Share-onthenet

Send this thread to any idiot fucker who posts an Instagram at the beach or a crowded park. Tell them my dad says see you later. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

They can't, of course. You die alone from COVID. And you will be buried alone. Stay home. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

There have been a few "Papa Bear"s or "Daddy-O"s in the cell phones who have tried to come in to hold the bodies. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

The other common way young people are falling off the face of the earth from this are the random strokes it causes. Talking one minute, stroking out the next, and then the nurses have to go through the cell phone to find "Dad" because "Mom" usually insists on coming. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

Young, healthy people are dying from a COVID-19 effect called a "cytokine storm." Basically, you make it off a ventilator (maybe!), you get your appetite back a little, you think you're turning a corner, and then your immune system rips through your lung tissue and you drown. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

If you are lucky enough to make it off a ventilator (the equivalent exertion required for that is running a marathon without training), you will likely get put on dialysis and a feeding tube next. It’s a nightmare. It’s hell. It’s what you’re risking on your beach day. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020

He had a patient who needed 8 blood transfusions in a morning even though he wasn’t bleeding. The coronavirus was just eating his red blood cells faster than his bone marrow could make them. It’s fucking mystifying and brutal. — Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020