My friend just got released from the hospital. Very touch and go there for a while. I have a small circle of people I’d find out about readily, there must be a lot of people who have been through this that I’ve met and interacted with over the years that have suffered through or succumbed to the disease. I’m sure over our remaining years for us geezers the answer to “What ever happened to Joe/John/Joan/Jill/etc?” will too often be “The Covid got him/her”.
My brother-in-law and my niece both got it. My niece was fairly ill for a while, but is “recovered” now. In quotes because she has lingering breathing issues and is still using inhalers to manage them. She had daily (or more) video check ins with her medical team, but they did not want her in the hospital if they could avoid it.
I’m in self-imposed isolation for the next 5 days. Woke up this morning having like 4 of the top 5 symptoms (maybe more, these grapes seem pretty tasteless but they are kind of out of season). Actually it started last night but I figured the tight chest / shortness of breath was due to the smoke from our Colorado wildfires catching up with me.
Getting tested tomorrow and 3 days of waiting. In the meanwhile no shopping and moving into the home office to sleep. I feel bad because we went to a Halloween party Saturday and I really don’t want to have contaminated everyone.
I just heard my 90-year-old grandma has it. She’s in assisted living, and has been in lockdown since March but one of the workers seems to have brought it in.
She’s my step grandma, and grandpa is dead, so our family is not really privy to her medical info. I do know she is physically healthy (no heart or lung problems) she just has the mind of a 90 year old. Her only symptoms so far have been lack of smell & taste.
I also heard that one of my 5 fellow city council members got it. Don’t know which one as that info is private and they are not sharing with us. But everyone has been present at all our video meetings so I assume whoever it was has recovered.
I had started the thread with this title because the news was bombarding us with this new epidemic, and most people, it seems, just didn’t know anyone who had it.
In the meantime, it seems that either people can think of nobody, or very few people, who have been officially diagnosed, or pretty much everyone, if not someone in every household in their area, has been diagnosed, and they’ve witnessed multiple people experience serious illness or die in the end.
Do you know how you might have picked it up? How are you today?
Had the test today so I’ll know in three days No clue how I picked it up.
An older gent at a bar I frequent died from it, that said he was at the bar basically every night.
I’m from Bucharest, Romania. It is 9 a.am. here now. My wife and I have just had the Covid antibody test - it looks like we have been infected but are no longer longer sick. It probably happened months ago.
My wife and I have been working home since the beginning of the outbreak. However, three months ago we went on a vacation in the Transylvania area, where I had obvious symptoms but my wife only sneezed more frequently than usual. She’s a sneezer because of some allergies. When we returned home, I showed the typical symptoms: breathing difficulties, general weakness, lack of smell, altered taste, and throat mucus. Man, that mucus almost made me puke whenever I spit it out. After a while I felt fine though - the weird taste being the only symptom that lingered.
I don’t know how long the antibodies we have developed will protect us from now on. We still work from home and do 90% of our shopping online. My wife’s brother, who lives in a different city, became ill about 3 weeks ago and made a very serious form of this disease, where he needed to be oxygenated and go through ample treatment in the intensive care unit. He’s at home now, and we hope he will get better soon.
Not that I know of, which sort of illustrates how this illness (most infectious diseases, I’d guess) clusters.
I also don’t know anyone who’s really old, the people likeliest to get visibly sick. All my grandparents and great-aunts and uncles are dead.
Canada passed ten thousand deaths yesterday; of those, over eight thousand were old people in long term care and residency facilities, which should go to illustrate how hideously dangerous this is to them.
I’m just disgusted with my area. We have state leaders that are questioning if this pandemic is real, our region is a major hot spot, the large hospital is full and on top of this, the regional health district just decided to rescind their mask mandate. Not that that mask mandate made a difference. I live in the land of FREEDUMMMMMMBBBB!!! Maskholes are everywhere.
At the beginning (March), a family friend died from COVID. I hadn’t talked to him in 20 some years. Other than that, it’s only friends of friends. My boss has a friend who was diagnosed. Many friends have had to get tested because they were in contact, but none of them tested positive themselves.
So I still don’t know anybody, except that family friend.
I now have one of my best friends in hospital with it, two more friends I saw recently were diagnosed, another friend’s husband has been diagnosed, and an old friend (aged about 55) has died of it. That’s the news since I last posted, five days ago. I’ve heard of other diagnoses of friends of friends, too many to count.
Surprisingly, although I know a lot of teachers and medical practitioners, they’re not among the fallen so far, except for the husband of my friend, and he wasn’t actually working as a teacher at the time. The friend in hospital has been working from home since March and got it on one of her few trips out after lockdown.
I’m in isolation till Saturday due to a diagnosis of a close contact two weeks ago. No symptoms, though, and I don’t think I have it.
Woot!! Negative!!
Just a really bad cold.
I’m now up to two people I personally know, and now my mom is awaiting test results.
Sounds like the Black Hills area (SD) is starting to get hit pretty bad… Gee, I wonder if the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally had anything to do with that?
FAkE nEwS!! laMe StrEam mEdiA!!
A couple of months ago, one of my cousins and his girlfriend both tested positive in the Houston area. They blame it on the girlfriend being required to report back to work, where a co-worker reportedly gave it to everyone in the office. Both seem to have recovered.
My step-grandson tested positive last week in Rhode Island. It was only a matter of time. According to his Instagram posts, he hasn’t been taking the pandemic seriously at all (such as eating out in restaurants with large groups, none of whom have been masked). He lives with his mother, who is showing symptoms.
Yesterday l learned that one of our construction inspectors reported that his daughter had symptoms and tested positive, so he was quarantining. Today I learned that the inspector has also tested positive. I last had close contact with the inspector (i.e. a conversation with both of us masked) 13 days ago.
I found out last night a friend of mine in another state has COVID. So far, he hasn’t had to be hospitalized.
That makes 10 people I know: 3 in WA, 5 in WY, 1 in Louisiana, and 1 in Illinois. Two deaths.
Secondary or even tertiary cases, perhaps.
I’m kind of surprised I don’t know more people who have or have had it. I live in LA, which has had a high infection rate since early on; I also have a lot of family in New York. I have one friend who caught it back in March coming back from a trip; she had a mild case and recovered. I have a new co-worker who also had it in March, before she moved to the area. One of my scuba instructors with whom I only really keep in touch on Facebook had it a couple months ago, he wrote that it kicked his ass but he seems fully recovered. My husband’s aunt had it but managed not to give it to her husband. Those are the only people I know personally; none was hospitalized, none died. I feel nervous, like my devastating loss is still to come.