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This is my sister in law, Marion. Marion is a real person! She loves reading, sleeping, dogs and my brother-in-law. She weirdly doesn’t like cinnamon. (1/x)
Marion is a nurse and she works at the Victoria Hospital in Winnipeg. In the last two weeks dozens of staff and patients have been diagnosed with covid on her floor. One person has died. (2/x)
Last Wednesday, I heard Siragusa say that the majority of health care workers infected caught the virus outside work and my blood boiled. (3/x)
Still Marion goes to work and puts on her PPE (now an outbreak has been declared at the Vic and they are giving her proper PPE) and then goes home from work and puts on her regular mask, hoping she doesn't bring it home to my brother-in-law. She sleeps in their guest room. (4/x)
I think Marion is super brave.
And Marion doesn't just work with covid. Last March, her Dad called her and said he’d developed a cough the day before and was having trouble breathing so he was going to the hospital. (5/x)
And Marion doesn't just work with covid. Last March, her Dad called her and said he’d developed a cough the day before and was having trouble breathing so he was going to the hospital. (5/x)
That was the last time she ever heard from him, he died the next day. Marion’s Dad was a healthy 60 year old with no underlying conditions but the hospital was overwhelmed and they could not ventilate him. (6/x)
Because he tested positive, they had trouble getting a funeral home to accept his body. There was no funeral. (7/x)
This is what I think about when someone casually drops a "covid is no big deal". If covid hasn't affected you personally yet, you are lucky. But it's sure a big deal to Marion. (8/8)
