Virtually Nobody

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A nurse, in her early 40s, who worked in a hospital in the small town where I live, died from COVID complications yesterday. She had been in the hospital for two months, suffering from the terrible effects of the disease, like so many of our countrymen, struggling to breathe until she breathed her last. I didn’t know her, but I know people she worked with and I have co-workers who knew her. What I do know is that she took care of patients with and without the virus at the hospital where she became infected. She has three teenage children who are left behind to be raised by their grandmother.

My 94 year-old mother-in-law resides in a nursing home, also in the same small town, which had 46 of its 49 residents come down with COVID. The vast majority of them, including my mother-in-law survived (although she is still not herself a couple of months later.) But we lost quite a few. Yes, they were old, and disabled, and infirm-- it would probably be a stretch to call their deaths a tragedy. But aren’t the old, disabled, and infirm, as well as the unborn, among the groups of our fellow citizens, undervalued by society, whom we like to say we are advocating for when we proclaim our pro-life priniciples?

I know my community. This is real. I am angry.

A prominent political leader said recently that COVID “affects virtually nobody.” How many dead nurses and other health care workers make up "virtually nobody? How many untimely departures of our elderly moms and dads are in “virtually nobody?” How many deaths of our fellow citizens with disabilities and various health problems constitute “virtually nobody?”

So…

To all of you hoaxers who think that the COVID disaster is a deep-state conspiracy to take away your freedom,
To all of you perpetuating rumor and hearsay who dismiss the data and denigrate the people who are working to help our nation, states, and communities navigate this pandemic,
To all of you who rant against the inconvenience and unfairness of reduced access to restaurants, bars, shopping, and other leisure activities,
To all of you who refuse do even a little thing like occasionally wearing a harmless mask to help protect your fellow citizens

… I say-- with more attention to civility than I feel, but with some necessary emphasis-- shame on you. I pray that you do not die a horrible, lonely COVID death, after which your cohorts go around saying that you must have had other health problems and it was your time anyway. I pray that you and your loved ones don’t become part of the group that too many people think of as “virtually nobody.”
 
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I’m sorry for the loss of these good people.

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve not heard any Catholic clergy at any parishes I attend spouting off any sort of “hoaxer” view or saying nobody is affected. They know better, as they are the ones having to deal with funerals, and several of their fellow diocesan priests have gotten ill or died.

I’ve mostly just seen a little controversy over what the appropriate treatment or prevention strategy is, and also over whether churches really needed to be closed during shutdowns. In the Archdiocese of Phila the churches were not closed during shutdown, although public Mass was suspended. One could still go to Adoration or Confession through the whole shutdown, and to my knowledge, no one got sick doing this, so it’s a fair question. But considering questions like this is in no way dismissing the deaths that occurred or the effect this has had on families.
 
I’m sorry to hear about your mother-in-law’s health struggles and the death of the nurse in your town. May God grant her everlasting rest.

I would like to point out that Trump did not say that COVID affects virtually nobody. He was speaking at that time about young people under the age of 18, and it was regarding them that he made that comment. This, it seems, is indeed borne out by the facts, which you can find here, from the American Academy of Pediatrics:


Here is the video of Trump’s rally, if you want to verify what he said. Start at 37:20:


May God bless you all! 🙂
 
Me either. I am sorry for all who have lost their lives to Covid and will be affected by its lingering health issues, its economic issues.

Pray for an end to this pandemic
 
This is something I do worry about - the isolation of elderly during the covid. A work colleague’s mother in law is in a nursing home and since the beginning of the pandemic she has seen almost no one. Her meals are delivered, put on the table and left for her. There are no visitors. No activities. She can receive phone calls, but since she is suffering from progressive dementia, they don’t mean a lot. My friend says her mother in law is on a steep decline both physically and mentally.
My brother’s mother in law died all alone in a nursing home. No visitors allowed. Her children and grand children hadn’t seen her in months.
 
I’m so sorry to hear this.

The loss of the young nurse, mother of three is heartbreaking.
 
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