Country music star Sturgill Simpson has tested positive for coronavirus — and according to the man himself, he’s now been dealing with the disease for over a month! WTF??
But wait, isn’t there like that two-week contagious period or something?! Uhhh… maybe not for everyone? In fact, Simpson’s Instagram post from this past weekend which tells his entire story sheds light on the fact that there’s a lot we still don’t know about this virus — and we better find some leaders who are willing to learn quickly.
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The country-rock singer opened up about his health experience over the past several weeks in said new IG post over the weekend, which showed a pic of himself lying down and wearing a personal protective face mask to go along with the full story about his experience battling COVID-19.
“Ok since they are in short supply these days here are some facts,” Simpson wrote at the beginning of his long post, explaining to fans how he’d been in western Europe in January and February before halting an American leg of the tour in March due to quarantine. He went on from there, revealing he went to the emergency room for the very first time on March 13th:
“This photo was taken at 9am on March 13th when my wife took me to our local hospital ER due to chest pains, fever, and pre-stroke blood pressure levels. I spent an hour listening to a (highly condescending) doctor refuse to test me because I ‘did not fit testing criteria’ and tell me why it was impossible that I had contracted the virus due to its extreme rarity and that it was not in western Europe yet during that same period (which we now know is incorrect) even though I was told by two nurses that I was the first person their hospital had walk-in requesting to be tested.”
March 13 was fairly early on in the process, but that was right about during the first full week quarantines were starting to go into effect around the United States.
So, yeah, the coronavirus was certainly not an “extreme rarity” at that point! Ugh!!!
Simpson continued from there, writing:
“Almost one month later on April 6th my wife and I were both tested after finally finding a free drive-thru testing facility outside a National Guard depot. Yesterday on Friday April 10th, after almost one month without any symptoms, I received a call from the Nashville CDC stating that my test resulted in a positive detection for COVID-19. My wife (who has been by my side since Europe) tested negative.”
Wow… so maybe she had it back in March, and it had since run its course with her… but not with Simpson? Unclear.
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That’s what tripped up the country crooner, too, and he pointed it out in a concerning anecdote about his own (now month-long?!) bout with sickness:
“All I know is I first felt symptoms a month ago yet Im still positive and contagious and now on quarantine in the dojo until April 19th and really wishing I’d taken my wife’s advice and put a bathroom in the floor plans..live and learn. But hey, at least our Government appointed task force headed by a man who does not believe in science is against mass testing and we now have a second task force in the works to ‘open America back up for business!'”
Ugh. Dude, don’t remind us about that last part.
Here’s Simpson’s full post detailing every point and facet of his story (below):
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2Yv4WFcvA/
Wow.
After hearing about COVID-19’s two-week incubation period for a long time now it’s definitely a little concerning to see somebody who claims he’s been dealing with symptoms for a full month, ya know?? We’re honestly not even sure what to make of it; Simpson’s story is an anecdote, to be sure, but isn’t it at least a little bit of a head-scratcher??
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The point is this, at least: it’s clear there is still a lot we have to learn about the novel coronavirus. Oh, and this idea of America getting “back to business” ASAP remains an incredibly stupid, short-sighted, ill-fated idea! Just saying!!!
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Reactions, Perezcious readers? Such a wild world we live in now… ugh!
Sound OFF with your take on everything here down in the comments (below)… and get well soon, Sturgill! You’ve been dealing with this virus for long enough now!!
[Image via WENN/Avalon]
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