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

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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.

MIL in care home with dementia. Informed yesterday that the home has at least one resident tested positive. Wiltshire.

I know of an acquaintance’s elderly father who contracted it in hospital and died. Underlying health issues on top of that. That’s all I know of, though.

Me - introverted, don't know many people.

2 in my family with Covid - 1 dead (old age didn't help) and one asymptomatic
none of close friends

most of my friends know 4 dead or so...

I know no one. And neither does anyone I know know anyone.

My colleague died - he was in his 30s and got it on holiday. He was in hospital, but feeling fine, just very bored, then a few days later he was dead. Both DPIL have been in hospital with it, although DFIL not tested (he had all the symptoms) and DMIL’s test “inconclusive.”

I don’t know anyone who has had it - we are in Merseyside.

My friend is a 35 year old widow as of yesterday, and two under 10s have lost their father.

I have it currently. Tested positive for it Sunday at work. It sucks. Its very painful

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Know no one ill, or anyone who knows anyone..

I dont know anyone who's had it, live in a small town but work in a large organisation (some vague symptoms reported from colleagues but unlikely they have actually had it) and -touching wood- it stays that way. I do not underestimate the threat and strictly adhering to all guidelines but there are mixed behaviours in our town e.g. some neighbours having social gatherings.

A friend of mine had it and recovered. My dad (not linked to my friend at all) was next then me and then my dh. I recovered easily but dh took some time (and some antibiotics). We have also found out that his DF has it but he lives 200 miles away so not caught from us.

With regard to the conversation about a DNR. It's just common sense with the older generation. What would be the point in going through a brutal resuscitation when you have little likelihood of a full recovery and it would be painful. Also in the case mentioned the person has little quality of life anyway so putting them through all of this is just cruel.

I don't know anyone who has died or it or confirmed cases here, we are rural.

DD said at her old school by London we moved from 5 children had it, know a couple here claiming to have had it and other claiming to have had it where we used to live but not tested, if they did have it they all had it mildly so I'm sceptical without testing. One said NHS had said they were certain he hadn't got covid-19 but he was adamant he had and it's just like a cold but it required his wife to do everything for a week he said.

Wiped out one of our local hospital wards. Real death rate alot higher than offical figures
yes but the question was how many d you personally know?

A friend and his girlfriend had it, both isolated at home. I don’t know anyone else who’s had it and no one who has died.

don't know anyone who has had it here in the south west ( Dorset)

Don't know anyone who has died from it. We're in a town of about 8000 people in Cornwall. A colleague may have had it, but is much better now and didn't need to go to hospital.

And, so far, no one in our extended families of 37 and 7 have had it. They are in Manchester, London, Hampshire, Wales, Somerset, Dorset , Devon and Cornwall.

We know 2 locally, both in their 40s, one with 3 young children in primary school. Awful.

Fil has it. He’s in hospital. He’s 83 and has underlying health conditions.
Dh is very anxious. We are in Norfolk. He is in a lot of pain at the moment. We can’t see mil obviously.

I live in Birmingham and I don't know anyone who has had it or died from it.

I don't know anyone but not much testing going on here. Lots of general unwellness but not bad enough for hospitalization

I'm aware of two people who have definitely had it (confirmed with testing), including one who died. I also know two people who very likely had it.

I don’t know anyone who has been seriously ill with it, even friends of friends. I was thinking today that this seems odd as I had been mentally preparing myself for it. But I guess even though the numbers are high, when you think about it as a proportion of the population it makes sense that not many of us know people who have been seriously ill or died from it.
And unfortunately I would imagine that due to how infectious it is, anyone who knows one person who has been very ill or died from it will know others, as it will have spread through a group of people who are connected either by location, family, friends, etc.

I work for social services and know a few service users who have died from it.

I don't know anyone who has been tested as having it though but do know a couple of friends who have likely had it and are ok.

I live in a small village in South Wales. I know a young lady who passed away from it and one 56 year old who (narrowly) survived it. They are the cases I know of where I know the people, there are far more people with it here whom I do not know personally.