A hard lesson to learn.
Courtesy of People Magazine:
When Tony Green decided to host a small family gathering in June, he was doing it partly out of frustration with the COVID-19 restrictions. In his home state of Texas, he didn’t know anyone who had gotten sick in those early months of the pandemic, when most cases centered around the East Coast, and he “thought it was an overblown media hoax,” Green, 43, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
So Green and his partner invited four people over to their home — his parents and his partner’s parents — to stay for the weekend and enjoy meals, movies and time by a lake together after months apart.
But within days, all six of them tested positive for COVID-19, along with eight more people in their extended families.
Green developed severe symptoms, requiring a three-day hospital stay after the virus attacked his nervous system, but he eventually recovered. His father-in-law and his father-in-law’s mother were not as lucky, though, and both died from COVID-19.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Green said he feels a sense of guilt for hosting the get-together, even though no one knows who was the first to get COVID-19.
“The feeling that I have is kind of like what, I would say, a drunk driver would have if they killed their family,” he said. “It was unintentional. This was my home. This is where it happened. So, you know there is a sense of responsibility.”
It is a shame that there are adults in the world who cannot follow facts to their logical conclusions and are always learning everything the hard way.
And it is especially troubling right now when the information they need to protect themselves, and their families is readily available but is being downplayed by the leader of the country.
I feel sorry for this man, but perhaps by sharing his story we can help others not make the same ignorant mistakes.
Do we know if this wasn’t just a ruse to do away with his father in law?
Often sexual abuse survivors do things that are less than holy.
How many people did they spread it to outside the family?
Gosh they are always regretful AFTER they get it, before they are ranting about infringing THEIR civil rights.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for these folks at all.
Remdesivir is all but ineffective as a treatment for COVID-19, WHO says
Andrew Tavani, AccuWeather staff writer
There has been much optimism surrounding Gilead Science’s drug remdesivir, which was previously used to treat Ebola, for its potential as a COVID-19 therapy, but a new report from the World Health Organization released on Thursday concluded that the drug has “little or no effect” in helping patients afflicted with COVID-19 survive the illness. According to the BBC, the report also found hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon — other drugs that have been used to treat the coronavirus — to be ineffective at preventing mortality…….
https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/live-news/covid-19-usa-cases-and-daily-news-and-information/814762
Isn’t trump buddies with the CEO of the company that makes Remdesivir? Again makes you wonder if he really had it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-puts-in-politicals-at-cdc-to-try-to-control-info_n_5f8987acc5b66ee9a5ef2873
“The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic as the administration seeks to paint a positive outlook, sometimes at odds with the scientific evidence.
The two appointees assigned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Atlanta headquarters in June have no public health background. They have instead been tasked with keeping an eye on Dr. Robert Redfield, the agency director, as well as scientists, according to a half-dozen CDC and administration officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal government affairs.
The appointments were part of a push to get more “politicals” into the CDC to help control messaging after a handful of leaks were “upsetting the apple cart,” said an administration official.”
“It’s not clear to what extent the two appointees have affected the agency’s work, according to interviews with multiple CDC officials. But congressional investigators are examining that very question after evidence has mounted of political interference in CDC scientific publications, guidance documents and web postings.”