Do you know anyone personally who has tested positive for COVID-19 at any point during the pandemic? We asked you this same question back in March. Then, of the nearly 4,100 people who voted, 84 percent answered no, you didn’t know anyone who had tested positive. Now, we’re guessing the answer might be very different.
Another question we asked you back in March was: How long do you think the coronavirus will affect daily life? Can you guess what you said? 10 percent said it would be over soon, 45 percent it would affect daily life for just a few more months, and 21 percent guessed six or more months. For the 10 percent who guessed “at least a year” you’re probably right, considering we just hit month 10.
All that being said, do you know anyone who has tested positive for COVID? Have you tested positive? Please vote in our poll below and tell us. If you leave a comment, please remember to be respectful and considerate of others.
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I’d bet the folks that have died wouldn’t agree with you. The media is spot on with real patients that are in need of critical care.
They may think differently if they come down with after effects. Some have had a second round, wound up in an ICU and died.
290,000 people would disagree with “Really” up there. On the high side, flu kills 60,000 a year in the USA. That pales in comparison to 290,000 in LESS than a year. Don’t let your political views blind you to scientifically proven truths.
One of the most profound comments in this article. Foolish political followers contribute more to exposure than normal. Super spreader events will continue unfortunately due to lack of common sense.
Information bias is still the main cause of misleading information and increased cases. Some people only consume information that already conforms to their existing beliefs. No one is so blind as those that refuse to see. Luckily some were taught to look both ways before crossing a street before it became a political choice. Oy vey.
Agreed and all the more reason for the people to stand outside the Congress with signs stating “Where is the vaccine?” Warp speed appears to have slowed down. I fear the vaccine(s) may be delayed for political or monetary purposes. To negate that I purpose a bi-partisan team of congressmen stand on the steps every day until it is released and give status reports to those holding signs on each of the vaccines and why they can’t hurry it along.
Congress has no say. It’s under review with the FDA and they have to issue an emergency order. Believe in the UK one of the vaccines has already been approved. Then you have 2 governors, Newsom & Cuomo, who want to have their own people review. Absurd. Many people have already died because some treatments were not approved for use, even though numerous studies and examples elsewhere in the world showed that they worked. When this became political, people died.
This became political because of our leader. One hand he states that there is no danger and that of camera (he thought) he was shocked that this virus would kill hundreds of thousands and replied, “it is what it is”. No one is trying to delay the testing and approval. They don’t want people to have a vaccine and then months or even years from now to have adverse reactions. Imagine, a government leader actually caring for the people, not profits.
Sorry, not RV related, but you sparked a wildfire !
I know 3 people, one had mild symptoms, one died, and one had heart damage from clotting blood and has just had surgery to replace damaged heart valves. This one has also had many lingering complications.
This virus ranges from not much to deadly, with possibility of lingering serious problems. It would be nice if it was just a super flu.
My wife was infected by a coworker. December 12th can’t get here soon enough for us to see family again. We thank God that it was only a weak strain, more flu-like.
Testing positive is an interesting event in ones life but with a 99+% survival rate, not NECESSARILY life altering. Get out, enjoy life, maintain good hygiene, protect the vulnerable and cast off the media-induced fear.
Agreed
It isn’t “media based fear.” The virus is a real threat. Once you lose a loved one to it, you may change your view.
Firstly, I realize this is a fool’s errand to try to convince others to view things differently but I’ll try. I never said the C19 flu wasn’t something to pay attention to but you have a greater chance of being run down by a car than to die of it. I look both ways when I cross the street and wear a mask when dictated by the store I’m entering. The 290,000 number of C19 deaths is a misleading figure – that number died WITH the disease; a much smaller number died OF C19. Additionally, according to a recent study done by JHU, the overall # of deaths nationwide has not increased dramatically…the numbers attributed to C19 have been nearly equally offset by fewer heart attacks, strokes, cancer, etc, deaths.
Yes, if you have a weakened immune system or other comorbidity, by all means take extra precautions. I’m in the 70+ category so I follow normal flu prevention measures more so than I have in the past, but I go camping as often as possible, go out to eat in restaurants, visit with family and friends…I know people who have tested positive. My own anecdotal evidence shows me they recovered well as will MOST who test positive. Lockdowns, school/church closures (but not Walmart & Home Depot) do perhaps MUCH more damage than C19 itself. Stay well, enjoy life,
Only about 40,000 people a year die in car accidents, not all of them pedestrians crossing the street, so your view of the chances is a little off. To your other point, suppose there was a magical medical crystal ball and you knew for certain that you would die from heart disease tomorrow, but you get run down and killed by a car today while crossing the street. The car killed you, not the heart disease, so you are a traffic fatality, not someone who died of heart disease with a traffic accident.
Another way to look at this is:
If you have heart disease and are shot with a gun and die, the coroner will list your cause of death as a bullet wound from a gunshot. NOT heart disease.
Although, with this new disease, if you get shot but happen to be C19 positive, your death will be listed as a C19 death due to the financial incentives offered to the hospital. This is why the number of fatalities is an inflated figure. CDC has confirmed this but was forced to recant when it was realized that actually admitting this was contrary to the script.
Agree
Don’t belittle it unless you had it. It’s 8.5 months now, and I still have no sense of smell, and some shortness of breath. It IS life altering. I think the almost 290,000 dead and their friends and family would disagree that it’s not “life altering”.
This is a pandemic. 281k dead in the US; 1.53M worldwide. US 281k will be over a half mil soon enough. Thanks to this thinking. I don’t agree with government shutdowns that seem to favor big corporations lobbying $ in who stays open vs. not. I just want citizens to protect each other:
#1 – wear a mask that actually works. Handkerchiefs, gaiters, and random cloths do not prevent anything for you or others. This is the biggest mistake government + media is making in clarifying what works and doesn’t. It should have been easy (& still is) to invest a little $ into controlled studies so we know what actually works and doesn’t vs. hearsay.
#2 – protect others by keeping some distance
#3 – if something has to be shut down…those people should be compensated. Not random shutdowns.
#4 – wash your hands
Most of the PCR positive results are false.
My wife I tested positive back in July. She felt bad and had a fever two or three days and slept most of the time. I had mild fever (99.5) for a day felt tired for 2 days then it was gone.
From what I have been told is that people with type O blood have milder cases most of the time which both of us have. People with diabetes, overweight, breathing problems and heart problems usually have it worse. I feel pretty lucky and I don’t want to press my luck and get it again!
Yes my sister, her husband and son and my niece, her husband and 2 children and my friends husband and another friends daughter and several others. All got sick moderately except my sister. All survived without hospitalization. I also have a friend who’s son has gotten it twice
13 members of our family, a Doctor and two others we know have had the virus. All are on the mend, but are watching for side effects.
My husband and I tested positive at the beginning of September. We were both pretty sick for most of the month. I know several other people who have tested positive.
My granddaughter’s family of 4 had it with different degrees of severity. A neighbor’s mother had it and died. My brother-in-law developed double pneumonia recently and was admitted to the hospital in Las Vegas, tested daily, negative, for Covid and stayed in the emergency ward for 5 days because the hospital was overflowing with Covid cases. This is deadly to folks with lung problems. Wish everyone would take the mask and distancing seriously. Open up everything but be charitable to those like me who would probably die from this virus because of my diminished lung capacity and wear a mask.
33-year-old daughter-in-law was on ventilator for several weeks and almost died from COVID. 78-year-old brother tested positive with rapid test. He was told it’s only 50% accurate. He had no symptoms but quarantined with his wife. You just don’t know how your body will react until you get it. I’m not taking any risks!
My friend and mentor, Gary Bunzer (aka the RV Doctor) died back in April from Covid-19. It was a shock to the entire RV industry as well as all of us on RVtravel who knew him well. https://www.rvtravel.com/gary-944-1/
I still find it extremely hard to believe that Gary is gone. I get emotional every time I see his picture in one of our newsletters, or read his name in the Staff box at the bottom of a newsletter. 😥 —Diane at RVtravel.com
A friend of mine’s wife who subsequently passed away because of it.
My sister is currently asymptomatic, a niece is recovering, a nephew has recovered (back in April) and several (15 and counting) people in the RV park where we are currently have tested positive and are quarantining.
We have had 4 positives in our family with 3 covid-19 deaths. The one who recovered has a damaged heart as a result and is being treated for congestive heart failure.
I also have a close friend whose son tested positive, but recovered fully.
I did not test positive, long story, but I do have the antibodies showing that when I was tested I did, indeed, have Covid. Yes, I am donating my plasma to help those that are having a hard time recovering.
My husband’s cousin died from it a week ago. A retired firefighter/EMT he served his community for over 40 years.
…and all have recovered. one was sick for quite a while but refused to seek medical assistance. another had pneumonia at the same time and was sent home to recover. one other had symptoms for only 2-days.
Yes 2 family members in Georgia, 1 in New York, 1 in Texas.
I know of over 15. Death rate about 20%. Several are in long term care due to lung function and inability to swallow due to intubation.
I had COVID in October, I have asthma but was lucky enough to handle with drugs. Unfortunately I now have bacterial pneumonia that the doctors are saying could possibly be from the virus. I know of 4 co-workers and 3 friends that have had it. Not at the same time, so unsure as to how everyone caught it. Lucky enough no family members caught it from them nor my wife.
My brother and 2 sisters in law became moderately ill with Covid. I also had 2 friends who became moderately ill with it.
My 55 yr old brother in July. He, his wife and another couple when to AZ for a few days (looking for a new home to move from CA!). After they returned, my brother came down with the normal symptoms & tested positive. The couple, his wife & 2 of his college age children, who live with them, were all negative. Side note. When they arrived in AZ the man traveling with my brother got a call from his brother. A man they both work closely with tested positive. Both brothers were negative. Until he was tested the thought was he gave my brother the virus. Nope. Strange how it works.
My sister passed away last June. She was counted as a “Covid fatality.” But she died from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)..think Steven Hawking. I can assure you that Covid had nothing to do with it! As I see it, our methods of testing and counting “cases” (confirmed or ‘probable’) is a huge part of the problem.
My Son-in-laws mother has Covid -19. She works in a LTC facility. In our development in Punta Gorda, Fl, there are 313 units. 16 people tested positive and one died (in August). My wife’s uncle tested positive in March and still can’t smell or taste certain foods and odors. Our son and DIL are both RNs in hospitals in San Diego. Both have had co-workers that tested positive, and their daughter was treated for Covid like symptoms in February or March, but not tested when she was 17 months old.
So to answer the question, yes we do know people that were positive and died. This is not a political disease. People of all political parties get sick. Some die and some live. Only those with vivid imaginations will think they are immune because they support a political party whose leaders still think this is a imaginary disease.
Such a shame.
Be safe and wear a mask and wash your hands and social distance. If we all act responsibly, we can curb the infection rate and save lives!
Our son, who lives with us, was sicker than a dog back in January. In March he was tested for the Antibodies and had them. We’re certain he had it but neither my wife or me got sick despite both being high risk. I personally know a couple dozen people who have tested positive but only one died, and he also had COPD.
Didn’t know anyone with even a positive test until 2 weeks before Thanksgiving! Then it hit family in two different unconnected households. My 22 yr old granddaughter and fiance ( she is a student nurse in a local hospital) both got Covid. Thank God, they were both over it in about four days. My wife’s niece and her daughter came down with it, her brother who lives with them tested positive 2 days later. That all happened in a week. Her brother died on Tuesday before Thanksgiving, his daughter and granddaughter recovered. My wife’s brother had a long list of things he was fighting (cancer, diabetes, COPD among them. The gist of telling all this is, Covid is REAL, if you are in good health you MIGHT have a chance of a full recovery, (there are no guarantees) if you have underlying circumstances be even more careful. We will eventually get past this, but a lot of us will not. Every person is different their chances and outcome will differ. Be safe, take precautions as needed.
My brother died during the first wave of Covid in Washington State. March 21st, Burien, Washington. 67 years old, no known medical issues. It happened so fast. Just never expected to be without my brother.
Early on we knew 5 non-family members that got it. All of them either worked at a hospital or their significant other did. They all recovered. Early summer our son-laws’s mom and her boyfriend got it. He was a mass transit driver in a major city. Both wound up in the hospital. He was worse, was in ICU on a respirator and possibly was close to death. He is obese among other issues. He supposedly has real bad bed sores on his feet, from what they deem horrible medical staff and care. He still uses a walker and still obese. They continue to go to crowded places, shop, go to concerts etc. They really tick off our son-in-law and we don’t blame him for his feelings. On my husbands side, a cousins 99 year old mom in an assisted living home had it and only had sniffles and an intermittent cough. She also had no lasting side effects after recovering. We have heard about several others getting it, through family and friend texts, phone calls and videos.
2 false positives and 2 with very mild symptoms
Yes, my nephew. He’s fine now. Stayed home for two weeks from work as a Pa state corrections officer.
I believe I had this last December. Was hospitalized in Miami for a week; had 3 nose swabs which could not be identified. Treated with antibiotic IV, oral antibiotic, given nebulizer treatments 24/7 every 4 hours, wore a heart monitor the entire time, had infectious disease control doctor, pulmonary care doctor and was in an isolation room during entire stay. Sickest I’ve been in my entire life. Do not want to repeat!
We have had four family members in Montreal infected with the virus. My mother-in-law lives in a seniors complex where 6 died. In Apr she ended up on a ventilator for several weeks. Since release from hospital she continues to suffer from heart and lung issues, memory loss as well as hair loss. My sister-in-law is a home care worker and was infected 2-3 weeks ago and passed it on to her husband. Both are self isolating at home but are extremely sick, relying on family to drop off meals and supplies as they can not do much due to extreme nausea. The 4th rode out the infection with much milder symptoms
Question what is the difference between
One and more or At least ONE? If you know one you could answer both of these.
… but I DO know quite a few that tested negative, myself included.
Yes several including my daughter and her husband.
My husband (73) towards the end of April was exposed and tested positive. Didn’t know he was exposed until notified about 10-days after original exposure. He had no symptoms, and I tested negative.
Another false positive.
I was in ICU with Covid May/June for 13 days. I still have issues I did not have before. I also know several people who had mild symptoms and I have lost 7 people so far to it. 2 local musicians here in SWFL and 5 healthcare workers up in New England. Crazy virus. There have been several people testing positive with no symptoms! They did a 2nd test to confirm and yes positive.