How close did Covid death come to you and yours?
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Copper mentioned he doesn't think he knew anyone who died of Covid. I think that's pretty remarkable for someone his age (not that his friends are all 90, but because he's had enough lifespan and career behind him to know a lot of people).
How about you? How close did death by Covid come to you?
For me it was my cousin. I don't mean "cousin" generically the way the Mics and the Wops use it, e.g. a relative who isn't a parent or grandparent, I mean my dad's brother's daughter.
Beyond that, I'm a special case in that I know a lot of people in high risk groups. But even if I exclude all of them (and there were maybe a dozen), the husband of my sons' preschool director died very early on, I believe still in March 2020. I knew him personally, he was a fixture in the town and volunteered with the local historical society. Seemed pretty healthy, but again this was early days.
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Lucky me, I do not know anyone close to me who has ever come close to severe COVID-19, much less dying from it. Yeah, I read/heard about COVID-19 deaths of people who are members of local schools or local groups I also affiliate with, but not anyone I know personally.
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Lucky me, I do not know anyone close to me who has ever come close to severe COVID-19, much less dying from it. Yeah, I read/heard about COVID-19 deaths of people who are members of local schools or local groups I also affiliate with, but not anyone I know personally.
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There was Kenny, a friend in his 50s from church. That was it. Had a few friends hospitalized and Karla’s Aunt was in ICU, but it really seems like that was a case where she was in the ICU with COVID, not because of COVID.
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My wife. She came very close to dying - but not from the covid, from the pneumonia she developed. Today she is in excellent health, but for a couple of weeks there I thought I was going to lose her.
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No one in our immediate family. At least six family members of relatives through marriage, and relatives of friends and work associates. Maybe more, didn’t keep track all were over 75 years. A few friends though were hospitalised and recovered….or, in some cases, are still recovering after a year or more.
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My mother's secretary of several decades.
An old roommate's grandmother.
My wife had a mom of one of her high school friends die.
A nephew of someone we know from working faire.
My wife also had a friend's cousin die.All pre-vax. All died of COVID and directly from COVID.
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A grade school classmate -- 58 years old. Seems like he was in good health before he got Covid, passed away in about 3 weeks Dec 2020, intubated and never got off it. Perhaps the protocols today would have saved him? But he was someone I hadn't been in touch with since 5th grade, and we only reconnected through FB about 5 years ago. So that's pretty remote.
I can't think of anyone else.
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My husband's uncle.
He was in his 70's, had some developmental issues from complications at birth, and always needed a caregiver. His elderly sister in charge of his care decided not to vaccinate him because he was always afraid of needles. She thought if everyone else around him was vaccinated that would be enough.
It wasn't. They found him one morning last November struggling to breathe. CXR revealed white lung fields and he was Covid positive. He died a few days later.
My husband and I think he caught it from his elderly sister,who had a cold at the time, but never took a Covid test because she thought she was protected from the vaccine. We would never tell her that though.
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My mother was in hospital after a COVID infection and she came close to dying, but in retrospect it's not clear whether the symptoms were due to COVID, her terminal cancer, or her dialysis (she died a few weeks later).
Apart from that I know nobody who was severely ill, let alone died.
