03-28-2020, 07:32 AM
So, last night I learned that someone I've known for about 20 years has the coronavirus. He was a volunteer in Scouting when I was a youth and after he retired he took on a paraprofessional role in our local council. Now, over a month ago he came down with pneumonia and was in the ICU. He hadn't traveled and this was long before the first known cases of the disease reached the Shenandoah Valley, or even Virginia (first case was announced on March 7). He has been in the hospital this whole time, and now has contracted COVID-19.
I don't know the events surrounding this; what transpired for him to have contracted the disease. However, it was contracted in a setting which is far more conscious of the transmission of the disease than we are out and about in our every day lives. Tom is likely going to be a victim of this disease because of the already weakened lungs and immune system. Help prevent you and those around you from succumbing to this disease, as well. Stay away from people and wash your damn hands!
I don't know the events surrounding this; what transpired for him to have contracted the disease. However, it was contracted in a setting which is far more conscious of the transmission of the disease than we are out and about in our every day lives. Tom is likely going to be a victim of this disease because of the already weakened lungs and immune system. Help prevent you and those around you from succumbing to this disease, as well. Stay away from people and wash your damn hands!
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR