#this shit is real

A week or two ago, a person wearing PPE visited his relative on the stroke ward where my grandad had been moved to, in a hospital recently bragging to be covid-free. This person didn’t keep the distance between him and his relative, and unknowingly gave him covid. His grandparent was the only person able to walk on this ward, and he went around talking to other patients, not knowing that he was spreading it to them. Undoubtedly doctors and nurses also would have tended to him, then the other patients on the ward, spreading his germs. 

This person went onto infect most if not the whole ward. I don’t know the full story after that, because my family were not allowed to visit my grandad once he contracted covid, and naturally they were only interested in telling us how he was doing. We’re not ones for drama either.

He died today. And now I’m wondering - how many of the other patients died? All because of this one person who didn’t follow the fucking rules? He’s potentially wiped a whole ward full of people, and left many families worried or grieving.

I was not close to my grandfather, but I’m devastated for my step-nan and every family of every other person in the hospital who were affected. They are/were not allowed to be there for their family members when they’re suffering, or when they died. I’m yet to find out if my step-nan was even allowed in the same room to say goodbye to his dead body. 

All it took is ONE inconsiderate person to put us all through this. Despite his protective clothing, he still got too close. It really is that fucking infectious. So hopefully you can excuse my overwhelming levels of saltiness when I say: 

WEAR A FUCKING MASK AND SOCIAL FUCKING DISTANCE. 

Thank you.