No, I did NOT say that. I am trying to say that I do not believe that you have enough information to parse her statement accurately. If you are wrong, your statement, "Sounds like she needs to hang with a different set of friends," seems not only incorrect, but potentially racist and just plain cruel.
I was offering another interpretation. If you can't handle that, your short coming.
And considering that blacks are dying of COVID at significantly higher rate than whites, especially in Chicago per the article I linked to, yes, I stand by she probably knows more people dead of COVID than I do - and possibly you as well.