Giles Corey wrote:
Know anyone sick with the virus?
I sure don't.
Three and one half months into this "pandemic".
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(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
Prevalent? Seems a stretch. Ever present in the media. Not so much in real life
I am in Texas. Up until the governor decided to reopen long before we should have, Texas had acted relatively early compared to NY and other hard hit areas.
Early on, one of the teachers' father at the elementary school my wife works at got it and died from it.
One of the parents of a kid at my son's elementary school got it and refused to self quarantine. He caused a big scene at the school when he came to pick his kid up and school staff tried to keep him away from all the other kids and parents. Fortunately, the school district closed down the next day.
One of the judges I have appeared before a couple of times in San Antonio got it. A Texas Supreme Court justice also got it.
My neighbor's father got tired of being cooped up and started eating out and socializing with friends. He was in his early 70s, but had no other health problems and was average weight. He got COVID and died after a week on a ventilator.
On nextdoor, there is a group that is offering help to people who are infected in the neighborhood. They have had about dozen people reach out and ask for help. Official count for my zip code is 68 confirmed cases.
Another neighbor on my street is an ICU nurse. She said that COVID admissions have been steadily climbing the past two weeks and they have about two more weeks that they can absorb patients on the same trend before they have to go back into their emergency plan to expand COVID ICU space. What is disturbing is that a lot of the ICU admissions have been otherwise healthy 30 somethings who are having difficulty breathing. This is probably a direct result of a lot of social media speculation that COVID is only mild in younger healthy people.
My sister lives in NY. My brother in law is a Dr. at Cornell. I could go on for pages of all the COVID stories they have.