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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:
Dartsplayer · 31/12/2020 17:19

Lucky you. I know at least 4 whole families (parents and children) with it right now as well as people that had it in the first wave including my friend's FIL who sadly died and we are in an area with lower figures

NiceTwin · 31/12/2020 17:19

The neighbouring farmer's wife died of it in May.
30+ teachers and 100+ children have had it at the school I work in.

Those I have spoken to said they wouldn't wish it on their worst enemy.
Count yourself lucky that you don't have to walk into work every day thinking it could be you that walks out with it that day.
I fear it is only a matter of time Sad

MaddieElla · 31/12/2020 17:21

Me neither.

Small town in Lincolnshire. Two kids in secondary school. I do work from home but no one in the workplace (railway, so they have to be in work and there is lots of mixing) has had it in a depot of 70.

I do always say that knowing full well it's entirely possible that by this time next week it could be me, or one of my family members or friends. I have just escaped knowing anyone so far but have no doubt it's coming. I've just got to hope we're all fine when we do get it.

Beamur · 31/12/2020 17:22

I know of quite a lot of children who have had it now, including my DD. None have been seriously ill.
However, I also have several friends and acquaintances who have lost parents to this. Plus a fair few people my age who have had it and recovered. We're currently in tier 3.

480Widdio · 31/12/2020 17:24

Small village in the Midlands,we have nearly 700 cases in the surrounding area,shocking!

I know several people now with it,all from this wave.

Where my son works 5people had it,today 2 people have father’s in hospital with it,both are critically ill.

Ritascornershop · 31/12/2020 17:24

I don’t know anyone who’s had it. I work in a school in an area that doesn’t have a ton of cases. I think if anyone did catch it the entire community would be running around like headless chickens.

nocoolnamesleft · 31/12/2020 17:25

I know quite a few people who've had it. One of my close colleagues is off sick with it at the moment. One of my friends spent several weeks in intensive care.

Ritascornershop · 31/12/2020 17:26

Actually, just remembered, my kids’ grandad in the Southwest, his 91 year old lady friend tested positive but never actually got ill with it (was in hospital for something else and was tested).

LegoAndLolDolls · 31/12/2020 17:29

Neither did until last week. Now the first person that I personally know closely first hand is 21, and has clotting complications. I also know another school dad ( so know the mum, not meet her dh) is in ICU. Mum.and kids both had it too. So its slowly creeping into my circle.

KarmaNoMore · 31/12/2020 17:31

People don’t talk about these things, we are respecting each other “privacy”. I have lost a relative, my parents were very poorly with it, other 15 people I know have had ir or died from it (5), one of my colleagues had it but we are not allowed to talk about it at work. I have been told it was inappropriate to mention something so personal at work... by my boss, who has not asked me anything about all these people close to me are because it is a “private matter”.

What the UK needs is “the names behind the numbers” campaign, just like the US did for AIDS in the early 1990s so we can realise about the size of the problem and notice that is not only very old people in nursing homes dying.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 31/12/2020 17:31

Well, I only know three people (excluding DDs school contacts) and as seen as I live in the SE that’s pretty odd I think. However, one was my 74 year old DF, very frail and in a care home with MS (had it 30 yrs). It barely registered, in fact they only knew he had it because he needed to go to hospital for something unrelated and got tested. He was fine. My friend’s DW however, 40’s and fit was very much not ok and neither was their 19 year old DD (no conditions, very fit) who was touch and go in terms of hospitalisation, luckily turned a corner and could stay home. And I’d been convinced if my DF ever got it he’d be a goner 🤷‍♀️. I’m CV and my DH is ECV but it’s the utter randomness of it that scares the shit out of me tbh.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 31/12/2020 17:40

What the UK needs is “the names behind the numbers” campaign, just like the US did for AIDS in the early 1990s so we can realise about the size of the problem and notice that is not only very old people in nursing homes dying
This is a very good idea. Our local newspaper did this in the first lockdown, and over the summer, for local people. It was heartbreaking seeing how many were so shockingly young and with young children. Which is not what you expect when it’s only ‘numbers’ spoken about. And every life is precious, even if they are ‘old’ and with ‘an underlying condition’ as my DH is. I’m CV. Neither of us are about to peg it for any other reason. We’ve got young kids, we’ve got jobs, we make a difference to our local community and our loved ones. To think that if we died, others, who know nothing of us, would feel reassured because we had ‘underlying conditions’ is unconscionable.

Miseryl · 31/12/2020 17:40

Really? I've had it, my niece and my brother in law plus loads of people at work.

IHTC · 31/12/2020 17:41

I don't know anyone either Confused

ReggieCat · 31/12/2020 17:42

Well, you're fucking lucky arent' you?

Two of my friends died in the 'first wave' - both NHS workers under 60. My best friend was critical for 4 days and now has long-term health problems because of it.

A close friend lost her husband to it on Christmas Day.

I've tested positive today after a friend carried on acting like she was clear because she was positive but asymptomatic. I'm ill and fucking terrified. We have to self isolate for 10 days now and have no-one to shop for us and can't get an online delivery until Jan 6th.

Evvyjb · 31/12/2020 17:42

Good for you. My grandmother died.

InFiveMins · 31/12/2020 17:44

Same here. I absolutely believe the virus is real but don't know anyone who has had it. I live in a main city and know plenty of people so its baffling. I've just asked DP who doesn't know anyone who has had it either!

Frozenintime · 31/12/2020 17:49

Large Tier 3 city with big student population. We don't know anyone who's had it and my brother is a secondary school caretaker

Soulstirring · 31/12/2020 17:50

I know of two. Friend who then had long COVID and my sister who was completely asymptomatic and found out only due to being induced. I find it all very hard to get my head around. My children’s school has had no cases since going back in sept either.

Soulstirring · 31/12/2020 17:51

And I’m not minimising, it’s just my reality. I appreciate I’m lucky

PoppinTheCorn · 31/12/2020 17:53

My daughter and her husband both had it in May, my son and his wife are just recovering from it, and my sister died with it ( she had an underlying health conditions. COPD and asthma, plus she had a bout of pneumonia in Sept, so her lungs were in a weakened state to begin with, in October.
Both me and my husband had it in July.
All our symptoms varied in both presentation and severity and all but my sister recovered fairly quickly.

BlackDogBlues · 31/12/2020 17:54

I live on the Isle of Man, where there are no community cases and haven’t been any for months, life as normal.

I know about 15 people who have had Covid-19, and another 12 or so in the Uk. I’m surprised you don’t know anyone OP.

happystone · 31/12/2020 17:54

Count yourself lucky hop it continues

shash1982 · 31/12/2020 17:56

I have so has DD1 & a couple of friends. Stangely DH and DD2 didn't catch it when we had it

shash1982 · 31/12/2020 17:56

Oh, and teachers and children in Dd's school