Yes or No: Do you know anyone who was/is actually sick from coronavirus?

that would be a yes wrote:

The number will continue to rise for some time.

Unlikely the number of total deaths will go down.

[quote]Unlikely, sadly wrote:

[quote]slripe111 wrote:

"nor can you confirm that 100000 people have died"

You could theoretically set about confirming it for yourself. But yeah, it would be impractical for one person to do. The organizations responsible for recording and reporting deaths have been doing it for a long time.

"I am willing to trust them"

Huge error in judgement. Consider George Carlin's point of view.

I have certain rules i live by. My first rule, i don't believe anything the government tells me... and i don't take very seriously the media or the press in this country.

Giles Corey wrote:

Unlikely the number of total deaths will go down.

LOL!

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Although now that I think about it, there are some people who want to have most if not all COVID-19 deaths reclassified as something else. So I guess if this Administration or the various states' departments of health complied with that, the official number of deaths could decrease.

A guy in my neighborhood got it and was the first in the state. A medal winner. He'd been at a medical device convention in Boston. International meeting with lots of sap swapping.

They quarantined him for 12 days and he and his family - who also tested positive - are fine.

The FB posts in the neighborhood still amaze me.

A bunch are like here, looking for any excuse to open up for business again.

"Only 178 dead" that's not bad. We opened up that week, mid May, and now we have 483 as of yesterday.

The reality of this thing is that the high risk people are my age. The low risk need to feed their families and pay their mortgage, and I can understand why they want to get out there.

What I don't understand is how they refuse to take safety precautions. Not only do they want to open the state, but they want all precautions done away with. No Masks, no distancing. Just an orgy of back slapping and hugging.

Every finance guy or accountant thinks that they are more knowledgeable than drs. They think that the death rate of less than one percent means its safe. Like the flu. Even though there are 5 X the death numbers as flu. A bunch of high earning dumbfcks.

I am high risk, so I take precautions. I get it. The country has to open. Its my job to protect myself. Stay in the basement if I don't feel safe. The amazing thing to me is the number of stupid, incredibly selfish idiots that live in my neighborhood. The virus has certainly teased the stupid out of our population.

I'm 98% sure I had it in late March and it wasn't bad at all. I'm old (59) but healthy. Others in my household also had it, two of them got fairly ill but no worse than a flu. One had a loss of smell and taste. But, in my state, it was impossible to get a test at that point and it's still not possible to get an antibody test, so we don't know for sure.

Thing is, as a coronavirus, this thing is just going to keep going around, and even my probable immunity will wear off in a year or two. A vaccine will almost certainly be the same because of the nature of this virus. Unless we learn something very different, COVID-19 will NEVER go away.

.You probably can't avoid getting it at some point, no matter how many masks you wear. Your time would be well spent getting healthy, losing weight, eating well, quitting vaping, getting fit, etc., so it doesn't put you in the hospital.

I personally know three people who died.

"Homeboy" Steve Antonakos

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=stephen-antonakos&pid=195873552

John Driscoll

http://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2020/04/14/5687-dr-john-driscoll-renowned-american-art-specialist-remembered

Robert (Bob) Samuels

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/coronavirus/2020/04/30/piermont-civic-leader-robert-samuels-dies-after-battle-with-coronavirus/3048556001/

One of the former coaches from my college died of it.

I hadn't seen him in years.

No one I interact with has been confirmed sick with it.

A number of coworkers got sick with similar symptoms and recovered but were never tested and did not go to a hospital.

I don't think I have had covid and I don't know anyone confirmed although my buddy thinks he had it in early Feb as he had all symptoms and thought it was a regular chest infection.

I don't deny it exists and I don't deny it's serious. I am not 100% certain though that every death that has been attributed to covid-19 is solely due to covid-19.

I'm personally more interested in the differences in how it affects young, healthy people. Why some people don't even get a simple cough and others are dying basically of asphyxiation. What could this be? My theory is kids who were never allowed to get sick (never played outside in the winter, wore huge coats and hats, lived in houses where everything was over-sanitized, given cr@ppy pharmaceuticals at the first sign of a runny nose), never developed any sort of "biological crisis management systems" in their bodies for which a vaccine or medicine couldn't fix immediately. So covid pops up with no vaccine or even drug to help alleviate symptoms and their bodies have no clue how to deal with the inflammatory reaction. Not a bad theory.

As for the social stuff like the raging liberal freedom-fighters who all lambasted people for not social distancing and lectured everyone for months about wearing masks and staying home etc only to flip the light switch overnight and join in mass BLM and social justice protests involving super close proximity with others - irrespective of masks or not? Well they are complete a$$holes aren't they.

SS

months later wrote:

No

330 million Americans, 2 million cases, if you know 114 people, there’s a (328/330)^114 = 50% chance that you know someone who’s had covid. And it’s higher in NY and lower in Alaska... why bother asking us you bozo

Yeah same old same old from the same usual suspects.

4 that I know had it (all runners). One nearly died but pulled through. Two have struggled with recovery for 3 months now.

And an elderly relative of an acquaintance died last month from covid-19.

My boss's secretary had a funeral for her mom over the weekend. The pastor tested positive on Monday. My boss's secretary spent a couple hours with the pastor to plan for the funeral. My boss spent most of Monday and Tuesday with his secretary at his house getting billing ready. They both got tested this morning and are awaiting results.

Governor Abbott went on TV and blamed young people for not wearing masks for the spike in cases. At the same time he allowed restaurants and bars to open to 75% of capacity. The goal is to be 100% open by the 4th of July holiday.

My neighborhood's nextdoor is lit up with people asking where they can get tested. Someone also posted a video montage of they filmed driving down a street that has a bunch of bars. The bars were supposed to be open at 50% and have 6 foot social distancing requirements. The bars were filled with people standing shoulder to shoulder. DJs were blasting music. It was actually worse that it usually is on a normal weekend.

This response is an example of why we can't have nice things, let alone a reasonable and civil society.

See you on the other side gray coat.

Yes,

Youngest daughter, age 24, in the high risk category due to health Issues. issues. Tested positive had active symptoms, was sick for about four days.

Her boyfriend, his mother, younger brother, older sister, cousin who lives next-door, aunt and uncle who lives next door, all tested positive for the antibodies but all but the older sister were asymptomatic. Strangely, his father tested negative.

Myself, my wife, and one of our friends who is at our house quite a bit and had contact with my daughter all tested negative. (Nasal swab and blood test confirmed.)

Additionally one of my adult marathoners came home from a California vacation about week two into the outbreak and a few days later she got sick and tested positive. Her husband, tested negative.

A couple. All mild illness at worst, except my 95 year-old great-something-or-other, who died. But he was hanging by a thread as it was. His wife, same age, beat it.

I'm in SF Bay Area and personally know a mother and high school age son who have recovered from covid. They had it in May and did not need to be hospitalized. The mom did tell me she had never felt so bad and "could hardly sit up to drink or eat." Those are the only two I know personally but my good friend's uncle passed away in New Jersey. He was 75 yrs old.

Because I said covid-19 is serious and raising the hypocrisy of illiberal freedom fighters and how protesting in large numbers is extremely dangerous with respect to spreading the virus?

Why don't you go back to cleaning your gun and working on your day-trading brokerage account my good man. Go slap a like on some of Donnys twitter rants while you are at it

ShalomYall wrote:

Unfortunately there are going to be infinite threads like this because the people posting them aren't interested in reality. They want people to reply that they've never met anyone who had coronavirus so that they can feel justified in going around and whining that it's fake. They're just trying to create echo chambers and it's clearly working, so they'll keep doing it.

I had it (luckily not really badly), I personally know people who had it, and some of my friends have lost family members from it, and there are still people who won't take it seriously. It's honestly disgusting and infuriating, but the sad truth is that they won't change and they'll probably be the ones endangering others by not following guidelines.

f**k the guidelines, the liberals are the ones that stressed these guidelines and said if we didn’t follow them that we’re gonna murder grandma. then the second the riots start all that get thrown out the window. the only reason the liberals stressed the guidelines and staying home orders as much as they did is because they want to economy to tank and blame it on trump.

I don't know how to phrase this without coming off as rude, so I won't bother trying: you are part of the problem because the problem is that an unfathomably high number of people are trying to politicise this situation.

A political party is not responsible for the appearance of coronavirus. You can complain all you like about how "party X did Y which caused Z" and claim it's all a big conspiracy, and guess what? You'll have done nothing to improve your situation, nor that of anyone else. You can complain all you like that "politician X didn't do Y and now Z," and guess what? You'll have done nothing to improve your situation, nor that of anyone else. Trying to place blame or play stupid political games has no benefit and several potential ramifications. This isn't about politics, this is about science and logic, which sadly seems to be lost on a lot of people.

The guidelines didn't "go out the window" when riots started, mind you. The reason you've heard less about them lately is that the media has moved on to the next big thing that they think will get their outlets attention, which is the protests. The guidelines are still being stressed by medical professionals who realise that the mass gatherings of people, only some of whom wear masks, is likely going to become extremely problematic. Hopefully the people attending protests are asymptomatic/immune and won't get seriously sick, but that's honestly the best-case scenario because in most cases (as far as I've seen), people at protests aren't very focused on social distancing or other precautions.

Social distancing is not a political statement. Wearing a mask is not a political statement. Washing your hands is not a political statement. Listening to qualified scientists and medical professionals in the midst of a pandemic is not a political statement.

In case anyone reads this and wants a reliable source of information featuring the input of highly-qualified medical professionals with real experience in disease control and prevention, here's a link to the website for the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which has more details about the coronavirus pandemic and protective measures:

https://www.cdc.gov

Stay safe everyone, listen to professionals and not politicians.

months later wrote:

Shut your filthy mouth, democrat. No one forced you to respond. Now go back to stealing Netflix and believing the New York Times is honest journalism.

Haha! This is a forum and anyone can respond my friend. :D At least Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity know what they're doing when they make hasty generalizations and claim that individual instances to "prove" patterns. Do you find them more trustworthy than the NYT? Maybe Breitbart or Fox? I assume no one's paying you as well as them to make these personal attacks so well done valiant crusader. Thanks for the laugh. And have a great day!