Mr. Marcel, who had lived in the City of Ceramics for 58 years, moved to the countryside several years ago. Before the Christmas holidays, he went to a friend’s house and caught a cold.
When he returned home, his wife said to him: “Why are you so blue?!” By Christmas Eve, things were already bad, and Mr. Marcel decided to see a doctor. The diagnosis was unequivocal: SARS-CoV-2 infection. The Bolesławiec resident and his wife were placed under home quarantine. Unfortunately, that was not enough. An ambulance had to be called. And that is how Mr. Marcel ended up at the end of last year at the Zespół Opieki Zdrowotnej in Bolesławiec.
He has been there until now—already for more than a month. His condition is still not the best, but the Bolesławiec resident is slowly recovering.
When he arrived at our county hospital, 30 percent of his lungs were affected; after a few days, the virus had taken over all of them. The 70-year-old patient thought twice that it was the end; as he says, he was looking at the “world from above.” Now he has one message:
I would like to tell those who have not been vaccinated to get vaccinated, because it is really, really difficult. People, you cannot imagine what kind of illness this is! I appeal to you: get vaccinated; there are no jokes with this disease. If this virus senses even just your weakness, it will get you.
Mr. Marcel admits that if he had not been admitted to the local hospital, he would no longer be among the living.
Why did he not get vaccinated? He decided that since he lived in the countryside, where people are supposedly less mobile, nothing threatened him. Now, when asked why Poles are not getting vaccinated, he replies that they have listened to propaganda and “strange professors.” And that he certainly will not make such a mistake again.