Roughly 1 in every 2000 people in America has died of COVID, about 1 in 50 people have had a positive COVID test, and even more people may have been infected but never tested.

Those are huge numbers but nowhere near herd immunity threshold estimates, even the really low ones.

Even at the widely optimistic, 20% threshold we would need TEN times as many infections than we’ve currently counted: 20% is 1 in 5 people sick with COVID.

How many deaths would that mean? Ten times as many? 100 times as many? Deaths increase when the system is overwhelmed.

In the US, as in many Western countries, people tend to hide their grief behind closed doors. In the last 9 months, over 219000 people have died from COVID. How many grieving friends, family members, and loved ones have they left behind?

Are you taking COVID precautions?

If not, would it change your decision if you knew 1 in every 1000 people had lost a loved one? 1 in every 100? Or will you wait until it’s you?

How many of you have experienced the following:

Speaking our grief helps us heal and might also strengthen us against the long dark winter of COVID that most experts fear is coming.

So, if you feel comfortable, share your stories of your loved ones on this thread.