do you know anyone personally who has died from Covid?

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Just that really. Posting here for traffic.

After a conversation with my mother we both agreed that people who have actually personally lost someone due to Covid are more likely to take it more seriously. Have you lost someone? Has this affected your attitude towards the virus and your own behaviour?

I work for an advice charity, so I have spoken to quite a few people bereaved by Covid. Mostly frontline healthcare workers. I have an underlying condition that makes me vulnerable to Covid, I am on a course of antibiotics for a chest infection right now.

So yep I take Coronavirus seriously.

No I don't and I'm really greatful for that. Friends of friends have though.

Yes ,an old friend,s died of it in April,whilst he was 80 ,he was fit and healthy, he went into hospital for a routine op and contracted it there ,I have always taken it seriously as my Dh, has underlying health issues,and my mum is very frail, unfortunately I live in Bolton and there is a large minority of very vocal fuckwits ,who are not taking it seriously hence us being the highest rates of infection in the country 🙄

My neighbour was in hospital for six weeks, I’ve had two colleagues pass away and know of others through family and friends. Yes it’s real and scary and I will do everything I can to prevent it’s spread and protect those I love.

I know two people who died and two people who recovered.

Not personally but my best friends previously healthy SIL died and my mum's best mate's sister died too. She was a new grandmother and had barely seen the baby.

But before these I was cautious and obeyed the rules because I'm not selfish and I really don't fancy losing my mum or dad who would both perish with Covid.

I would hate to think it should take a death of a loved one to shut these "Covid is a hoax", "You can't control me!" Or "it's just flu!" People up.

Yes, my mum. She was in a care home, but was physically very fit. A colleagues father passed away also, and I know quite a lot of people who have had it

No and I know 3 people who have had it )positive tests) who said they felt very unwell, but certainly not like they were dying. And like @Fairyliz i know someone whose very treatable cancer is now looking like a much much harder battle due to delays in treatment. Sorry for everyone’s losses however

I am following the rules and guidance but begrudgingly at this stage

Yes, a friend's mum. She was in her 80s and I believe in a care home, so sad but also not super unexpected either.

But actually what concerns me more is friends who are my age who have been very ill (but not died). I have two friends who were quite ill but managed at home (went to hospital but hospital sent them home as not deemed critical enough for the beds they had available). They said it was awful and they still have panic attacks thinking about the feeling of not being able to breathe. A work colleague is still working part-time due to affects of long COVID (she was ill in March). A friend's dh (who is a nurse, working on a COVID ward) became very seriously ill maybe 2 months ago, was in ICU, they were preparing for him to not survive. He's younger than me. He's home now, but unable to work and still on oxygen. All these folks were normal healthy people with no obvious risk factors, athletic, normal weights, etc.

No, and I don't know anyone who has had it.

Not personally, but I knew a lady I met in the care home where my aunt is. I also know someone who just avoided dying by a smidgen, and weeks later he's still not fully fit.

But we've been taking the proper precautions anyway.

no and dont know anyone confimred who have had it-but i dont think its a hoax

A school friend passed away early on, under 40, fit and healthy. Like a PP it was before all of the precautions and he worked in a hospital. He was engaged, had a 3yo and a baby on the way (who has now been born).

I've always taken it seriously and will continue to, get really angry at some of the threads on here.

My Dad in June and my uncle in May

Yes, three people

DH's 21 year old niece (nurse) and her boyfriend caught it. The boyfriend was much worse off and had never felt so ill in his life. Both survived and It's months later now but DN still doesn't have any sense of taste or smell back. Not life threatening of course but I think it would definitely affect my life negatively not being able to taste. I love to cook. It's not worth the risk to me so I'm following all the rules I can.

Yes, lost my grandfather to it early on. I wouldn't say it's changed my attitude towards the virus.

I personally don’t know anyone who’s had it or died. I am mostly sticking to the rules - isolated when I had symptoms, wear a mask, try not to get to close to people etc, but if we’re out as a family of 4 and bump into another family of 4, I will stop and chat to them if I want to.

No close friends/family but 1 person in wider circle plus 5 family members of friends.

Most were elderly, one in their 50s, high BP but certainly no reason they would have died young if it werent for covid

I also know several people who have been very unwell, in ICU and thought they werent going to make it, fortunately they did although likely with lifelong problems. One in her 30s, another in his 40s, both young and fit.

I dont know if it makes me take it more seriously, but yes it does anger me when people act like its a hoax.

Yes two was horrible. Seeing funerals on zoom is just not the same.

yes and no.

a friends uncle and another friends nan. both were in care home settings.

no, not really because the risk to my mental health is far greater if I lock myself away. i am not going near vulnerable people though (although cant say the same for my type 1 diabetic nan who is in the cafes with friends every day - in her words "I might only have a few years left and the vaccine might'nt work") fair play to her I say.

I know someone whose sister, an NHS worker in her 40s, died and I know what the family went through, unable to be there with her. It does make you take it more seriously.

I also know someone who had it and is still, four months later, trying to get over it — with the possibility that their lungs are permanently fucked. I think that scares me every bit as much as dying.

Family member in a care home died of/with it- we don’t really know. She was very old and frail and had dementia and was going to die soon and was very fed up with life. It hasn’t affected my view of the virus. I follow all the rules and always have done. However, I am sad I didn’t get to say goodbye in person as I would have definitely seen her a few more times if it were not for the pandemic. The hardest part for her I think was not having visitors. In fact, I think it has made me want to enjoy life to the full more and question a lack of quality of life/staying alive for too long. I think I will make sure I have my own DNRs etc in place before I get too old. I want to have the right to refuse medication etc in old age and not linger. I fully accept others might have a totally different take on this. It is down to the individual as far as I am concerned. I do know some younger women who have had coronavirus late 30s/40s and it really doesn’t sound pleasant and I really don’t want to get it either.

Also had 6 fucking months of severe fatigue and chest tightness/breathlessness for myself. I am in my 20s and it has been really shit tbh.

I don't know anyone who has died but my 87 year old dementia-suffering grandma caught it and recovered.
Despite not knowing anyone personally who has died of it, I take this virus seriously and am taking all the right precautions - because I'm not a selfish fuckwit.