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“I am attached to oxygen but I still breathe badly. There is pneumonia. I also wanted to say that I did not understand anything about Covid-19 or did not want to understand anything. Unconsciously I rejected the idea that the pandemic was serious, I culturally minimized the health emergency. As soon as I arrived to the hospital, even before going to my room, I saw 7 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 was out of the world, blind to reality “. Daniele Egidi, 54-year-old Fano, is a former coronavirus denier. Until recently, he was convinced that the pandemic was in stages. And that the disease that is ravaging our health system was nothing more than a trivial flu that could be treated at home. Like so many deniers, he had the unshakable certainty that the images in the hospital wards were “rhetoric of power” and nothing more.
The denier hospitalized by Covid: “I saw that there is nothing invented”
All this before becoming infected with Sars-Cov-2. After seven days of fever between 37 and 38 degrees, the saturation dropped and hospitalization was required in Pesaro. The diagnosis: bilateral pneumonia.
“Maybe it is also bad to say it and not even good but to really realize what we are living, you have to go through that” He says the 54 years to ‘Rest of the Pug’. “I saw that there was nothing made up in those television images of crowded hospitals, collapsed ICUs, field hospitals, people dying. I’m trying to understand why I refused to accept the Covid 19 alarm.” Even someone like him, a computer technician described by ‘Resto del Carlino’ as a “cultured” and “meek” person, had been caught up in the rhetoric of denial about the virus. An emblematic case.
“Perhaps I did not agree with the handling of the emergency,” says the 54-year-old man, married and father of a child, “thinking that there was another way, and that led me to not give real importance to the pandemic. And then I decreased the health work, those doctors and nurses who cared for the sick like divers actors perhaps ignorant of a general staging. Instead, everything is true. ”
“I didn’t wear the mask outside of work, I thought it was useless”
Egidi had to learn this the hard way. Now he feels a little better, but he still has trouble breathing. Taking care of him are those healthcare workers that he believed were part of the staging. And instead … “Seeing them in agony for us, at their risk, given that even today 4 nurses tested positive, is an extraordinary feeling. A world that I did not even imagine was opened to me, here everything follows a logic and its own path If I can give an opinion about what I am living here, I say that what happens to us should not always be questioned, we must trust and depend on others. I did not remove the mask, I considered it useless, a play although not I was behaving against the law. “
