“They tell you that they will follow you while you are sick at home, wait and wait”

After the discovery of his son’s positivity, the former candidate for the presidency of the Liguria Region Ferruccio Sansa also announces that he has the symptoms of the covid. And with him also his wife: fever, broken bones, shortness of breath and inability to smell.

With a long post on Facebook, Sansa told first-hand the experience of her family in these hours, between untracked contacts, results of tampons that do not arrive, data from the Immuni app that nobody knows what to do and non-existent home assistance. Testimonials similar to those received over the months by many citizens, many also collected in a specific Facebook group to talk about their experience, #parlodelcovid Liguria.

This is what Sansa wrote:

In the end, to warn my contacts, I had to make a post on Facebook. Apart from Immune. Apart from the follow-up.

They promise that they will trace the contacts of the sick: lies. They tell you they will use Immuni: science fiction. They tell you that they will follow you while you are sick at home – wait and wait.

I will tell you about the covid seen from the bed.

So … last Friday my 15 year old son has a fever. With no typical symptoms, he got chilled in the pool but I decide not to go to school. And keep the two younger brothers at home too because I don’t want to infect anyone. You never know. We clean it on Saturday even though we are sure it is nothing. But on Monday the answer arrives: it is covid.

Tuesday this worked, ASL calls us for in-car swab. We and the grandparents. The person who calls us does not track our son or our contacts. Just ask what school they go to. No questions about gyms we frequent, soccer, scouts. Zero. Fortunately, we take it upon ourselves to warn everyone immediately.

We ask if we can communicate the Immuni data since we have all downloaded it (parents and children). Answer: “Immune? We don’t know what to do with it.”

Since then the emptiness begins. ASL disappears. He no longer calls. He does not answer phone calls. Some of the tests come back: I am negative but I have had a fever of 38 days. I no longer smell, I breathe badly and I have broken bones.
My wife has had a fever for days, lying in bed exhausted. The sense of smell cleared up. Do you have covid? The symptoms are there, but after four days you are still waiting for the swab result. She does not know what to answer to those who know her.

It’s impossible to even attempt a family quarantine like this, without knowing who to isolate. Of the two young children, one was negative, the other who knows. Nothing else is known about the tampon.

The family doctor, the only one who responds from the trenches of flu vaccines, recommends taking antibiotics to avoid complications.

I try to ask a private laboratory if it is possible to redo the swab on my own. Answer: October 16. But by that date we will all be cured or … better not be surprised.

Meanwhile, symptoms persist this morning. A doctor friend recommends speeding up therapy. “He’s had symptoms for five days, the critical hours, he says, for a positive reaction. The cortisone kicks in.” But there are also those who suggest “going to the hospital to have an X-ray or a CT scan because you don’t have to waste time.”

But to start, you need tampons. For me and my family. To protect their health and the health of the people they met. Family, friends, colleagues.

What to do? I don’t want to take shortcuts. I want to follow the path of any citizen. Then I call ASL. One, ten, twenty times. The covid center is not responding. The switchboard opens its arms: “Sorry, it’s a disaster.”
The Region’s toll-free number no longer exists. There are only 112. Do I?

Meanwhile, we get hung up on the oximeter; the cursed contraption, but does it hold up, down or flat? – who has to give an answer about your destiny, but once you dial 99 and 80 and you don’t know that you are cured or you are about to end up in intensive care.

It’s comforting to think that we’re ultimately lucky. Yes, get sick now because, given the way they are organized, it is better to feel bad at the beginning of the second wave. And it is certainly not the fault of those who work in the wards, the doctors and nurses. Terrible months of danger and fatigue are also preparing them.

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It is comforting to know that hundreds more people in Liguria are today in the same situation as us. In the same loneliness. People who are not footballers and cannot clean thousands every weekend. People who are not called Trump, Berlusconi or Briatore and know that they can count on remdesivir stocks like Dom Perignon.
But if I post, maybe someone will step in. After all, I know doctors and pulmonologists for emergencies. But so many others who are really alone, what can they do? Covid seen from a bed is so different if you have to use Facebook to say that you are sick