Melvin

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK: NEW YORK, NEW YORK: You don’t know where you get it. It’s tough. It could be anywhere. You can get it on the job. You have to deal with the packages. You have to open the door. You have to open for them no matter what. It could be anywhere, to be honest with you. We were very careful, but still, there was one day that I felt that I was coughing too much. When I came home I felt that I had a fever. That week when we were sick, hundreds of people were dying daily. One day 799 died. So, that was very scary. We were trying to go to the hospital to get tested to see if we had Covid-19, but they said they had a lot of very severe cases so they said we probably don’t have it and if we go to the hospital we’re going to catch it there. To us, my wife and myself, I believe we did have it because we had all the symptoms: bad cough for a long time, my wife had a lot of headaches. It was very bad. Also, we lost the sense of smell and taste. We weren’t diagnosed by a doctor, but we know by how we feel that we had it.