My aunt, the oldest sister of my mother is suspected to have covid-19. Yesterday she got to the hospital with fever...
Quoting: Luisport Sorry to hear this Luis. Hopefully she will be alright. My utmost positive thoughts and prayers to her, your mom and you and the family.
So many sad and worrisome stories getting so close to home. My sister in law tested positive with it yesterday as well after feeling really sick. She is a nurse in a nursing home and had worked intensively with a colleague that was also diagnosed with it. She even had to drive 20 miles to get tested.
So her, my brother and their son have to stay at home and hopefully things don't get worse. My brother has a heart condition, so that's an extra worry. Next to that, there is an infection on the floor in the nursing home where my other brother is. They are now grounded in their own room and can not even walk around anymore.
What baffles and angers me is the fact that there is such a lack of protective gear in the nursing homes here. No masks, no gowns, nothing. And they even keep saying that it hardly has any use to use that. What the fuck! The government is trying to use that as an excuse to cover up their bureaucracy and way too late reaction, like in many other countries.
And in the meantime everyone is focusing on the reopening of the economy. Choosing livelihood over lives. Even though I understand that we need to find balance and see opportunities where they are, we need to watch out for creating false hope and optimism. Once this gets in the heads of people, with summer coming, we might end up in a situation that is even more uncontrollable and causing more heartache and loss than we experienced already.
And that does not mean that we need to just bend over and accept everything that is fed to us, but to use our own sane minds. This is far from over and tomorrow it can be your family that is at risk or grieving loss.
Let's hope that does not happen and therefore go from own judgement instead of following a crowd that screams that this is all a hoax or are yelling for evidence. Would you also have the courage to hold up a sign like that at a realtime funeral with a family that has lost their loved one to this? I think not.
To those I would like to say, that to many it has become as real as it gets. So show some respect and let the ones that grieve about their lost loved ones grieve. That for sure is not too much to ask, is it?
Sorry for the long two cents. I just had to say out loud what is on my mind already for a while.
Much love to all of you.
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