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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe lost one in our apt complex tonite
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
(22,467 posts)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."
They'll clean it like they clean any other apartment. Assuming your neighbor is actually dead, of course.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)EarthFirst
(2,905 posts)TY
Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)jmbar2
(4,910 posts)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
(5,257 posts)If that's what happened, RIP.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,914 posts)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
(4,910 posts)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.