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Trucker thought COVID would ‘disappear’ after the election – now he will be on oxygen the rest of his life

In an interview with the Idaho Statesman’s Audrey Dutton, 63-year-old long-haul trucker Paul Russell admitted his career is over because he didn’t take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, believing it would simply disappear after the November election.

After contracting the virus and nearly dying, he now admits he was a “jackass” who will have to spend the rest of his life on oxygen due to the damage inflicted on his body by the novel coronavirus.

According to Russell, he wasn’t taking precautions on a trip from Florida back to Boise — with a stop in Houston — when he thinks he was infected and felt ill before he got home. Continue reading.

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