How many people know of mass Covid cases?

[anonymous-user]

I’d be interested to know how real the virus is?

Edit to add: when I say ‘real’ I mean how widespread and dangerous is it.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 September 11:44

[DoubleD]

The first 3 answers don't make much sense

[carreauchompeur]

No, it’s all a worldwide conspiracy!!!1!

[Alucidnation]

Lies, it's all lies!!!!!!

[Bob-iylho]

I don't really follow the news, whats this Covid thing then, whilst we are at it heard someone say "Brexet" (or something like that) the other day, whats that?

[Grrbang]

I have ticked all of the above.

[bitchstewie]

I know a handful of people.

Does that make it less real?

[pequod]

Bob-iylho said:

I don't really follow the news, whats this Covid thing then, whilst we are at it heard someone say "Brexet" (or something like that) the other day, whats that?

Best stay away from the 'news' as you seem quite happy and healthy and are not planning to move to Austria or somewhere else in our former Collective.

[paulguitar]

Three work colleagues died. I'm cruise ship crew so a slightly unusual situation.

[MikeM6]

garyhun said:

I’d be interested to know how real the virus is?

It's real enough for the hard of thinking to turn into conspiracy theories.

[anonymous-user]

I ticked option 1 as I personally know of 3 people who have tested positive for Covid. I am pretty sure I had it at the end of 2019 after visiting London. It kicked the st out of me and I took a good while to recover fully. I don't do Marathons.

Of the three people I know have tested positive, one of those people ended up on a ventilator and that was long term, with clotting complications and ensuing heart surgery when the clot moved out of the lungs (I understand blood clots are a common side effect of ventilation, so I'm attributing that to the ventilation). The other 2 said it was like a cold, one of those smoked a lot in the past.

Second hand, I know of 5 people who are probably 75+ who have died in one hospital, having their deaths attributed to Covid-19. One of those people broke her leg in a fall at home and apparently contracted Covid-19 in that hospital and died. The conditions surrounding these five deaths are unclear to me, and I am somewhat suspicious of how they came about/are recorded given the reporting methods at the time, triaging changes leading to withdrawal of care for old age persons, mandatory DNR advice, and the reduction in all causes of old age death over the 5 year average.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 20th September 18:20

[MellowshipSlinky]

I know one person who’s had it.
An 80 year old customer of mine - was taken into hospital early February with what they thought was double pneumonia.
Turns out it was Covid - in hospital for nearly 6 weeks, family told she may not survive.

When I saw her last week she said she looks and felt fitter than she had done for 50 years.
Prior to seeing her last week, I last saw her September 2019 and at the time she had a very rattly persistent cough...

[Colonel Cupcake]

Outside of work, I don't know anyone who has had it.

[Europa1]

paulguitar said:

Three work colleagues died. I'm cruise ship crew so a slightly unusual situation.

I am sorry to hear that, May I express my inadequate sympathies - It must be tough, and unsettling, losing colleagues, regardless of the unusual situation.

[clockworks]

I don't know anybody who has had a positive test.

I know one person who thinks her daughter had it at uni a couple of days before lockdown - like a bad case of 'flu. Not bad enough to get tested at that time.

I know plenty of people who had "something" in the months before lockdown.

I know quite a few people who have been tested for work or before attending hospital - all negative.

[Jamescrs]

I have two colleagues in a large office who have had it (tested positive) both had relatively mild symptoms but had to isolate for 2 weeks.

My wife who is in the NHS had antibody testing which was negative but her colleague tested positive for antibodies and she didn't have a clue she had ever had it.

[paulguitar]

Europa1 said:

paulguitar said:

Three work colleagues died. I'm cruise ship crew so a slightly unusual situation.

I am sorry to hear that, May I express my inadequate sympathies - It must be tough, and unsettling, losing colleagues, regardless of the unusual situation.

That is kind of you, thank you. They were not crewmembers I knew personally, with over 2,000 crew on the biggest ships, most of us don't know each other, but It's still a sobering thing to contemplate.

[EarlofDrift]

I don't know a single person who has had it, either had symptoms and self isolated or had a test which has come back positive.

[anonymous-user]

MikeM6 said:

garyhun said:

I’d be interested to know how real the virus is?

It's real enough for the hard of thinking to turn into conspiracy theories.

You’re (purposely?) missing the point!

There’s a massive difference between accepting it’s real and believing in thousands of ‘cases’ per day.

Rather than blindly believe what we’re told (which changed from deaths to cases when it suddenly suited the powers to be) I’m interested to know what the experience is from PHers from varying geographies and backgrounds.

If the press are to be believed we should all be panicking at a huge increase in cases but I don’t see any evidence of this increase amongst my circle of family, friends, colleagues and neighbours.

What about you?

[Steff1965]

Three people in my work tested positive but that’s it