I have written about how I lost my mom to covid19. Yes, she had diabetes. Yes, she even had stage 4 kidney failure. But no, I don’t think she’d have died if she hadn’t gotten the virus.
I think that is what gets me. That’s what upsets me and even angers me. Is that people hear about people dying of covid19 and yet they still don’t believe that is what they died from.
What’s worse is that my own family believe this way. I had often wondered what my family members (not all mind you) would tell people when someone asks how their mother or wife died. I imagined they’d say anything but that she died of covid. But I never really truly imagined that they’d actually deny that she died of the virus. I think I wanted to believe maybe that I was wrong when it came down to that.
That is not the case however. As I recently was visiting some family members and one of my siblings and my stepdad told me that that is exactly what they do when asked about how my mom died.
My stepdad said “I don’t say my wife died of covid. I tell people she had health issues and that’s what caused her death.” My sister said pretty much the same thing. I was flabbergasted!
I looked at both of them them and told them that everyone has the right to believe what they want but I know my mom died of the virus. Because if she hadn’t gotten it, which is the root cause of her death, she’d still be with us today. Maybe she would die in the next five to ten years, especially if she chose not to get help for the kidney failure, but she’d still he here at this present moment. That is not an opinion. That is fact. Barring that of course she could die from other things like a car accident or while in surgery. My point was to say that I will not be in denial of what my mother passed away from.
For my stepdad, more than my sister, to be in denial is crazy to me. He watched her get sick. He watched her get weak. He heard the coughing. He even says he thinks she got the virus in one of two places. YET he does not want to admit she died of said virus.
How can you admit she got the virus while also not wanting to admit she died from the virus???????
How can people be in that much of denial? Not that I necessarily understand it, but I can see how those that haven’t been affected by the virus can deny it. But those that have lost a loved one to it…how can they be in denial when they saw it up close and personal?
Is it really about drinking the kool-aid that the right continues to serve with regards to denying that covid is as serious as the media (even though it’s not just the media, it’s science and medical professionals as well) portrays it to be? Are they so far gone in believing the politicians, preachers and ultra conservative news casters that what is right in front of them is something they are unwilling to see, admit?
After listening to my sister and stepdad I tend to believe the answer is, sadly, and overwhelming yes.
And that hurts my heart. While at the same time it angers me. It angers me to see my own family be in such denial when they have all the resources at the tip of the their touch screen devices to discover for themselves what is real and what is a lie.
Ultimately though, the anger does not outweigh the disappointment. I’m disappointed that those that believe in God and call themselves Christians want to believe that because they are Christians they can’t be touched by this virus. That they are somehow covered by the blood of Christ and can’t get sick nor die of this virus.
Which is total BULLCRAP! My mom had faith, so much faith and loved God with all her heart. Yet she died from covid. 💔
So does that make her less of a Christian? Does that mean she didn’t have enough faith? Is that why people would rather deny covid deaths than to admit them? Because if they admit to their loved ones dying of covid than maybe they are saying their loved ones didn’t have enough faith? But if they deny it was covid than hey easier that way. Is that it? 🤔
But here is the deal. In this life we will have struggles. We will have hardship. Jesus never promised a life that would be easy if we just followed Him. He never promised that we would not have pain and that death would not come to us. He never promised a long life of prosperity and amazing health either. Nope. That was never promised. What was promised is a reward that will come after death. 🙌🏾
In this world people, ALL people, will have trials and tribulations. ALL people — regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, etc. — can get and die of diseases. Why would covid be any different?
Because, it is no different! Even if one is denial of it. Here’s the thing though, no matter how much you deny something it doesn’t make it unreal. It still exists.
Diseases still exist. Diseases still can kill. Diseases don’t care about your religious views either. I know for I’m a Christian who has battled cancer three times. And as imperfect as I am I am still loved by God. It had nothing to do with me not having enough faith. Not to mention all the amazing people who have died from cancer who loved God tremendously.
How Christians can NOT be in denial of all the other diseases out there and yet be in denial of covid I just don’t understand. But that is exactly what is going on. 😞
But it shouldn’t. And I pray sooner rather than later all those in denial will wake up from their denial slumber and see this pandemic for what it is…REAL.
It is real. It is continuing to have people sick. It is continuing to kill people. It is not a joke. It is not a hoax. It is not overly exaggerated. And those who have died from it…died from it. Being a covid denier won’t change those facts. So, please stop being a covid denier and help this country, the world, get rid of this virus. ✌🏾
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