We lost one in our apt complex tonite

[jmbar2]

I live in a 62+ apartment in Oregon. An ambulance pulled up and took a neighbor out, loaded him in the back, but nobody got in the ambulance after him. All the other personnel walked to a separate vehicles.

It could be any number of causes, but I've been paranoid about one former homeless neighbor who hangs out at the local open-air drug market bringing COVID back here, where there are a number of sick and older residents.

I hope that the rental industry is on top of how to clean an apartment where someone has died of COVID. it worries me.

I have been in near total isolation for a couple of weeks already, so not worried for myself. This probably won't be the last from my building if it is COVID.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. I would urge you to let go of some prejudices and ignorance.

It could be any number of causes, but I've been paranoid about one former homeless neighbor who hangs out at the local open-air drug market bringing COVID back here, where there are a number of sick and older residents.

People are sick everywhere, and your neighbors that go to nice grocery stores and visit their families in other living areas are just as likely to "bring COVID back here."

I hope that the rental industry is on top of how to clean an apartment where someone has died of COVID. it worries me.

They'll clean it like they clean any other apartment. Assuming your neighbor is actually dead, of course.

[uppityperson]

2. Thank you

[EarthFirst]

3. + 1

TY

[Freethinker65]

4. +1

[jmbar2]

5. He is a friend to everyone, but also an addict

I'm pretty sure he was dead. If it was him, it was not unexpected. He was loved - funny, irascible, incorrigible, and the life of the party. RIP.

[DarthDem]

6. I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.

If that's what happened, RIP.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Keep in mind that every single day in this country

some 7500 people day.

Not very many of them, at least at this point, are dying from this virus.

Chances are the neighbor has anything but Covid-19.

[jmbar2]

8. Thanks for that point.

We do regularly lose folks here. It's one of the weird things about being one of the younger ones in the complex. We never know who's next. It generates a lot of black humor. And also a lot of peaceful acceptance that life is fleeting.

I must admit, I've been inspired by it. It has lessened my fear of aging and leaving this planet. But not ready to go yet.