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hon j's avatar

The people who were THE most wrong were the ones advising to stay home unless you got "really sick." It was known very early that steroids and anti viral were being used effectively to treat covid. Ventilation turned out to be a very bad idea... I'm am so sorry for this family and all the others who are victims of the policies of restraining doctors "doctoring" and insisting only on "protocol" written by public health officials, bureaucrats. I'm also,still, very mad for them.

Clair de Luna's avatar

Dexamethasone was/is very effective for treatment of inflammation and respiration disorders. Was it used? No, they decided that ventilation was the answer - yes, a very bad idea. Dex worked so well in livestock that they restricted it (it was cheap too) and then they made other more expensive treatments with it. We need to understand that doctor's have no independence. They are mandated what to do. (made to MAiD in Canada, and also made to perform abortions even when the fetus is viable)

And also, that PCR test? Garbage test that had many false positives and false negatives. The sensitivity on PCR tests can be dialed up until they get the desired result. They tried to force that test on the livestock industry 20 years ago. One positive result, possibly false, was enough to destroy whole herds.

AE Johnson's avatar

David was given Dexamethasone IV push from admission onward.

I have over 100 pages of medical records - I requested them afterwards. It made that hidden time, that murky area, less dark. My child died less than 2 miles away from me and I was so much in the dark.

But these records are difficult things to read after, when death is the outcome.

Clair de Luna's avatar

I apologize for my insensitivity.

AE Johnson's avatar

You don't need to apologize. I didn't think you were insensitive. Not at all.

I also have so many questions, still. I don't think I'll ever get the answers.

I don't why our son died and the rest of us didn't. On the day he died, 88 people in his age group in NJ died of Covid. The odds... impossible to believe the poor but existent odds struck him.

Our 2nd child blames herself for his death. Of course it's not her fault, but she still blames herself because she "brought it home". The blame lies with Fauci et al. EVERY harm from C19 is downstream from those people creating that pathogen.

I spent a good deal of time thinking that if I hadn't sent David to the hospital, he wouldn't have died. He was the only one of all of us admitted. We lived. He didn't. But our 4th daughter said to me one day, "Mom, he would have died at home. In bed." I believe now that that's probably true. For whatever reason, Covid was his grim reaper once he was infected, his end, though unknown to us, was decided. For whatever reason, genetic predisposition or _______,, Covid was a death sentence for him.

I truly would have taken his place if I could have. He had so much to live for, so many years to enjoy life.

Clair de Luna's avatar

I hope the reason David was infected so badly will be revealed some day. The mandates were so very cruel and inhuman..........and so f'ing political. Your story has touched me so deeply. May you and your family find peace.

AE Johnson's avatar

Thank you for your kindness.

Yes, so political. Cruel and inhumane is how so many were treated. And so much CYA even to this day. Bioweapon 'interest' from our own DoD/Pentagon, and the other ICs and Defense Depts around the planet, is all a part of the creation of SARS COV2. I have read enough to believe this now with all certainty. They stay just far enough back to escape association, but they watch all of it... Dr. Richard Ebright at the Rutgers labs has said this unequivocally: 'Gain of function' has no benefit whatsoever and is all about bioweapons.

There's so much evil attached to C19. So much.

hon j's avatar

I am mulling over the "incompetence vs greed" statement that seems to be thrown out there now trying to explain "how we got here." I am concluding that it's cowardice, mediocrity, greed and narcissism. Just a revolving door of low character midwits... and families like this author paid so dearly. Judgement Day will come for us all...

Aviation Sceptic's avatar

This is truly a nightmare, and as a parent my heart truly goes out to the author. I wonder how many different types of Covid there were. I worked in DoD, was mission essential, was among the very first to receive the jab. Ended up getting Covid four times, along with all of my workmates. None of us had the type of GI awfulness like the children of the author (thankfully) and only one of us ended up getting seriously ill. But, we ALL got sick multiple times. One of my SEAL friends developed myocarditis and has had two heart attacks since. What a mess, and with so many "unknowns" to this day.

zirrus's avatar

I can't click like on this truly devastating and unthinkable story. I say unthinkable because any time in my life I so much as began to imagine the death of one of my children, I pushed it away like a poison. And I am not someone who is scared of much.

There really are no words to describe the visceral grieving I feel for you.

I am so so sorry you had this story to tell. And also thankful that you did, for your sake, and for ours. This era shall not ever be forgotten, swept under a rug like yesterday's soil and grit...

AE Johnson's avatar

"Our greatest fear".

Rightfully so. It's as we imagine it would be.

That phrase is enough to convey the state of it.

The Radical Individualist's avatar

I am so sorry. Words can not express it.

Tim's avatar

Heartbreaking. I am so sorry and thank you for sharing your story.

ANNA NIEMANN's avatar

Deeply touching and heartbreaking. The whys outnumber the reasons. For me, I will remain angry at the monster-makers and oppression-promulgators as motiviation for vigilence and scepticism.

Brenda Murphy's avatar

Thank you for sharing your personal story. I cannot imagine the extent of your heartbreak.

garret seinen's avatar

COVID remains to this day, an immense public challenge as to how we evaluate knowledge in our society. When we are inundated with a multitude of conflicting expert opinions, it is obvious we've lost the means to measure truth.

David S's avatar

My heart aches.

Warrior Mom's avatar

I am very sorry for Mrs. Johnson's loss but still to this day I'm still struggling with the idea of young people succumbing to a respiratory virus. (also, this is the very first I've heard of GI symptoms associated with covid.) the events sound like he was getting better and then all of a sudden he wasn't. 'covid' needed no more detail to explain the death of a young person? especially after drastic intervention. no mention of drugs given? what we know now is that most, if not all, of the treatments given at the time, were effective or appropriate. that is beyond tragic and certainly not excusable. also, the idea of 'no visitors' is simply criminal. no matter the circumstances.

AE Johnson's avatar

“a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

From the BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s31#:~:text=In%20the%20acute%20phase%20covid%2D19,in%20the%20lungs%20(which%20can

And thus the clotting problems (and the withdrawal of J&J's shot, and a few others?), and myocarditis, for just two.

David was in Afib and bradycardia his last day. His labs were poor: D-dimer, ferritin, C Reactive Protein, he wasn't saturating properly... so much more.

We didn't have an autopsy. Was it a PE? Was it cardiac? I even questioned if he died from the 3 sedatives they gave at intubation/ventilation. But in reality, he was already in serious trouble before they vented him. Maybe I should have gotten an autopsy. But those early days were excruciating and I remember just wanting him to be left alone at that point; to be at peace in death and not cut and manipulated any more.

Truthfully? It tortured me wondering if he was in pain and frightened in his final moments. I finally asked three different (disinterested) doctors if the sedatives he was given would have caused unconsciousness. They all said he was 'asleep' when he died.

The Covid diarrhea is tied to the abundance of ACE2 receptors in the gut (for one place) and there lies the entrance for the virus, the spike protein. An attractive place for the virus. Some suffered GI issues, most I assume didn't. Only two of our household did - oddly, my two hazel-eyed darker children. My blonde blue-eyed kids did not (nor I).

Will we find in the end that everything about us is genetic?

In another reply here I relayed that I have over 100 pages of medical records from the hospital, so yes, I know all the drugs given, all the treatments, all his lab results, and more. I have the report from the codes. It's disturbing, and yet... I needed to know. I wasn't allowed to be with him. I needed to know what happened while we were separated.

And I've spent 5 years (and the year prior - 2020) reading so much about the virus, and the responses to the 'pandemic'.

Liz's avatar

Heartbreaking.

HvC52's avatar

Thank you for sharing. This is just so awful. I was sobbing while reading. We need to make sure this does not happen again. These stories are a great start. With love to all the authors that contribute to this project.

AE Johnson's avatar

Thank you all for your condolences.

I won't try to find the words to express what your kindnesses mean.