I met the owner of the bitch I will be getting my puppy from yesterday.
We chatted for a few hours and the Chesapeake dogs were really great. It transpired her cousin has passed way just two weeks prior.
She was a care worker. She had recently tested negative for covid19 and then roughly two weeks later, she felt unwell for a few days, but as she had been given the all clear for covid19, presumed it was nothing serious. She felt better by Sunday and on Sunday evening, just two weeks ago, she was at home baking cakes with her daughter. Then she fell ill Monday and suffered what is called a cytokine storm, which my new friend felt may have been exacerbated by her lifelong diabetes.
She was dead by Tuesday night. She was just 47 years old.
That is the first person I have met who has actually lost someone to this disease. In Brazil of course, they cannot dig graves fast enough and are burying them five deep, quite literally.
Can't remember why I started this post. Anyway, there it is.