The last thing B.C. woman Melissa Hance remembers about her husband is that she let him sleep on the couch with a tray of pills beside him while he battled the Chinese Communist virus, and then said good night to him.
In an interview with Global News Channel, Hans recalled, “I looked at him and asked, ‘Do you have everything you need for Qi?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘What do you need?’ He said, ‘Nothing more.’ Then I said, ‘OK, good night.'”
“That was the only night I didn’t say I love you, and I had said I love you every night before that. That was the only night I didn’t say it because I thought there was still tomorrow.” Never would have guessed that these brief conversations would become the words of their eternal love. Now, the mother of two from Tsawwassen, B.C., is warning that the risk of dying from the Communist virus is not limited to the elderly and chronically ill.
Hans said, “Even though my husband has the CCP virus, (he is) a very healthy person with no underlying health problems, doesn’t smoke and does exercise.” With tears in her eyes, she told reporters, “How tragic, how quickly, how undifferentiated it is.”
Hans and her sons, ages 8 and 10, were told at the end of spring break that they had been exposed to an infected person, after which they both tested positive for the virus.
She and the children experienced only mild symptoms, while her husband, Reid, initially tested negative. After developing cough symptoms, he was tested again, this time with a positive result.
It wasn’t long before Reid’s symptoms became more severe than those of his wife and child, and he began to have fevers and chills, and his energy was completely depleted.
After about three days, the situation began to worsen,” Hans said. His cough was getting worse and his whole body was shaking.” She refers to the fact that Reid did not have severe breathing difficulties or chest tightness and did not feel he needed to go to the hospital.
But after he developed sinus congestion and related symptoms persisted, they made a doctor’s appointment and called 811 to consult with a public health nurse. The nurse suggested he use a humidifier, but when she asked if he felt he needed immediate medical attention, he was told no. Before we hung up the phone, she asked again, ‘Reid, are you OK?'” Hans said. He replied that he didn’t have chest tightness.” That was the last night Hans saw her husband alive.
The next morning, April 14, when Hans came downstairs, her husband seemed to be sleeping calmly. I was feeling good, and I was happy that he had slept through the night and had rested,” she said.
“I walked over to say good morning, and when I put my hand on his arm, he was already cold.”
Not believing that an epidemic could take someone like her husband with little warning, Hans tried to request an autopsy, but she was denied by health officials. She eventually obtained a post-mortem chest X-ray that confirmed Reid died from complications of the virus. She said, “My husband really died from the CCP virus.”
Hans said, “As a result of the CCP virus, he contracted, or caused, his death from bilateral pneumonia (bilateral pneumonia).”
According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, about 85 per cent of people who die from the CCP virus in the province are over the age of 70. But age is not a universal indicator. Last week, the province saw its first death in the 20s, as well as 14 deaths in their 30s and 19 in their 40s from the virus. British Columbia’s chief health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, revealed on Monday that 38 people died at home from the CCP virus in the first year of the pandemic, but she believes the situation is not serious and the numbers have not suddenly increased.
Ontario’s chief coroner also recently expressed concern about the rising number of people who died of the disease in their homes and called for more investigations into why patients who did not appear to be seriously ill suddenly deteriorated.
Nonetheless, Hans, who just lost her husband, says B.C. should update its list of symptoms of the common virus because she believes her husband’s serious case was overlooked. She would also like to see BC put on full lockdown to contain the virus.
She also has some words for people who think they might get the virus and be fine. “The CCP virus has six relatives and it doesn’t just target the old, the weak and the sick …… to walk out on everyone, and you think you’re invincible? That’s not true.”
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