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Have you, or anyone close to you, had COVID-19? If so, talk about that experience.

While I’ve not been infected with COVID-19, <strong> I’ve known a couple of people that have gotten it. </strong> One was my boss at work. She tested positive about four months after the lock-down in our state started. <strong> It didn’t have much of an impact on me, though.</strong> It was during the time period when our offices were closed down and everyone was working remotely all the time. <strong> I didn’t even find out about her getting infected months later, </strong> when we returned to a limited in office work schedule. That’s when she told me about getting sick. <strong> It was surprising. Like having a news story come to life. </strong> The symptoms for her were bad, but not severe. She didn’t need to be hospitalized, though she felt pretty bad, she told me, during that time. <strong> The other was my uncle, my Dad’s brother. </strong> He was already in palliative care at the time, for a neurological condition he had contracted. I had visited him a couple of times before COVID closed everything down in the state where he lived. After that, <strong> my aunt and my cousins were not allowed to visit him. It was during that time that he got the disease and passed away. </strong> As with finding out about my boss having the disease, <strong> it made the news stories I had heard about people dying from the disease in isolation more real for me than it had been. </strong>