Tons now. My best friends and girlfriend all work together and their job had an outbreak basically everyone in the building got it but her since she is the secretary up front.
Family friend was diagnosed over a month ago. He has recovered now. A few of my step-dad’s customers have also been infected, but he hasn’t had contact with them. My Mimi’s old co-worker who she always talked about with me died from it, sadly.
Statistically, it would have to go up. The question is, do you know anybody who *has been* diagnosed? So, even after that person either recovers or dies, you will continue to answer yes, every time the question is asked.
The thing to look at is the percentage of increase. It went up more quickly, at the beginning of this series. Also, as @Jerbehr suggested, a better question might have been, do you know someone who *now* has the virus?
Actually, it doesn’t have to go up as the sample size could change from week to week. Some users who previously answered yes may be present while some who answered no could now be present. It’s likely to go up, but not impossible for it to go down.
If it were a constant body that was being polled, then the increases would be more meaningful. This poll series is interesting, but not at all scientific (nothing on SOH is).
Overall though, aren’t total deaths (including everything: accidents, homicides, seasonal flu, heart disease, cancer) down in this social distancing period? Maybe there’s an inverse 9/11 going on here, so to speak.
Yep as I mentioned before I had 4 in one group 2 in Ohio are now recovered and there were 2 in KY the husband died and she has been released from the hospital. Nevertheless, her new normal is convalescence at her son’s home. She expects to return to normal.
Local pastor diagnosed early on here in Denver has recovered and back to normal.
Local relative of my son-in-law 28 year old female died of COVID-19 and family is hiding it. Imagine the stigma of people wondering if they got exposed. Also, awaiting the coroner’s report. We’re now having the just because you had it doesn’t mean it’s what you died from 🙄 controversy here. She was 28 and healthy so whatever it was was lethal apparently.
No family members were exposed and funeral was carefully conducted but not streamed online and I didn’t attend.
My friend who died locally that I mentioned earlier was buried and we watched his online funeral ....no family members or acquaintances have been important impacted.
My daughter started a hospital based internship at a large regional hospital today. They took her temp upon entry. No PPE necessary. Even the nurses she had lunch with who worked with covid patients said that unless face to face they were not wearing masks. So over this hysteria.
I do not know anyone outside of nursing homes that are covid positive or died from it.
I do know several people who died of other things but were labeled as covid (even though it was cancer or a CV issue)
I don’t believe that number since Dr. Birx admitted that the number of deaths are being inflated with people that have pre-existing conditions and already have one foot in the grave.
We had practically zero testing infrastructure from January - early April. We are definitely undercounting the deaths. Not over counting.
That’s also not what Dr. Birx said: "There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem -- some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now ... if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death." That’s not remotely the same as you’re making it sound.
The mental acrobatics you must have to leap through to come to that conclusion is baffling. If they died from complications from COVID-19, then guess what? They died from COVID-19. That’s how coroners work. Also, everyone knows you’re liking your own posts. 😂
Except she said it’s not complications from the Chinese virus. It’s complications from heart failure, kidney disease, cancer, a tumor, liver failure... ect... ect...
You have to work on your reading comprehension kiddo.
No, the other countries are counting wrong. Even if they are vulnerable in other ways, if they died from COVID, they died from COVID. This virus just happens to affect those people the hardest. Some viruses, like the 2008 flu, affected young people more severely.
Nope. Most die from pre-existing conditions and the number is inflated according to Dr. Birx. I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time understanding what she said. 🤷🏻♂️
More testing will show greater positive numbers. The percentage of deaths to the whole appear to be going down however.
My friend was in the hospital early on for something else entirely and was diagnosed with Covid19 after he died. Was it? Who knows.
It’s probably too late now but I wish this series stressed actively infected. It seems pointless to keep answering yes when the subject has been recovered for nearly 2 months
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