Anyone still not heard of anyone getting covid?

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I live in an area of high infections but I haven't heard of anyone getting the virus. I have spoken to people with many more contacts than me a woman who works in a local shop, a sandwich shop worker and a bar worker. Nobody knows anyone who has had covid. I asked family on the phone who live outside my local area each with different points of contact through work or other portals and nothing!

I am not a conspiricy theorist or anti regulation but this just seems a bit odd to me. I can only assume that the virus is spreading in very limited locations as opposed to over a whole region at least in my part of the UK.

I don’t even know anyone who’s had a test

We’re in London and I know lots. Two people just in my team of six at work have it currently and we’ve been wfh throughout so they didn’t catch it from each other

I live in the West Midlands in a tier 2 area and don't know anyone who has had it or has taken a test.

Until two weeks ago I’d have said nobody. Now I know two. I’m in a high risk area.

I’m in a low risk area, and no I don’t know anyone who has had it.

Back in late January/early Feb, we did have a fair few customers mention an extremely nasty bug they’d had over Christmas and New Year - flu, nasty dry cough, breathing difficulties, what was thought to be pneumonia, but who knows whether that was it or not.

In London and know loads

@Danglingmod

I live in a low rate area (ish) and know loads of people who have had it.

I don't think it's suspicious. It's just one of those things like all your friends birthdays being in March. It doesn't mean other people's friends don't have April birthdays.

Same here. I live in a very low infection rate area, and I know many people who have had it, some of whom were so ill that they were hospitalised from it. Thinking about it thought, the people I know who have it I know through my dh and they all work in jobs that can't be done at home. Where as on my side my friends and close acquaintances are generally home workers or sahp.

Until schools went back I only knew of one person (my friend's daughter)
Since schools have gone back I personally know 35 people, and by daisy-chain probably about 20 or so more (parents /siblings of those infected)

No. I know lots of people who think they've had it. But let's be honest, the symptoms arent that different to a normal cold/flu. Cough, fever etc.

I'm not denying how severe it can be by the way, just that it's hard to guess who has had it, without them getting tested. So no, I dont know anyone who had a positive result. Am in London.

I think antibody tests showed that at least one in five ish people in London have had it.

Whoever calculated that you would have to know thousands of people, even in a hotspot, your calculation is wrong because you based it on the number of people with Covid at any one time (you want to base it on all the people who have had Covid added up across time)

I’m in a high risk area and in our immediate circle;

Grandma positive in March, transferred to care home from hospital whilst still positive (previously lived in own home independently for 40+yrs) now passed away
Mum (works in a school) positive April, early 60s and previously very fit and healthy with no medical issues whatsoever, still can’t walk upstairs now
Dad positive April, has many respiratory health issues, mildly ill and fine now
MIL positive May, 2 weeks in hospital, home and recovering slowly
Nephew (11) positive June, totally fine now
Nobody in July/Aug
Work - 1 positive Sept, another last Monday and 3 positive OHs of employees this week
DS Sports team - 5 positive
DS School - 23 positive cases in last 4 weeks across Y8, Yr10, Yr11 and Yr13

Have no doubts there’ll be more

My GP had it and was in intensive care now recoverd.2 elderly aunts died of it. 2 friends lost husbands to it. That's more than enough for me!!!

Then I’d say, lucky you and hope you’re grateful for that.
I’ve lost 4 friends to it now, and know least another half dozen who have had it.

I'm in a tier 2 (probably very soon to be tier 3 area) and although I knew no one in wave 1 other than HCPs, this time I know lots although the majority are school aged children of friends.

one friend has it, DDs friend had it and was very very ill, DDs partner's is trying to recover from it, all in different areas of the country

sorry that was supposed to be DD's parner's friend

I know of 4 who tested positive but friend of friends/family. None were sick with it.

The couple that live next door
My boss and his wife
A work colleagues dad
A friends dad and stepmum
One of DHs mates
2 work colleagues in different cities
A FB friend

Some local to us, some not. Apart from NDNs and my FB friend everyone has felt really really rough. No one hospitalized thank goodness.

My neighbour nearly died from it in March. It's a miracle he's still around.

A couple of extended family members have had it and a couple of colleagues. Although this was in the 1st wave....

My bro and SIL, and a family from school (mum works in hospital) had it in April when testing was only available if symptoms were in need of extra attention. My brother and SIL have both since tested positive for antibodies.

Then the only others I know only tested positive yesterday.

I live in a rural county with very low infection rates (currently 68 per 100k). My bro and SIL live in Birmingham, the other couple are in Manchester.

I know loads (NW)

No one seriously ill as yet 😬🤞

Isn’t it just peaking in various places as it moves around the country?

Plus - I suppose my job makes it more likely I’ll come across it.

I know one person. Caught it after their DM was dying at home of cancer and had care workers coming in and out to look after her

Thats it

My area was in special measures for a very long time aswell so its all a bit bizarre

I know of quite a few people who got it in the first wave, nobody close to me has it in the current wave. Also my Mum possibly had it in January, she travelled to Africa in January and transited through both Heathrow and Dubai airports. Seven days after arriving in Africa she and a few others in the tour group came down with a dreadful virus. She needed wheelchair assistance on the trip back home and didn't get back to herself for months. At first we were telling her to be extra careful because the last virus had been really bad so she shouldn't get Covid, it was only after a few months that it became clearer that there had been earlier cases that we though she might have had it.

No,

Plus it depends what' meant by 'getting covid'

Does it mean just testing positive?

The inventor of the test, Kary Mullis, made it clear that the PCR test is not a suitable test for virus detection.

Many false positives arise from the test.

Do I know anyone who has been sick or died from covid? No

The evidence of my own eyes and experience does not tally with the information I'm seeing in the media.

I'm in London, I work in a secondary school with over 800 pupils and around 100 staff. My husband commutes for over two hours a day on public transport (no other option), and our DD is at Primary School. Despite the odds I don't know anyone who has had Covid. Yet.