Photo via Mirsada Muric/Facebook
August 12, 2021, 11:26 am
A Tennessee mom lost patience with her supposed friends posting COVID-denial content on Facebook while her nine-year-old daughter fought for her life on a ventilator after getting COVID-19 from her dad’s funeral. In her own Facebook post, along with a photo of her child asleep with a breathing tube down her throat, she called out these “friends” who left sympathetic comments on her posts about her kid and then going to their own accounts to call the pandemic a joke.
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“I’d get on their Facebook and see them posting memes or sharing things that they saw on Twitter about how much of a joke it is about being ‘scared’ of a virus and yes, I am scared of it,” Mirsada Muric told NBC News.
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Rather than just blocking them all and getting new, better friends, Muric made an effort to get through to those putting COVID-denial junk on her feed and telling them to stop complaining about the possibility of new mask mandates.
“I want to share this photo because while I sit here praying and crying out to God that my baby pulls through I am STILL seeing people complain about the possibility of another mask mandate,” she wrote. “Or they are making jokes about going on unemployment. Or they STILL think covid is a joke and is ‘not that serious.’”
Muric’s daughter, Blair, has had an incredibly tough year, being diagnosed with a brain tumor in February and unexpectedly losing her father in July. Muric believes that she contracted the virus at the funeral and also soon tested positive for respiratory syncytial virus. The combination of these viruses resulted in a severe infection, and after days in the hospital, doctors told her that Blair would need to be intubated.
“LOOK AT MY CHILD,” she continued on her Facebook post. “THIS is why people are afraid. THIS is why people beg for you to wear a mask. Who are you hurting by wearing one? What freaking rights are you losing?! Because, while I sit here and watch a machine breath for my baby, you are out living. I can’t visit with my other child because I am here.. you think it’s funny that people are so ‘afraid of a harmless virus’???”
Thankfully, Blair took a turn for the better and was taken off of the ventilator after a couple of days. She is now showing very promising signs of recovery, getting out of her bed whenever she can to move around with a walker, and looking forward to eating solid foods again.
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Before that, however, Muric had some parting words for those who were insensitive enough to post COVID-denial and anti-mask content on Facebook while her daughter was in the hospital.
“Watch yourself around me. This is the harm you cause because you couldn’t bring yourself to wear a freaking mask.”
*First Published: August 12, 2021, 11:26 am
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