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A mother nearly killed by Covid-19 warned idiots who were leaving on the Easter vacation: “Do you want to face death?”
Yvonne Kinsella, 51, spoke of her heartbreak in the Bank Holiday exodus, as many ignored the strict rules for staying home.
After fighting for her life in a Dublin hospital, she said: “I am very upset. What happens to these idiots?
“If you want to live to see next year, listen! Stay here.”
His request came when the virus claimed 28 more lives, bringing the number to 263, and there was a record increase of 500 in daily cases.
As Gardai tightens road blockade restrictions over Easter, the government promised to close all parks, beaches and forests if people ignore the 2km rule.
The pandemic also brought economic chaos: Debenhams’ operation in Ireland is closing with the loss of 2,000 jobs, and experts warned that the total number of unemployed reached 600,000.
And as pleas for people to stay home and not travel to holiday homes at Easter fell on deaf ears for some, the mother of two, Kinsella, a former journalist for the Irish Daily Mirror, begged them to return.
In a powerful message from her Carpenterstown, Dublin home, after being discharged from the hospital, the television producer called the tourists “idiots” and warned: “You are not invincible.”
The brave mother and grandmother was admitted to the hospital in late March and nearly lost her life to the virus, almost ending up in intensive care.
She bravely recounted her battle on RTE’s Claire Byrne live show, describing how she battled Covid-19 along with a compromised immune system and asthma.
Last night he told The Mirror: “At one point I admit it was so bad that I thought ‘if I go, I go.’
“I was terrified to know that my family and mother would be devastated and I would never see my two granddaughters grow up.”
In a previous post on social media, she said: “I am very upset right now. Why do people go on vacation?
“What’s wrong with these idiots? I want to scream and cry looking at the photos of the N11!
“I don’t know how to explain what my life in the hospital has been like for the last two weeks.
“I said I wouldn’t talk about it because I’m still suffering from the trauma of it all, but sometimes you have to face fear of the past to help change the future.”
“Not only because of what happened to me, but because of what I saw around me and the people I know did not succeed.
“I lay in bed with a burning pain in my chest and back that also felt like someone was constantly standing with all my strength wanting me to stop breathing.
“I couldn’t breathe, every effort to inhale caused a shooting pain. I was taking oxygen when that pain shot through every part of my body.
“I couldn’t walk five feet to a bathroom without wanting to collapse on the floor. I couldn’t stand up, eat, drink water, but I needed to feed my body to fight it.
“Two full weeks of pain, dyspnea, knowing that at any stage it could get worse and not get over it, I went from having Covid-19 and pneumonia to a bacterial infection.
“A triple blow.
“I felt that I would never see my family or friends again, I was alone.
“Do you want this for yourself? Your loved one Do you want to face death?
“Well don’t be an absolute idiot and stay there! Enjoy your free time, bake cakes, watch bloody Christmas movies, do whatever it takes.
“You are alive, you are well, you are breathing!
Please don’t put others at risk, this is life or death.
“You are not invincible, this is the most terrifying thing that could happen to you.
“You can’t control it, nobody can!
“It’s Russian roulette, but trust me, it’s not a game you want to play! If you want to live to see next year, listen! Stay there.
“And I know you will have a life to live. When many others have not. Most through no fault of their own.
Remember that there is only a future if you cooperate with the present. “
Speaking of her hospital experience, she praised the staff but said that even they were terrified of the patients who had tested positive for Covid-19.
She continued: “I stayed awake at night listening in case [older patients] they tried to get out of bed, or worse, died, struggling to breathe.
“I was the only one with them, since the nurses took a long time to get dressed if something happened. We were like lepers.
“I joked that we should all have bells when we move so that people can avoid us.
“The poor staff didn’t ask us to be there.
“This was not what they signed up for.
“All of their lives and those of their families were at risk every minute they approached us. And we saw his fear.
“And the guilt I felt when they had to enter me was horrible.
“All I could do every time was apologize to them. He regretted putting them in this situation. I cried and cried every day. “
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