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“We divided the apartment in two. It is a large space without doors and we just draw a mental line in the middle so as not to infect the children,” architects Boris Enev and Evgenia Hodkevich told Deutsche Welle. Their acquaintance infects them with the coronavirus, in the yard of a house they are fixing.
“To this
At the time, we were very suspicious of the virus because one of our children had cystic fibrosis..
We wear the highest quality masks, we did not meet other people. And this man got out of the car and told us that it was not scary, because all the restrictions had already been removed.
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We kept our distance, but he was the first person I shook hands with for months. I said to myself: look, people live normally and we are totally hooked. We are obviously exaggerating it. We talked about our project in the courtyard, after which the man left, ”says Evgenia.
“You get something like a sentence”
A few days later, Eugenia and her husband have to travel to Austria. And since they required a PCR test there, the two were screened for a coronavirus infection. In the lab, Boris and Evgenia find out that their tests are positive.
“At that time, we knew there would be 14 days of isolation, tremors, maybe a serious illness, because they give you something like a sentence, you sit at home and you start to wait for this sentence to execute you. On this day we go through all phases, from denial to despair. We sat on the balcony and tried to remember who we had seen in the last few days.
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It was before my eyes how he hugged children and especially with cystic fibrosis, how he was with my 90-year-old father,
that he hadn’t come out for four months, and as it turned out he had entered it like a Trojan horse. I cursed every moment I had contact with other people ”, Evgenia remembers.
The RHI took samples from the three sons of Evgenia and Boris. “My brother and sister’s tests were negative and mine questionable. I told myself that if I was infected, I could at least hug Mom and Dad. At that time, they didn’t hug us at all and we miss him so much, especially my brother, who is 8 years old and didn’t really understand what exactly was happening, ”says his oldest daughter, Yara.
Boris and Evgenia explain that RHI treated them with care. “The only thing that bothered us was that when they took our samples they told us that they would contact us if we tested positive. We did the tests on Friday and the RHI called us only on Tuesday, four days later. In those four days, we could be dangerous to many people. “
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“This is a terrible irresponsibility”
Fortunately, no family member has severe symptoms of the disease. But two things that Eugenia will not forget. “When they found out that we were infected, many of our friends were so shocked that even the most skeptical about the virus began to avoid us, even after the end of our quarantine.
The other shocking moment was again after the quarantine, when we wanted to go to Austria to examine our son with cystic fibrosis. They told us that they would now take our blood only in isolation, despite the negative test.
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They told us: You have been positive and from now on we will always look at you as positive.
This worried me a lot, for the first time I felt what it is like to be part of a minority, ”says Evgenia.
And her husband Boris added: “After the incident with the man who infected us, I started to look at people more closely. He knew there were infected people in his company who went without masks, but he still came to us. This is a terrible irresponsibility. “
“That’s right,” says Eugenia. “Although I tried not to blame this acquaintance of ours, I asked him the following question: What would have happened if we had lost our son with cystic fibrosis because we infected him because of someone else’s irresponsibility?” Our lives would be ruined forever.
