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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many here knew someone who lost his/her life to trump's virus?
I did, it was back in the middle of March when the only person in the country who knew how bad it really could be was donald trump.
yardwork
(61,647 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Squinch
(50,955 posts)femmedem
(8,203 posts)He tested positive, but died from the aftereffects about three months after he tested negative.
Another friend died from mysterious pneumonia that the doctors couldn't find a cause for. He tested negative, but it's hard to understand what else could have gotten him. He wasn't that old.
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)in early August.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Meowmee
(5,164 posts)But one of my students who had covid pneumonia at the same time as me told me his grandmother died from it, it was transmitted to them by a relative who concealed having it.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Wrote about it here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213535766
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)My family so far are all ok. A person who I grew up with and one of my brothers still know fell ill, but last I heard he was recovering somewhat and was no longer critical.
iamateacher
(1,089 posts)Many died. Plus my Aunt.
Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)1 permanently disabled
One who was so sick for 65 days she could not leave her room. (And at least a dozen more who were less serioulsy impacted.)
Although I take issue with, " the only person in the country who knew how bad it really could be was donald trump."
Go back and find my posts from late January/early February and you will see I was predicting it then (as well that masks are effective, the disease can be transmitted person to person, via the air, that masks are effective for both the wearer and the person who is ill, and a whole host of other things.).
So - yes, Trump was criminally negligent - BUT - there were way too many others (including scientists and doctors) who were turning a blind eye to what should have been obvious to anyone seriously studying China and Italy.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)Her SIL is a doctor and figures he brought it home from the hospital, but her daughter refused to wear a mask grocery shopping so it could be that too.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Her niece and grandnephew also got it but are doing better.
Several other people I know got it. 2 hospitalized, one recovered but still exhausted. Hes a heart doctor and probably got it from patients in the hospital.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)5 others friends have had it and I also have had COVID
malaise
(269,045 posts)in New York
GusBob
(7,286 posts)All last month
All males in their 50s
All great guys
Now today:
3 coworkers exposed
1 sick and in isolation
Everyone in our clinic on edge
To the folks that are saying: woodward waited until the election for maximum impact vs Trump
The election will be too late for those who have died
NNadir
(33,525 posts)One was my boss, one of the finest people I ever knew.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)These people were all part of the outer orbit of my life. I wasnt intimately friends with them, but I had interactions with them.
They are missed and the suffering of their families had been hard to watch.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)2 from high school, 1 from college and one of my Oklahoma friends.