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Just wanted to pop in and say these accounts are heartbreaking and make painfully clear that so many stories have been forever changed by this. I am especially sad because of the young people not being able to attend school. For so many people school is the one stable/predictable thing in their lives.
I recently found out that one of my co-workers is severely ill with COVID-19 and I'm finding it really difficult to process this emotionally. I wasn't particularly close to him but we had worked together in one way or another for a couple of years. He's only in his 30's and was otherwise healthy. He, his wife and kids somehow contracted the disease before Christmas. They all recovered except for him. He was transferred to a nearby hospital due to having difficulty breathing.
Today I heard that he nearly passed away but they were able to revive him. He's now facing major organ failure. His heart is damaged, he's on the lung transplant list, and he may have to go on dialysis for kidney failure. Even if he does come through this, I'm sure his life will be changed forever and there's a very real possibility that he won't make it. It's just so hard when it hits someone you know like this.
i don't go out or talk to many people and so i hadn't actually known anyone that had coronavirus until this morning when i found out my mum's aunt got it
i've never met her but she's one of few relatives on my mum's side of the family who is nice to my mum and she can't even visit her
i'm terrible with words but i'm so sorry to those who have lost anyone to the virus, it's heartbreaking
i hope everyone is doing ok
My boss wants me to represent the company as a young person by going to networking events :/ I went to one bc I was eventually coercered after all the emails and mentioning how some people are uncomfortable but it’s really going to be okay and safe and government sponsored and talking in the office about how they want to send the young people with the strong immunes systems. My job is receptionist and I know nothing about the field of the company I work for so I’m just being sent out for risk (in my eyes). I went to one and didn’t talk to anybody bc, against the event rules, everyone was in a giant group and many people were choosing to actively network while drinking coffee meaning this large group of people also had people with no masks . Not cool. When I got back to the office early, my boss asked how the event went, and I told them I was extremely uncomfortable and that it was not for me. Thankfully the next event got kicked to half virtual and I didn’t have to back out, but atm I’m not registered to attend anything else and I’d like to keep it that way. A month ago, I drove to meet my mom and swap Christmas presents at a roadside gas station between us, and I didn’t even hug her bc I’m trying to be safe and not spread germs. It was so hard and I cried for about 30 mins just sitting in my car while she sat in hers and we talked on the phone through the windows. I feel it’s crap for someone to even repeatedly ask me to put myself in these situations just because the boss thinks having young people putting there face out there looks good for us. That’s not what my job is and it was never mentioned to me as something I’d be expected to do. I just hope that it’s not the same song and dance next time when I say I’m not comfortable going. I shouldn’t be pressured to do so. It doesn’t help that my boss isn’t super serious about Covid claiming they’ve had it 6 times already :/
I've caught COVID-19 once a few months ago and I don't know if it's residue of the last time I caught it or if I got it again but since the last week my smell sense had decreased a lot. At the beginning of last week stuff started to all smell the same (sauteed zucchini??) and I noticed none of my perfume smell anything outside of alcohol and now I couldn't even smell my deodorant this morning. I'm worried so I'll be tested tomorrow but at the same time I'm afraid my school will think I'm faking it to miss classes.
I'm even more afraid that I'm creating it all by myself, that I'm not even sick because I don't know HOW I could've catch it. Time to get hurt by the PCR-test to know all about it
Has anyone caught ever covid twice in a short time span too ?
My dad, who me and my brother still live with, and my grandpa got COVID back in July. As for as I know, me and my brother did not catch it from our dad, but there is a chance that we could have gotten it, but were just asymptomatic.
The good news is: They both pulled through, and my grandparents actually got their first dose of the vaccine a few weeks ago and should get their second dose very soon.
My dad is 52, so hopefully his age group should get their first dose in the next month or two.
I hope everyone is doing well despite what’s going on in the world. I remember when pandemic first started. I didn’t expect it to last this long. I thought it was something that would just blow over. I don’t think anyone was expecting this when we first heard about it.
What is giving me hope is that more and more people are getting vaccinated. It's hard for my dad to find a good time for us (him, me, and my brother) to get vaccinated, though, since he is busy at work, and he wants to try and do it on a day where he has nothing going on for the next two days at least.
