A neighbor died on Monday, I didn't know from what. I went over yesterday to offer my condolences to his wife. I didn't get to see her. Some family members were camped out in their yard and I spoke to a sister. She told me that that the woman I was trying to see was sick inside with covid, that's why they were staying outside. Both my neighbor and her husband had been sick for about a week with whatever this was (the person I was speaking with called it flu on steroids). The took the covid test and it was positive, for what that is worth. The wife is recovering. The husband who died - well he was only about 56, BUT - he was a heavy drinker of beer. I think he drank a 12 pack daily since we have known him. His diet? Not good. He had a stressful job, driving a long haul truck. During his illness, they told me that he would only take small sips of water and no food. Severely dehydrated I assume. They called an ambulance for him a couple of days ago, but he refused to go to the hospital. He was speaking to the wife only an hour before he died, as she tried to get him to eat some soup, he told her to leave him alone. An hour later, he was dead. He was not healthy enough in general to fight the illness, which is what we have read about from many of the deaths "from" covid.
The sister I spoke with told me that she would not be taking any vaccine as she believes it kills people. She said that her neighbor's husband took the shot, came home and an hour later he had died. In spite of that, this woman's husband was now scared (because of my neighbor's death) and trying to convince his wife they should get the shot.