Posted on 03/12/2021 9:35:03 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I know two people who had it; no one who died. My DIL’s mother (in her late 50s) had it. She was quarantining in her apartment and thought she was through it but her oxygen levels started dropping. (My DIL and son had given her and us finger oxygen monitors.) She went to the ER and was hospitalized for a few days. The other person is a 90-year-old neighbor. He was complaining to my husband for a week that he wasn’t feeling well and had a cough and some other symptoms. My husband kept telling him he might have COVID. He finally got tested and did have it. His symptoms never progressed and everything resolved on its own. He lives with his wife and a daughter in her 60s - neither the wife nor daughter caught it.
Very easy poll to take, impossible to derive any real stats from it than 1 in 5 people lost a loved one, some one they loved. If freedom was a person we all lost a loved one!
Well 50% of the population are below median intelligence, that's for sure.
We have had three deaths in the family since mid 2020, and now in 2021. Not Covid deaths at all.
According to those stats, each person who died from COVID was “loved” by 12 people. While I’m sure there are some who were “loved” by more than 12, I’d also be sure that many were “loved” by less than twelve. All in all, I’d say that really means that 66 million people know of someone who died from COVID. I know of a few people who had family members who died of COVID, though none of them were close to me. The poll probably reflects a tendency of some people, particularly those of the busy-body, leftist persuasion, to make the story about them personally. I have a couple family members like that: there isn’t enough suffering in their own actual lives, so they seem to take on the suffering of others just for a little sympathy. The AP’s use of the phrase “loved one” is a deliberate attempt to evoke pity, though it’s a very subjective term. Note they didn’t say “close family member”.
Bad sample of people who don’t know what they are talking about.
Well, when 100 people might all consider one person’s death that of a “loved one,” I’m not sure how this question is relevant.
I lost a very close friend but I don’t believe it was only due to Covid-19. He had other issues and I believe putting him on a ventilator exacerbated an existing condition.
Yea right. Sorry but I call absolute BS on this.
Unless by “loved one” they mean anyone at all they know up to 3 levels of indirection.
Herman Cain.
I know, or know of (colleague’s spouse that I never met for instance), 83 people that caught covid. Only 4 were sick enough to go to the hospital. One of them was 72 years old with asthma. No one died.
I still do not know one single person who has died from Wuhan virus from a circle of friends and acquaintances (including a large church) that numbers over 300
Not ONE
I have not lost a relative to COVID. I have friends who lost family, people I also knew. My sister and brother-in-law are a hospital pharmacist and an anesthesiologist respectively and they have both lost friends and co-workers to COVID. So I guess part of it would be how you define ‘loved ones’.
Depends on how loved one is defined. I know 6 people who died from or with CCP. Three were co workers, one of whom was a good friend. Two were former students of mine. One was a parish deacon. None could be called a loved one by me, but certainly would be by their families. That’s why stories like this are meaningless.
This means people on average have about 130 loved ones.
COVID vaccines achieve Number One in Deaths of 94 kinds of vaccines
(and COVID vaccines have only been administered for a few weeks!)
we will see....
we will see...
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/how_safe_are_the_covid_vaccines.html
1 in 5 knows
Someone Who Died.
Period.
Got it.
“Oh,come on....one person who died could have many people who knew him.......”
Cmon man, yourself.
It says loved ones, not people they might know.
Either way it works out to 132 people who are “loved ones” or people they know.
The poll interviewed 1,434 U.S. adults.
What are the odds that even two out of 1,434 randomly selected people in a country of 330 million know the same person?
-PJ
I lost my beloved America.
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