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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, I’ve known a couple of people that have gotten it. One was my boss at work. She tested positive about four months after the lock-down in our state started. It didn’t have much of an impact on me, though. It was during the time period when our offices were closed down and everyone was working remotely all the time. I didn’t even find out about her getting infected months later, when we returned to a limited in office work schedule. That’s when she told me about getting sick. It was surprising. Like having a news story come to life. 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. The other was my uncle, my Dad’s brother. 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, my aunt and my cousins were not allowed to visit him. It was during that time that he got the disease and passed away. As with finding out about my boss having the disease, it made the news stories I had heard about people dying from the disease in isolation more real for me than it had been.