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Do Patnetters know anyone who has died or is currently sick from the virus?


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2020 Apr 5, 2:03pm   3,040 views  46 comments

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I don't--there have been two deaths in McLennan County, TX since a week ago with 51 local cases. I go to the store because that's the only place open, pick up a few things. I wish I had thought to ask my mother (1902-1997) during her life if she or her family knew anyone who died or even got sick during the 1918 pandemic. She had six siblings and none got sick and if they knew anyone who died or even got sick they never mentioned it. Since 675,000 Americans died of the flu and and an estimated 28% were infected with it, it seems hard to imagine you could not at least know someone who got sick. It lasted 13 months and killed more people than the Bubonic Plague did in 100 years, or so I've read about.

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1   theoakman   2020 Apr 5, 2:12pm  

I know someone who has it in New York City. She's 67. She's having trouble talking but it doesn't appear to be life threatening. Apparently, a bunch of people at my school district in New Jersey have it but I don't know who.
2   WookieMan   2020 Apr 5, 2:12pm  

2 tested and confirmed deaths that I 100% believe. And 1 other person tested positive that I 100% believe. Not a brag, but my wife and I know a shitload of people. I'm not active on Facebook much but probably around 2-3k "friends" on that social network between both of us.

These 3 cases were family/friends OF friends. No direct connection. So I'd guess I'm 3 positive tests out of 5-8k people if we get to the 2nd level. It's not common here in IL regardless of the press. A friend notifying me of a family member death is a much higher probability than what's occurring directly linked to CV-19. Basically cancer, heart attacks, etc. are a more common occurrence in my sphere. 1 suicide though.
3   WookieMan   2020 Apr 5, 2:14pm  

Oh, and both that died were 55+, with one having underlying health conditions. The other was 65ish and recovered. If you're old, stay home. And don't let the young visit.
4   just_passing_through   2020 Apr 5, 2:18pm  

My grandmother had the 1918 flu when she was 7. She told me the worst night the doc came to visit and she recalls he stepped out of her bedroom to discuss in the hallway with her mom. She could hear everything they said. Interesting it was a house call.. Anyhow, he told her mom, "Your daughter will not live through the night", then he left.

Asshole right!?
5   Tenpoundbass   2020 Apr 5, 2:18pm  

theoakman says
I know someone who has it in New York City. She's 67.


My Daughter's boyfriend's brother is sick in New York City with it.
6   clambo   2020 Apr 5, 2:24pm  

I don’t know of anyone.
7   NDrLoR   2020 Apr 5, 2:28pm  

just_dregalicious says
Interesting it was a house call
Quite common up through the 1960's. My friend and I used to take his physician father who practiced in West, Texas from 1934 to 1968 on rural house calls. They had a screened in porch on their 1925 built house converted into a home office where people could come by after hours for consultation. People would have a runny nose all day but not go by his office during daytime hours, then show up at the back door at 8:00 p.m. and he'd visit with them for no charge. We could hear through the door to the porch/office and one night a family brought their teen-age Down's syndrome daughter. When Dr. Gidney gave her a shot she screamed and called him an SOB.
8   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2020 Apr 5, 2:29pm  

Yes someone I work with. Like see them every day. Another might be.

Don’t know anyone who has died or even been in the hospital. My co workers fight like hell with me on this one but best they can do is I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another. Or worse yet:

Me: don’t worry, nothings going to happen to your kids even if they get it.
Them: ZOMG THAT BABY IN CONNETICUT DIED
Me: bullshit. Guaranteed it’s not corona.
Them: ZOOMG YOU AND YOUR CONSPIRACIES!!!!
Me: 🤨
9   HeadSet   2020 Apr 5, 3:08pm  

Just had a neighbor in his 70s get CV-19, go to the hospital for a few days, recovered and was sent home. He is now supposed to stay isolated for another 8 days. He is not overweight, does not smoke, and is health enough that he regularly cuts his 1/2 acre lawn with a push mower.
10   Patrick   2020 Apr 5, 3:11pm  

We don't know anyone with a confirmed case, nor any deaths.
11   marcus   2020 Apr 5, 3:14pm  

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Even if you are in New York City, less than 1%, (,007), are confirmed to have it. That's probably half way accurate for the percentage that are symptomatic,

But this is why we are doing this social distancing thing, so that the numbers stay small. Because we have data on what percentage of those that get it, will die.

In any case, it shouldn't be that surprising that you don't know anyone, yet anyway.
12   mell   2020 Apr 5, 4:09pm  

Yeah, overseas 2 relatives confirmed, in their 70s and both successfully treated with azithromycin. Recovering.
13   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Apr 5, 4:11pm  

One of my neighbors cousin died. He had cancer and other problems when he got corona. So technically he was overloaded with all sorts of diseases and this was the final nail in his coffin.
14   Booger   2020 Apr 5, 4:32pm  

No.
15   Blue   2020 Apr 5, 5:58pm  

I don't know directly. someone passed away because of the virus who worked for Broadcom,San Jose. He might have traveled to China.
16   Bd6r   2020 Apr 5, 6:16pm  

I know of two, a student whom I talked to about 12 days ago, and a Dr friend of mine. Both have symptoms of a common cold, were tested, and were found to have corona. Not heavy cases though even though Dr is in her early 60's.
17   HeadSet   2020 Apr 6, 9:32am  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says
You can't catch a HOAX!


Nonsense. Quite a few are smitten with AGW Delusia. Symptoms often include blue hair and incoherent speech.
18   georgeliberte   2020 Apr 6, 9:40am  

I asked my wife that exact question on 4/1/2020. She said thousands have died form it. I asked again emphasising 'do you know'. Nobody here or in Vietnam.
20   WookieMan   2020 Apr 7, 6:11pm  

ThreeBays says
I found out a friend lost two of his relatives in New York in the last two weeks. Not sure if they were high risk or not.

They were...
21   komputodo   2020 Apr 7, 6:22pm  

yeah ...I heard that my 3rd cousin's girlfriend's brother's fiance worked with a person whose grandfather died from it.
22   WookieMan   2020 Apr 7, 6:55pm  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says
I know 7 but the only surprise is that I know that many crisis actors

You being serious? That would be like an exponential, hockey stick type thingy....
23   Bd6r   2020 Apr 7, 7:35pm  

WookieMan says
APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says
I know 7 but the only surprise is that I know that many crisis actors

You being serious? That would be like an exponential, hockey stick type thingy....

or AF is surprisingly socially skilled and has many ignores only virtually
24   Bd6r   2020 Apr 7, 7:38pm  

BTW does not appear that I have corona even though I was in close contact with a corona-sick person 2 weeks ago, unless I am asymptomatic.
25   clambo   2020 Apr 8, 10:21am  

I have a female friend who is a liar, she’s interesting to talk to when she’s in her cups since she makes up shit.

She called me and said her live in fiancee got Wuhan and was in the hospital.
26   WookieMan   2020 Apr 8, 10:29am  

I don't know if AF was joking, but does anyone seriously know more than 3 people with this thing? Confirmed tested?
27   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Apr 8, 10:30am  

WookieMan says
I don't know if AF was joking, but does anyone seriously know more than 3 people with this thing? Confirmed tested?


Only 1.

I know local hospital has about 40 confirmed, 3 in ICU.
28   zzyzzx   2020 Apr 8, 11:33am  

Do Patnetters know anyone who has died or is currently sick from the virus?

Nope!
29   RWSGFY   2020 Apr 8, 11:53am  

No. With only 450 death in the whole state the chances of me knowing one of the victims would be slim anyway.
30   Patrick   2020 Apr 8, 12:18pm  

More than 2 million tests done in the US and we still don't know anyone who tested positive.
31   RWSGFY   2020 Apr 8, 12:22pm  

Patrick says
More than 2 million tests done in the US and we still don't know anyone who tested positive.


Yeah, all seven of us. In a 300M+ country.
32   Patrick   2020 Apr 8, 1:35pm  

Meant the wife and self don't know anyone who tested positive.
33   WookieMan   2020 Apr 8, 8:56pm  

Really hate conspiracy theories and I'm not quite there yet. I think this is mainly bull shit at this point though. My nurse friends are fucking taking selfies on the clock of their masks and posting on social media. I feel like all the footage from Italy and a few other places was just shitty run hospitals and nothing more than that. Lots of drama and fake urgency in footage I've see on US hospitals. That's not at all how ER's operate.

Think about the media and video footage from China when this started.... "Building" a hospital with something like 100 backhoes/excavators in 5 days?? That makes zero sense in construction for a single level structure in an emergency situation. You use a bulldozer and level/grade the land. It would take 10X the effort to level land with a backhoe.

Is there any data that the overall death rate in first world countries is any higher than normal? Not sure if March numbers would be out yet, but stuff just hasn't been adding up. There theoretically should have been a jump, unless the virus is killing people that would have also died from some other typical bacteria or virus. And if that's the case, this whole shut down has been utter bull shit.
34   Eric Holder   2020 Apr 8, 9:05pm  

WookieMan says
Really hate conspiracy theories and I'm not quite there yet. I think this is mainly bull shit at this point though.


I said it before and I say it again: it's not easy either to inflate or to hide deaths in the 1st world countries. India, China, Pakistan - no problem. But not US, Italy, Spain, UK. So, the only true measure whether this virus scare was "mainly bullshit" if there would be no significant spike in deaths registered for the period it was active.

Easy to check. Let's wait a little bit for all the data to be gathered and published and see for ourselves.

PS. Of course some fruitcakes will say that CIA is fudging death numbers all around the world because they are omnipotent and shit (looking at you, WP, you meds-skipping nutjob), but that's more about the failures of our mental healthcare system than anything else.
35   mell   2020 Apr 8, 9:55pm  

Eric Holder says
WookieMan says
Really hate conspiracy theories and I'm not quite there yet. I think this is mainly bull shit at this point though.


I said it before and I say it again: it's not easy either to inflate or to hide deaths in the 1st world countries. India, China, Pakistan - no problem. But not US, Italy, Spain, UK. So, the only true measure whether this virus scare was "mainly bullshit" if there would be no significant spike in deaths registered for the period it was active.

Easy to check. Let's wait a little bit for all the data to be gathered and published and see for ourselves.

PS. Of course some fruitcakes will say that CIA is fudging death numbers all around the world because they are omnipotent and shit (looking at you, WP, you meds-skipping nutjob), but that's more about the failures of our mental healthcare system than anything else.


The deaths are real although inflated if you don't take away significant preexisting conditions. But the rate of people who got infected at some point and cleared it and stayed asymptomatic is likely much much higher, making it not more deadly than the flu. As long as there's no large supply of effective meds or a vaccine controlled build up of herd immunity over time is the only option.
36   WookieMan   2020 Apr 8, 10:17pm  

mell says
The deaths are real although inflated

I agree. It's an actual virus that exists for sure. Like I said, don't like conspiracy theories, and I'm not there yet with this virus. I think numbers are being inflated as well. We're hitting the "bad" week or two here and I still have only heard of 3 people testing positive that are friends/family of friends. No one I personally know has it.

Our first level sphere of friends and family is rather large. We chopped down the wedding invites from 500 to 300 a decade ago... So only 3 known positive tests of friends of friends. Probably ~3-5k people?

The numbers of people I'm talking about are rather mind boggling for 3 positive tests and that's it. 2 did die, but CV-19 was listed as the cause and in both cases the deceased were at deaths door anyway.

As each day goes by I keep questioning why we're shut down. It's pretty frustrating. Even the media needing this to keep going is reporting on the empty overflow hospitals and setups. 1+1 isn't equaling 2 right now in my mind.
37   WookieMan   2020 Apr 8, 10:35pm  

ThreeBays says
WookieMan says
We're hitting the "bad" week or two here and I still have only heard of 3 people testing positive that are friends/family of friends. No one I personally know has it.


Where are you from?

Illinois. One of the "hot pockets" so to speak. Worked and lived in Chicago for a decade. Not going to dox much more, but my wife and I easily know 3k people that would have mentioned something to us personally or via social media about a friend or loved one getting the virus. It's been 3 total. Don't have to believe me, but I'm not exaggerating. Kind of pointless to do so.
38   WookieMan   2020 Apr 8, 10:37pm  

ThreeBays says
That's a bit like saying your house is not on fire so don't get the point of putting out the wildfire before it got to your house.

Not at all. You're assuming that there's a wildfire. What I'm trying to say is someone is having a fire in their backyard, contained in a pit, the authorities see smoke and assume there's a wildfire... if that makes sense.
39   komputodo   2020 Apr 8, 11:54pm  

What the hell difference does it make? If it was 5 times more deaths in your city, what would you do differently? Some people love to worry...others don't give a crap...It's always been like that... Do whatever makes you the most comfortable...You aren't going to change anything...If I actually thought I was going to catch it and die, I'd get as far away from people as I could and would not worry about work and money.
40   BayArea   2020 Apr 9, 6:30am  

It’s hard to say. This isn’t exactly talked about openly and names aren’t even released by hospitals.

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