Covid, regretful denier after being hospitalized: “I did not want to understand, now I live the reality in my skin”

It all started with seven days of fever between 37 and 38 degrees. Then hospitalization on December 30, 86 percent oxygenation, bilateral pneumonia and respiratory difficulties. “I am attached to oxygen but I still breathe badly. There is pneumonia. I did not understand anything about Covid-19 or I did not want to understand anything. I unconsciously rejected the idea that the pandemic was serious, I culturally minimized the health emergency,” Daniele explained to Pug.

“To really realize what we are experiencing we must go through that” – “As soon as I got to the hospital, even before going to my room, I saw seven red Covid codes pass in front of me, that is, seven very serious people who had priority. There, at that moment, I told myself that I had been out of this world, blind to reality. Perhaps it is also bad to say it and not even good but to really realize what we are experiencing we have to go through it. I saw that there was nothing made up in those television images of crowded hospitals, collapsing intensive care units, field hospitals, the dying. I am trying to understand why I refused to accept the Covid-19 alarm. Perhaps I did not agree with emergency management, thinking that there was another way, and this led me not to give real importance to the pandemic, “he added.

In fact, Daniele admitted, “I did not wear the mask at work, I considered it useless, a play, even if I did not have any behavior against the law. On the outside, I just did not wear it by choice.” “But only now, here – he concluded -, did I realize that I was wrong.”