Two women I know ‘beat the system’ by opting out of getting vaccinated based on a ‘religious exemption’. They work at a nursing home caring for many people they grew up with.
Let me share with you a story that made me livid when I found out…
Let me share with you a story that made me livid when I found out…
My husband’s best friend was diagnosed with bone cancer right when COVID hit. While we were obsessed with trying to find toilet paper he was trying to find places for chemo and bone marrow transplants. He was in various hospitals for over a year…..
Visitors were not allowed to visit. Not even his wife and 21 year old son. The son they adopted later in life. The son he wanted to live for and the reason he went through any and every painful treatment option the doctors threw his way…
For over a year he was shuttled from institution to institution. He lost so much weight he was unrecognizable and the only photo we have of him we cannot look at without wincing and tearing up, knowing he did not want anyone to see him that way, ever….
We called often. He answered rarely. His wife was sidelined to handle her pain alone without his touch. His son soldiered on going to college in front of a computer wondering if he would ever see his father again….
He tried everything to hang on. He exhausted all options. Then it was time to wait to see if any of it worked….at a nursing home.
He died of COVID. After over a year of torture and isolation, he F-ING died of COVID. At a nursing home where someone decided to not to get vaccinated….
After enduring every cancer treatment known to modern science, he died a painful COVID death because someone cared more about their ‘freedom’ than their obligation to their community…
For those who want to look for reasons to dismiss COVID deaths, they say he was probably going to die anyway. There is some truth to that. But his last phone call before getting intubated was to my husband….
Sadly we did not hear the phone ring. It is devastating thinking of him reaching out and no one was there. He did not leave a message. Presumably too weak and too much in a COVID fog to choose his last words to his lifelong friend…
When people ask if you have lost anyone to COVID we sadly say yes. And there are too many we know who we have lost all respect for who are gaming the system to avoid a simple vaccine that will prevent others from a painful death…gasping for air, in a COVID fog. <end>
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