A netizen shared a story online about how his/her father refused to be responsible and refused to take a COVID-19 test despite getting sick with all the symptoms.
Here is the story:
I just caught Covid and cause its so shameful and I dont want my friends to know.
I am positive yesterday so today is the second day. I haven’t went to any gatherings for two years now. All just because I wouldnt want to get Covid and spread it to my parents because I wanted to go out with friends.
The only time I go out is to go to school. And no one near me got Covid. So I didn’t get it from school. My dad is always going out in the morning to buy breakfast or something. He’s the one always going out. Me and my mother we usually stay at home most of the time.
He was sick last week and he tried to hide it until he couldn’t go out and asked my mother to go buy medicine for him when she is out to pick me up from school. We thought it was weird and very dangerous for this time to have sore throat. I told him to take a self-test but he didn’t seem to care. Then I really can’t do anything if he doesnt want to, then I continue on the week.
It was until this Monday I felt sick and I suspect I was just dehydrated, but I did a self-test anyways, it was negative. The symptoms were getting worst until I took another test the next day which is yesterday and its confirmed im positive for covid. My mother is positive also. But he is still not tested to this day so I will never know if for sure I got it from him.
I feel betrayed and mad after all this, he didn’t wear a mask, take a self-test or quarantine himself and it caused me and my mother (that has slight breathing issues) to catch covid although we were so careful trying to keep everyone safe. He could have told us honestly and I’ll stay home and not go to school to not spread covid to my friends (luckily so far no one is positive because of me) .
I’ll remember this for the rest of my life even tho I’ll talk to him the same way this happened but I will remember how he handled this situation for the rest of my life.
And im sorry for my friends, his friends and my teachers. They didnt deserve the risk of getting covid.