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In reply to the discussion: Do You Know Someone Who Died of COVID-19? [View all]sanatanadharma
(3,694 posts)55. Nobody personally known by me in my small world
However, I know about each of the half-million dead in the USA.
Everyone used the personal pronoun "I" and everyone had the same sense of 'myself'.
Every self had experiences, knowledge, fears, hopes, plans and some (or more) existential angst.
Each was the center of a known universe, though for most their own universe ended at the epidermis.
All were certain in their knowing even when they did not know. All knew they lived in a real world even when they didn't.
All had desires, memories, non-verifiable beliefs and births from some form of family; they were known to others.
One perhaps (I am generous) did not fear death.
I hope to know that one personally.
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I do know someone that died from Covid. Several family members had it. Thankfully they recovered
tulipsandroses
Mar 2021
#6
I have a first cousing and a 2nd cousin die of Covid. Just a few miles away. I had no
riversedge
Mar 2021
#10
I have lost two friends to the trumplague, nearly lost a third, who is now a long-hauler, and know
niyad
Mar 2021
#35
I do not. But my daughter-in-law, a nurse in a Covid unit, has cared for hundreds of people ...
11 Bravo
Mar 2021
#36
No. I have family members who know people who have died of it. And some of my younger
highplainsdem
Mar 2021
#71
Three people. One was my boss. Two were colleagues in the American Chemical Society. n/t.
NNadir
Mar 2021
#90
I don't know anyone personally who died. Out elderly neighbor 2 doors down recently died of it.
beaglelover
Mar 2021
#112