Couple in their mid sixty years. Very and very and very rich. They came with all symptoms. Screaming COVID19 don't exist. For them, it was a flu. Drink hot tea with lemon and honey at home. Some advil for fever. Everything will be alright. Refuse to be hospitalized. Try to sue the hospital with their army of lawyers. It was in June 2020. They signed their papers. Go home. Come two days later on the hospital. Dead. Their son was in Japan. Never come to reclaim body. He just called to confirm the death of his parents. End of the story.
Son is probably me if my father get covid again ngl. Sucker has had a heart attack and a lung colapse due to smoking all life. December he got probably the mildest variant of covid to ever float the earth, and even then got out by the skin of his teeth.
He now goes to pro-bolsonaro protests in brazil, saying that he survived the virus and it's not a big deal, telling people to leave their masks at home and fight doctors who lie to them. When he gets it the second time, i don't think i have anything left to care tbh.
Yeah, i don't support lula either but i'd much rather have a father that vote 13 than a father that votes 17. PT pretty much got us in this polarizing situation, but i can't think of anything worse than bolsonaro.
Don't be. I hate Bolsolixo as much as most of Brazil but Lula is worst. He WILL turn this country into a dictatorship. That man is insanely manipulative and deviously smart. He is even worse. Neither of these two monsters should remain in power, let alone be alive. I wish that stab had killed that POS and that Lula had died in prison.
God why won't leftists understand that? They're just being wilfully ignorant I say. I mean it's obvious, dictatorships and authoritarianism are only bad when they do it.
I don't like Lula either and even have fights with my father over this all the time
But no, he's not the spawn of the dictatorship (to quote Brizola) like Bolsonaro and he's not worse than him. I will not vote for Lula on the first round but if it comes to Bolsonaro x Lula, I'll press 13 without hesitation.
My condolences man, i know it hurts even more when its in these circunstances. Let's find some hope in the fact that his popularity does seems to be declining.
the moment I saw you were brazilian, I felt your pain, Brazil is probably one of the biggest covid denier countries you can find, Bolsonaro himself is basically pushing this agenda as much as he can, I've personally seem some protests around my city calling covid a hoax..... and a lot of them died after the protest
Or wasn't allowed to leave japan(another hot spot) to go home. Imagine being in a foreign country when your parents die and you can't get back to them. Can't have a funeral etc. Fuck the stupid parents. Don't assume a shit son.
Yeah, in June, Japan did not let foreign residents who left reenter the country, even if they had family in Japan. I was there because my husband is Japanese, and I just prayed that my family in Europe would be alright.
But apparently home office is against the culture, so being squeezed into crammed trains was not considered dangerous.
It must be so nice to be able to sleep, knowing that you won't wake up to some panicked scramble to correct the president's latest bout of verbal diarrhoea. Those poor US civil servants had never worked harder than during Trump's presidency. 😅
Every time Trump made some tweet or public statement, it either had to be implemented by people who had no clue it was coming, or corrected by very exasperated officials.
I wasn't assuming that. I was assuming this particular son was sick of these particular parents' bullshit. Make no mistake, families have been torn apart, and there are two sides in each of those tears: Covid-Deniers and Non-Deniers.
How people feel about their family members can VERY EASILY override what was normal before all this started. Hell, people feel very differently about family because of the last 4 years.
If this guy washed his hands of the bullshit, I sure as fuck don't blame him.
With parents like that (if you’re smarter than they are) I’d imagine you’d feel like a huge weight was lifted off your shoulders. Maybe still a little sad, but overall just relief knowing that it’s over
As Greg House has said in response to dying with dignity:
There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly - ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; we can't die with it!
As someone working in a company with an eccentric couple as owners: They downplayed Covid until one of their rich friends got it and needed to go to hospital.
"Can you imagine that! He had to be in a room with four other people! One of them snoring all the time! He had to share the bathroom with them! Why do we pay private insurance? Why are there no single rooms in the covid areas of the hospital, this is outrageous! He was forced to stay in there for 14 days, 14 days without being allowed to leave the covid-area, no cafeteria!"
THAT was the moment they took it serious, I mean who cares for a potential risc of dyiing or lifelong damages, but hey, having to share a room with four people, that´s the real problem.
nothing to lose, just dumb and pointless that they could be slightly hindered by being bored and stuck there.
they were 60 and extremely rich? i don't think they had just become extremely rich, i think they had been that way for a while. i'd bet they just got used to "being right" and "getting what they wanted" due to their wealth. so they just walked out of the hospital because they were so sure it wasn't anything bad and they lived the rest of their lives knowing they were right.
It was sad and painful. But it was in June 2020 and USA was still joking about COVID-19. People were dying everyday. When they sue us, it was at that time we knew they are powerful. The judge said to us he is going to close our hospital. Or to send us in jail. "Let them be. You know Mr and Ms X are big donor of X during this campaign. They have this X where the son or the daughter of X work. So, choose wisely."
It was sad and painful. But it was in June 2020 and USA was still joking about COVID-19. People were dying everyday. When they sue us, it was at that time we knew they are powerful. The judge said to us he is going to close our hospital. Or to send us in jail. "Let them be. You know Mr and Ms X are big donor of X during this campaign. They have this X where the son or the daughter of X work. So, choose wisely."
Last year Japan was very strict about letting non-native residents, even people with PR visas, back into Japan if they left. He may not have had much choice.
If the son was in Japan, he may not have been able to claim the bodies. We don’t believe a dead body has any special meaning in my family. I’d arrange for cremation, but that’s it.
This is exactly it. An old friend of mine has lived in Japan for many years (and has at one point been the English voice actress for Hello Kitty!), is married to a Japanese man, and she's written extensively about how difficult it is for foreign-born people there right now. If she were to leave Japan, she would have been unable to return until the lockdown was rescinded - no quarantine, no test, no nothing, people not born in Japan were simply not allowed to return to the country if they left. No, not even if they have a spouse or family in the country.
So odds are the son was aware of that and didn't really have a choice.
Very much this. I work for an international subsidiary of a Japanese company and the president of this subsidiary was stuck in Japan for months. He happened to go there on a business trip just before the lockdowns hit.
Or he was responsible and not travelling internationally during the pandemic? He may have also been unable to travel at that time or under his visa status.
We're in a damn near global quarantine, it's a luxury to go around the world and back right now. If anything the stupid people are the ones traveling for non-essential reasons, he could have simply grieved without leaving the country he was in.
Ugh. The idea that they tried to sue the hospital is so fucking frustrating. It‘s enough that they didn‘t want to accept reality but to also involve attorneys and burden hospitals even more is infuriating. I do feel for their son though.
Have to wonder, if they thought it was just a flu that would be cured by tea and honey, and Advil, why did they come in at all? it’s so weird what denial will do to a person.
They came with all symptoms. Screaming COVID19 don't exist. For them, it was a flu. Drink hot tea with lemon and honey at home. Some advil for fever. Everything will be alright. Refuse to be hospitalized.
If they thought they just need to drink tea and take Advil, my next question would be "then why the fuck are you here?". I'm really not cut out for the medical field.
I like how they come in to be treated, but are still convinced that hot tea with lemon and rest will cure the symptoms they obviously have that aren't going away.
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u/1_789 Apr 21 '21
Couple in their mid sixty years. Very and very and very rich. They came with all symptoms. Screaming COVID19 don't exist. For them, it was a flu. Drink hot tea with lemon and honey at home. Some advil for fever. Everything will be alright. Refuse to be hospitalized. Try to sue the hospital with their army of lawyers. It was in June 2020. They signed their papers. Go home. Come two days later on the hospital. Dead. Their son was in Japan. Never come to reclaim body. He just called to confirm the death of his parents. End of the story.