COVID super spreading family we know **Our friend has passed away**

[spiders]

THE DIFFERENCE IS WHEN YOU ARE OUT IN PUBLIC EVEN IF YOU ARE AROUND A BUNCH OF STRANGERS, YOU ARE WEARING A MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCING. At home people don't do either of those things. When you invite people over you have a higher chance of getting Covid then you do lined up to get into a store. Which also explains the high number of cases coming from gatherings.

I am sick and tired of the many who don't take this seriously. Wait til you have a family member die from Covid. Maybe then you will understand.

You’re obviously well informed of every work environment. It’s all masks and social distancing, 100% safe.

Wait until I have a family member die? Well, hopefully we’ll be lucky enough to fall into the 99.97% who survive.

Nobody is changing anybody’s mind on anything here. Have a wonderful day!

 

[paradesintherain]

Never mind

 

[spiders]

Just saying, as a nurse, that death isn’t the only thing to fear from COVID.

and as a nurse, we’re really freaking tired and over-worked and this is A LOT more death than usual.

And OP, I hope your friends make a full recovery!

Yeah. We don’t know what the long term effects are from COVID but we also don’t know what the long term effects are from the vaccine. A real pickle. We might as well just hunker down until 2030.

 

[mom2rtk]

Wait til you have a family member die from Covid. Maybe then you will understand.

Regardless of how you feel, that's a pretty awful thing to say.

 

[paradesintherain]

. Not worth it

 

[mousefan73]

Scary thing is it doesnt have to be an extended large family gathering. My friend's parents had Thanksgiving with another couple ( her Aunt and Uncle); so just 4. All but the Uncle ended up with covid. Now who gave to whom is unclear.. Clear is her parents spend a good week in the hospital. Mom got antibody treatement and both are released to an a Covid station at a care facility. Mom on Oxy. 10 days there, then they were told 14 days quarantine.

 

[mrodgers]

You’re very callous.

And you all are very fake with all of your virtue signaling.

 

[HeatherC]

Can’t we all be nice.....please!

 

[Princessclab]

Regardless of how you feel, that's a pretty awful thing to say.

Unfortunately it is our reality now, lots of people have died. Not all facts are sunshine and Disney. It is more than likely the thoughts of every HCP working with people who have Covid.
It is frustrating when people perpetuate Covid because they wish to not have empathy and refuse to educate themselves.
Sadly, we have a good idea who those selfish people are.
Stay safe all!

 

[mom2rtk]

Unfortunately it is our reality now, lots of people have died. Not all facts are sunshine and Disney. It is more than likely the thoughts of every HCP working with people who have Covid.
It is frustrating when people perpetuate Covid because they wish to not have empathy and refuse to educate themselves.
Sadly, we have a good idea who those selfish people are.
Stay safe all!

Lots of lack of empathy going on these days for sure. Not necessarily just the kind you think.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Some of the guys in my husband’s department at work decided to get together for a Christmas lunch. At the office. The tiny office. He declined. 2 days later they find out one of their wives has Covid.

I’m so glad he stayed home. I don’t know who approved this and thought it was a good idea after they were told they are working from home until June.

 

[paradesintherain]

And you all are very fake with all of your virtue signaling.

don’t even know what you’re talking about.

 

[Mango7100]

Some of the guys in my husband’s department at work decided to get together for a Christmas lunch. At the office. The tiny office. He declined. 2 days later they find out one of their wives has Covid.

I’m so glad he stayed home. I don’t know who approved this and thought it was a good idea after they were told they are working from home until June.

Glad he avoided that situation. That had bad idea all over it...

 

[penn19]

You’re very callous
.

Realist

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Regardless of how you feel, that's a pretty awful thing to say.

Right? No one should really wish ill anyone. I wouldn't want anyone to even be positive much less die and I wouldn't want someone to lose their job, income, health insurance and retirement either. We must at times be forgetting there are real people behind the comments written here.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Right? No one should really wish ill anyone. I wouldn't want anyone to even be positive much less die and I wouldn't want someone to lose their job, income, health insurance and retirement either. We must be forgetting at times that there are real people behind the comments written here.

I'm pretty used to how @Jrb1979 posts and I don't think he was being awful. I can see how it comes across that way, but I understand where he's coming from. It's a fact that many people didn't believe in the virus until it affected them personally. I am thinking that was his point.

 

[antmaril]

THE DIFFERENCE IS WHEN YOU ARE OUT IN PUBLIC EVEN IF YOU ARE AROUND A BUNCH OF STRANGERS, YOU ARE WEARING A MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCING. At home people don't do either of those things. When you invite people over you have a higher chance of getting Covid then you do lined up to get into a store. Which also explains the high number of cases coming from gatherings.

I am sick and tired of the many who don't take this seriously. Wait til you have a family member die from Covid. Maybe then you will understand.

This! 100%. I have been wondering if I am stupid because I see people comparing standing in line at the grocery store or Lowe’s to gathering inside with family and/or friends. When I am shopping, everyone is masked up (including me) and we are social distancing. I am not with any person for any length of time. If I get attend a gathering (even with one other person outside of my household), we will take off our masks to eat and drink. To me, that makes all the difference.

I feel better now because this has been driving me crazy.

Believe me, I want to be with my family and friends. I lost my best friend in February and my younger sister in March. (Neither COVID related). This has been a rough year and being with the people I love would help a lot. But, it’s a “no” because it isn’t the safe and responsible thing to do. Hopefully, next year we will make up for lost time and have wonderful Christmas celebrations all together.

In my opinion, being a mature adult means I can say “no” to myself. Sometimes, that is very, very hard.

 

[SaintsManiac]

This! 100%. I have been wondering if I am stupid because I see people comparing standing in line at the grocery store or Lowe’s to gathering inside with family and/or friends. When I am shopping, everyone is masked up (including me) and we are social distancing. I am not with any person for any length of time. If I get attend a gathering (even with one other person outside of my household), we will take off our masks to eat and drink. To me, that makes all the difference.

I feel better now because this has been driving me crazy.

Believe me, I want to be with my family and friends. I lost my best friend in February and my younger sister in March. (Neither COVID related). This has been a rough year and being with the people I love would help a lot. But, it’s a “no” because it isn’t the safe and responsible thing to do. Hopefully, next year we will make up for lost time and have wonderful Christmas celebrations all together.

In my opinion, being a mature adult means I can say “no” to myself. Sometimes, that is very, very hard.

You aren't crazy. It seems like perfect common sense until you start reading these boards or Facebook.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm pretty used to how @Jrb1979 posts and I don't think he was being awful. I can see how it comes across that way, but I understand where he's coming from. It's a fact that many people didn't believe in the virus until it affected them personally. I am thinking that was his point.

The poster was saying it was a pretty awful thing to say not that the poster is awful. And I too know the poster (and I don't think they are awful either) but I also remember all the theme park talk for months.

An extreme case but we were talking about an elderly Canadian woman on one of the other threads who requested and eventually was granted medically assisted death rather than another isolated lockdown. Her family understands through their experience now and they know someone who died as a result of the virus just not from being positive from it.

I do agree with what you said is his point. It's been 9 months of this, the chances are likely high someone has been negatively impacted by the virus in some form. I think being affected by the virus is from so many angles. That's what I meant by forgetting that real people exist behind the comments.

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Sorry pretty sure that veered well off of Dan's thread topic here

 

[choirfarm]

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