LOS ANGELES (VINnews) — Tommy Macias, a 51-year-old resident of Lake Elsinore, California, had been very careful over the past few months. Macias, a truck driver, knew that due to his diabetes he was at high risk if he contracted COVID-19, so he stayed at home and wore a mask when going out, maintaining social distance from others. However Macias made just one error that cost him his life. He went to a barbecue party with some friends. He didn’t know that someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, but showed no symptoms, was also present at the party.
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“It was all preventable,” said Gustavo Lopez, Macias’ 52-year-old brother-in-law. “That person knew he had corona and still went. He should have known better, and that one mistake cost [Macias] his life.”
More than 10 others who attended that gathering have tested positive for the coronavirus, Lopez said.
Macias fell ill on June 15, but assumed it was caused by his diabetes. He then tested positive for COVID-19. Lopez said that already then he feared the worst.
“Everyone knew it wasn’t going to end well,” he said. “There was a high probability he wasn’t going to make it.”
A day before his death on June 21, Macias posted a warning on Facebook, urging people to wear a mask and practice social distancing. His final message was one of regret.
Macias’s condition, which had originally improved deteriorated fast the next day. He called his mother and his three sisters to say that he could not breathe. “I could hear it in his voice, he was terrified,” Macias Norris (53) said afterwards. Norris rushed to her brother’s home, just five minutes from her own, but was too late. The ambulance attendants had put him inside and shut the doors. She tried to follow him to hospital but was told she could not even sit by his bedside. Norris told the LA Times that “I spoke with him over the phone that day. He was heavily breathing and crying, but his last words to me were ‘I want to go home, Sis. I want to go home, Sis.’”
Macias was put on a ventilator but died in the evening of June 21, leaving his final Facebook post as a poignant epitaph.
Thats why a sakana is more stringent than a issur.
With an issur you have a 2nd chance and can do yeshuva
With a sakana there is no 2nd chances
For all those corona deniers see reality and not dream world
And look carefully at whats happening in israel opened too fast too early just like texas georgia arizona Florida.
How many people need to be slaughtered on the alter of the economy or stupidity
“Macias was put on a ventilator but died in the evening of June 21”
See that? Another hospital murdering their patient by automatically forcing them on a ventilator. I hope the family retains a good lawyer and sues the hospital for his death.
They are other ways to try to improve breathing without mindlessly putting people on ventilators. Putting patients on their stomach has been shown in many cases to improve blood oxygen enough to avoid a ventilator. They can also try a nasal cannula first. But no, they’re too lazy to try other options, another patient dead what do they care, they see dead people all the time.
Poor Macias wasn’t an idiot . He just got worn down from all the distancing . The idiot and criminal is the guy who gave it to him , knowing he was infected and shoring up to the party .
#1 factor in poor outcomes. Diabetes and obesity.
This guy definitely had 1 of them. Stop fear mongering
macias should not have allowed himself to go to the party .
This plague is not over…Dont be fooled by governments who have their own agendas. They couldnt care less for peoples health. Witness the absolute neglect as to nursing homes.
I have been self isolating for more than 3 months. Its very difficult. I call my Dr every 2 weeks asking when he will see patients. He tells me maybe in 2 weeks. Then I call again and its the same 2 weeks. I have tested twice for corona both times negative BH. I have HBP and I have autoimmune issues. I am what you call vulnerable. Take it from me..Isolate as much as possible. It way be uncomfortable and lonely but its the only way some of us will survive this plague.
Dead people cant do mizvos. We are not hiding from the Nazis. We have water, we have power, we have food.
G-d willing we’ll survive this.
He didn’t take Hodroxy cuz the media said its dangerous…