A friend recently died of covid, in Toronto. He was 45. 
Of the ~15,000 active pilots at my employer we lost our very first to COVID a few days ago. He happened to work at my location in my role but I didn’t know the man. I don’t know his age, but from his demographics I’d ballpark it like mine, early 60s.
Given the heavy exposure we’ve collectively had and continue to have to time spent in public, in airports, in hotels, in restaurants, and in airplanes, that’s pretty impressive to have gone this long before losing anyone.
I don’t have any info about any deaths among our ~35K Flight Attendants. But HQ has all along been reporting that the COVID infection rates of pilots, FAs, and the general US public have all tracked pretty evenly since the git-go.
Sorry to hear that - but its a lesson for us all, it hasn’t gone away and precautions are still wise
Aw jeez, that’s awful. So sorry to hear it.
Thanks. He was a talented teacher at the college level (he was supposed to accept a prestigious teaching award this June) and he was a influential, in a good way, in several communities. A kind and generous man. He will be sorely missed.
So today a cousin of mine (around 70, haven’t been in touch and didn’t even know he had it) died from COVID and a high school friend of mine (around 45) was diagnosed with it.
At this point, is there anyone on the SD that:
everyone they know hasn’t gotten covid?
doesn’t know anyone who has died from covid?
I know one person who’s gotten COVID, and none who have died.
Until last week I only knew one person who got it and no one who had died.
Then my wife and I got it. We’re not going to die, but for a few days might have wished for death. Even with vaccines, it was a nasty little virus.
My employer, a private law firm, is highly vaccinated, almost 100%. One partner has had COVID, and now proclaims himself immune so he doesn’t need to be vaccinated. But I don’t know which one of the partners this is. I can guess, though. We have a pugnacious old litigation partner who won’t wear his mask around the office like the rest of us do. I bet it’s him.
I know probably twenty or thirty people who have had COVID, but no one who has died.
I don’t personally know anyone who has had or died from COVID. That’s probably because I have lived in Northern Ontario and PEI, both of which have fairly good numbers (from the US perspective, fantastic numbers). Still, given that I have a rather large extended family I’m surprised no one has a least had a case yet.
I know several people who have had it, including two who were quite sick; but I don’t personally know anyone who has died from it, thankfully.
Weird thing for me, I know 5 people who had it, and 100% of them were breakthrough infections (or claim to be).
I don’t know if this is just a quirk of probability or something else. If I had to guess another theory, it seems like most people in my area (or circle) got the vaccine and then abandoned all other precautions. Understandably, as this was in that brief shining moment in Summer '21 before most people knew that breakthroughs are real and Delta is spreading like wildfire.
Replying to my own post, in a thread I started in March 2020: Both of my cousin’s kids did have COVID, as did the boyfriend, and they all made complete recoveries.
Up until now I only personally know three people who have had COVID, and while I never directly asked them about their ordeals, from secondhand accounts it seemed they were quite sick (one of them reportedly feeling like she was near death), but all of them eventually recovered.
It’s also possible that I had other acquaintances who had it, but never told me and no one else told me about them.
If we’re playing Six Degrees of COVID Deaths, then the closest I’ve gotten is degree 2 - one of my friends said one of his friends (whom I never interacted with) died from it.
The person I know who’s just getting over COVID says she wasn’t sure she’d live through it.
It’s also Degree 2 for me: one of my father’s friends went from background-status (hardly healthy) to dead in about 3 days. However, he was extremely high risk anyway, because he was 78 years old, obese, had uncontrolled diabetes, and while Dad never saw him drink, believes that he was also an alcoholic.
I don’t know of anybody personally where I live who got diagnosed or died.
My parents, who live in the PNW lost a friend to Covid in March 2020 and know some people who had it and survived.
Last week somebody from their church died. He was in his 70s. Not vaccinated.
I just found out that one of my best friends and his wife got COVID after they had been vaccinated. The tale he gave was that they had a visitor who of course wanted to go to some of the more popular areas near where they live and well, the visitor ended up being fine, but both them came down with it. It was not fun for him or his wife.
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