Every member of my original family, and their living spouses, are either seriously ill, close-but-not-quite yet over illness, or recently got over illness:
1) my 83-year old Big Brother, not quite over COVID.
2) my 79-year old brother-the-klansman, COVID, temperature 104.7 two or three days ago, still bed-ridden at home.
2a) his wife, bedridden all this week with COVID
3) me, 68-years old, about a month removed from my second bout with COVID and ~two weeks away from a one-day rebound.
4) my "little" brother, 66-years old, bronchitis, two months duration.
4a) his wife, bedridden with high fever, uncertain source.
And the truly insane thing is we brothers don't live under the same roof, we don't live within 400 miles of each other, and we have had no physical contact with each other. I literally have never heard of simultaneous serious illness in one family with no physical contact among the biological family members. It's like our parents signed us up on the family plan at the funeral home.