A respected Vancouver photographer is pleading with people to take the novel coronavirus more seriously, after COVID-19 claimed his mother and stepfather’s lives just hours apart. “All these stories, all these moments, and now it humanizes everything that’s going on.
It’s no joke,” Jason Jaspar told Global News. “It’s something that is not going to go away until people realize that it’s no joke and people need to stay home.” Jaspar’s mother and her husband, both seniors, lived in Washington state, where they were diagnosed with the disease less than a week ago.
Within days, both of them had been admitted to hospital and Jaspar said his mother became non-responsive Saturday night. She passed away early Sunday morning.