Melbourne construction worker Nathan Chellia was on the phone to contact tracers when he collapsed at home, just one day after being diagnosed with COVID-19.The Melbourne tradie spent two weeks in intensive care in hospital with COVID-19"I was pretty much unconscious," Mr Chellia said.The father of two would go on to spend the next 14 days in intensive care in Melbourne's Northern Hospital, where he could barely eat or drink.
Mr Chellia is one of more than 150 people linked to a cluster of COVID-19 cases at a Box Hill construction site.Aged in his late 30s, he felt a false sense of security."I'd never seen any COVID patients … I thought it was just a normal flu." Grateful to have recovered, he's now urging other Australians to get vaccinated and wants his experience with coronavirus to act as a cautionary tale.against mandatory vaccinations for the building industry, which have involved many tradies like him."If you get sick, it'll knock you down. Just go home and get vaccinated."
Nathan Chellia is urging people taking part in this week's wild protests to take coronavirus seriously.Mr Chellia worked at the Panorama construction site in Box Hill, which was listed as a tier 1 exposure site not long after his diagnosis and has since been linked to more than 150 positive cases. He believes he contracted the virus after unthinkingly shaking hands with one of his colleagues, who was refusing to wear a mask."After that, he got the virus, I got the virus, my other colleague got the virus."
Carrollx18 I didn't get vaccinated, then I got covid, now I reckon everyone should get vaccinated. Duh - fuck off.
Well. Der
How much did they pay you?
And the people who suffer adverse reactions, we'll just ignore those! Way to report the news!
~ Why Would Anyone Listen To This Dill ~ ~ Giving Covid To His Children ~ The Arrogance ~ ~ Now Parading As A Vaccine Spokesperson ~ Please ~ construction Tradies CovidVictoria Vaccine VaccineMandate MelbourneProtestors
The cost of not getting vaccinated, you may infect or kill a work colleagues,extend family,kids,family,other community public. Don't have a guilty conscious in destroying other lives. Don't be Selfish or self-centred.🙏🖖😎Just saying.
Hindsight is 20/20
Tradie urges mates to get unionised and mobilise their colleagues to get vaccinated sallymcmanus MichelleONeilll covidsolidarity
People who had two vaccine shots had a six-fold higher chance of getting infected with Delta than patients who hadn’t been vaccinated but previously contracted the coronavirus - israeli study, yikes
“If you are vaccinated, why do you care if I am not? Common question from AVs. I care because unvaxed people are clogging up the hospitals. I don’t want to be in a car accident and be turned away from an ICU because it’s full of selfish morons who wouldn’t get a free vax.
More lie bullshit. Mostly right wing trolls at protest
They ARE NOT 'construction workers'! they are RW radicals and anti vaxxers
Hopefully his friends didn’t think it’s fake news.
He thought it was a “normal flu.” Had he not listened to the news for the past year and a half? Not seen the amount of deaths around the world? Fucking wake up, Australia!
Encouraging people is good, just don't mandate under penalty of losing employment
And guess what? All of them will say fake news or his an actor or had under lying health problems.
APadeau Wel, he’s not going to appeal to the MurdochRiots demographic is he? auspol
Came here to count the number of disbelieving ppl in the comments 🙄
How about we start treating patients before they end up in hospital ?! There a proven treatments being used along side vaccines, nobody has suffer with the untreated symptoms at home. Regeneron is FDA approved and widely used in the States, why don't we have access to it !? 🤔
Thanks to the bastardly media like ABC and the government itself, no one knows the treatment exists for this and no one has to suffer.
Listen if you have ears and think of those around you it is not going away in a hurry.
Oh they'll listen for sure....
He only got it when he got it…
Needs to put it on Facebook not sure tradies will be following the abc.
Ok so 150 people have been infected with Covid from this construction site. Just for a little balance could we hear from the the 149 other people?
Hope this story will inspire others. So happy his daughters are doing well.
Just happens to be a union appointed safety officer! LOL
The protests were last week...he's been in ICU for a fortnight. The protests were a super spreading event? Liars.
fuckedantivaxx1 Does this qualify?
n1 Murdoch
Any advice for the Ivermectin freedom fighters? MurdochRiots
I call bullshite on this story
but some won't maybe cope better with rejection
This might help if they were tradies
...and the RW agitators/organisers also?
What’s the over/under on how many ‘fake news’ comments show up. I’m going over 4…
The joy of the media missing the point once again.
Or get healthy?
GetVaccinated
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