How many here knew someone who lost his/her life to trump's virus?

[George II]

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]

1. Me too.

[jaysunb]

2. My mother 7/22/2020. Nt

[Squinch]

5. I'm so sorry!

[onecaliberal]

14. 💔

[femmedem]

3. I do, although he probably wasn't counted in the official figures.

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]

4. A friend and former choir director..

in early August.

[uppityperson]

6. Yes

[Meowmee]

7. Not someone I knew

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]

8. My dad's best friend.

Wrote about it here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213535766

[Blue_true]

9. I don't personally know anyone.

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]

10. My son was a nursing home administrator

Many died. Plus my Aunt.

[Ms. Toad]

11. One dead

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. No but my friend's 5 grandkids and parents had it.

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]

13. I know one person who died. A business client

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. He’s a heart doctor and probably got it from patients in the hospital.

[HipChick]

15. My friend lost both parents..

a sister and a brother....right now she's the only surviving member of her family...

[MaryMagdaline]

16. Oh lord. Horrible

[gopiscrap]

17. Had two friends die of it plus

5 others friends have had it and I also have had COVID

[malaise]

18. I know two people who died

in New York

[GusBob]

19. A patient, a coworker and a colleague

All last month
All males in their 50’s
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]

20. I personally knew 3 people.

One was my boss, one of the finest people I ever knew.

[hamsterjill]

21. Seven people.

These people were all part of the outer orbit of my life. I wasn’t 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]

22. I have lost 4 friends.

2 from high school, 1 from college and one of my Oklahoma friends.

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. One friend in a care home. nt