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This thread is not so dissimilar to what we’ve been dealing with in my family’s covid outbreak this past month. Luckily everyone in my family made it out alive but my dad refused medical care for so long the extent of the damage is still unknown. And they still won’t get vaxxed. https://twitter.com/rachelmckibbens/status/1458881015917678594
When my dad’s oxygen dropped below 90 he was in the basement “boxing” because that’s what Joe Rogan said he did when he had covid. Now he needs to be hooked up to an oxygen tank for at minimum the rest of this next month.
Unlike this thread, we were lucky to have reinforcement from a majority vaccinated extended family but I’ll get into later why I think this had little to no effect on the situation.
We were all texting and calling around the clock to try to get him to go get the infusion early on and he refused. Luckily my mom got him to the ER and got my grandma in time to benefit from the infusion early while he didn’t receive his until day 11.
Leading up to this my dad would respond to emails about getting vaccinated by saying he would “go into the woods near their house to die if he got COVID rather than go to a hospital”.
My mom similarly responded over and over that “whatever happens to us happens”
My mom similarly responded over and over that “whatever happens to us happens”
Us all urging them to seek medical care is not what saved them. It had 0 effect. What did?
My mom, their primary caretaker being unable to follow through on their suicide pact once she realized, as the healthiest, she’d live and her mom and husband would die leaving her alone.
My mom, their primary caretaker being unable to follow through on their suicide pact once she realized, as the healthiest, she’d live and her mom and husband would die leaving her alone.
We are all burnt out. I know first hand there is no reasoning with people once they believe the treatment carries more risks than the virus. We are trying in vain if only for our own consciences at this point.
My parents sound extremely depressed and remorseful but still believe that the vaccine has killed as many if not more people than the virus with worse long-term effects. In their hellish and fantastical catch 22, the deadly medicine v. COVID they hedged their bets and lost.
Now they are at even higher risk for death if they were to become re-infected in the coming months as building natural immunity against omicron is seeming to be a moot point as the research rolls in.
It feels impossible, if not harmful, to emotionally invest in a relationship them anymore as they want “whatever happens to happen” despite their expressing, acknowledging, being currently devastated, and potentially disabled by—what has happened.
