On Tuesday,
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, announced the reopening of gyms, nail and hair salons,
bowling alleys, and tattoo parlors with restrictions beginning Friday, April
24, 2020. This news comes amid rising coronavirus cases with a death toll of
800+ people in Georgia. But not everyone is onboard with Kemp’s decision to
reopen Georgia for business. In fact, the governor has gotten very harsh criticism
for his decision to put the health and lives of millions of Americans at risk
of contracting the novel virus as cases continue to soar throughout the United States.
COVID-19 is not going away any time soon! In fact, by the time a new vaccine has
been developed, over a hundred thousand people in the U.S. will possibly have died
due to this pandemic. I personally know people who have lost friends and relatives due to the coronavirus pandemic. Because many
people already have underlying health conditions like diabetes, cancer, heart
disease, hypertension, asthma, etc., their immune systems are already compromised
making them even more susceptible to viral infections (i.e., COVID-19; Flu;
pneumonia).
Throughout
social media, you can find multiple stories of people who know people that entered
the hospitals complaining of a headache, fever, constant coughing or some other
medical issue, and having only been suspected of contracting COVID-19,
were immediately isolated from the other patients and hospital staff as their
conditions worsened, and eventually, dying while loved ones were kept from seeing
them. There are many cases in which people who were never actually tested for
the coronavirus after entering the emergency room for symptoms that may or may not
have anything to do with the virus itself, if medical staff diagnose them as having
contracted COVID-19 and they die, the death certificate will list COVID-19 as
cause of death even if they had pre-existing conditions that could be the actual
cause of death and not COVID-19.
Despite
millions of people worldwide having contracted the coronavirus, the number of
deaths linked to the novel virus may not even be accurate numbers. The Chinese
Communist Party has not been very honest about the actual number of Chinese who
have died since the start of this global pandemic. Not only do I suspect the Chinese
government of having lied to the world but also China is covering up the actual
number of people who have died in China due to COVID-19. I suspect that the coronavirus
has been in the United States a lot longer than what the public has been told. Therefore,
I am no longer accepting the official narrative that the first U.S. coronavirus
case was in January. In fact, there are many people who have already made claims
via social media that as far back as November, they were experiencing the same
symptoms as COVID-19 symptoms. I have a friend who believes he already
contracted the novel coronavirus as early as August of 2019. He gave me
permission to tell his story to the world, and to alarm others that government
officials are not telling you the truth about the real beginning of this global
pandemic.
During
a phone conversation in March, my friend first told me that he had already
contracted this virus last year. At the time, I didn’t believe him because I
had not yet made the connection between him having been hospitalized in late December and again early January
for pneumonia. He also claims that the coronavirus induced his heart
attack, which happened in August of 2019. In fact, it was in August when he
told me that he was in the hospital because he had a massive heart attack and
had to have quadruple bypass heart surgery. Prior to the heart attack, he was
dealing with pre-existing health problems, which obviously made him greatly susceptible
to the virus.
In
fact, he called me from the hospital in January to tell me that he caught pneumonia.
I just learned today that he caught pneumonia not once but twice in late December and again early January. In
a phone conversation today, he informed me that the doctors said they had detected
some type of virus in his blood, so they gave him an IV bag of medication. He
said the medication cleared the pneumonia out of his system. Then, they came
back later and told him it was a false alarm after the medication they gave him
already cleared his system of the virus. He also informed me that it is not
true what they’re telling people about there not being any current treatment
for the novel virus. He said they ran out of the medication to treat it.
When
he was suffering from pneumonia, medical staff had not yet identified the virus
as COVID-19. In January, he didn’t think he had contracted the coronavirus. Neither
did the medical team that treated him for pneumonia. The doctors had no idea it
was COVID-19 that induced his heart attack. The American public did not start
learning about the coronavirus until January. The first U.S. coronavirus case was
confirmed by the CDC on January 20. Ericka Edwards, a reporter for NBC News,
wrote, “the patient in Washington, a resident of Snohomish County, is a man in
his 30s. The CDC said he arrived in the United States around Jan. 15 after
having visited Wuhan. He hadn't, however, visited the seafood market where the
virus is said to have originated.”
My
friend further explained to me how he thinks he contracted the virus. He said
his friend Monica worked at a hospital in the Atlanta area where she was a
cleaner. One day, she came home from work extremely ill and was having
difficulty breathing. Then three days later, he had a massive heart attack. His
claim is that the coronavirus induced his massive heart attack, and he is vehemently
sticking to his claim.
Now,
Gov. Brian Kemp wants to make Georgia residents guinea pigs by reopening non-essential
businesses on Friday putting the lives of countless Americans at risk of
exposure to the virus, while the number of cases and the death toll continue to
rise in Georgia. I do not believe that summer weather is going to stop community
transition of this virus even if Georgia officials decide to fudge the numbers to
make it appear that cases and deaths due to COVID-19 are dwindling. Mr. Governor
Kemp, do not tell me that reopening nail and hair salons, gyms, tattoo parlors and
bowling alleys is what is in the best interest of Georgians and business owners
as people all around us are losing their lives to this pandemic. I have lost at
least one relative to this pandemic. I almost lost my friend to this pandemic. Instead
of worrying about what’s in the best interest of the economy, have some empathy
and understanding for Georgia residents, and not put our lives at risk to save
this economy! If I’m dead, I can’t get a paycheck!
The End
Work
Cited
Edwards, Erika. “Coronavirus U.S. case
confirmation: 1st coronavirus case is in Seattle.” 21 Jan. 2020. Web. 22 April
2020. NBC News.
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from https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/1st-case-coronavirus-china-confirmed-u-s-n1119486
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