Just found out my uncle is in hospital with a low oxygen count and water in his lungs. He’s about 70 and had been doubling up: face mask plus visor. He lives just outside London so perhaps the new strain has got him. I feel so bad for him, nobody can visit and he must be terrified.
Two nephews (plus one nephew’s wife) tested positive. One nephew is non-symptomatic and quarantining, but he’s already at his parent’s house so they’re all quarantining. The other two had mild symptoms, and after quarantine they are nearly 100% recovered.
Mrs. Cad’s friend’s husband, the one on the ventilator and pronated went severely downhill the last 48 hours. The corona-caused brain damage caused his organs to start to fail. So now I know someone personally that has died from covid.
In pace requiescant omnium victimarum
I’m starting to lose track, TBH. Another friend and her partner have tested positive (both with symptoms, his bad, hers weird), and another friend has her son tested positive at the same time as the child of another friend in the same school year - the friend who is the parent of the positive child tested negative. She’s a primary school teacher.
Local schools in London keep shutting down one year or another because they’re in a bubble.
Don’t think I know anyone directly who’s died of it.
Sorry to gear that, sadly this is now also going to be part of every Xmas anniversary from now on.
We had the memorial for my Aunt on Monday - the procedures in place for social distancing made for an unusual event howver it turned out well, with a few smiles here hand there as well.
A younger cousin had it a while ago, was able to stay home but had a miserable time and said it was a good thing the virus didn’t get down into the lungs.
A cousin’s ex-in-law is going through a case of it at home right now.
SIL’s bro-in-law had it and was hospitalized; may have been released; I don’t have an update. His wife had a milder case and stayed home.
Another cousin thinks he might have been exposed via his granddaughter but no confirmation as of now.
In the last month there have been as many new infections among those I know as there had been up until the month began. Still no deaths, knock on wood.
A few months back I heard (with no details) that the youngest brother of a guy I knew from high school was in the hospital with Covid. He must have recovered pretty well, though, because a couple of days ago he made the news for being hit and killed by a car as he was crossing a road.
I know of many, but I work in a school and (in the UK at least) the virus is rampant in schools. Pupils and staff have caught it, mainly in three classes. So far, just one death.
Just found out about another one. One of my cousins, sweetest person you’d ever want to meet, has just been put on a ventilator because of covid.
Good heavens! That is horrible.
Just found out yesterday that another aunt of mine has died of COVID. She was 99 (the first was almost 101). They were the last remaining family members of my parents’ generation. At one time I had 26 aunts and uncles, and they’re all gone now, including my parents and my only sibling.
And now my brother, his wife, and one of their two young children have all tested positive. My SIL has the worst symptoms (loss of taste and smell) but otherwise they’re all doing OK. The concern is for my brother’s mother-in-law who lives in an attached apartment, keeping her away from the grandkids will be critical.
Thats terrible news, condolances to you and your family
Just found out yesterday that the younger sister of one of my closest childhood friends had it. She has Downs Syndrome and lives in some sort of adult group home. Like many people with Downs, she has a history of heart problems. Apparently she was quite sick, but is on the mend now.
I’m very sorry to hear of your Aunt. Best wishes for her and for you.
It’s always a scary thought when you get to be the eldest in your ancestry tree. I’m eldest survivor in my direct tree, but still have a smidgen of prior generation aunts & uncles, and plenty of same-generation sibs & cousins. For now.
In other news …
One of my pals and cow-orkers woke up with a 100F fever today & general flu-like symptoms. Of course he’s in a hotel 1500 miles from home. Now interim quarantined and should get tested tomorrow with results in a few more days. Why yes, he is in Dallas, the urban epicenter of COVID denial. Why do you ask?
A coworker, in another department is recovering from it. She and her husband ended up in the hospital with COVID pneumonia. She’s home, can hardly get around so weak. He’s still not home.
The 20 something son of another coworker who I work closely with did have it, recovered but has lingering symptoms and needs an inhaler. He cannot do his job where he worked in a warehouse freezer environment. Previously healthy with zero breathing issues. Scary af
That’s really not true. Dallas County is deep blue and people in the city proper are taking this seriously. Our county government clamped down early and hard. But the state government undercut all that, and the suburbs and exurbs are a different story (and they come shop here). But Dallas itself has done it’s best.
Sorry to mischaracterize. Almost all the Dallas area employees I or my pal deal with closely hail from the far suburbs north, west, or both. Or live way out in what’s still ruralia, but won’t be in 30 years.
Not a lot of downtown or uptown Dallas proper nor downtown Fort Worthers in the mix.
No problem… They are truly a different group. It’s just frustrating when Dallas has tried so hard and the state government, run by and for the suburbs and rural areas, has undercut us.