It’s possible my grandmother died of it. We haven’t gotten any info on her cause of death. (There’s a bit of a rift with that part of the family – usually they kept us reasonably informed, but I’m not sure what info they even got.) She was 100, living in an assisted living facility, and we were just informed that she had died, a couple months ago.
I have had two illnesses, either of which might have been Covid. I’ve been tested once, which was negative, during a third illness. The most recent one I should have been tested, but I just couldn’t motivate myself to do it. I still have lingering symptoms a month or so out.
I’ve known a couple of people who have had it, mild cases.
But - a woman in our extended family (wife of a cousin of my wife), early 30’s, nurse, spent over two weeks in the hospital, after suffering with it for a week or more previous to that. I’m not close to her, so I don’t know how bad it was, but two weeks in the hospital? - that’s got to be bad.
I’ve posted about a coworkers son who a couple months ago was having a terrible time post covid. Problems with breathing and lung issues he’s now has been recommended to a cardiologist regarding serious concerns with his heart. Previously healthy mid 20’s male.
His mom amazingly had not caught it. She works in retail, does hair in a salon and in peoples homes works in a school as welll. Never wears that damn mask correctly either never stops talking. I know a few others who did catch it. Older in their 60’s. Had a rough go of it.
Broken down at a household level:
So, sixteen people whom I know personally, that I can think of off the top of my head, though all have survived, and most have recovered fully at this point.
I also have three friends whose fathers died from it, all early in the pandemic, but I didn’t personally know any of the fathers.
Friend’s uncle passed away from COVID last year. Friend could not leave the country to attend the funeral.
Sister in law, a couple nephews, uncle and aunt. That’s off the top of my head, for family.
At least 5 coworkers. Probably more.
Five or six students who told me.
Couple friends and their families.
Only know one person that died, so far, and didn’t know him well.
Most people I knew with it were not too badly off.
I probably know about twenty people (that’s people I’m close to, not colleagues of colleagues). I have one colleague in Dublin, aged about 50, who was seriously ill in hospital and is now suffering from long covid. She caught it at a small family party over Christmas, and felt very uncomfortable about it at the time.
And my mother-in-law caught it in her care home in December. She died recently - not directly from covid, we don’t think, but it certainly quickened her demise.
Still pretty removed from me. Closest is my favorite coworker’s nephew. Only 31 but he’s on a ventilator.
My son, a neighbor couple, a few people at work. None high risk, all had mild cases, thank dog.
Myself, my GF, most of her family (nothing to do with her having it), and I’d say about a third of my friends, depending on how you define friends, I guess - I’m not counting vague acquaintances. It’s common enough that it’s not really very remarkable.
I do know quite a lot of people who have to go out to work, though, or one of their household members does - lots of teachers, healthcare and social care workers. The ones where they (and their partner if they have one) still work from home seem to have mostly not got it. Only one was admitted to hospital, but one - in her forties, previously healthy - seems to have long covid, and a few were pretty ill.
A relative of a cousin of my FIL caught it and died from it several months ago.
My BIL’s SIL. She was hospitalized for a couple of weeks but survived.
A couple of coworkers, both recovered fully.
Right now my 16yo son has it. Sick since Wednesday, he has mild symptoms. My 13yo son is now showing symptoms and I will be taking him in tomorrow for testing. Both of them are showing mild symptoms. So far (fingers crossed, knock on wood) neither my wife or I are showing any symptoms although I will be getting tested tomorrow as well.
Hope your boys recover fast and you’re both negative.
One of my son’s teacher’s tested positive. He had to stay home and go to online schooling for 8 days (including weekends), and then if he tested negative (he did), he could go back. DH had been vaccinated (healthcare worker), but I hadn’t, so I got tested too (negative). Teacher was back after 12 days, and said she was never very sick. Apparently none of her students tested positive.
Coworker, and her husband. She continued to work over Zoom, and looked a little tired, but said she didn’t feel too bad. Husband was hospitalized for several days, though. OK now.
Whole family of a kid I teach over Zoom tested positive, but all pretty young-- parents in 30s, kids 11 & 7. No one had serious symptoms.
I had that weird thing over the weekend in February I never did know what it was. I guess I never will. Fully vaccinated now. Sore muscles in back and shoulders morning after the shot, but fine by noon.