There are somewhere around 130,000 and 150,000 people living in The Villages. There are about 30 or so people that have tested positive. so the chance of one person knowing one of them is very low.
But that's not even the point. The fact is that none of us actually know if we know someone that has it. Those 30 plus cases are just like the 102,000 cases nationwide. They are only cases of people who have been tested and who are positive. I don't know how many people have been tested in The Villages or nationwide or world wide for that matter. There are a lot more cases out there than the number of positive test reported.
In fact some people who have been tested and were found to be negative may have contracted the virus after they were tested.
In many cases, people had very mild symptoms and didn't think anything of it. They thought that they had a cold or a mild flu. They never sought medical attention. How many of them were walking around without showing symptoms?
In many cases, symptoms show until 14 days after contracting the virus so many people that you know might have it and don't know it.
There are so many different situations with this virus that it's hard to believe that we all won't eventually get it.
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