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Mostly it’s about Bonnie and Mike Bishop, an African American couple who met more than 25 years ago when she was organizing a basketball game to support an adopt-a-school program run by AT&T. She worked there until retiring a couple years ago. He still works there as a digital technician. In early July, Mike began to feel run down. It was just a minor dry cough, but he took a coronavirus test and it came back positive.A couple days later, she woke him up at 3 a.m. “I cannot breathe,” she gasped. “911.”
“We have been together ever since,” he said. “The Sunday she invited me over for lunch. I went over for lunch. Monday, on the way to work, I had coffee. That weekend we did something. About a month later I moved in. And about 8, 10 months later we were married.”They’ve been married now for a quarter-century.
The virus ripped through Mississippi’s Black community early in the pandemic. About 60% of infections and deaths were among African Americans, who make up 38% of the state’s population. “Big parts of the white community, especially in areas that weren’t as hard affected, have not been as compliant or engaged actively with social distancing and masking,” Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the Mississippi state health officer, told reporters a couple weeks ago.“I think that if it had hit the white community like it hit the African-American community, it’d be a whole different ballgame,” he said.
After about six weeks, doctors took Bonnie out of the coma. She awoke disoriented and scared, with a breathing tube down her throat that made her feel as if she was choking. They quickly sedated her again. To make her more comfortable, they cut a hole in her windpipe for the breathing tube. In normal times he loves to cook, but these days meals are a chore. Dinners are often leftovers and frozen vegetables that he eats in front of the television, watching the news or a football game. Ten minutes later he’s finished and washing the dishes at the kitchen sink.
Mike saw her a couple times when she was in the Intensive Care Unit, though she didn’t know he was there.“I’d have these conversations just like I’m talking to you,” he said.
He should ask Fauci the virus manipulator what he was doing in China when all this BS exploded!
So she’s that one out of 100,000...it’s sad, I hope she gets better
damn racist Covid19. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ fact check, President Trump did not call Coronavirus a hoax. ThursdayThoughts
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WendellPierce Thank you for this wonderful story. I hope she comes home soon. 🌺🌺🌺
Bless you.
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So many good people needlessly devastated by a uncaring, evil *president*. Dead by the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and we've yet seen the worst. All done for a dollar bill. Governed by Idiots who have no sense of anything other than what they can Take From Others.
To know someone loves you so deeply is extremely moving. To know you can't be there when they need you is heartbreaking. I'm filled with hope reading this success story and pray for Bonnie's continued recovery. ❤
brianstelter Nobody is saying it’s an actual hoax. I mean, there might be some dummies who said it early, or fringe loons, but there are flat earthers too. “Hoax” is a red herring.
I’m 45 years old. I had the virus and so did my wife. It was almost nothing for us. Just a little strange upper respiratory phlegm and feeling a bit like a cold or a light flu. The corporate media highlights stories like this one to keep you scared. Control = the whole purpose.
And you let him believe that anyone actually thinks it is a hoax. Great job.
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No one is calling it a hoax. Who would spend billions developing therapies and vaccines for a hoax?
A beautiful story. Praying for Mike and Bonnie. May their reunion and future be blessed and full of love. 💗
You can fall somewhere between believing it is a hoax and believing it the biggest threat to humanity.
These comments are sad
This article won’t sway the electorate in Mississippi
Y’all have to do a follow up with them for when she comes home. What a beautiful love story.
Sounds like the Democrat mainstream media is using him like they are using COVID. No one believes COVID is a hoax but we also know 99% survive. Sorry for his loss. Don't let Democrats use you!
The bigger hoax that the fake MSM is pushing is that President Trump is responsible for the Wuhan Virus and not China
brianstelter In my Prayers 🙏🏼
I hate writing this: from multiple ppl working in the NHS that deaths are being recorded as Covid when they are NOT or other ailments are a contributing factor.
Now do suicides and businesses lost and depression and drug over doses and kids falling way behind in their education ....
So the CCP are racist. Putting out a pandemic that targets poor Black people?
You know things are bad for the COVID crowd when they start playing the race card.
You could shoehorn race into anything. It's embarrassing
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good luck
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