In the autumn, the whole family fell ill with Covid-19, including Aigars himself – an athlete, a cyclist, a man who in Kuldīga is known by many as the first coach of the well-known cyclist Roman Vainstein.
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“From whom? Where? This is a question we can’t answer. We even send food home. Work – I walk, I try to move, I play sports. We don’t even know,” Aigars tells the program.
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Dad and his mother were old, and my mother had several other diseases. “Mother was the first. Temperature. We did not understand. We thought – the same way. Was at the bottom of the disease, begins with the temperature, then again to the father, passed. Then we decided to take a test. We understood – there is,” says Aigars.
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The parents were taken to the hospital in Ventspils: “My father called, said that he was very good, warm, nice staff. He was satisfied.
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I just asked if I was really going to get out of here. He probably felt it. ”
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Both parents were in the same ward at the North Kurzeme Regional Hospital in Ventspils. Unlike the stories of other patients ‘experiences, Aigars’ parents did not complain about the care: “We were not present. As far as the doctors were talking, the mother was at a temperature of 40. The father said that the mother was really ill.”
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Aigars’ parents left one day apart. The death certificate shows that both have Covid-19 as the direct cause of death. For dad – with bilateral pneumonia.
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The deaths of the two are not separated even by the day. Mom died on Friday at midnight, Dad on Saturday shortly after midnight.
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“He is cruel – this virus,” says Aigars.
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It’s hard for him to understand the many skeptics who don’t believe in Covid-19: “Then you could already say the ground is flat. Really. Really don’t believe it? People are so much in the hospital compared to the flu.”
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Aigars does not read comments on the Internet: “Skeptics to read. Feed themselves, get satisfaction, write that it is not true, it is probably useless. You will not teach those at that level.”
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