My friend's 12-yr old niece is in Elmhurst Hospital on a ventilator with covid-19. I have sent him everything that I can (including how ivermectin got an 81 year old man off the vent) and he refuses to show anything to his sister that could potentially save his niece's life. He says he's afraid that if something went wrong his family would never forgive him. He tells me to stop sending information so we are done.
I never thought that I would think of my friend as a coward but I am so angry and hurt by his refusal that I am literally shaking. How do they not understand that the longer that girl is on the ventilator the greater the odds are of her dying???
Another one bites the dust because of frigging ignorance and I am beside myself.
Update 5/1/2020. The girl is awake. Thank God. Other than that I have no idea about her condition. Being that she is 12, I hope that the odds are in her favor.
If I knew his sister, I would be talking to his sister. This child is at Elmhurst Hospital Center (the epicenter of the epicenter). He never spoke of them until about two weeks ago and he never even called them by name.
There was no insistence upon anything but discussing options which have not been made available to them to date. I'd be more than happy to take the heat for it. The little girl has already been on the ventilator for a week. so whatever happens is out of my control. I spoke with the only party that I knew in the situation.
At this point, the friendship is dead.
I texted him yesterday morning to see how she was doing and he said that they were taking her off of the ventilator. I then asked him to let me know how she was doing. Late last night he made a post on a social networking site that she was awake. The friendship is no more. I would love to say that this is the first time that he has ignored a request of mine for a simple text but I would be lying.