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I feel very fortunate to not know anyone who has died. My brother got it and got over it pretty quickly. So far he's the only one. One of my friends traveled t

I feel very fortunate to not know anyone who has died. My brother got it and got over it pretty quickly. So far he's the only one. One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy. (please don't take these statements as any sort of COVID denialism, just sharing some personal experience).

leetrout 6y ago
Or your friend got it and was asymptomatic.
- ericmay 6y ago
  Yea that's what I was thinking, but people tend to have not so great reactions from the first dose if you have the antibodies.
DoreenMichele 6y ago
One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy. Some people have had it and been largely symptomless. I don't know anyone who has died from it either. This is probably mostly commentary on my lack of social connections more than anything else.
- ericmay 6y ago
  He has gotten both doses of the vaccine too. I think in all the testing he's had he never had any evidence of the antibodies. Not that he couldn't have had it.
InitialLastName 6y ago
I had two dead colleagues (both older but neither elderly, out of a ~50 person company) to COVID by the end of April. I think a lot of this depends on when COVID hit your area in force. The areas that got hit early in the pandemic knew quite a lot less about treating it effectively.
acdha 6y ago
> One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy. I think the mix of asymptomatic or mild cases has been really bad for a coordinated response. It’s not hard to find people who were lucky, and there’s a constant chorus of people saying that’s all anyone healthy needs to worry about. Then you talk to a doctor, nurse, EMT, etc. and hear what it’s like on their side with unlimited overtime and patients ranging from the expected older / comorbidity cases to young people previously in good health.

leetrout 6y ago

Or your friend got it and was asymptomatic.

ericmay 6y ago
Yea that's what I was thinking, but people tend to have not so great reactions from the first dose if you have the antibodies.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy. Some people have had it and been largely symptomless. I don't know anyone who has died from it either. This is probably mostly commentary on my lack of social connections more than anything else.

ericmay 6y ago
He has gotten both doses of the vaccine too. I think in all the testing he's had he never had any evidence of the antibodies. Not that he couldn't have had it.

InitialLastName 6y ago

I had two dead colleagues (both older but neither elderly, out of a ~50 person company) to COVID by the end of April. I think a lot of this depends on when COVID hit your area in force. The areas that got hit early in the pandemic knew quite a lot less about treating it effectively.

acdha 6y ago

> One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy. I think the mix of asymptomatic or mild cases has been really bad for a coordinated response. It’s not hard to find people who were lucky, and there’s a constant chorus of people saying that’s all anyone healthy needs to worry about. Then you talk to a doctor, nurse, EMT, etc. and hear what it’s like on their side with unlimited overtime and patients ranging from the expected older / comorbidity cases to young people previously in good health.