Scaring the bejesus out of me by reading articles like this and watching patients and staff struggle with treating the disease keeps me from letting my guard down and becoming too complacent and comfortable while out in the world. My worst nightmare would be to wake up in the ICU about to be intubated. I watched a family member go through intubation some years back and it ain’t pretty at all. For me, anyway, this is real and I’d rather err on the side of caution and find out it’s a hoax than to be loosey goosey with my lifestyle and end up finding out it’s real by being told That my SPO2 is dangerous low and that I need to be put in an induced coma while I’m on life support to help me breathe.
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