ELSINORE LAKE, California – “Don’t be an idiot like me,” wrote Thomas Macías on his Facebook page. It was a message full of repentance. He was warning people about going to parties without wearing a mask.
Macías wrote: “Some of you know it, but most don’t. I was wrong and I went out a couple of weeks ago and contracted the coronavirus. ”
The main concern for the 51-year-old trucker seemed to be his family. He wrote: “Due to my stupidity, I endangered the health of my mother and my sisters and my family. This has been a very painful experience. “
He ended his post by saying, “Hopefully, with God’s help, I can survive this.”
But the next day, Macías died. He had an underlying condition: diabetes.
“I never want anyone to have to experience the pain my family is experiencing right now and it’s very easy to avoid if you only wear a mask,” says Danielle López, Macías’ niece.
He explained that his uncle had gone to a party with friends in Lake Elsinore.
She later learned that a participant had confessed to testing positive for COVID-19 shortly before the party.
She says: “The person did not exhibit any symptoms. I don’t know if they ever exhibited symptoms and felt better and thought they had gotten over it and disappeared, but either way, they decided to attend this party and not wear a mask. “
López publicly shares what happened to his uncle in hopes of preventing others from making the same fatal mistake.
