into intensive care to say goodbye. we were given an option of whether we would stay there with him and they would turn the intubator off, or whether we would leave and let him go and he would probably pass away that afternoon. so we decided to stay. and they turned the intubator off and, yeah, we held his hand as he passed away. safiah, who is part of the bereaved families forjustice group, is critical of the way the pandemic has been handled and can't understand the calls from some for an immediate return to normality. we are one family that has lost one loved one and 150,000 people, that's hundreds of thousands of people around this country that had lost loved ones. it's appalling. it is an appalling loss. and it feels like bereaved family members, or people that are vulnerable, are people that are more worried about the effects of the virus, are treated with contempt.

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