Our building has 15 people living in 8 apartments. 13 are vaccinated.
Just found out the other 2 can now get certificates as “recovered”. He ended getting picked up by an ambulance and spent 9 days in the hospital. His wife did better.
So they saved themselves some money - they no longer have to get tested to go to restaurants. Vaccination would have been easier.
Honestly, and I’ve said this before, the lack of a solid PSA campaign from day 1 was one of the biggest failures of the pandemic.
As far as this thread goes, over the last 20 months I think we are surely at the point when we need a “Anyone NOT know someone who has had COVID?” thread instead. And Omnicron may make a “Anyone NEVER have COVID?” reasonable in a few months.
@Rushgeekgirl any updates?
My cousin is finally awake and off the ventilator. He was on it for 9 days. His mother, who is chronically ill with heart and lung issues, won’t be able to see him for at least 21 more days as he is still contagious.
In other news, THREE women who grew up on the street I live on have died in the past week. They were all 59 years old. I know for sure one died from covid, I am only assuming the other two did as well.
Glad to hear. Will be holding him and his mother in the light 
My wife’s airline pilot niece has it, so the airline has grounded her. She and her husband are rabid Trumpers and refuse to get vaccinated. How can people politicize their health?
My dad and I were having a conversation the other night about my ventilated cousin. Then we switched to talking about a musical event I do every year that involves a lot of musicians playing wind instruments. I said I wasn’t going this year and they might cancel it again. “Why would they cancel it?” he asked. “There is a pandemic,” I replied. “I thought that was over,” he said. Completely serious. Not 60 seconds from talking about his dying-from-covid nephew.
Maybe we should park vaccine RV’s at funeral homes.
That’s actually not a half-bad idea.
Negative test results in hand I’m back to work tomorrow. I will never know if I have Omicron to thank for the relatively minor case or if it was the vaccine I got almost a year ago.
congrats!
I’ve now lost two friends in their 50s to COVID. The first was in excellent health and the second had 4 risk factors. We lost him today. I nearly lost my sister to COVID also.
I’m at the point where I want all the scumsucking anti-vaxx propagandist to go to jail for murder.
I can still count on one hand the number of people I know personally who have had COVID. I don’t know anyone who has died from it, or even wound up in the hospital. I really don’t think we’re that close to “does anyone know a single person who hasn’t had COVID?”
Huh, i hadn’t known anyone with covid for a while, basically since vaccination (before that i lost two relatives and a friend) but with omicron I’m hearing of people with covid again. My mom mentioned that my nephews have it. A friend texted to ask if i want to do virtual TV with him again, as he’s quarantining since his son has it. My DIL’s SIL…
I figure it’s just a matter of time until i catch it, despite having gone into hiding again.
I’ve known lots of people who have had it. Some were somewhat “Stay at home pretty sick for a while”, some were “a little sick for a few days”, and some had it but didn’t know until they later got an antibody test (I’m one of those).
My 90 year old mother almost certainly had it but was never tested; she developed a cough lasting several weeks and lost her sense of taste in the very early days of the epidemic, before any of us had heard of Covid. Several of us who visited her in the hospital where she was being treated for colon cancer got the cough but no other symptoms; Mom never regained her sense of taste and died of complications from the cancer a year or so later. My father (94) got it in the nursing home several months after Mom died; he “felt a little sick” for a few days and lived for another year without further complications from the Covid.
I knew one couple my own age (70+) and their 50+ son who died of Covid last year; all three were living together and were all obese and diabetic.
Got a call yesterday informing me that a 70+ cousin and her husband who now live in NC are on ventilators and not expected to survive; was told death was ‘imminent’ so they might be gone already as I type this. Both are obese, diabetic, and have had long-standing heart issues and other health problems.
I’ve heard (but certainly can’t prove) that there are now over 150 million Americans who have antibodies; natural immunity may be closing in on the herd.
Considering how many previously infected people are getting infected again, I doubt that.
Yeah, sadly, omicron evades most prior immunity. You need immunization plus a prior infection or a booster to have much shot of avoiding omicron, although immunization or prior infection gives you an improved chance at a mild case.
My DIL’s brother’s girlfriend has it for a second time, and was also immunized. I assume she’s more susceptible than some. But still …
My sister and her fiance (he has long covid), 6 of my cousins (1 hospitalized), my nephew, and my trivia partner all had/have covid.
My friend’s father (who was also my sister’s prof in college) died of it.
After nearly two years, I finally can lay claim to knowing not just one but TWO people with Covid. Found out on Xmas day that a nephew living in London has it, and later that day an ex work mate told me she has it too.
I don’t know the vax status of either of them, but they haven’t needed hospitalization as far as I know.
At this point I know at least 20 people who currently are sick or have been sick within the last two weeks. I’m assuming it will just be everyone soon. I knew a few people who died early on in the pandemic and several suffering from long Covid. Fortunately all the Omicron sufferers I know seem to have mild cases.
I’m waiting on test results. Hoping all I have is a cold. But it is a very long lasting cold. I am triple vaccinated, so it could be mild Omicron. In which case I will go into isolation mode of course. Nearly there already.
My boss’s daughter started feeling unwell 12/21 and tested positive on 12/24, and so the whole family had to cancel their Christmas plans. They’re all isolating at home.
My boss is immunocompromised, though. She has worked from home this entire time, while the rest of this company have come back to the office. So much for avoiding the virus! So far she’s testing negative, and I hope will continue to do so.