To think the amount of people we know who have died or are dying from CV is proportionately high?

[Aryaneedle]

Between DP and I, we know 3 people who have died and one who is very likely to due in the next 24 hours from/with Covid-19. We live in Yorkshire.

My old hairdresser who was 38 DP's workmates husband who was a 60 year old GP (she is a nurse) and my workmates Mum who was in her 80's and lived in a care home but was very well on mothers day. My sisters FIL has early onset alzheimer's and is 58, currently in hospital but they had to complete a DNR for him this morning and they are refusing to admit him to critical care or for ventilation.

DP thinks this is probably an average amount that most people will see in this pandemic (he is frontline NHS so quite fatalistic) whereas I didn't think we would know this many people who would die, in what is essentially a month long period.

AIBU to think this is quite high or are you all seeing similar? It is very much adding to my long list of worries.

So many different experiences on this thread which overall reflect the conversation I had with my FIL earlier tonight (a very long retired GP).

For the average person, there is just no clear picture of what we are dealing with. I really hope as many people as possible can be tested for antibodies once there is a stable enough test available. I'll be so interested to see the patterns.

I know of 2 elderly people who have died, 2 middle aged who have been very ill in hospital (one on a ventilator) but now recovering. Assortment of others, including my Mum who think they have had it, but not confirmed.

It seems disproportionate.

I suppose the problem is we don’t know who has had it and who hasn’t and how widely it’s already Spread due to the lack of testing x

I'm in Yorkshire. I knew one person who died from it last week, elderly gentleman.

3 family members abroad had it(tested and positive), friends family of 4 in Leeds had it(untested but convinced), an acquaintance down south had it pretty bad, ambulance was called 4 times but still he wasn't admitted to hospital but now is getting better.

COVID is real and is everywhere.

In January I've had contact with someone that just came from abroad and got ill for a month - worst cold I had in my life, who knows maybe it was covid too.

Awful to hear of the nurses and health workers in ICU or who have died.

Yes OP your experience feels more than most.

About half my extended family (ie live in very different places) has had it - basically the families of the health workers and those who travel more for work.

I don't know anyone who has died. I've heard of a couple of 'several degrees of separation' e.g. a colleague's brother's FIL who've died

Im in Norfolk and i dont know of anyone who has had it.

I know one person who has died and another relative has just tested positive. We’re terrified. Both caught it in healthcare settings, one as a patient and one as staff.

I know of 2 people that have died from it (parents of friends). I have it (well I’m pretty sure I do) and know a fair few people who also think they’ve had a mild case of it.

I’ve heard of people I know through business losing elderly parents and I know quite a few who tested positive who have recovered and a few still in hospital but I don’t know anyone personally yet who has died... and long may that continue.

I don’t know anyone who has it.

It does seem like a lot. I know one person (vaguely) who has died from it and 2 other people who have had it including myself.

I know one household who think they all had it, but weren't tested and recovered.

I have a friend who knows a couple of might have it but haven't been tested. And another friend who knows someone who knows someone who died.

I don't know anyone who's definitely had it and don't know anyone who's died.

I don’t know anyone with it.

I'm in a hostpot around Birmingham, but I don't know anyone who's had it, let alone died.

I've heard stories from friends of friends.

I think the public are shieldedfrom this, hence the complacency and we don't see the horrors that HCPs face daily.

A very small percentage of the population has had it apparently. Many of us will remain untouched. Where we are the incidence is very very low. Very lucky. If you’re in London or the West Midlands your risk is much higher.

Early onset dementia is horrific. A close relative died a slow frightened violent death from this. I wouldn’t wish it on an enemy. A DNR order is the greatest kindness to bestow upon someone with this condition. And (if they dare to admit it) their families.

Well to update my previous status, one of the two people I knew on a ventilator has now sadly passed. Very early 50s. No underlying health conditions. Fit and active.

This is what makes me so angry when twats start trying to find loopholes in the rules so they can go for a longer jog. I think this thread highlights that a lot of people probably just don’t realise the seriousness as they know no one with it, it seems a bit detached from their reality.

Having had it, there’s something about this virus that just felt so alien to anything I’ve ever experienced before. Although I probably only had it relatively mildly/moderately I could actually feel a fight going on in my body.

Please do not underestimate this, if you currently know no one with it consider yourself lucky

I know of three people who have died of it - a colleague's nan, dh's real dad (hadn't been in contact for 40 years) and a distant relative on my mum's side. I think that's quite a lot.

I know many people who think they have it or had it, none serious enough to need hospitalisation. Among my personal acquaintances I haven't even heard of anyone's loved ones dying. So yes OP, I think you have been unlucky.

I know 2 friends of friends, someone at my work pane, name not disclosed and one of my oldest friends who have died from it!

I'm bloody devastated about my friend and terrified that I might lose more of my friends or die myself! I'm 53 & asthmatic!

I have one extended family member who has died from it, but in her 80s and had already been ill for a long time.
Several people I know around my age (30) and younger have posted about having symptoms on social media, a few confirmed cases in the past couple of weeks. All of whom were posting pictures out and about with large groups of people a month ago. They were lucky. I hope their older family members are too.

I heard of another person today since posting on here. He was in his 70s with advanced dementia and died with symptoms in a care home.

I've just heard about a nurse dying, one of my good friends fb friend.
There is such a tribute, she was apparently amazing with those on placement I think that was her job by the sounds of things. Oh, it's just sad, and so needless.

I know one person who died but had underlying health conditions. I also know one person, with underlying health conditions, who ended up in ICU but is now recovering at home. Another friend who is a doctor (young, fit, no underlying conditions) has it, they were hospitalised and given oxygen but now isolating and recuperating at home.

DH's friend and his son had it. They were in one of the mainland Europe hotspots prior to awareness being raised. Their GP told them they probably had it but wouldn't test.

I'm Manchester. 2 work colleagues and a neighbour have been floored by it for 2-3 weeks and now recovering. A team mate at work has a partner in ITU with it. Some one I know casually out of work has died of it age around 45. Parents are in a care home with residents that have it...