My grandmother died of COVID in a Melbourne nursing home. It was horrible because no family could see her, and she was moved out of her familiar surroundings so she was disoriented and confused. She stopped eating because there weren’t enough staff to sit with her and coax her to eat. All the regular staff that she knew went into quarantine, there weren’t enough ring-ins and the few that were there had no idea how to run the place. Each time they needed to go into someone’s room they had to completely change their head-to-toe protective gear, so of course, they didn’t have time to check up on people regularly. So she was just pretty much abandoned. The kicker is when COVID first hit the home she was negative. She tested positive 3 weeks after they implemented all the “safety” rules. It was a horrible lonely confused and painful way for her to die and a horrible way for her family to suffer without being able to help her at all or say goodbye. It was chaos and that situation could easily and suddenly ramp up again.
I’m really sceptical about the vaccine too, I think the shock of getting breast cancer makes you feel like you could be in the unlucky minority. But I think I’d better do my bit and have it. Can have Pfizer next year if it ends up being annual.