choked to death? Was it respiratory failure? Was it a blood clot? We don’t know.
We know of no one who has died from it, but plenty who have gotten sick for a week or two, and then gotten over it. Do hear stories of the long haul folks who suffer shortness of breath afterwards.
I hear isolated stories of deaths, but no one we know.
We are vaccinated, but we don’t tempt fate. We wear masks in large crowds, but generally avoid large indoor crowds of any kind. I use an N-95. I would never deliberately “try” to get COVID. That’s just ill advised for anyone.
I feel one day we’re going to find some sort of genetic marker of some kind that makes certain people susceptible to this — what the hell type of disease is this where seemingly healthy people just up and croak, while my sister in law who has smoked since 13 and is prone to pneumonia only suffers for a few days?? None of it makes any sense - at least not at this point in time.