It is official.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-positive-coronavirus-intl/index.html
@Nrdsb4 - Sorry - here is Austin, Tx. Nephew is in San Antonio. Friend’s brother is near Houston. Texas cases are rising rapidly. So much for summer heat causing the virus cases to drop!!!
Yeah, this kind of Texas heat just sends everyone inside, so no real benefit.
I’m in Dallas, and we are also having record setting cases on a daily basis.
That’s why I think Maine is doing better now. We can do everything outside.
My dad finally knows someone who was diagnosed. I’m glad of glad - I don’t think it seemed real to him yet.
A family friend is now in the hospital with COVID. The past month or so he was in the hospital a couple of time with some internal bleeding and liver issues. Began with shortness of breath this weekend and tested positive; now in ICU on oxygen. Word is he is very sick. Don’t know where he might have picked it up due to his hospital stays and lack of staying away from others.
I hate this on many levels, especially as I complained about he and his wife not social distancing or wearing mask. About two months ago he stop by my mother’s to visit without a mask, and my mother forgot about telling him to wear one and didn’t have one on herself. Luckily they were both well at the time, but I had to really get on my mother about being careful.
A young coworker at one of our clinic’s tested positive and was in the hospital for two weeks. I do not know her, but understand she has asthma and is sick a lot from work. She still is showing positive, so can not return to work until she has had two negative test. Have no clue if she is even well enough to come to work at this point.
My daughter used a peak flow meter for the first time since getting Covid. Her lung capacity is significantly reduced.
How long has it been since your daughter first showed symptoms, @“Snowball City” ?
@“Cardinal Fang” On the 15th it will be 4 months since she was sick. Lungs still hurt even just sitting around. Inhalers etc haven’t been effective in reducing that.
I’m very sorry to hear that, @“Snowball City”.
@Snowball, hate hate hate to read this. I really hope she recovers completely eventually.
Young people need to hear these stories. Too many of them are behaving as if they have not a care in the world with respect to this virus.
IIRC, @Creekland’s son still hasn’t recovered full lung function either. These anecdotes are alarming.
Our family friend died today. They moved him to comfort care at the hospital very early this morning. His wife is currently negative for the virus, but I heard his daughter and her husband tested positive. This sucks on so many levels!
I am so sorry @snowball.
I’m so sorry, @snowball.
I’m so sorry @snowball. So weird to read a thread like this. I read your post that your family friend had COVID and then just a few posts later, he has died. It’s heartbreaking and shocking.
A marriage counselor we saw 20 years ago caught COVID in a memory care center and passed away this week. He was such a great guy. ?
My cousin in Queens (who was 68) went to the hospital on Palm Sunday and did not come off the respirator; she died the morning after Easter Sunday. So sad that her adult kids and grandbabies could not see her. And really, there’s nothing that can prepare you for attending a family funeral via Livestream. My condolences to all.
I am finding myself getting more and more angry when I see people out and about, in town, ignoring the guidelines. My favorite is when I hear someone say “Oh, we really don’t have many cases now in our area, so it’s fine”. I frequently want to smack people in the head. And I’m usually not like that. 
My BIL and SIL are very close to our friend that died Friday. Once we knew he was in the hospital with COVID last week, I though my BIL would get the seriousness of this illness, and not continue to poo poo it. But I guess not; yesterday morning he was out to breakfast with a few friends! Not 24 hours after a close friend passes away 
I continue to go to the manager at the grocery store when I see an employee wearing their mask as a chin guard, or not over their nose. If the store is going to require their staff to wear mask, they need to wear them properly. I can dodge the other shoppers that chose not to wear a mask, but when the woman at the deli is cutting my meat with her mask on her chin, that is not going to work for me!
My BIL’s MIL is in the hospital with Covid-19. It’s a really terrible story, my SIL could only talk to her Mom on the phone as she’s in assisted living/nursing home. She could tell something wasn’t right, but the staff refused to take her to the hospital. So my SIL went and the hospital said they thought she had a UTI and gave her antibiotics and sent her back to the home. They do not test her for Covid. A few days later she’s no better and back she goes to the hospital. This time she gets tested and is positive for Covid. Meanwhile my SIL is now quarantining herself from the rest of her family. It just boggles my mind that the hospital isn’t testing sick people coming out of nursing homes. And this is California which should know better.
@snowball I am so sorry about your friend and his family.
I feel like we are in another universe; just watched the funeral by Zoom. While I know other have done this, it was my first. This was a graveside service, so the family was under a tent to shield them from the sun. The daughter and SIL that are COVID positive, were sitting masked a good ways away from the few other immediate family members that were there. How sad that the daughter could not hold her mother’s hand or comfort her own children sitting there. While I couldn’t see everyone, I believe they were all masked unless speaking.
I know the wife’s sister is staying with her, but I worry when they might test positive. Of course they don’t want her staying alone at this time, so hopefully they are taking precautions.