“I Don’t Want to Die in the Hospital Alone”

Let’s get really mad that the Province of Ontario is locking us all down again. Let’s get mad that the numbers are going up, and that health officials want to lock us up in our homes...for the third time...to keep us safe. Get mad. Rage. Break something.

And then thank them later.

You do not want COVID, and worse, perhaps, you don’t want to watch the people you love suffer from it, knowing all too well the consequences. You don’t want to have to support them at a distance, and you don’t want to long to hug and hold them tight. You don’t want to experience the horror when they call an ambulance because they can’t breathe, and only under their gasp say “I don’t want to die in the hospital alone.” You don’t want to hear that and I’ll kick and scream until you get it.

I can promise you that family tensions rise, that pandemic/lockdown haze gets amplified, and your breath gets shallower by the second. You will be in agony even without COVID when it hits close to home; that’s why we need to keep locking ourselves inside.

I’m begging you to stay home.

People are suffering and people are dying, friends. This is the time to put the needs of others first…again and again, and again and again. And if it’s too hard, keep doing it. It’s the only way through. It’s the only way to end this raging COVID-machine.