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I still don't know anyone who has had Covid.

267 replies

Qwpoeriu · 31/12/2020 15:20

Title says it all I suppose.

I still know no one who has had the virus.

Am I in a minority? Anyone else not know anyone that's had it?

I truley believe it's real. I just don't know anyone that's had it!

OP posts:
user1471453601 · 31/12/2020 22:40

I don't know anyone either. But that's because most of my friends and family follow the rules so, where would they get it from? Most of us are either retired or working from home

ConfusedcomMum · 31/12/2020 22:44

user1471453601 You can follow the rules and happen to have DCs at school, household members who are key workers and can't wfh and get it that way. There were even people in the first wave who had no left the house at all yet still caught it, perhaps via deliveries.

EileenGC · 31/12/2020 22:45

@user1471453601

I don't know anyone either. But that's because most of my friends and family follow the rules so, where would they get it from? Most of us are either retired or working from home
You know not everyone is privileged enough to be able to work from home? Most of the people I know got it at work. Count yourself lucky you can stay in your own little bubble. If my mum didn't go to work, she couldn't buy food. But going to work also meant she got Covid. She's also followed all the rules. It didn't magically prevent her from catching it.
PoloNeckKnickers · 31/12/2020 22:59

I'm a teacher in a small Primary school and of all the staff, only the school cook has had it. We have been very lucky as several children have had to isolate die to their parents testing positive.
A colleague's dad died from it back in April.
My brother had it last month and it wiped him out for a couple of weeks. He's in his 50s and is overweight so I was very worried but he has recovered well.
A teacher friend of mine tested positive and her husband also had it. In fact her school had to shut completely for two weeks before the Christmas holiday as half the staff tested positive.

PoloNeckKnickers · 31/12/2020 23:00

due not die!

cushioncovers · 31/12/2020 23:01

My brother and his family have it and I know of about 5 people at work (big building lots of staff) who have had it.

Whatrhymeswithorange · 01/01/2021 01:22

Live in NW (England), work in a hospital, not frontline but not able to remote work, 3 DCs at secondary school, DH also not able to WFH. I know of lots who have had it, but still don’t personally know anyone who has had it. I count myself very fortunate.

Calmandmeasured1 · 01/01/2021 01:24

I still know no one who has had the virus.
Lucky you.

RainbowMum11 · 01/01/2021 01:39

I am in a low rate area, and yes I know of quite a few people who have had it (one has had it twice) - most work in schools or care homes or NHS but even so,
I know a couple who were among the first tested back in March/April and are still struggling with their taste /smell; others are still dealing massively with fatigue and other longer term effects.

womaninatightspot · 01/01/2021 01:50

I don't know anyone who's had it and there have been no cases in the local school. Touch wood. Not a denier or anything. We are rural which helps, lower population density etc. Food gets bought locally or delivered, lots of chat in the naice village about supporting local businesses. Limited public transport so nearly everyone drives. It all reduces your chances of coming into contact with the virus.

SE13Mummy · 01/01/2021 01:53

I'm in London and am a teacher. A colleague and her DH had it in March (he was extremely ill with it), next door but one neighbours (family of 5) had it, two school mums (parents of DCs' friends) had it in September/October, three teaching staff at a school just near mine (Dec), two hospital-based friends (early Dec, completely wiped out and not yet able to return to their nursing roles), musician friend (March), primary teacher who is still in hospital with covid, sister of a friend had it back in April - I dropped food parcels as she lives alone and her family aren't local, an 18-yr-old family friend and her entire university block had it in October...

I know of approx 20 staff at my DCs' secondary school that were unwell with it at the end of term.

yuyubooboo · 01/01/2021 02:38

I have it currently. Everyone in my household caught it from me. I'm a junior dr working in a hospital with a cohort of about 60 of us. 10 hadn't had it by July. Everyone else had. Some have had it twice. Consider yourself fortunate if you've not personally been involved with it.

Allamericanreject · 01/01/2021 02:41

I'm living in the postcode with one of the largest numbers of covid in NI. I still only know the husband of a friend of a friend. No one else.

Roselilly36 · 01/01/2021 06:10

Me neither, I did know someone who died of swine flu though.

KatherineJaneway · 01/01/2021 06:19

I knew people who had it before and during the first weeks of the first lockdown. Don't know of anyone since.

namechangefail2020 · 01/01/2021 06:25

I know about 10. Are you suggesting it's not real, playing it down or simply bragging?

CarlottaValdez · 01/01/2021 06:27

I didn’t until last night - close friend’s mother, step father and brother (all one household) all tested positive yesterday. I know lots of friends of friends type situations. I’m in a London borough and suspect I’ll know more soon sadly. Also we’re one of the ones where school is returning so I’m assuming some of DS’ class will get it although we’ve not had any isolations so far.

HerRoyalNotness · 01/01/2021 06:28

I know/know of 12 and 2 died. I have a very small circle also.

SimonJT · 01/01/2021 06:29

Lots of people at my sons primary school have had it, in July it meant they didn’t even have enough staff for vulnerable children to attend school. The TA in my sons class spent five weeks in ICU due to covid, she is now at home (after almost six months in hospital), she is still very unwell and unlikely to return to school any time soon. Outside of school she is a sports coach (tennis), so fit and healthy she must be around 45ish.

Quite a few of my friends have had it, lots of the guys at my rugby club have had positive tests, including a few doing weekly tests at work who were positive without symptoms.

Covidwoes · 01/01/2021 07:32

I only knew one person until I got it, then DH got it! Since then (November) I know six more people who've had it.

DuckingMel · 01/01/2021 07:40

I also know of nobody and I work in a school. Covid, to me, feels almost like a mythical beast of sorts. It's out there, for sure, but can't be seen (by me)...

hettyhooverdoover · 01/01/2021 07:51

@Qwpoeriu

That's pretty unusual. I wonder if perhaps some family and friends actually have had it, and there have been cases at school, but you just haven't been told? *@AaronPurr*

It's a school of about 120 kids in a village. We would know if someone had it!!

Are you in Devon?
MargosKaftan · 01/01/2021 08:07

I'm one of the tier 4+ areas - primary schools not going back next week because our numbers are so bad - yet at our dcs primary school theres only been 1 case since September and that wasn't in either of my dcs years so I dont know the family. (Pretty big primary- 3 form entry). One lunchtime supervisor has had it this term, but no other staff.

The local secondary school (6 form entry so mid sized secondary) has had 5 cases since September, staff only off because their own dcs bubbles have burst. (Theres another secondary in the town but I don't know anyone with dcs there or who works there, so not sure what their numbers are like).

However, back in March, the week before Boris shut the schools, both schools had a lot of people off sick. The primary particularly struggled with staff for that week and could only stay open because so many children were off. Back then unless you were sick enough for hospital, you didn't get a test to confirm it, but given both schools have been a beacon of health in a sea of plauge, I do think it just ripped through during the first lockdown and everyone was indoors so I didn't see them to find out.

Really hope that means we won't all catch this time round.

Outside of that, I know 1 adult and 1 child living in our town (child not school age) who've had it.

I'm not sure who in our town is getting it.

middleager · 01/01/2021 09:24

Lucky you!
My son had it. He caught it at school where they have at least one case a day since Sept. 20% of his form have had it.

I am surrounded by cases at his school, his brother's school and the schools I work with.

Colleagues in hospital, a family member in his 50s dead. It's horrific.

And it's frankly insulting and insensitive for posters like user to comment on people not following the rules.
We Wfh and cut everything back, not seeing a soul, shopping from home, going nowhere, to give our children a fighting chance in school. One still caught it, not because we weren't following the rules, because it is rampant in schools and highly contagious when you crowbar 30 kids into un ventilated classrooms, no masks, hours on end.
It's criminal. And what a privilege if you can avoid going out into the world, while others have no choice. Or if you live in a protected corner where you even have to question if somebody knows of a Covid case.

BatshitCrazyWoman · 01/01/2021 09:29

@Qwpoeriu

We are in a low area. I know that will make a massive difference compared to the sardines of London!
I live in London - a friend had it at the end of March. And recently I learned that a work colleague had recovered from it (caught it from one of his children). I don't know anyone else who's had it. I don't have friends with school age children, that may be why.