My cousins thought going shopping for deals the day after Xmas was worth it. Two old people in ICU and three of my cousins sick with covid, so far. No one wears masks and only my uncle is vaxxed. They got a 70" Sony OLED TV for $2400 though. Totally worth it putting both of their parents, my aunt and uncle in the hospital.
Two anti-vaxxers cousin and aunt died—they were a mother and grandma too. Left my uncle with 5 grandkids to care for. It’s so shitty for those kids.
All the vaccinated have been fine. Pre-vaccine there were close calls tho..
It would suck so much to lose your parents to Facebook brainworms, heart breaks for those kids and all others around the country in that position.
It was 100 percent the result of Facebook snake-oil. Real sad shit.
A just world would see Zuckerberg held accountable for the harm his company has done
I live in Norway so there hasn't been too much covid around me, but we very recently adopted the "open up everything and let the plague sort them out" strategy, so it'll be interesting to see how that fares.
My triple-vaccinated older aunt caught it. She's having a miserable, but ultimately safe and stable time. I hope that persists.
My dad and his fiancee went bar hopping like four days ago, so I'm waiting on that.
I spent time with my younger aunt on Christmas with my cousins and one of my cousins who I didn't see at the time tested positive for covid yesterday. I'm going to see how that turns out.
In other news, I feel frustrated and annoyed that my dad and his fiancee went bar hopping while when I thought I might've had covid, I was masking up to make a dinner to eat in my bedroom.
I hope they don't give me covid and it's just stressful with every system in place is pushing to 'get back to normal.'
So far I haven't heard of anyone getting it in 2021/2, but the vaccine rate in my extended family is probably 80%, even higher if you only count the old people.
grandfather, uncle both got covid and died.
My grandfather was pushing 90, already frail and in ill health - he had began developing lung cancer from years of smoking a pipe. He was either gone last year or this year, it was still hard to see him go but i guess most of my family was prepared for his passing. my uncle was an active man who played hockey and coached community sports games, at 40, covid brought him to his knees, destroyed his lung tissue forcing him into the hospital and onto a ventilator, where he was in a coma for 3-4 weeks before having a brain aneurysm and being declared brain dead. my aunt then decided to pull the cord and donate all the organs and tissue she could. both died before vaxxes were readily available in canada.
ive had 3 scares from my work, so far.
All my family are libs, so they at least wear masks and vax. Ya they're OK.
I kinda worry about my brother as he works in a hospital, but yes we don't talk.
Adult sibling's roomy got it, and I had a possible exposure two weeks ago (no way to get a test to find out), but I think we're all good. Just friends so far, but far more of them than in any other wave.
One dead unvaxed uncle and an unvaxed cousin who had a rough go over Thanksgiving but is ok now
We were careful, but somehow my brother caught it driving for Uber and spread it during christmas, so there you go
I am convinced we spread it at our small Christmas Eve gathering. Haven't been able to get tested but 5 of us in three different households came down with mild COVID symptoms a week later ranging from just a sore throat to a low fever and coughing. All dissipated after a few days and I think I was the longest at like 5 days. We're all vaxxed and most of us had boosters, so it's no surprise it was so mild, but when I try telling my family that they get pissed and act like there's no way we could have spread the most contagious disease ever.
Also the hosts of the party both work in a hospital. Not accusing them, but they were definitely exposed.
Managed to avoid it all year until last week. Brother tested positive on new years eve :agony-consuming:
We were to fly abroad that day for a family wedding :agony-deep:
At least I made it I guess
My vaxxed grandma got delta, spent a month or so in the ICU and on a ventilator, recovered somewhat and then died. My stepdad's family is full of antivaxxer chud boomers and they were dropping like flies this fall, but I don't know most of the details. The rest of us have been very lucky so far, especially considering how many of my cousins are either retail workers, teachers, nurses, or doctors.
