| Cop With CORONA Speaks Up, Shares Hope |
| Thu, August 13, 2020 |
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And while the BDF and Coast Guard have one confirmed case each, the
police department which has many more officers, and intermingles daily
with civilian populations, has as many close to 10 confirmed cases
between San Pedro and Corozal, as well as other officer symptomatic in
the island town.
One of them, PC Manuel Caliz who's at home sick, posted this
cautionary, but also consoling video for his fellow officers:
PC Manuel Caliz - San Pedro Police
"The corona is real, it's real and it's here. I don't know if it will ever
go but the symptoms are for some people it doesn't affect we in general.
For me, I only have pain in the eye, burning, feel like pepper but when it
comes to shortness of breath, can't breathe, those are no symptoms that I
have. We have a lot of people out there that just feel like is just a
common cold and it just comes and goes. Corona virus that I am experiencing
is lack of smell, you don't taste anything and you feel you could just
about your daily life. Like me right now, I feel like I'm fit enough to go
to work but I will just be fooling myself, the people out there and my
colleagues. So guys, just be careful out there, you don't know who have the
virus, when you are patrolling out there, if you don't need to approach
nobody, don't approach nobody because I'm telling you it's real. The rise
of corona here on the island keeps going up everyday, my colleagues that
have corona virus, we will pull through just a matter of time and all of us
are going back to work again."
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