Has Covid hit closer to home since the beginning of all this?

[mousefan73]

No, not at all - I don't know anyone or know of anyone even reasonable close to us that has been diagnosed. But the last time I said so it started a fight. I absolutely KNOW Covid is a global pandemic and I comply with any and all response measures wherever I am. I recommend everyone else do the same.

I also live in a region where the majority of people have no contact with anyone with covid or know of person who knows a person..it does happen! This also reflects in the attitude on how many view how serious this is.. We base many of our life thoughts or actions on experience on if something affects one directly. You cannot expect a person living in the middle of Wynoming where there possibility is zero cases ( or if any maybe that ONE case that was most likely comparative to the flu or a light cough)to respond or fear Covid as a person who lives in NY where on their direct neighborhood alone there were multiple deaths. It's simply human nature. Less than 5% of the US population has had this virus...

I compare people's response to Covid to other horrible things, Wars, Famine, Syrian Refugees.... you see it on TV, but it's not at your front door. Because for many it is only on TV... The only thing affecting them are the policies put in place.. Masks, closures, schools etc.. and if you see around you no "danger" you do question why... Problem is with Covid, you cant see it and if you are unlucky you suffer.

 

[Pyotr]

I know a lot of people who had it. Right now it’s going through my family in Wisconsin.

 

[indimom]

It hit close way back in March for our family. My 55yo cousin passed away. I've known a lot of cases, most of them in the early Spring. But, since I'm a nurse, I'm around it all the time.

 

[Disneefun]

A friend in another state (a state that's lax about public health measures and "belief" in the virus) got it (her DH did, too, but I don't really know him) and is still on day 35 of her battle. She's young, 36, and has been in and out of the ER for weeks now. She hasn't had to go on a ventilator, yet, but neither is she really getting better. It gets better for a couple of day and then boom, she's back to not being able to breathe and having to go in for oxygen and observation.

At least now she admits the folly of not believing in it. She didn't before, thought it was just a flu and that everything was overblown. She didn't wear a mask or avoid crowds, but now at least she's preaching to do those things because this is "real." And it makes me a horrible person, but I have to swallow the "I told you so's."

 

[Pink Partridge]

I now know many people that have tested positive for Covid-19. Most of them totally asymptomatic (only got tested because exposed at work). A few with the telltale loss of smell and taste. One that said they had a bad headache for two days. Like a really bad headache.

 

[NFLDERS]

Too close. My brother, and his wife whom have since both tested negative. She was hospitalized until stabilized of symptoms then sent home. They are both in isolation, and will be retested.

Stay safe all.

 

[tvguy]

My neighbor and his wife both got it. He's a stage 4 cancer patient. They were lucky, said was just like a cold for them
I have posted before about one co-worker whose dad was forced to go back to work or lose his job, he died 3 weeks after returning to work. That was in June and it made national news
Another co-workers Uncle's passed this week from covid.
And there is a nursing home less than a mile from my house, 200 people live there. Between staff and residents, 175 cases and 11 deaths.

 

[cvjw]

Both my 70+ year old parents had it over the summer. Both are fine. Sick a few days, no lingering effects. I know 3 people who have died from it, but all three had several underlying health conditions.

 

[NFLDERS]

Cases are rising again in our state, the circle is closing in on where we are. Dh and I will return to more cautious practices.


A cousin got it in late March- mid 50s, mild symptoms, recovered within 2 weeks.

Mil-Late July. Felt crummy for a week. Recovered fairly easily. Late 70s.

September College daughter was quarantined for 4 days to her dorm while contract tracing was done on her dorm floor when 3 girls were positive. Tested last week negative as the college is encouraging testing, even of asymptomatic students.

October Son tested 2 weeks in a row negative. He works in the public. Anti maskers who were jerks breathed intentionally in his face when he asked them to put on a mask.

Other Son was tested last week. Roommate's girlfriend, who lives in another apartment, had Covid
Both son and roommate were negative.

Our local news a few weeks back while interviewing students about their return to classes, showed a HS bully in the background trying to pull the mask off another student... sigh.

 

[TLSnell1981]

We know people who have had it and or passed away with COVID from the beginning. Others who were suspected but tests weren’t plentiful at the time. Lately all but two had mild symptoms. The other two are hospitalized with one in ICU. Both are elderly and improving...one to be discharged soon.

 

[loves to dive]

Hubby's brother and his wife had it. She caught it first - she attended a group church choir thing, got home that night and got a phone call that one of the teenagers had tested positive. Next day she felt bad and got tested, came back negative. Next day she felt a whole lot worse so tested again, positive. Her husband started feeling bad on her day two, he tested positive the next day. She was pretty much over it in a week (actually drove their son to college less than a week after testing positive - both Doc and Dean of school said it would be o.k. since he had no symptoms even though he had been in the house with his parents the whole time). BIL was pretty sick for about a week, said he would get to feeling better and then the next day feel worse, said it was the worse he's ever felt and had a hard time breathing. She is about 50, he is about 55. He was back at work about a week and half after getting it.

My son and I think we might have had it in late Jan. he started feeling bad the day we came home from WDW. The next day I started feeling bad and we both just figured we had the normal WDW junk you get. Two days later I was having problems breathing and it hurt like heck. I figured I had walking pneumonia and just rested. My son is a RT so I talked to him and he concurred that was probably what it was. His roommate got sick the day after my son got home. It took both of us about 3 weeks to get to feeling normalish. No way to know since it wasn't known then. He works in a grocery store, doesn't wear a mask unless the place he is in requires it (his store does not), goes out just about every night to eat and has been since the town we live in started allowing places to open up. He hasn't gotten sick again. I wear a mask any time I go inside anywhere, whether they require it or not, wash my hands any time I touch anything outside my home.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

No, not for us. I still don’t know anybody who has tested positive. But like others, that doesn’t change my belief about how serious and devastating this virus is.

Same here.

 

[ronandannette]

Too close. My brother, and his wife whom have both tested negative. She was hospitalized until stabilized of symptoms then sent home. They are both in isolation, and will be retested.

Stay safe all.

Did they suggest what else might be wrong with her? What did they treat for?

 

[dvcgirl67]

Back when it all started, my late 80s in-laws lost two of their friends to COVID. An older couple who had been on a cruise. My FIL's best friend got it, ended up in intensive care, but survived. He's home, but still suffers from fatigue and other symptoms. I know a couple in their early 40s who returned from a ski trip in Switzerland and came through Milan. They both got very sick, just avoided hospitalization, but it scared the heck out of them both. In June, my late 20s cousin when with his wife to Florida to visit her father and brother. The young ones all went out to bars, and all got COVID. My cousin was the sickest he'd ever been. His wife and her brother had symptoms, but not as sick. The father ended up being hospitalized, and recovered. This was from March through June.

Then over the summer I didn't hear of anyone getting sick. In NJ, everyone spent time outside, dined outside...etc. Once the kids/college students went back to school I started to hear of lots and lots of people I know that were positive. Mostly the kids. I also know a couple who believe they got the virus from their toddler when there was an outbreak among the caregivers/teachers at the daycare.

And I think that a *lot* of people are going to know people who get COVID over the next six months. We're entering our late fall/winter with very high numbers, and so expect these our case to likely go as high as we've seen. We're essentially there. We crept up over 70K yesterday. We can only hope that with what we've learned and the few therapeutics we have, that we can keep our death toll much lower than what we endured at the outset. I keep telling people I know.....that you really can't let your guard down now. We're coming into a period when you're likely at the highest risk of contracting COVID. Holiday gatherings are going to be a nightmare. But, it's truly up to us to remain as vigilant as we can while trying to live a quality life.

 

[mkmomto2]

My brother-in-law (Maryland)had it in March/April- they were not testing much in his state, but his doctor said that he was presumed positive. It took him almost 4 weeks to get over it- high fever, coughing, etc.

My niece and her boyfriend (New York) got it in April/May- they had mild symptoms- fatigue and loss of smell and taste.

My coworker and her son tested positive (her husband and other son tested negative)- this was during the summer- her son had gone to dinner with friends, one of which who tested positive after. She has lupus and said it felt like a bad sinus infection- her son was asymptomatic.

My husband is an ICU nurse and has been around COVID since March, but has not tested positive. My son also works at the hospital as a patient safety attendant and hasn't tested positive either- they each have been tested regularly. I am a teacher and we have had students in person now for 4 weeks and have tested negative twice (we are testing prior to the start of the school year and then once a month). I wear a mask whenever I go out in public and all day at work, wash hands/hand sanitizer often and clean like a madwoman whenever students leave my room. My family has been extremely lucky I feel!

 

[NFLDERS]

I dont know anyone, but not being smug about it, I know its devastated many family's

Have you seen any of Sen Chris Christie's utube videos regarding the time he was hospitalized with Covid? He said to take it seriously (I forget the adjective) to wear a mask, and not to be cavalier!

 

[NFLDERS]

Did they suggest what else might be wrong with her? What did they treat for?

They stabilized her vomiting, diahrea, dehydration, headache, and BP. She also had a CT Scan because of pain throughout her upper body. They are retesting to check again for Covid because negative results can be positive later. They live in Hamilton, Ontario and suspect a Spinco outbreak into community transmission. She is wearing a heart monitor and on BP Med while in isolation. She is scheduled to be seen by a Cardiologist.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Have you seen any of Sen Chris Christie's utube videos regarding the time he was hospitalized with Covid? He said to take it seriously (I forget the adjective) to wear a mask, and not to be cavalier!

It's real...can be serious and potentilly deadly for some but I am not terrified of COVID. I won't my life in fear. Cautious with precautions...yes but still LIVIMG MY LIFE .

 

[tinatark]

DH tested positive in mid Sept. He had a horrible sore throat and exhaustion. The rest of our household was negative. His sore throat was gone in a few days, but the exhaustion lasted a couple of weeks. DS' fiancee spent a lot of time here, she is a teacher - she was required to leave school immediately and teach via zoom for 2 weeks.

Dh was required to isolate for 10 days, and once he was fever and symptom free (after 10 days) could go back into the world. The rest of us quarantined for 14 days.

 

[TLSnell1981]

They stabilized her vomiting, diahrea, dehydration, headache, and BP. She also had a CT Scan because of pain throughout her upper body. They are retesting to check again for Covid because negative results can be positive later. They live in Hamilton, Ontario and suspect a Spinco outbreak into community transmission. She is wearing a heart monitor and on BP Med while in isolation. She is scheduled to be seen by a Cardiologist.

COVID normally won't test positive until five days.after exposure.

My brother-in-law (Maryland)had it in March/April- they were not testing much in his state, but his doctor said that he was presumed positive. It took him almost 4 weeks to get over it- high fever, coughing, etc.

My niece and her boyfriend (New York) got it in April/May- they had mild symptoms- fatigue and loss of smell and taste.

My coworker and her son tested positive (her husband and other son tested negative)- this was during the summer- her son had gone to dinner with friends, one of which who tested positive after. She has lupus and said it felt like a bad sinus infection- her son was asymptomatic.

My husband is an ICU nurse and has been around COVID since March, but has not tested positive. My son also works at the hospital as a patient safety attendant and hasn't tested positive either- they each have been tested regularly. I am a teacher and we have had students in person now for 4 weeks and have tested negative twice (we are testing prior to the start of the school year and then once a month). I wear a mask whenever I go out in public and all day at work, wash hands/hand sanitizer often and clean like a madwoman whenever students leave my room. My family has been extremely lucky I feel!

iI prefer and soapy washcloth in a baggie. Not a fan of handsanitzers.