My cousin who I haven’t spoken to since around 2021/2022 after she became irate after I shared Covid information with her grandmother, posted that she lost her Mom, son, and uncle in 2020. She lost her step-sister, fiancé and who would have been in MIL in 2021. She lost her best friend, brother, and two of her friends from high school in 2022. (She is in her mid 40s). She lost her aunt, 2 cousins, a friend from work, and her manager in 2023. She lost two dogs that originally belong to one of her cousins that passed on her father’s side after only having them for a few weeks in 2024. The same year, her daughter who is now 11 years old, lost her best friend and her best friend’s Mom died. She also lost both of her remaining aunts. In 2025, her department combined with another department at work because what used to be 8 people was now down to 2. Three people died. Two went out on medical leave and didn’t return, and one went out on disability in December 2024. She stated that most of her weekends in 2026 has been driving her grandmother to funerals..and that her grandmother has outlived all 6 of her children….5 daughters including her mother, (one daughter died in Nov/Dec 2019 from “pneumonia”), and a son. THEN SHE SAID….. “I can’t even imagine Covid being as bad as the SUPER COLDS that they couldn’t shake. Knock on wood, none of us got Covid.” ….and for me…this is why distance is good to maintain sanity,