People saying death is better than not seeing family members for 9 months are literally pathetic. A lot of these people lived through a war, FFS. They know actual hardship
This is literally the most pathetic thing I've ever read.
My mother lived through the war. She was 5 when it started, 11 when it ended. She spent her childhood away from her parents and that, in her own words, is what harmed her most. The isolation, the disconnect from the two people closest to her in the world.
She's now in a care home. She was admitted to hospital in August and suffered a massive stroke while she was in there. When she went in she was fully compos mentis, albeit with early Parkinson's.
Now- she's paralysed on one side. She has no cognitive ability. She cannot feed herself, toilet herself, do anything for herself. We don't know if she understands what's going on- whether she understands why only 2 of her 6 children can see her, for half an hour, once a week.
She doesn't appear to recognise us with masks on. Last visit, she had tears falling down her face- and we aren't allowed to even give her a hug, or wipe her tears away. She can speak- her words make no sense, and don't pertain to anything we've said, but she can speak. But she's stopped doing that now. She looks away from us. She stays silent. She is becoming more disconnected from us by the day.
She will likely end her life separated from the people she loves. Bewildered, unable to move or communicate, without even a choice in it.
THAT is actual hardship, to my mother. And the gut-wrenching, agonising pain we suffer, watching her go through it- that's our actual hardship.