I suspect a lot of people here are either not socially all that active beyond FR, just don’t want to really “go out and find out” offline, (does take some effort if one is in a smaller family or has fewer friends), or are simply delusional.
“Pockets” of relatively few cases do exist, too.
Try going to neutral sites where political discussion is limited or banned but discussion of “family” and social matters is allowed or even encouraged. You will find a much different picture of COVID than that which appears on FR. :-(
In the group: Relatives, relatives of close friends, close friends of relatives, and various friends and acquaintances of ours, my wife and I have 17 fatalities. One more seems likely but the circumstances are unclear (just how severe was the COVID / was it actually the trigger for the pneumonia?) This does not include other church contacts. (Ie., people our pastors know, prayers for COVID deceased persons we don’t know, and so on.) Nor does it include patients of our PCP or other health care workers we know, unless otherwise “connected” to us as above. Serious cases and / or long COVID (recoveries taking over a month) I’ve lost track of. Over 2 years, this is hardly “everyone dropping like flies”, but, it IS significant. Granted my wife’s family is large, and as we are not spring chickens, most of those we know are age 45+.
omg... that is terrible!
I am so sorry to hear you are having to deal with that.
Maybe it’s the nature of the site, and what is allowed to be posted that somehow results in people not revealing much about their own personal experiences. I was honestly starting to assume most here were like me and hand’t been personally affected by this horrible virus.
My heart goes out to you.